Chinese startup claims photonic chip production without DUV lithography, says nanoimprint process cuts costs by 90% — 8-inch wafers produced without conventional optical lithography

Chinese startup Prinano claims it produced 8-inch photonic chip wafers without DUV lithography, using nanoimprint technology that cuts costs by 90%.
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Most new U.S. AI data centers are being built in drought zones — two-thirds of 809 planned projects set for areas with water shortages

About two-thirds of the 809 data centers planned across the U.S. are slated for land that has been in drought over the past year.
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Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for data center development — $10 gift became $10M for city government, with $30M tax expected over next decade

Texas farmland originally donated in 1999 to be used only as a public park has been sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
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Disgruntled ASML employees threaten to boycott Elon Musk conference appearance — staff express ire at political involvement and ‘Nazi sympathies’

ASML has confirmed that a group of disgruntled workers is pushing back hard against an invitation for Elon Musk to address the equipment maker’s closed annual tech conference.
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Executives are cutting jobs for an AI future that hasn’t fully arrived yet, even as productivity gains remain difficult to prove — data neither confirms nor refutes an AI unemployment apocalypse

A growing number of CEOs expect AI-driven layoffs, but economic data paints a more complex picture as companies cut junior roles before proving AI delivers meaningful productivity gains.
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ASML becomes Europe’s most valuable company ever as analysts bet on higher EUV output — its market cap hit $674 billion this week

ASML closed Wednesday, June 3rd, as the most valuable company in European history, reaching a market cap of $668 billion.
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Google signs $920M monthly compute deal with SpaceX — company’s projected annual data center revenue to exceed its combined proceeds from Starlink, launch services, and AI in 2025

Google’s $920-million-a-month deal with SpaceX will let it secure 110,000 Nvidia GPUs starting October 2026. This is the second data center deal that SpaceX has secured in a matter of weeks, especially as it’s quickly appr…

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Russia’s new ‘Starlink‑Style’ Rassvet fleet loses its first satellite after weeks — Object 4 drops out of orbit but 15 others remain

Object 4, one of 16 satellites in the first operational batch of Russia’s Rassvet broadband network, re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on approximately June 6th.
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Gaming soundbar can be hijacked from over 16 yards away without touch or pairing — the company allegedly refuses to label the blatant security flaw a cybersecurity risk

Security researcher Rasmus Moorats has demonstrated that Creative’s Sound Blaster Katana V2X gaming soundbar can be hijacked over Bluetooth from up to 16 yards away.
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Huawei-led team claims it post-trained DeepSeek’s 1.6-trillion-parameter model — 1,000 Ascend 910C chips used in training

A research group that includes Huawei Technologies says it completed full-parameter post-training of DeepSeek’s V4-Pro, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model.
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