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TSMC Calls AI Demand Endless, Micron Warns Memory Shortage Runs Past 2026

TSMC reported record fourth-quarter net income of NT$505.7 billion (about $16 billion), up 35 percent year over year, and said AI chip demand looks endless. Micron told investors it can meet only half to two-thirds of key-customer demand.

AI evaluation safety research: benchmarks, backdoors and the race to oversee models

AI safety evaluation research is under strain on two fronts: benchmark environments that models can cheat, and frontier architectures that hide their reasoning. Anthropic's Jacob Coxon resigned on 8 September 2026 saying OpenAI and Anthropic are "gambling with our lives".

Medical AI can name the patients it trained on, researchers find

Medical diagnosis AI models can be tricked into revealing whether a specific patient's data was used to train them, German researchers reported in a Nature paper published on Wednesday, with near-perfect success on individual patients. The finding lands as the FDA, the EU and the WHO are still writing the rules for how these devices get audited.

Google avoids ad tech breakup: the antitrust ruling, the numbers, the open questions

Open weights are not open source: the fight over a label

A release date is not a training cutoff: tracking how stale 20 AI models already are

Open source infrastructure vulnerability: OpenAI's containment failure and the money question

Helion's D-T First, Realta's Direct Conversion: Private Fusion Posts Two Results

NASA spent $30 million to save Swift. Two reaction wheels ended the rescue

Ukraine says Russian drones are hitting data centres, and the power and cooling chain is the target

IBM's 1970s Automated Fab Hit One Day Per Chip. Modern Fabs Take Weeks

The Used EV Battery Question: What 80,000 Tests and 30,000 Drivers Actually Show

Patients in the training set are easy to pick out, and privacy audits do not catch it

Wearables turn homes into sleep labs, but accuracy limits persist

Sports Analytics Is Eating Its Own Data Pipeline

Humanoid robots move onto factory floors, and unions move to strike

Search traffic to publishers is collapsing, and opting out of Google is now on the table

Search traffic to publishers is falling and the fixes are still being tested

How online disinformation networks work, from Southport riots to black PR firms

AI job split: entry-level squeeze in games and graduate hiring, boom in data centre trades