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Surging demand from AI data centers has pushed indium phosphide—the substrate material for optical transceivers—into serious short supply. As substrate prices continue to rise sharply, securing stable material supply and passing price increases on to customers will be key for epiwafer makers to protect their margins.
In Linux 7.1, the TSC has become a mandatory boot requirement for x86 CPUs. The assumption that "the TSC might not exist," which had persisted in compatibility code since the 1993 Pentium, is now gone—putting Linux on the same footing Windows reached back in 2012.
Against the backdrop of the 2025 crisis in which China's rare earth export controls halted EV production, Mercedes-Benz subsidiary YASA has begun work on making its axial flux motors rare-earth-free. Building on an architecture that holds a 59 kW/kg power density record, the company is developing two parallel paths: eliminating heavy rare earths and achieving complete rare-earth freedom.
NVIDIA has laid out a phased roadmap for converting AI data center power to 800V DC. Beyond improving transmission efficiency and cutting copper usage, the plan aims to move conversion stages out of compute racks to boost compute density, while coordinating with energy storage to handle sudden load swings.
Founded in 1993, Debian turns 33 on August 16, 2026. Founder Ian Murdock died in 2015 at age 42, but the voting system known as the "General Resolution" has prevented the core project from splitting even through the Devuan fork born of the systemd controversy. Here's how that mechanism has worked.
China's leading semiconductor foundries, SMIC and Hua Hong Semiconductor, are hitting utilization limits as AI-related and consumer/industrial demand surges. Both companies are racing to boost supply capacity through expanding existing facilities and acquisitions, but since full-scale operation takes time, the supply crunch is expected to persist.
AI models trained during safety fine-tuning to say they have no consciousness also systematically downgrade their attribution of mind to animals and natural objects, their religious beliefs, and even their subjective well-being. A team from Google and the University of Chicago reveals this unexpected ripple effect of alignment through geometric analysis of internal representations.
OpenAI has disbanded the dedicated unit that assessed severe AI risks, distributing its functions across existing teams. With the dissolution of the specialized organization that handled cross-domain risk management, the focus now turns to whether the function of integrating compound threats and reporting them to leadership will be maintained going forward.
Payments giant Stripe has reportedly agreed to terms to acquire OpenRouter, which brokers comparison and use of AI models, for over $7 billion. Through this acquisition, Stripe aims to provide an end-to-end offering—from routing inference requests to metering usage and billing—monopolizing the monetization infrastructure for AI services.
World Labs unveiled R2S2R, which expands a single real-world task into thousands of virtual conditions. We examine its potential as an evaluation platform that narrows real-world testing to the most promising policies, along with its undisclosed success rates and costs.
