Outshines iPhone biz as server demand roars ahead

Contract manufacturing giant Foxconn has posted a 17 per cent surge in third-quarter profits, with AI servers doing the heavy lifting while iPhones took a backseat.

New DRAM and NAND combo 

Memory outfit SK hynix is cooking up a fresh batch of silicon aimed at shoving more AI grunt into mobile gear and other edge kit.

Santa Clara projects sit idle as AI boom slams into an energy wall

Two massive data centre projects in Santa Clara, California, in the heart of Nvidia’s glorious green empire, are sitting empty as the city’s grid buckles under demand from the AI gold rush.

Delays bite despite a flood of new deals.

CoreWeave, one of the biggest outfits flogging cloud computing to AI outfits, saw its revenue more than double in the third quarter as it cosied up to some of the biggest beasts in the AI jungle.

Brussels caves to Big Tech pressure and Washington’s tantrums

The European Commission is proposing to water down its much-hyped artificial intelligence legislation after sustained whinging from Big Tech and the looming threat of a Trump-shaped tantrum from across the Atlantic.

Digitain report shows Nordic nations leading

Sweden is Europe’s undisputed leader in artificial intelligence investment, with the tech making up more than 0.6 per cent of the country’s economy by the end of 2025.

Suleyman says it’s time for Redmond to build superintelligence

Software king of the world, Microsoft, has decided it no longer wants to be shackled to OpenAI and is setting off on its own grand plan for superintelligence.

xAI workers roped into building explicit avatars for Musk’s lonely fanboys

If you think your job sucks, imagine working for a supporter of right wing causes that compels you to give up your own biometric data to power his anime sexbot.

Memory doubles 

The price of DRAM has gone full rocket fuel, rising 171.8 per cent year-on-year as AI-fuelled server demand turns the memory market into a warzone.

Meanwhile Nvidia’s H20 is stuck in export limbo

AMD has received export approval for its Instinct MI308 AI chips, a move that gives it a narrow but meaningful advantage over Nvidia in the tightly restricted Chinese AI hardware market.