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US probes Foxconn, Luxshare and 18 others over AI server power patents

AUS trade body has opened a patent case against 20 companies over the power systems inside AI servers. Foxconn, Luxshare and Quanta are among them.The US International Trade Commission acted after a complaint by power-chip maker Vicor, it said on Friday. Vicor says their products infringe one of its patents. Twenty names on the list The case […]

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CoreWeave plans its first India data centres with 240MW from AdaniConneX

CoreWeave will open its first data centres in India, using 240 megawatts of capacity at an AdaniConneX campus in Navi Mumbai. The US AI cloud provider announced the deal on Wednesday. CoreWeave expects the first phase to come online in mid-2028. AdaniConneX is a 50:50 joint venture between Adani Enterprises and data centre operator EdgeConneX. […]

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Japan’s Rapidus teams up with 17 firms to win customers for 2nm chips

Rapidus, Japan’s state-backed chipmaker, has signed up 17 chip design firms to help it win customers before it starts making 2-nanometre chips. They include Synopsys and Cadence from the US, India’s Infosys, and Japan’s Dai Nippon Printing and Toppan, Jiji Press reported on Monday. The partners will help clients design chips that suit the way Rapidus makes […]

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Zelensky asked Trump to block Russia’s Starlink rival, FT reports

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked Donald Trump to sanction the Russian and Chinese companies building Russia’s answer to Starlink, the Financial Times reported. He has raised it with Trump several times, including at a recent meeting in New York. Ukrainian news agency UNN cited those details from the FT report. A network for the front line The […]

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Tencent leases 100,000 AI chips from Oracle in a $7bn deal, FT reports

Tencent has signed a five-year lease to use about 100,000 advanced AI chips from Oracle. People familiar with the matter told the Financial Times about the deal. The chips, which are not available in China, sit in several Oracle data centres in South-East Asia. The deal, signed this year, is worth about $7bn, and Tencent […]

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Japan eyes $140bn AI data centre push with Dell and JERA, FT reports

Japan’s biggest power generator is teaming up with Dell to build AI data centres across the country. The push could cost as much as $140bn, the Financial Times reported. JERA, Dell and UK developer RHAELM signed a non-binding agreement on Thursday, JERA said. Private equity firm Apollo will help fund the work as RHAELM’s financing partner. The first […]

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Nvidia-backed GMI Cloud raises $668m as contracted revenue tops $600m

GMI Cloud, a Mountain View company that rents out Nvidia GPU servers, has raised $668m in new financing, the company said on Wednesday. That is $223m of Series B equity and a $445m credit facility. The Taiwanese bank CTBC led the credit facility. ARCHIV, a new San Francisco firm that invests in AI and robotics, […]

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DeepSeek open-sources Huawei chip tools as a simpler alternative to CUDA

DeepSeek has open-sourced a set of programming tools for Huawei’s Ascend AI chips. They include a version of TileLang, a programming language DeepSeek offers as a simpler alternative to Nvidia’s CUDA. The Chinese AI lab announced the release on Wednesday in a post on its WeChat account. The release includes compute and communication libraries for […]

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Tokyo court rules the human voice is protected, in a TikTok AI clone case

A Tokyo court ruled on Wednesday that Japanese law protects the human voice. Anime voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda had sued TikTok over videos he says used an AI clone of his voice. He won in part, as the court turned down his request to remove the videos, Agence France-Presse reported. AFP believes the lawsuit is […]

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ByteDance rents a fifth of China’s data centre capacity, SemiAnalysis says

ByteDance occupies roughly a fifth of China’s delivered data centre capacity, and it rents nearly all of it, according to research firm SemiAnalysis. That makes the TikTok owner the key customer for every wholesale data centre operator in China, the firm said. It published the estimate in a report on Friday. The estimate comes from […]

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