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SoftBank to manufacture its own batteries with water-based tech to power AI data centers — targets gigawatt-hour-scale production by 2028

…Battery manufacturing will be co-located on the same campus alongside solar panel manufacturing and an AI hardware plant, creating what SoftBank calls its "GX Factory" for energy infrastructure and "AX Factory…

May 12, 2026 · Luke James

US tech layoffs record single-highest month in two years, and more than any other sector — nearly 40,000 get the axe, AI the most cited reason for layoffs

…Roughly three-quarters of that hyperscaler capital outlay this year is tied to AI infrastructure such as servers, GPUs, and data centers rather than conventional cloud capacity. Whether AI is actually doing…

Jun 4, 2026 · Luke James

AMD takes over MEXT for memory tiering tech that enables flash to appear as DRAM to applications — tech to 'address growing memory constraints' in the data center

…AI and data centers Photonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneck The data center cooling state of play Massive AI data center buildouts are squeezing energy supplies…

Jun 15, 2026 · Anton Shilov

Trump signs AI executive order seeking 30-day government access to frontier models before release — voluntary framework will include classified benchmark to determine which models qualify

…The order also directs the Treasury Department to stand up an "AI cybersecurity clearinghouse" that coordinates vulnerability scanning, validation, and patch distribution alongside AI firms and operators of critical infrastructure such as…

Jun 3, 2026 · Luke James

Meta putting up tents across the US to house AI servers, like ‘a scene out of the movie Mad Max’ — structures take three months to build and use jet engines for power

…Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg first announced the strategy of pitching tents and filling them with AI servers last year. It seems that he wanted the infrastructure to come online quickly while demand…

Jun 5, 2026 · Jowi Morales

Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion

…The massive amount stemmed from the windfall that the memory and storage chip manufacturer is making from the AI infrastructure build-out, with AI data centers and hyperscalers willing to pay a…

May 7, 2026 · Jowi Morales

Russia's Sberbank wants Chinese chips for its GigaChat AI in the face of Western sanctions — faces a long wait behind ByteDance and Alibaba

…Sber's existing infrastructure relies on a combination of stockpiled Western GPUs, Chinese alternatives, and domestic Russian production that hasn’t yet reached competitive capability for frontier AI workloads. If Sberbank wants…

May 20, 2026 · Luke James

Motherboard sales 'collapse' by more than 25% as chipmakers strangle enthusiast PC market to build more AI chips — Asus projected to sell 5 million fewer boards than 2025, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock also expected to see reduced sales numbers

…Those shortages are being exacerbated by chipmakers like Nvidia, Intel, and AMD, which have reduced production of consumer chips so they can manufacture more AI processors. The AI infrastructure buildout is also…

May 7, 2026 · Jowi Morales

Amazon employees admit to using AI unnecessarily to pump up internal usage scores — workers complain of intense pressure to use AI tools

…workplace culture, if a meaningful share of AI consumption is performative, how reliable are the demand figures that hundreds of billions in AI infrastructure procurement are being allocated against? Nvidia CEO Jensen…