Sources: China built a working prototype of an EUV machine in early 2025 with a team of former ASML engineers who reverse-engineered the company's EUV machines
In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent …
Sources: China built a working prototype of an EUV machine in early 2025 with a team of former ASML engineers who reverse-engineered the company's EUV machines
In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent …
Physicist Steve Hsu says he has published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper whose main idea came from GPT-5
Steve Hsu / @hsu_steve :
Sources: a Chinese fab making Huawei's AI chips is set to start production as soon as the end of 2025, with two more due in 2026; the fabs' ownership is unclear
Fabrication plants serving Huawei push to increase production as US cuts off access to Nvidia's top processors
Google says the median Gemini app text prompt consumes 0.24Wh of energy, about the same as running a microwave for a second, and emits 0.03g of CO2 equivalent
an official report confirms that Gemini consumes per query: — 0.24 Wh of energy (~9 seconds of TV) — 0.03 g of CO2 equivalent — 0.26 ml of water (about 5 drops) — blog: cloud....
Sources: DeepSeek R2's launch delay is due to training issues on Huawei Ascend chips, prompting a switch to Nvidia chips for training and Huawei's for inference
Difficulties of training the start-up's latest system with Huawei's semiconductors highlight dependence on Nvidia
Analysis and sources: $1B+ of Nvidia's AI chips were shipped to China in the three months after President Trump tightened chip export controls in May
Roaring black market for US semiconductors operates despite efforts to curb Beijing's high-tech ambitions
Huawei unveils the Ascend 920 AI chip, expected to hit mass production in H2 2025, after Trump included Nvidia H20 in the ban on AI chip exports to China
The Ascend 920 supposedly offers a performance comparable to the Nvidia H20. … Just one day after this, Huawei announced the Ascend 920 …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in China on April 16 and visited Beijing on April 17, a source says to meet officials to discuss Trump's new chip export rules
Meetings with Chinese vice-premier and DeepSeek founder come after US clamps down on chipmaker's sales to China
Sources: Huawei has increased its AI chip yield to nearly 40%, up from 20% about a year ago, meaning its Ascend chips are now profitable for the first time
Chinese company improves ‘yield’ of latest semiconductor, despite US efforts to prevent manufacturing advances
Sources: Tencent, Alibaba, ByteDance, and other Chinese companies are ramping up orders for Nvidia's H20 AI chip due to booming demand for DeepSeek's models
Chinese companies are ramping up orders for Nvidia's (NVDA.O) H20 artificial intelligence chip due to booming demand …
Sources: Tencent, Alibaba, ByteDance, and other Chinese companies are ramping up orders for Nvidia's H20 AI chip due to booming demand for DeepSeek's models
Chinese companies are ramping up orders for Nvidia's (NVDA.O) H20 artificial intelligence chip due to booming demand …
Sources: Huawei has increased its AI chip yield to nearly 40%, up from 20% about a year ago, meaning its Ascend chips are now profitable for the first time
Chinese company improves ‘yield’ of latest semiconductor, despite US efforts to prevent manufacturing advances
Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5-Max, an AI model that the company's cloud unit claims “outperforms” GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, and Llama-3.1-405B “almost across the board”
Chinese tech company Alibaba (9988.HK) on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model …
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3, an open-source MoE model of 671B total parameters, with 37B activated per token, claiming it outperforms top models like GPT-4o
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, known for challenging leading AI vendors with its innovative open-source technologies, today released a new ultra-large model: DeepSeek-V3.
A profile of Alex Gerko, who used an Icelandic supercomputer and 25K AI chips to build XTX, an algorithmic trading firm that handles $250B of daily trades
XTX Markets conquered foreign exchange trading and made its Russian-born founder a multibillion-pound fortune X: @hsu_steve and @tonytassell X: Steve Hsu / @hsu_steve : Alex Gerko ...
The Nobel in Chemistry goes to David Baker “for computational protein design” and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John Jumper “for protein structure prediction”
- Demis Hassabis, John Jumper share half the $1.1 million award — Remainder goes to David Baker for building new proteins
Sources paint a bleak picture for startup founders in China; IT Juzi report: only 1,202 startups were founded in the country in 2023 compared to 51,302 in 2018
Venture capital finance has dried up amid political and economic pressures, prompting a dramatic fall in new company formation X: @carnage4life , @tonytassell , @michaelxpettis , @...
Sources: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France as part of a probe into Telegram allegedly allowing a range of crimes due to a lack of moderation
Related by education: Saint Petersburg State University BBC : Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested at French airport Jones Hayden / Politico : Telegram CEO reportedly arrested at Fren...
French President Emmanuel Macron says the government was not involved in the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and “this is in no way a political decision”
French president condemns “false information” as Pavel Durov's detention in Paris triggers global outcry.