
Nvidia’s banned AI chips flood China’s black market
More than a $1bn of restricted B200 processors slipped through in three months
Washington’s plan to restrain China’s AI ambitions is already failing as more than $1 billion worth of Nvidia’s high-end AI chips entered China in the three months after Donald Trump tightened export curbs.

Elsa AI rollout at US FDA sparks chaos
Stoned AI delivers hallucinations and headaches
The Trump administration is flogging artificial intelligence as the silver bullet for Washington’s health bureaucracy, but it is turning out to be more trouble than it is worth.

SK hynix preps 24 Gb GDDR7 for beefier GPUs
Kicks off HBM4 supply
SK hynix is cranking up the memory arms race, confirming it’s building 24 Gb GDDR7 modules to give next-gen GPUs fatter VRAM buffers while lining up HBM4 for AI and HPC workloads.

Nvidia’s H20 chip ban is lifted, but the production mess is just beginning
Supply chain pressed snooze
The much-hyped lifting of the US ban on Nvidia’s H20 AI chips sounds like a win, but the reality is a lot messier.

Nvidia makes CUDA play nice with RISC-V
GPU giant eyes open silicon for edge
At the 2025 RISC-V Summit in China, Nvidia dropped a bombshell by revealing that its CUDA software platform will now run on RISC-V CPUs.

AI search traffic jumps as brands scramble to keep up
Chatbots chip away at Google’s dominance
AI-powered chatbots are fast becoming a go-to for online answers, eating into the long-standing grip of traditional search engines and giving marketers another headache.

UK businesses plunge into AI without a safety net
Firms embrace AI, but governance is something that happens to other people
While 93 per cent of UK organisations dabble with AI, but only a pitiful seven per cent have proper governance frameworks in place.

TSMC rakes in record profits on AI frenzy
Chip giant warns of tariff risks despite surging demand
TSMC stunned the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street on Thursday with a 61 per cent year-on-year jump in second-quarter profit, smashing records and beating expectations thanks to relentless demand for artificial intelligence silicon.

AMD rolls out bargain-basement Ryzen AI chip
Entry-level CPU with copilot+ pc support
AMD has lobbed another Ryzen AI 300-series processor into the mix, and this one is squarely aimed at the budget-conscious.

ASML beats expectations but warns on 2026 growth
AI chip boom lifts orders, but tariffs and uncertainty bite
Dutch chipmaking kit supplier ASML has shrugged off some tariff fears with better-than-expected results, though it is hardly brimming with confidence about the future.