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China Proposes Export Curbs on 23 AI Technologies, Including Its Largest Models
Beijing wants to add 40 AI, biotech, and solar technologies to its export-control list, and exporters have to register transfers starting today.
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Two Workers Die After a Gas Incident at Intel's Kiryat Gat Fab
A tank failure at Intel's advanced chip plant in southern Israel released nitrogen trifluoride, killing two workers and leaving a third in serious condition.
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Nvidia Releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Bolt for Open Agents
The chipmaker’s new open agent models span a 120B multimodal Super VL for servers and a 74B Bolt that fits in 24GB for local RTX and Spark systems.
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Apple Invites Media to an October 28 Launch for Touchscreen MacBook Pros
Apple is bringing press to Los Angeles on October 28 for an all-day hands-on with touchscreen MacBooks, M6 Macs and a new iPad mini, per Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
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Apple and Nvidia Each Gave $25M to Trump's White House Ballroom
A Washington Post donor list shows Nvidia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta put a combined $92 million toward the project.
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OpenAI's Compute Chief Sachin Katti Is Leaving, and an Ex-xAI Exec Takes Over
Katti, who ran OpenAI's data center and compute push for about a year, leaves November 15 and will stay on as an advisor. Uday Ruddarraju, formerly of xAI, now runs the whole compute organization.
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iPhone Duo's A20 Pro Shows Up on Geekbench, Matching the iPhone 18 Pro
The first Geekbench 7 result for Apple's foldable scores 3986 single-core and 11067 multi-core, right in line with the iPhone 18 Pro.
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GlobalFoundries Selected to Operate Two New Fabs in New York With Up to $21B From Japan
Japan will fund up to $21 billion for two new 300mm fabs at GlobalFoundries' Malta, New York site, with GF as technology provider and operator under a U.S.–Japan deal.
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ASML Says Chipmakers Want to Book Machines for 2029 and 2030 After a €5B Quarter
ASML posted record Q3 sales of €11.7 billion and €5.0 billion in net income, and says some customers already want to place orders for 2029 and 2030.
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Nvidia's China AI-chip share fell to 34% — but the shipment mix is the real story
IDC data shows Nvidia's share of China's data-centre AI chip market fell to 34% in the first half of 2026 while Huawei nearly doubled its shipments — and non-GPU accelerators overtook GPUs by volume for the first time.
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Nvidia Makes Run:ai Open Source for Its DSX AI Factory
Nvidia is open-sourcing the full Run:ai GPU orchestration platform, the software it bought for about $700 million, as the foundation of its DSX AI Factory stack.
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AMD Unveils Helion, a 32,768-Core Rack Bet That AI Agents Need CPUs Too
At the OCP Global Summit, AMD revealed Helion — an open rack-scale blueprint built for running AI agents at hyperscale, with CPU-only configurations packing up to 32,768 Zen 6 EPYC cores.
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SiMa.ai Raises $150M Series C at $1.45B Valuation for "Physical AI"
SiMa.ai raised $150M in Series C financing at a $1.45B valuation to scale its "Physical AI" platform for robots, vehicles, and drones.
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Microsoft Unveils Maia 300, Its Third-Gen Custom AI Chip
Microsoft unveiled Maia 300, its third-generation custom AI chip, and plans to deploy more than a million of them next year.
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Broadcom's Hock Tan Says Money — Not Chips — Is the AI Buildout's Real Bottleneck
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan told a Singapore conference that wafer and memory shortages are easing — and that the cost of capital, not chips, will be the biggest constraint on AI growth.
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Apple's Website Briefly Listed M2 as the Apple Intelligence Requirement for Mac
Apple's US website briefly listed "M2 or later" as the Apple Intelligence requirement for Mac, sparking confusion among M1 owners.
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Nvidia in Talks to Deepen Investment in Reflection AI — or Acquire It
Nvidia is in early talks to deepen its investment in Reflection AI, or acquire the startup outright.