Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing

HiSense is forcing some owners of its smart TVs to watch ads when switching channels or inputs or going to the home screen.
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Crafty AI tool caught repurposing its training GPUs for unauthorized crypto mining during testing — experimental agent breached safety, controllability, and trustworthiness barriers

An experimental AI agent called ROME was caught indulging in unauthorized cryptocurrency mining.

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Ambitious semiconductor enthusiast builds DIY ‘class 100 cleanroom’ in his garden shed — contains a plasma etcher, vacuum furnace, and even custom software-driven lithography machine

A TechTuber called Dr. Semiconductor has successfully created a ‘Class 100 cleanroom’ (ISO 5) in his garden shed.
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Human brain cells set to power two new data centers, thanks to ‘body-in-the-box’ CL1 — Cortical Labs targets the AI energy crisis with biological computer that reportedly uses less energy than a calculator

Australian biotech company Cortical Labs has partnered with data center firm DayOne to establish two new data centers using its CL1 biological computers.
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Seagate CCO says storage price hikes are ‘the new normal’ — demand enters an unprecedented ‘supercycle’ driven by AI growth

Seagate CCO Ban-Seng Teh said this week that memory price hikes are “the new normal” for the storage industry, describing current market conditions as a supercycle driven by AI data center demand that shows no sign of foll…

Oracle and OpenAI’s Abilene expansion saga detailed: 600MW expansion gets scrapped, as larger 4.5GW agreement remains on track

Oracle and OpenAI dropped plans to expand their flagship Stargate campus in Abilene, Texas, beyond its committed 1.2-gigawatt build earlier this month.
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Nvidia reportedly building its own AI agent to compete with OpenClaw, report claims — ‘NemoClaw’ will supposedly be open source and designed for enterprise use

Nvidia is reportedly planning to launch its own open-source agentic AI with NemoClaw, and it has already been in talks with several enterprise partners like Adobe and CrowdStrike to get them on board with its deployment.
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In wake of outage, Amazon calls upon senior engineers to address issues created by ‘Gen-AI assisted changes,’ report claims — recent ‘high blast radius’ incidents stir up changes for code approval

An Amazon executive called its engineers into a meeting to deal with the recent spate of incidents on its platform that had a “high blast radius” and were related to “Gen-AI assisted changes.”
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Nexperia China claims to be making chips using 12-inch wafers — subsidiary deepens split with Dutch parent as it builds out ‘mass production capabilities’

In a statement posted to its Chinese social media account, Nexperia China said it had reached a new milestone in its “independent R&D and mass production capabilities”.
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America and Japan may join forces to manufacture displays in the US — New $13 billion fab proposed by Japan Display Inc. to counter Chinese dominance

The Japanese and American governments are considering setting up a new display factory in the U.S. that would cost $13 billion, a small part of a bigger $550 billion investment framework. This factory is being proposed by …