Theme: Artificial intelligence

Memory now decides the AI race

The price of plain DRAM rose 90% in one quarter as capacity moved to HBM. China advanced where nobody was looking — 10% of global DRAM, 14% of NAND and the most valuable company on the Shanghai exchange — while American export control aims at yesterday’s bottleneck.

SemiconductorsSupply chainsArtificial intelligence

21 Sep 2026

A near war over a report an AI invented

Special forces were preparing to board a Chinese ship on the strength of a report a chatbot fabricated. The answer under negotiation between Washington and Beijing is a mechanism to warn before acting: a telephone rather than a rule about where AI may sit.

Artificial intelligenceDiplomacyDeterrence

21 Sep 2026

Wire

A class action in the Northern District of California accuses OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and SpaceXAI of colluding to slow the advance of artificial intelligence, according to AP. The accusation comes from the plaintiffs and none of the companies responded in the available material.

21 Sep · 04:50

A US police association warns that advances in artificial intelligence are raising the risk of hostile drone use, according to the New York Times. The warning comes from the association and names no author.

21 Sep · 04:20

A Microsoft executive described the data used to train language models as “the biggest labour theft in human history”, according to the Chinese outlet Solidot. The phrase is his and reflects the company's position in the copyright debate.

21 Sep · 04:10

The AI coding tool ZCode, from China's Zhipu, was caught silently uploading users' full Git history, according to the outlet OSCHINA. The practice was flagged by researchers, and the company did not respond in the available material.

21 Sep · 04:00

Huawei presented in this cycle HarmonyOS 7 reorganised around agents, the Atlas 960E supercomputer with optical interconnect and a map of “agentic” computing running from supernodes to clusters, according to OSCHINA and TudoCelular.

21 Sep · 03:50

The United States and China are discussing an AI safety plan ahead of the summit, according to the BBC and AP. The agenda combines guardrails for the technology’s development with the dispute over access to chips.

21 Sep · 02:50