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The Dutch lithography monopolist guided fourth-quarter sales to €14.2–15.2 billion and said planned 2027–2028 capacity will not meet demand, with customers already asking about 2029 and 2030.
A five-year agreement to make silicon interposers at Malta, New York, targets the packaging step that Reuters says has become a major constraint on AI chip production.
Finland's supervisory agency has ordered Google to stop clearing land at two planned data-centre sites, putting a permitting test in the path of a €13 billion AI buildout.
The infrastructure company’s giant funding round shows that the next AI contest may be won by firms controlling power, campuses, chips and cloud access.
GPT-6 Astra for Law brings OpenAI into a crowded professional market where accuracy, citations and workflow control matter more than novelty.
A targeted Pixel exploit shows why attacks below the app layer remain unusually valuable—and why monthly updates are still the best defense.
Huawei is pairing new Ascend chips with a system architecture designed to make vast processor clusters behave like one machine.
Six months after wartime strikes, AWS says some Bahrain and UAE resources cannot be restored, forcing cloud customers to rethink redundancy.
FLEX and Sentinel-3C reached orbit together, pairing plant-health data with near-real-time ocean and weather monitoring in a first for Vega-C.
Westinghouse’s high-temperature criticality test gives advanced nuclear engineers new operating data—but not yet a commercial reactor.
A new G20 framework treats reclaimed water as strategic infrastructure, but its success will depend on standards, funding and public trust.
A tentative Ohio partnership would connect U.S. fab capacity to the AI memory race, but politics, technology and execution remain unresolved.
Amazon is bringing Ring’s hyperlocal safety network to Britain, reviving questions about moderation, camera footage and voluntary police access.
Oracle’s September update fixes more than 800 vulnerabilities, exposing a harder problem than discovery: whether customers can remediate fast enough.
A unanimous House vote would require higher-capacity transmission conductors, but the bill still faces Senate, permitting and ratepayer tests.
A police investigation into bomb threats uncovered 513,847 Gmail credentials, putting account creation safeguards—not just anonymous senders—under scrutiny.
SpaceX is targeting September 22 for Starship’s first orbital flight, carrying 26 Starlink V3 satellites in a test that could reset launch economics.
CISA says ransomware groups are exploiting a critical vCenter vulnerability, exposing the gap between issuing patches and proving that systems are clean.
Google is pairing methane cuts with enhanced rock weathering in Brazil, turning a carbon-removal purchase into a test of climate infrastructure.
A Coast Guard and FBI boarding shows how a suspected foreign cyber intrusion can turn a ship’s network into a national-security investigation.
A new rule lets Beijing restrict departures over technology risks, widening the reach of export controls from goods and firms to the people who move expertise.
A flood of AI-assisted vulnerability reports is turning disclosure volume into an infrastructure problem—and exposing the limits of human-first triage.
A new control lets sites stay visible in search while refusing AI training, shifting web governance from robots.txt toward infrastructure.
CenterPoint says an intruder obtained customer information through an external-facing system, but the scope and records affected remain unknown.
Google, NVIDIA and Emerald AI are organizing utilities and labs around flexible computing, testing whether power demand can become an AI advantage.
A new medical-device rule standardizes EEG data used by AI-driven BCIs, giving China’s emerging neurotechnology sector a clearer path to testing and approval.
Brussels is proposing age-tiered access rules for social platforms, games and AI chatbots, making child safety a default design obligation.
AWS says it cannot restore a Bahrain region and part of its UAE footprint, forcing customers to confront the limits of geographic redundancy.
A newly disclosed MongoDB Server vulnerability can let unauthenticated attackers gain administrative control, forcing urgent patching across exposed deployments.
A fake official request reached 680 customers’ data, showing that identity checks fail when firms verify domains instead of authority, scope and intent.
The server maker’s new Texas hub shows how AI infrastructure is shifting from factory concentration toward regional capacity, resilience, and political access.
Samsung and SK Hynix rejected an $18.7 billion electricity prepayment plan, exposing the fragile economics beneath Asia’s biggest AI chip expansion.
A critical flaw already exploited in the wild lets unauthenticated attackers seize Cisco email appliances, forcing organizations to patch and investigate now.
A new partnership aims to combine commercial RF satellites with Leonardo’s defense systems, turning radio-spectrum data into a sovereign European capability.
