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close notice This article is also available in English. It was translated with technical assistance and editorially reviewed before publication. Don’t show this again. Nvidia’s market capitalization fell by more than $400 billion yesterday after reports emerged that the Nvidia CEO’s affair had facilitated billion-dollar chip imports into China. Jensen Huang’s mistress is said to have enabled shipments of AI accelerators worth several billion dollars, some

The new units, TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max, are part of the company’s eighth generation of chips introduced in April this year, and build on what those chips offered, which was more inference capacity and support for large training requirements. TPU 8tx, designed with AMD, is based on the TPU 8t chip, and is geared specifically for confidentially training and running AI models, Google said in a blog post. The chip “builds security directly into the hardware lay

On Wednesday, at an event held in San Francisco during the city’s Tech Week, Microsoft revealed the specs and price for its new Surface Laptop Ultra. The PC comes in two base models, one that starts at $2,600 and one with a more powerful chip that starts at $3,700. Prices rise from there with options for more memory and storage, up to $5,900. (Microsoft says the highest-end device is already out of stock.) Microsoft also revealed its new workstation powere

“There is this understanding that in the next five years we are going to have at least 10,000x more demand for compute, and that’s somewhat potentially conservative,” Goldie said on stage. “So we don’t want to build 10,000 times more data centers. We think that we need to help by making chips that are more efficient, that use the bandwidth in those data centers more efficiently, that use the wafers and fabs more efficiently, because even if we make [data c

Saudi Arabia founds AI company "Humain" - US relaxes chip export rules for Gulf states Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner May 13, 2025 GPT-Image-1 prompted by THE DECODER AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now { "@conte

Huawei tells customers to find their own AI chip memory, effectively outsourcing procurement to the black market Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 3, 2026 Midjourney prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Facing U.S. sanctions and supply shortages, Huawei is directing customers to procure memory for its new AI chips independently on the black market. Smugglers dodge U.S. rules by pairing HBM with low-end processors and

Nvidia espionage scandal weakens Huang's lobby against tighter AI chip export controls Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 9, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted to a relationship with a suspected Chinese informant, prompting the company's board to launch an investigation. The woman worked for Megaspeed, a data center operator that US authorities suspect serves as a

Please stop asking me when the AI bubble will popI’m getting some real mixed messages here, boys!Emmanuel Roman, chief executive officer of Pacific Investment Management Co. (Pimco), during the Global Financial Leaders’ Investment Summit in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026. Bloomberg via Getty Images is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bl

DeepSeek Sparks a Boom in Sparse Computing as Domestic Chip Companies Accelerate Their Breakout: This Company Raises Nearly RMB 1 Billion Again 2026-11-06 15:00:29 Source: QbitAI Q3 Revenue Grows Severalfold Yunzhong, from Aofeisi QbitAI | Official WeChat Account: QbitAI Recently, Moxin Artificial Intelligence (Moxin for short) completed a nearly RMB 1 billion Series C+ funding round. Only five months after its previous nearly RMB 1 billion funding round,