Anonymous perps behind 86 million files scraped from Spotify hit with $322 million court judgement — Anna’s Archive case presents intriguing precedent for AI training

A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday awarded Spotify and the three major labels $322 million in a default judgment against Anna’s Archive.

Oklahoma farmer arrested and jailed for trespassing during AI data center town hall — removed by officers after going a few seconds over allotted speaking time, trying to hand paperwork to counselors

Darren Blanchard, a farmer from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was arrested for going over the time limit during a town hall meeting to discuss residents’ concerns about a potential data center project in the area.

Virginia voter support for new data centers collapses from 69% in 2023 to 35% in new poll — Multi-gigawatt, 37-building Digital Gateway project abandoned

Just 35% of Virginia voters now say they would be comfortable with a new data center going up in their community, down from 69% in 2023.

Struggling shoemaker and apparel brand Albird pivots to AI data centers, stock jumps 580% in a single day — sells core business and leveraging $50 million in financing to become a GPU-as-a-Service and AI cloud solutions provider

Allbirds announced that it’s selling its core shoe and apparel business and will pivot to selling compute as a GPU-as-a-Service and AI cloud solutions provider at a $50 million infusion from an institutional investor.

Elon Musk demonstrates first sample of Tesla AI5 processor, accidentally thanks TSC rather than TSMC — claims 40X performance boost over the predecessor

As Elon Musk shows off the first Tesla AI5 sample with a 384-bit memory interface, he says next-generation AI6 and Dojo 3 processors are in the works.

YMTC’s third Wuhan fab clears Beijing’s 50% local tooling threshold as two more are planned — move positions company toward 3D NAND production to capitalize on wafer bonding strengths

China’s YMTC is expected to start operations at its Phase 3 Wuhan fab late this year as the first leading-edge memory plant built to comply with Beijing’s unwritten 50% tooling requirement.

China tests deep-sea electro-hydrostatic actuator that can cut undersea cables at a depth of 3,500 meters — state hails successful trial and hints at deployment readiness

China has successfully tested a “deep-sea electro-hydrostatic actuator” that can cut undersea cables at a depth of 3,500 meters.

Iran reportedly bought an in-orbit Chinese satellite to target US military sites in the Middle East — purchase agreement included ongoing ground control services based in China

Leaked documents allegedly show that the IRGC Aerospace Force is using a Chinese satellite to observe U.S. bases in the Middle East and use it for targeting American assets with drones and missiles.

Our lifestyle tech colleagues at Tom’s Guide have overhauled their site for smarter shopping — more video and access to experts make it ‘the biggest relaunch in our history’

Our tech colleagues over at Tom’s Guide just relaunched their homepage, with destination-focused features like a dedicated live feed for news and expert reactions, AI-infused shopping and upgrading tools, and more short-fo…

Nvidia releases open AI models for quantum computing tasks — ‘Ising’ said to be 2.5x faster and 3x more accurate than existing tools for decoding

Nvidia has announced Ising, a family of open-source AI models for quantum processor calibration and real-time error correction decoding that claims to offer substantial speedups over existing methods.