Lip-Bu Tan’s investment web puts Troubled Chipzilla in an awkward spotlight

Troubled Chipzilla’s chief Lip-Bu Tan is under fire as revelations pile up about deals that seem to bulk up his personal fortune. At the same time, he presides over a company that Washington wants to drag back to industrial prominence.

GPU giant moves to stop its kit wandering into banned markets

Nvidia has cooked up location-verification software that can reveal which country its chips are running in as it scrambles to stop its AI hardware from being smuggled into places where Washington has slapped export bans.

Software giant scrambles to stay visible in the chatbot stampede

Adobe is stuffing three of its big-name apps into ChatGPT as it hustles to keep pace with a swelling mob of firms hitching themselves to the chatbot.

Rising bill for AI data centres spooks market

Oracle opened its books with a thud as the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street fretted about the size of its cheques for AI-driven data centre expansion.

Old lithography gear raises eyebrows over quantum and military links

ASML is copping flak in the Netherlands after reports that the chipmaking darling quietly sold hardware to a Chinese defence firm with deep party ties.

Yield snags and Qualcomm deals keep the chip from travelling far

Samsung is still wrestling with ropey yields on its next-generation Exynos 2600, which means the silicon may only appear in South Korea and only in the non-Ultra Galaxy S26 models.

May juggle two Dimensity 9600 variants

MediaTek’s lone flagship Dimensity 9600 for 2026 is shaping up to be a costly beast as the Taiwanese fabless outfit wrestles with soaring 2nm wafer prices and rumours of switching to a dual-chipset strategy.

Three-year deal aims to squeeze real value from pricey models

Anthropic has signed a three-year pact with Accenture to push artificial intelligence services at businesses that are still wondering when the cash will start rolling in.

Survey shows chief executives giddy about productivity gains

Corporate bosses are chirping about artificial intelligence’s economic punch, yet admit it will bruise the jobs market, according to a new survey.

EU watchdog eyes whether the search giant juiced its models with other people’s graft

Brussels has fired up a fresh antitrust probe into Google after worries that the outfit has been gobbling up uploaded content from places such as YouTube to bulk out its artificial intelligence tools.