Google, Nvidia and Emerald AI are backing flexible-power data centers, shifting AI’s energy debate from expansion alone to grid coordination.
Google, Nvidia and Emerald AI are organizing flexible-load data centers as a way to expand AI capacity without treating the power grid as an unlimited resource.
Google, Nvidia and Emerald AI are forming a coalition to make AI data centers adjust power use in real time as electricity constraints intensify.
Apple’s latest software release adds major AI features while fixing more than 100 flaws, making delayed updates a growing enterprise risk.
Google’s early Lea County exploration shows how AI infrastructure is moving from corporate strategy into fights over water, power, rates and local control.
New guidance from NIST and CISA turns stolen access tokens into a lifecycle-management problem for agencies, cloud providers, and AI systems.
A VPN flaw may have exposed 246,000 government-linked records, showing how shared public infrastructure can turn a routine patch delay into a national security problem.
The European Commission’s proposed child-safety rules would bar under-13s from social media and tighten access for teens, but enforcement remains unresolved.
Google, Nvidia and Emerald AI are backing flexible power use as a way to expand AI infrastructure without making electricity grids absorb every peak.
Axelera’s Europa accelerator is now shipping in Dell and Supermicro systems, testing whether Europe can turn edge-chip expertise into deployable inference infrastructure.
Micron’s ultra-dense DDR5 module could let servers hold larger AI workloads locally, but validation, cost and power gains remain unproven.
F5 is adding controls that distinguish trusted AI agents from malicious automation, signaling that machine-to-machine commerce will need its own security layer.
Oracle is tying its Texas AI expansion to new wind generation, turning renewable procurement into a core data-center infrastructure decision.
A city report says outside police agencies accessed Boston vehicle data during a pilot, deepening scrutiny of nationwide surveillance networks.
A record payout failed to calm Micron’s Taiwan unions, exposing how AI’s memory boom is turning labor relations into a supply-chain risk.
Bell’s planned Saskatchewan expansion would make it one of Canada’s largest AI infrastructure projects, but its scale depends on power, permits and customers.
Verizon is assembling cloud, chip and security giants around 6G trials that could make networks active sensing platforms—not just faster pipes.
Google, Nvidia and Emerald AI are backing software that can throttle noncritical computing, aiming to expand AI capacity without worsening grid stress.
Six months after wartime strikes, AWS cannot restore Bahrain and part of the UAE—forcing a rethink of regional redundancy, risk and uptime.
A high-temperature criticality test gives Westinghouse new reactor data, but licensing, fuel supply and full-power operation remain unresolved.
A new federal playbook targets stolen and forged login tokens, pushing cloud providers and enterprises toward tighter keys, shorter lifetimes, and faster revocation.
A possible Ohio partnership would put AI’s most constrained component closer to American data centers—but the deal remains tentative and politically complex.
MediaTek’s new flagship chip makes on-device agents a central hardware bet, but efficiency claims still face the test of real-world phones.
Nvidia, Emerald AI and major energy companies are advancing data centers that can modulate electricity use, easing a central constraint on AI expansion.
New rules create a voluntary phone-based alternative to physical ID for alcohol sales, with certified providers and privacy safeguards at the centre of adoption.
New rules allow certified digital services to verify age for alcohol sales, but adoption, interoperability and inclusion remain unresolved.
The ASA said a TikTok campaign for SoulTalk objectified women and promoted a harmful gender stereotype.
Contract departments co-designed with chipmakers will graduate 400-480 engineers annually from 2027, signaling a strategic pivot toward human capital infrastructure.
Shanghai startup's reported energy efficiency breakthrough signals China's progress developing advanced node capabilities despite Western export controls on tooling.
Odisha facility represents deliberate pivot toward advanced packaging infrastructure rather than bleeding-edge fabrication nodes.
TSMC's record profits contrast sharply with ASML's China troubles and European upstart funding hunts, revealing an industry in flux.
Record profits at TSMC and aggressive capacity expansion highlight widening competitive gap as European startups scramble for investment despite geopolitical tailwinds.
TSMC and Samsung expand production amid record AI chip demand while ASML faces China restrictions, revealing industry's growing split.
Hyperscale operators are signing nuclear power-purchase agreements, restarting decommissioned plants, and queueing for grid interconnection in slots measured in years.
Three companies now account for substantially all leading-edge logic capacity. The geopolitical and operational implications are larger than the headline numbers suggest.