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After weeks of deliberation, sources suggest that China will only allow companies to purchase H200 GPUs for "special circumstances," although Beijing has yet to define exactly what that means.

AMD announced the Ryzen AI 400 series at CES with a Q1 2026 launch window, but apparently the first laptops in China to feature Gorgon Point are coming as soon as January 22, 2026. An official Asus listing in the region has shown off a new laptop with the Ryzen AI 7 445 inside set to drop in just a few days.

Microsoft's five-point plan focuses on electricity use, water consumption, building local jobs and training people, investing in local infrastructure, and the long-term skills development of the community surrounding its AI data centers.

The U.S. President says that his team will work with various AI tech companies, starting with Microsoft, to ensure that their power demands will stop affecting the power prices that ordinary Americans pay for.

Nvidia refutes the claim from some sources that it's requiring Chinese customers to pay for their H200 orders upfront while still awaiting final approval from Beijing.

Unredacted plans for China's new super embassy' in London suggest the CCP wants to build a 'spy bunker' in the UK's capital, says The Telegraph.

The Milk-V Titan motherboard includes the UR-DP1000 processor, and it's ready to use with Ubuntu out of the box.

Trashbench succeeded where others failed, thanks in large part to the size of his freezer, which helped prevent large temperature swings that cause condensation.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bipartisan bill, expanding U.S. export controls to stop China from using offshore data centers to access banned chips.

Meta establishes 'Meta Compute' organization to manage buildout of next-generation data centers and development of custom computing architectures that will power gigawatt-class data centers.

Amid widespread anti-government protests, Iran shut down all methods of internet access, including Starlink.

The retail versions of the ROG Matrix RTX 5090 shipping out to customers will come with an updated TIM application that should help against accidental liquid metal leakage. Previously, sample GPUs showed a poor spread that would barely seal the metal in, with a crooked ring around the core. Now, we see several neatly-organized lanes that are much closer to the IHS, too.

DIY DDR5 is no longer just a concept, but a reality, as modder VIK-on has built his first 32GB stick from scavenged parts. The memory chips came from laptop SODIMMs, while a new PCB and cooler were acquired from China. After flashing custom firmware enabling 6400 MT/s XMP, the entire build put together cost $218.

Microsoft has quietly removed find album information' and update album info online' tools from the Media Player apps supplied with Windows 11.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has retracted its proposal to stop the import of DJI drones, but the FCC's ban means that the U.S.'s doors are closed to new DJI models anyway.

China's underground GPU operations have birthed a few more spectacles, new Nvidia RTX 50-series SKUs with blower-style coolers, aimed at data centers and server farms. Listed on Taobao, the RTX 5080, 5070 Ti, 5060 Ti & more are all priced higher than their retail counterparts, and that's for their stock VRAM versions.

Microsoft finally allows administrators to remove the Microsoft Copilot app from managed versions of Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, and EDU. However, you need to have Microsoft 365 Copilot installed, among other conditions.

Superheat was at CES 2026 to showcase what it describes as a water heater that pays for itself." Instead of a resistive heating element, it warms your H2O with heat generated by a Bitcoin ASIC miner.

As the AI hardware market is about to change, Nvidia is hiring its first chief marketing officer.

The 6GW will come from various suppliers - both existing and upcoming - to deliver the estimated 1GW that Meta's Prometheus site will require in 2026, and the 5GW its Hyperion data center will need by 2028.