AI’s latest problem is deepfake disaster content for farming engagement

AI-generated and recycled disaster videos from Venezuela and China show how quickly fabricated footage can outrun reliable information, leaving social media users to separate genuine eyewitness evidence from engagement bait

5U AI lands $3.2M pre-seed for AI freight workforce platform

Munich-based logisticsAI startup 5U AI has raised $3.2 million in pre-seed funding to scale itsdigital workforce platform for freight forwarding teams. The round was led byLondon-based Emerge Capital….

Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix 

Lee, an engineer at Samsung’s semiconductor division, clocks out when his shift ends. He used to work longer hours, going the extra mile to excel at his projects. But lately, he’s been coming straight home to work on his job application for the chipmaker’s South Korean rival SK Hynix, sharing tips with his coworkers on…

China’s homegrown DUV chip tool now has a name: Shanghai Aishengna
China’s homegrown DUV chip tool now has a name: Shanghai Aishengna

The state-owned company at the centre of China’s newest chipmaking push finally has a name. Reuters reported on Tuesday that Shanghai Aishengna Electronic Technology Group, a little-known state-owned group, is leading the effort to mass-produce domesti…

Australia’s world-first data centre rules hit their first snag: the power isn’t there yet
Australia’s world-first data centre rules hit their first snag: the power isn’t there yet

Australia has told its data centres to put more power into the grid than they pull out, an obligation no other country has tried to write into law. The demand is barely a fortnight old, and it has already met the most basic of objections: the electrici…

China accuses the US of ‘AI hegemonism’ and threatens countermeasures
China accuses the US of ‘AI hegemonism’ and threatens countermeasures

China’s commerce ministry accused the United States of “AI hegemonism” on Monday and warned that it would retaliate, an escalation in a quarrel that started with an accusation of copying and has since pulled in chips, sanctions, and a pair of senior Wh…

Microsoft wants AI to catch hackers before they even attack

Microsoft’s new Project Perception uses AI agents to hunt down hackers before they strike, and it might change cybersecurity forever.

Nvidia is the mystery tenant behind Hut 8’s $50bn Texas data centre, FT reports
Nvidia is the mystery tenant behind Hut 8’s $50bn Texas data centre, FT reports

For the better part of a fortnight, the tenant behind one of the largest data centre leases in Texas history existed only in the negative, described in Hut 8’s own filings as an “unnamed, investment-grade hyperscaler,” and now the Financial Times says …

Sam Altman and Jensen Huang to meet Senate Intelligence’s top Democrat after OpenAI’s rogue-agent breach
Sam Altman and Jensen Huang to meet Senate Intelligence’s top Democrat after OpenAI’s rogue-agent breach

OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang are due in Senator Mark Warner’s office this week, and the meeting was arranged only days after one of OpenAI’s own models did something no frontier system had publicly managed before. Warner, the vice-chai…