Ajinomoto reportedly cuts critical chip packaging film supply to China by 30% as domestic substitutes race to qualify — ABF restriction comes following Beijing’s rare earth export curbs

Japanese chemical maker Ajinomoto has reportedly told customers in mainland China that it will cut the supply of ABF.

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AI server boom funds $314 universal cash payout in Taiwan — President Lai Ching-te says the payout ensures the country’s AI windfall ‘can be shared by all,’ 11% GDP growth and $903B export surge finance $7.4B dividend

Taiwan will hand roughly $314 USD in cash to every resident next year as a boon for the island’s residents generated by the AI gold rush. The 2027 central government budget sets aside $7.4 billion USD for the dividend.

Dev uses Claude AI to create native macOS driver for ‘obscure’ Windows-only printer — Linux container hack enables system-wide Cmd-P printing, driver now available on Github

A developer has revealed that they used Claude Code to create a macOS laser printer driver for the HP Laser 1008a, a machine designed for Windows users.

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White House cuts data centers, batteries, and AR from the US critical technology list — post-quantum cryptography, integrated photonics, high entropy alloys among new additions
 White House cuts data centers, batteries, and AR from the US critical technology list — post-quantum cryptography, integrated photonics, high entropy alloys among new additions

Appendix A of the 24-page document rewrites the federal Critical and Emerging Technologies list for the first time since February 2024.

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DJI scores a win in fight against US ban, appeals court orders fresh review of firm’s ‘Chinese military company’ designation — drone maker will stay on Pentagon list while a judge examines classified evidence for the first time

The DC Circuit reversed one of four findings, ruling that a lower court upheld a fully redacted justification without reading the classified record behind it.

AMD claims its 2026 rack-scale AI solution is 4X more energy efficient than its 2024 AI platform — company says it’s pacing ahead of 20X efficiency by 2030
 AMD claims its 2026 rack-scale AI solution is 4X more energy efficient than its 2024 AI platform — company says it’s pacing ahead of 20X efficiency by 2030

AMD says its 2025 rack-scale AI system is 4X more energy efficient compared to its 2024 AI solution, though does not produce actual benchmark results.

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China’s homegrown AI accelerators to supply 90% of the country’s domestic market, analysts suggest — Cambricon and Huawei expected to be the biggest winners in the shift away from Nvidia and AMD
 China’s homegrown AI accelerators to supply 90% of the country’s domestic market, analysts suggest — Cambricon and Huawei expected to be the biggest winners in the shift away from Nvidia and AMD

China could become almost self-sufficient in high-end AI accelerators in 2026 as Chinese IHVs led by Huawei expected to supply 90% of AI processors used domestically.

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Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams chats, billions of flight pricing records, and anonymized passenger records

A U.S. bankruptcy court auctioned off Spirit Airlines’ treasure trove of data, with Google making the winning bid. The tech giant is paying $10 million for various information, including hundreds of millions of emails and Microsoft Teams conversations, and billions of flight pricing data and transaction records.

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Judge allegedly outsourced entire ruling to AI and still can’t be sued — federal court upholds blanket judicial immunity

A U.S. federal court has ruled that a judge accused of relying entirely on AI to make a judicial decision can still retain judicial immunity from civil lawsuits, although the ruling does not determine whether such use of AI is legally or ethically permissible.

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Secret tracking device placed in rare book ends up in Amazon processing facility — destroying books to train AI models is ‘all’ the Vegas warehouse does
 Secret tracking device placed in rare book ends up in Amazon processing facility — destroying books to train AI models is ‘all’ the Vegas warehouse does

404 Media placed an AirTag inside a shipment of 1,000 books, which landed at an Amazon facility that reportedly spends all day cutting the spine off of, and scanning, books.

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