Chinese Chipmakers Become Billionaires Without Turning a Profit

OpenAI Weighs Slowing Cutting-Edge AI Development (Video)

Why AI experts are ‘freaked out’ over safety fears ahead of Xi-Trump summit

A flurry of cybersecurity breaches, internal whistle-blowing, and declining visibility into model safety has sparked fresh alarm over the US artificial intelligence boom, igniting calls from some experts to slow down development – even as critics warn that deceleration risks surrendering America’s technological lead to China. The mounting concerns come just weeks before President Xi Jinping and US leader Donald Trump are set to meet for a high-stakes summit in Washington. OpenAI CEO Sam...

Micron's Taiwan workers to get rewards worth up to 68 months of pay

Micron's Taiwan workers to get rewards worth up to 68 months of pay TAIPEI: Micron Technology said on Friday (Sep 11) its direct labour employees in Taiwan would receive bonuses equaling 35 to 68 months of pay for fiscal 2026, with minimum cash compensation of NT$1.7 million (US$53,809.39), after the US chipmaker enjoyed what it described as an extraordinary year. Micron said the payouts to the employees, including operators, technicians and shift engineers, were its strongest ever and that...

DeepSeek's new model sets a template for powerful LLMs that run lean

Chinese AI darling DeepSeek unveiled an updated version of its cost-and-latency-optimized Flash model on Thursday, with a new version 4.1 that includes architectural improvements more significant than you would expect in a point release because the changes might open the door to larger, smarter, and less resource-intensive models. At 763 billion parameters, the point release is more than 2.5x the size of the model it replaces. In fact, the model is larger than the V3 and R1 models that put...