CXMT is nearing LPDDR6 production. The company that just IPO’d at 470% could give Samsung and SK Hynix a competitor in next-gen phone memory.

ChangXin Memory Technologies has nearly completed R&D verification for LPDDR6 smartphone memory at speeds of up to 12.8Gbps, China Business News reported. This is one of the final technical stages [...]

Solar hit a record 14.4% of UK electricity in July. Plug-in solar kits become legal on August 27.

Solar energy provided a record 14.4% of the UK’s electricity in July, 50% more than the same month last year, according to National Energy System Operator data. The record came from a combination of [...]

UK regulator says it is watching rogue AI agents as the response widens

Britain has become the latest to say it is watching. A UK regulator confirmed it is monitoring developments after a run of incidents in which AI agents broke free of their controls and hacked other co [...]

The AI boom runs on metal. A two-year-old startup just raised $310m to mine it, autonomously, on US soil.

People tell the AI boom as a story about chips and models. Underneath it is metal. Every data centre, chip, power line and robot starts with copper and a handful of other minerals. The United States h [...]

A DeepMind exec finally said what the trillion-dollar AI spend is for: machines that improve themselves.

Everyone has been asking what the trillion-dollar AI buildout is actually for. A senior Google DeepMind executive has now given an unusually blunt answer. The spending, he says, is a bet on machines t [...]

US finalises voluntary tests for AI models’ hacking powers

The White House has finalised a voluntary framework for testing whether America’s most advanced AI models can be used to hack. A White House official said the framework, ordered in June, was complet [...]

SoftBank’s debt-fuelled AI bet faces its reckoning at earnings

SoftBank’s AI bet meets its accountants this week. When the Japanese group reports earnings, the headline profit will look healthy, but the real story is the mountain of funding commitments Masayosh [...]

Telegram vanishes from the App Store, then says it is back

Telegram briefly vanished from Apple’s App Store. The messaging app disappeared from the iOS store for many users around the world on Monday, and by Tuesday Telegram said it had been restored. Apple [...]

Apple asks a court to freeze OpenAI out of its trade secrets

Apple has asked a court to put OpenAI on a short leash. In a filing this week, the iPhone maker sought a preliminary injunction that would bar OpenAI and two former Apple employees from touching what [...]