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Supermicro is a legitimate hardware company based in San Jose, California that nonetheless has a long list of brushes with legal controversy. And today, according to Bloomberg, it had its Taiwan office and about eight other locations raided as part of a U.S. federal case over alleged AI chip smuggling—or to put it another way, noncompliance with U.S. export controls. Shares closed down about 8% if you care about that sort of thing. Bloomberg notes that the

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images Ask just about any job seeker in the US how the labor market is doing, and you’re liable to get an earful. Months upon months of stale job growth have led to a “low-hire economy,” a situation where workers have little leverage over companies, resulting in low wage growth, a rise in freelance hires compared to full-time, and ever-worsening benefit packages. At the same time

Our proposed hardware trojan detection and explanation framework. Credit: IEEE Access (2025). DOI: 10.1109/access.2025.3592030 University of Missouri researchers have used artificial intelligence to detect hidden hardware trojans through a method that's 97% accurate. From smartphones to medical devices, computer chips power nearly everything we use today. But hidden deep inside these chips, there's a little-known threat: hardware trojans—malicious modifica

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. Chinese AI companies are reportedly trying to intensify their efforts to secure computing capacity outside of China. This has been a way to circumvent U.S. AI chip export controls. The efforts are likely driven by concerns that the scandal involving Jensen Huang has sparked debates about a s

Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Allbirds Tech bro sneaker company Allbirds made a huge splash yesterday when it announced a baffling pivot to AI infrastructure — news that was met with a mix of incredulity and ridicule. The company’s blindsiding metamorphosis into what it’s calling “NewBird AI” had investors leaping from their office chairs, sending shares surging by over 700 percent on Wednesday. That’s despite Allbirds’ core business being at death’s door

The experimental and measurement platform that the team used to evaluate the nvDCIM chips. Credit: Nature Electronics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41928-025-01479-y To make accurate predictions and reliably complete desired tasks, most artificial intelligence (AI) systems need to rapidly analyze large amounts of data. This currently entails the transfer of data between processing and memory units, which are separate in existing electronic devices. Over the past f

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock The inside of a facility where AI chips are made is extraordinarily sensitive. Fabrication plants are filled with equipment so exquisitely delicate that even the tiniest contaminants can result in precious chips being ruined. As Business Insider’s Olivia Nemec found out firsthand, the list of things she wasn’t able to wear or use ahead of taking a peek inside Intel’s chip factory in Orego

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Amid the AI gold rush, one particularly fruitful vein of research is the emergence of AI-assisted workflows in electronic design automation (EDA) tools like Cadence Maestro. One such company developing such foundational models is Cognichip, which in September launched Artificia

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The grocery delivery service Instacart is using artificial intelligence to experiment with prices and charge some shoppers more than others for the same items, a new study found. The study from nonprofits Groundwork Collaborative and Consumer Reports followed more than 400 shoppers in four cities and found that Instacart sometimes offered as many as five different sales prices for the exact same item, at the same store an

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 1 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Watchers and reporters in the AI space have long pointed out how its circular economy could implode, potentially taking associated investments with it. The IMF has examined those fears in its latest Global Financial Stability Report, and its conclusions are stark. In the IMF'

“It’s not just an incremental step, it’s a meaningful leap forward,” said Jay Gambetta, director of IBM Research and IBM Fellow, in an advance media briefing. He described the new chip technology as “pointing to a future where computing becomes significantly more powerful without a corresponding increase in energy.” It’s worth unpacking what the “world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology” means, because it is impractical to build reliably functional ch

(Photo=Shutterstock) TSMC, the world’s largest foundry company, has decided to invest up to $1 billion (about 1.34 trillion won) in OpenAI and Anthropic, which are developing their own AI semiconductors. As the two AI companies pursue developing their own chips to reduce their dependence on external semiconductor makers such as Nvidia, TSMC’s move is also seen as an effort to strengthen ties with them by securing equity stakes, going beyond simply supplyin

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Best RAM bundle deals (Image credit: Newegg) RAM bundles have turned out to be the best option to get reasonably-priced RAM during the ongoing pricing crisis. It's the Amazon Big Deal Days 2026 sales event this week, running from October 6 to 7, so this could be a good time t