The enduring paradox of the AI economy — models get better and more efficient, yet costs can still easily spiral out of control
Token amplification creates a paradox in the AI economy, as more capable models beget more complicated tasks.
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Category: Hardware & Gear
Taiwan indicts ex-TSMC manager for allegedly stealing chip secrets for China — first case of its kind links managers to Chinese semiconductor materials analysis company
Taiwanese prosecutors indicted a former TSMC deputy manager on Monday for allegedly copying 21 confidential documents.
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Dutch chip sector at very high risk of Chinese interference, government-funded study warns — calls for stricter vetting at sites like ASML
The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies has rated the Dutch semiconductor industry as being at very high risk of Chinese foreign interference.
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New plugin unlocks granular VRAM temperature tracking on Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs — community cracks open Blackwell’s forbidden telemetry sensors
Modders have discovered a method to monitor every single memory module on Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 50-series (codenamed Blackwell) graphics cards.
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Trump administration reportedly reviving push to ban Chinese AI models following Kimi K3 launch, citing cybersecurity concerns — downloadable open weights could make an outright U.S. ban nearly impossible to enforce amid growing adoption
The U.S. may be reigniting efforts to push companies away from Chinese open-weight AI models such as Kimi and DeepSeek.
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