Brain-to-text AI breakthrough - Meta’s Brain2Qwerty v2 turns non-invasive MEG brain recordings into sentences in real time, hitting much higher word accuracy than earlier approaches. Keywords: brain-to-text, MEG, accessibility, open research.
South Korea’s trillion-dollar AI push - South Korea outlined a roughly $1 trillion public-private plan to expand memory-chip fabs, build AI data centers, and commercialize humanoid robots by 2028. Keywords: Samsung, SK Hynix, DRAM, data centers, humanoid robots.
BIS warns of AI bubble - The Bank for International Settlements cautioned that hyperscaler AI capital spending may be outrunning earnings and could unwind sharply if returns disappoint or financing tightens. Keywords: BIS, hyperscalers, overinvestment, private credit, market repricing.
Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI reshuffle - Amazon is reportedly looking at cheaper model options after shifting its Anthropic deal toward per-token pricing, while ties with OpenAI and Anthropic’s multi-cloud moves complicate alliances. Keywords: AWS, Claude, OpenAI, token pricing, cloud competition.
Open-weight cyber AI spreads - China’s Z.ai released an MIT-licensed open-weight coding and security model, raising concern that advanced vulnerability-finding capability is now available without provider-side controls. Keywords: open-weight, vulnerabilities, offensive AI, patch cycles, security.
China tech controls and chips - China tightened export controls aimed at Japanese defense-linked entities as Nvidia’s China position keeps eroding under export restrictions and Huawei gains ground, alongside new supercomputing claims. Keywords: export controls, rare earths, Nvidia, Huawei Ascend, TOP500.
Apple tooling deal and iPhone leak - Apple quietly acquired assets behind the award-winning SwiftUI prototyping tool Play, while a leak suggests major iPhone 18 Pro chip packaging changes for sustained performance and on-device AI. Keywords: SwiftUI, Xcode, A20 Pro, thermal design, Neural Engine.
Myanmar scam factories using AI - Investigations describe industrial scam compounds in Myanmar using U.S.-made AI and infrastructure to run romance and investment scams at scale, with Starlink frequently implicated. Keywords: scam compounds, trafficking, AI translation, cloud routing, Starlink.
Clean energy growth vs demand - New energy data shows wind and solar added more global supply than any other source in 2025, yet total fossil use still hit records as demand grows and data centers draw more power. Keywords: renewables, electricity demand, nuclear, data centers, primary energy.
Rethinking web caching and attention - Commentary this week questioned when service workers are truly necessary versus simpler HTTP caching, and why adding friction can
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