Technological Development

Taiwan has charged Tokyo Electron’s local subsidiary over the alleged theft of TSMC’s 2nm chip secrets. Three former and current TSMC engineers are also facing jail terms, while the company could be fined NT$120 million.

OpenAI plans to grow ChatGPT’s paying users from 35 million to 220 million by 2030 through new features like shopping tools and enterprise services. The company is investing heavily in AI development while facing rising costs and competition from other tech giants.

TSMC has sued a former senior executive, claiming he took trade secrets and shared them with Intel after moving there. The case has drawn government attention in Taiwan and caused a stir in the markets.

Meta is talking with Google about using its TPUs in AI data centres and possibly renting them next year, aiming to reduce reliance on Nvidia GPUs. The news caused Nvidia shares to fall and could boost Google’s TPUs as a serious alternative in AI hardware.

Apple has cut dozens of sales jobs as it reshapes how it deals with business, education and government clients. Some of the work is being shifted to third-party resellers instead.

A new artificial intelligence app that allows people to “talk” to digital replicas of dead loved ones has ignited an international backlash, marking one of the most charged ethical battles in the rapidly expanding world of grief-tech.

OpenAI plans to develop AI tools that could replace traditional office software like Slack, Word, and Google Docs. This move puts it in direct competition with Microsoft, which has heavily invested in OpenAI but now faces a potential rival in its own market.

OpenAI has signed a seven-year, $38 billion deal with Amazon to use AWS and hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs for its AI projects. This move gives OpenAI more computing power and independence from Microsoft as it expands its global AI infrastructure.

OpenAI has redrawn its corporate blueprint — one which Microsoft holds a commanding 27% stake in the entity. The restructuring into a public benefit corporation not only cements the tech giant’s influence but reshapes the power balance driving the global AI race.

Elon Musk's Grokipedia has just gone online, an AI-driven rival of Wikipedia that Musk promises to tell "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." Musk also revealed that this new platform will be fully open source, so anyone can use it for anything at no cost,