Republican lawmakers urge federal agency to block imports of infringing TSMC chips as patent ruling nears — five asserted U.S. patents come from United Microelectronics Corporation

Four Republican members of Congress have urged the U.S. ITC to block imports of foreign-made chips found to infringe U.S. patents
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New malware campaign tricks AI scanners with fake nuclear weapon prompts — malicious code triggers safety failsafes so scanners skip the payload

Hades malware campaign now tricks AI bots into not scanning development packages, as prompts for bio- and nuclear weapons trigger failsafe mechanisms.
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AMD denies researcher a $10,000 bug bounty after fixing critical auto-updater vulnerability — security flaw took 124 days to patch

AMD took over four months to fix a critical security bug in its autoupdater, and the security researcher didn’t see a dime for his efforts
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OpenAI bans China-linked ChatGPT accounts that amplified US data center electricity price backlash — used AI-generated cartoons to stoke fears over U.S. data center energy costs

OpenAI says it has banned two clusters of ChatGPT accounts it believes are operating from China, and that used its models for covert influence campaigns targeting U.S. tech and policy debates.
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After spat with Chinese gov’t, Meta cuts AI Manus off from its internal systems and is ‘sunsetting’ platform, report claims — Beijing-ordered breakup of $2 billion AI deal begins

Meta has finished separating its operations from Manus, the Chinese-founded agentic AI startup it acquired for roughly $2 billion in December.
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AI is set to consume up to 600 billion gallons of water by 2030 — rising energy consumption primarily to blame as data center power demands rise

Direct cooling data center GPUs uses only a fraction of the water required to keep them running, and with plans for future GPUs and rack systems to be even more power hungry, this problem could make data centers even more …

Brad Paisley joins fight as zoo’s dispute with AI data center escalates, petition tops 330,000 signatures — Nashville weighs sweeping hyperscale ban

An ongoing fight over a proposed data center sited just 50 yards from Nashville Zoo has escalated further, with the zoo’s land use attorney filing a zoning appeal to overturn permits already approved.
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Google reportedly books Intel for packaging more than 3 million TPUs in 2028 — SK hynix is testing Intel’s EMIB packaging for HBM integration

Google has placed an order for Intel to build more than 3 million of its TPUs in 2028 after months of testing Intel’s advanced packaging.
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Analyzing TSMC’s fab expansion roadmap — multi-fab N2 ramp, CoWoS, SoIC, and uncorking bottlenecks

TSMC is executing the largest manufacturing expansion in semiconductor industry history that combines simultaneous multi-fab N2 ramps, AI-driven manufacturing optimizations, and massive CoWoS/SoIC packaging capacity expans…