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OpenAI has reportedly modified its arrangement on several Stargate projects, leaving the direct ownership set up and instead preferring to lease compute from other partners who took on the direct risk of investing in the infrastructure.

Lenovo has reportedly stopped using magnesium alloy subframes in the ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 to save on weight and thickness. This feature was first introduced on the ThinkPad T60 in 2006 and was added to ensure rigidity for the brand's workstation laptops.

TSMC adds support for face-to-face stacking, 6.5 m and 4.5 m pitches for the next generation of SoIC 3D stacking.

Framework has just launched a new graphics module featuring the RTX 5070 mobile 12GB, and it costs a cool $1,200, representing a 72% raise in pricing over the 8GB variant, that's $699. Both GPUs are identical apart from the memory capacity (and bandwidth), but Framework says pricing is out of its control.

Applied Materials, KLA, and Lam Research received letters from the U.S. Department of Commerce preventing them from shipping some of Hua Hong's orders for the latest chipmaking tools. These are reportedly being planned for use on the Chinese company's planned 7-nm fab in Shanghai.

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Dell's 34-inch QD-OLED monitor has fallen back to its all-time-low Black Friday price of $649.

According to analyst reports, Intel is reducing wafer yield variability to get more useful CPU dies from wafer edges amid AI-driven demand.

Lisuan Tech has secured Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) certification for its 6nm graphics cards, making it only the fourth company to ever do so.

Meta has announced plans to help power its AI data centers using sunlight beamed from space through a partnership with Overview Energy, alongside a 100 GWh long-duration storage deal with Noon Energy, as the AI industry's energy demands continue to surge.

Researchers at Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne have developed a nanoscale device that generates continuous electricity from evaporating water, with heat and sunlight boosting the process.

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Nvidia, Oracle, SoftBank, and CoreWeave saw their stock prices go down because of news that OpenAI has been missing its internal targets. SoftBank stock lost 9.9% of its value on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Nvidia, AMD, Oracle, and CoreWeave also dropped during pre-market trading and remain down after the market opened.

PS4 and PS5 consoles are now apparently subject to a new DRM policy requiring users to check-in online every 30 days to maintain access.

Canonical has confirmed AI is coming to Ubuntu, with plans for local AI inference, agentic system tools, and AI-powered accessibility features - says everything will remain opt-in and privacy-focused.

ZSNES is a legendary Super Nintendo emulator that has been reborn this week as Super ZSNES with 'super enhancements' powered by your GPU.

Microsoft and OpenAI have announced a restructuring of their relationship. No longer will Microsoft pay OpenAI a revenue share, but it will continue to flow the other way. Microsoft will also retain model access and a first-refusal for its Azure server services, but OpenAI will be able to work with other CSPs.

The residents of Archbald, Pennsylvania have started pushing back against the six planned data centers in the town, which will take up about 14% of its land area.

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Security researchers have uncovered a cyber-sabotage platform that targeted software used for major civil engineering projects and predates Stuxnet by at least half a decade.

New AGESA updates are bringing EXPO 1.2 support to more and more 800-series AM5 motherboards, but CUDIMM support remains only partial. Because Zen 4 and 5's IMC is incompatible with CUDIMM, it can only run in bypass mode with limited speeds. Moreover, older 600-series motherboards are now also expected to get EXPO 1.2 support later.

Denuvo has been bypassed in all single-player, non-VR games it previously protected with the widely-publicized hypervisor bypass.

Microsoft and OpenAI are ending their long-standing exclusivity agreement, allowing OpenAI to leverage cloud providers like Amazon and Google.

After the company database was wiped in just 9 seconds, the founder of PocketOS penned a social media post to warn others about the 'systemic failures' of flagship AI and digital services providers.

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TSMC claims that CoWoS innovations will enable 48x more compute and 34x more memory bandwidth for 2029 AI processors.

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