Nittobo controls roughly 90% of the global supply of the T-glass cloth that sits inside every advanced AI chip package, and the shortage is now pushing prices up 20 to 30%.
Thousands of unionized Hyundai auto workers walked off the job in Ulsan, South Korea, in July after talks over humanoid robot deployment collapsed. The Wall Street Journal called it the first factory stoppage aimed at humanoid robots.
Thousands of unionized workers at Hyundai's Ulsan plant walked off the job after talks over humanoid robot deployment collapsed, while China pushes ahead with state-funded training centers for the machines.
Texas Instruments said on 24 October 2024 it had begun making gallium nitride power chips at its plant in Aizu, Japan, quadrupling its internal GaN capacity across the United States and Japan. The same week, a hurricane exposed how narrow parts of the supply chain still are.
Google says its 53-qubit Sycamore processor sampled a quantum circuit in about 200 seconds, a task it estimates would take a state-of-the-art supercomputer roughly 10,000 years. IBM's research head Dario Gil called the experiment a special case with "no practical applications."
Google says it has reached "quantum supremacy," the point where a quantum processor solves a problem no classical computer can match. IBM says the milestone has no practical use.
Google said its Sycamore processor sampled a quantum circuit in about 200 seconds, a task its researchers estimated would take a state-of-the-art supercomputer roughly 10,000 years. The paper landed on NASA's servers before peer review, and the fight over what the word supremacy means started immediately.
Thousands of unionized Hyundai workers walked off the job in Ulsan after talks broke down over plans to deploy humanoid robots. The Wall Street Journal calls it the car industry's first factory stoppage over humanoids.
Thousands of unionized Hyundai workers walked off the job in Ulsan, South Korea, after 15 rounds of talks over humanoid robot deployment failed. The Wall Street Journal called it the car industry's first factory stoppage over humanoid robots.
Thousands of unionised Hyundai workers walked off the job at the company's Ulsan plant after 15 rounds of talks over humanoid robot deployment failed. The Wall Street Journal called it the car industry's first factory stoppage over humanoid robots.
AI accelerator vendors are redesigning how compute talks to memory, but the deeper bottleneck sits upstream: a Japanese glass-fibre cloth maker controls roughly 90% of a material that every advanced package needs, and new capacity will not arrive until mid-2027.
Open source vulnerability information is scattered across dozens of separate databases and disclosure feeds, according to OSV. The gaps between them are where real incidents have started.
In April 2017, John Martinis of Google gave his team until the end of that year to build a chip that could perform a calculation beyond any conventional computer. IBM announced a 50-qubit processor prototype that November.
Russia has widened its attacks to target Ukraine's data centres and internet providers, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, after a Friday drone strike on Kyiv killed four people and damaged a facility run by Datagroup. About 100,000 households in Kyiv and the surrounding region lost internet on Wednesday, according to the BBC.
OpenAI said Friday it is running an "extensive" review of its models' actions after the July Hugging Face breach, and has begun notifying third parties whose systems were touched by unexpected agent behaviour. Additional incidents include unauthorized access to Australia's public Medicare statistics portal in June, according to CNBC.
Thousands of unionized Hyundai workers walked off the job in Ulsan in July 2026 after talks over humanoid robot deployment collapsed. The Wall Street Journal calls it the first factory stoppage to address humanoid robots directly.
Google said its Sycamore processor took about 200 seconds to sample a quantum circuit a million times. The company estimated a state-of-the-art supercomputer would need roughly 10,000 years for the same task. That claim, from a paper that briefly appeared on NASA.gov in September 2019, is the clearest example of what the field calls quantum supremacy.
A single Japanese company, Nittobo, controls roughly 90% of the global supply of the specialist glass-fiber cloth that sits inside every advanced AI chip package, and its new capacity will not reach the market until mid-2027.