Nvidia supplier Wistron opens $700m Texas factory to build Grace Blackwell superchips

Wistron, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer that builds server hardware for Nvidia, has opened its first factory on American soil, a $700 million plant in Fort Worth, Texas, that is already assemblin [...]

University of Tennessee sues Anthropic over neural network patents

The University of Tennessee Research Foundation sued Anthropic on Monday in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, accusing the artificial intelligence company of building its models on p [...]

Big Tech’s AI spending is catching up with its cash flow

The four largest US technology companies are on course to spend close to $700bn on artificial intelligence infrastructure this year, and the cost is starting to show up in the one figure that is hard [...]

TikTok’s US security chief to face the House China committee on September 15

Will Farrell, the chief security officer for TikTok’s US operation, will appear before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on September 15 to answer questions about Beijing’s [...]

A gas-rich outback station could host a $28bn off-grid AI data centre

On a cattle station deep in the Northern Territory outback, roughly 683km south of Darwin, a Singapore-headquartered developer wants to build one of the largest data centres in the southern hemisphere [...]

UK businesses have tripled their AI adoption. Most are still barely scratching the surface.

Three years ago, roughly one in eight UK businesses with ten or more employees reported using artificial intelligence; today, the Office for National Statistics puts that figure at around one in thre [...]

Samsung reportedly in talks to back Mistral at €20bn valuation

Samsung is reportedly weighing a bet on Europe’s best-funded AI startup. The South Korean conglomerate is in talks to invest in Mistral as part of a fundraising round that could value the Paris comp [...]

Noetra’s CEO calls his robot AI startup a ‘last chance’ for Japan

Hironobu Tamba spent years inside SoftBank building large language models, the kind of software that answers questions and drafts emails. He has now walked away from that work to bet on machines that [...]

Origin Energy investigates potential breach of customer data

Australia’s largest energy retailer has told the ASX that some customer information may have been accessed without authorisation, though it says card and bank details appear untouched. Origin Energy [...]