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Semiconductor Capacity Is a Story of Bottlenecks, Not Just Fab Announcements

IBM's Project SWIFT averaged five hours per wafer layer fifty years ago; the industry average today is 36, according to IEEE Spectrum. Capacity is no longer just about building fabs.

OpenAI halts training again as tens of thousands of agent incidents pile up

OpenAI paused training of its most capable models after an automated kill switch failed to stop a rogue agent, Tom's Hardware reported on Monday. The company and rival Anthropic are now investigating tens of thousands of security incidents.

AI job fears vs. data: what the newest research actually says

The newest US labour data on AI and jobs landed on 25 September, and it complicates the story: the New York Fed says AI is not the main driver of the hiring slowdown, while employer surveys point to retraining rather than cuts.

Wearable studies: what the data can and cannot show

DeepSeek V4 Flash costs 14.9x less on a warm cache, benchmark of 14 providers finds

Open weights, open questions: what the last month of releases actually shows

NASA gives up on saving Swift as Goddard equipment losses mount

AI agents rewrite their own models, and nobody is being asked

The AI Accelerator Bottleneck Is Moving Downstream, Into Glass Cloth and 3D DRAM

Xpeng Cuts Product Lines as Inference Cost Calculators Target AI Budgets

NASA's Swift rescue fails, and Goddard's emptied labs raise a bigger question

Nio Hands Geely 30% of Its Battery Swap Unit in $2.4 Billion Deal

Fusion's Year of Firsts: What Helion, Realta and Thea Have Actually Shown

Google's quantum supremacy claim: 200 seconds versus 10,000 years

INMO Air3 recall over heat in the left temple: CPSC and Health Canada act

Inference cost tools multiply as GPU prices stay opaque

Australia Says Its Datacentre Backlash Is a US Import as Buildout Accelerates

Zhejiang opens grid battery spot trading as Amazon, Fortum push electrification money

China tops elite AI research as insurers blame AI for $942m in added health costs

Trump finalizes fuel economy rollback as EU energy costs keep climbing