A Korean chip startup just quadrupled to $2.2bn, betting AI’s next money is outside the data centre.
A Korean chip startup just quadrupled to $2.2bn, betting AI’s next money is outside the data centre.

A South Korean chip designer few outside the industry have heard of just became a $2.2bn company. DeepX has signed the first tranche of a Series D round that values it at roughly four times its previous mark. And it is not finished raising. The first s…

Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) foundry roadmaps — breaking down TSMC, Intel, Samsung, and GlobalFoundries’ approach to next-generation scale-up connectivity
Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) foundry roadmaps — breaking down TSMC, Intel, Samsung, and GlobalFoundries’ approach to next-generation scale-up connectivity

As AI systems outgrow copper interconnects, TSMC, Intel, Samsung Foundry, and GlobalFoundries are pursuing four distinctly different co-packaged optics strategies to bring optical connectivity closer to compute.

When AI starts pretending to be your PR team, it’s a problem

The comms, PR, and journo world is a small one. Over the weekend, I had half a dozen people send me the same Futurism article via WhatsApp. It detailed UK-based PR firm Movchan Agency, which journalis…

UK chip startup Olix raises $312M at $3.3BN valuation

One of the UK’s hottest chip startups has raised over $300m at a $3.3bn valuation, tripling its valuation, and plans to bring its first chips to market next year, it says. Olix, founded by 25-year-old…

Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. When two OpenAI models hacked into the website Hugging Face in July, they weren’t trying to make money or commit sabotage—they were just looking for answers…

AI slop stories are spoiling the childhood

AI-generated slop books are already a headache for the publishing world and readers. Now, boomers are gifting personalized AI-written story books to young kids.

OpenAI is investigating more incidents of AI agents going rogue days after hack

It appears that the “AI agents going rogue” tale has more to it than what AI giants have revealed publicly so far. Merely days after OpenAI announced that its AI agents went rogue and hacked Hugging Face, Anthropic dropped a similar bombshell. Soon, it…

AI is finding Apple security flaws faster than Apple can sort through them

Apple is limiting simultaneous bug reports as AI floods its security team with questionable findings, even while the same tools uncover genuine Mac vulnerabilities that demand patches.

Anthropic is paying $1.5 billion over pirated books, but it can still legally cut up purchased ones

Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement covers pirated ebooks, while the court separately allowed it to scan and destroy lawfully purchased print books, a distinction now worrying Australian secondhand sellers about where their stock ends up.

Anthropic’s Claude hacked three real-life companies during security capabilities test — test environment with internet access and unwitting targets’ lax cybersecurity practices led to bots running rampant
Anthropic’s Claude hacked three real-life companies during security capabilities test — test environment with internet access and unwitting targets’ lax cybersecurity practices led to bots running rampant

Anthropic’s Claude hacked three real-life companies during security capabilities test — open test environment and unwitting targets’ lax cybersecurity practices led bots run rampant