Nvidia and AMD To Pay 15% of China Chip Sale Revenues To US Government
Nvidia and AMD To Pay 15% of China Chip Sale Revenues To US Government Summary In an unusual deal to secure export licences, Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give…
EU Commission Approves $4.8 Billion Prosus’ Takeover of Just Eat Takeaway
EU Commission Approves $4.8 Billion Prosus’ Takeover of Just Eat Takeaway Summary Prosus has won conditional approval from the European Commission for its $4.8 billion (€4.1bn) offer to acquire Just…
GM Plans Renewed Push On Driverless Cars After Cruise Debacle
Summary General Motors is reviving its autonomous driving effort for consumer vehicles after winding down its Cruise robotaxi unit. Under Sterling Anderson, the former Tesla Autopilot lead, GM is pursuing…
Trump Calls Intel CEO a ‘Success’ After Demanding Resignation
Trump Calls Intel CEO a ‘Success’ After Demanding Resignation Summary Just days after publicly demanding Intel CEO Lip‑Bu Tan resign over past ties to China, President Trump reversed tone following…
The Dead Need Right To Delete Their Data So They Can’t Be AI-ified, Lawyer Says
The Dead Need Right To Delete Their Data So They Can’t Be AI-ified, Lawyer Says Summary Legal scholar Victoria Haneman argues US law should give estates a time-limited right to…
Jellyfish Swarm Forces French Nuclear Plant To Shut
Summary The Gravelines nuclear power plant in northern France temporarily shut four reactor units after a large swarm of jellyfish clogged its cooling intake filters. The plant draws cooling water…
LLMs’ ‘Simulated Reasoning’ Abilities Are a ‘Brittle Mirage,’ Researchers Find
LLMs’ ‘Simulated Reasoning’ Abilities Are a ‘Brittle Mirage,’ Researchers Find Summary Researchers (University of Arizona) analysed chain-of-thought (CoT) large language models and found that their apparent reasoning is largely surface-level…
News from the future: ‘Rampant jellyfish cause AI outage by taking datacenter offline’
News from the future: ‘Rampant jellyfish cause AI outage’ Summary EDF temporarily shut down four production units at its Gravelines nuclear plant after a “massive and unpredictable presence of jellyfish”…
‘Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work At Chipotle.’
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work At Chipotle. Summary The Slashdot item links to a New York Times report on how recent computer‑science graduates are finding a much…
Ex-NSA Chief Paul Nakasone Has a Warning for the Tech World
Ex-NSA Chief Paul Nakasone Has a Warning for the Tech World Summary Former NSA and U.S. Cyber Command head Paul Nakasone told the Defcon security conference that technology companies will…