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SK Hynix Inc. signage at the company’s office in Seongnam, South Korea, on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSK Hynix said on Friday it will invest 54 trillion Korean won ($38.1 billion) to build two new memory chip manufacturing plants, as demand for the components, which are key to AI, continues to grow.The South Korean tech giant announced a 35.2 trillion won investment in a fabrication plant, or fab, in Yongin called “Y2,” with 19.1 trillion won earmarked for a facility in Cheongju called “M17.”It comes amid a surge in memory prices driven by a…
Giving her views on the recent Holyrood election, Sturgeon wrote there was “a lack of vision or big picture thinking” when it came the SNP’s campaign.She went on to say that while the outcome was “an outstanding result” for the party after 19 years in government, there were lessons to be learned.In her view, the SNP was lucky the Scottish Greens did not stand in more constituencies, suggesting that had they done so, they could have eaten into John Swinney’s 58-seat tally.It was the Greens, Sturgeon said, who’d come closest to “injecting a sense of hope for the future” into…
Clouds gather over the Zwickau Volkswagen Plant on July 9, 2026 at the Zwickau, eastern Germany. Volkswagen workers staged protests nationwide on July 9 as unions warned of “major conflict” if the struggling German car giant pushes ahead with what could be the global auto industry’s biggest restructuring.- | Afp | Getty ImagesVolkswagen’s top investor and controlling family shareholders on Friday issued their clearest message yet to management as the German auto giant weighs the prospect of what could be the most radical overhaul in the firm’s 89-year history. Europe’s biggest carmaker has confirmed that it is looking to cut…
The same, yet different In some ways, these designed viruses were quite similar to the original ΦX174, but in other ways they were quite distinct. For the “the same” perspective, the most effective viruses in the group of 285 tended to look a lot like the original. The overall fraction of viable viruses was only 16 out of the 285 outputs tested (5.6 percent). But if you looked only at the outputs that were most similar to the original ΦX174 (those with 98 percent sequence similarity and up), viability rose to 46 percent. So, if you don’t look a lot…
There are a few reasons AI providers are doing this. First, much of the industry is heavily reliant on Nvidia for the hardware the companies’ models run on, and Nvidia’s continued leverage there is a potential strategic vulnerability, especially as AI companies operate in an environment where compute infrastructure is highly competitive as demand continues to outstrip current capacity. Second, designing chips for specific models and vice versa could lead to better performance. So, for example, if OpenAI can reap the rewards of that vertical integration, you can bet Anthropic and other frontier model providers will want that advantage as…
An AMD employee installs a the first Helios rack-scale AI system in a data center lab in Rockdale, Texas, on June 24, 2026. Helios comes in four customizable configurations, and this is the one Meta will deploy later this year.Andrew Evers | CNBCAdvanced Micro Devices is counting on its graphics processing units to drive the bulk of its data center growth as cloud companies snap up all the advanced AI chips they can find. But as the generative artificial intelligence boom approaches its fourth anniversary, it’s becoming clear that GPUs don’t do everything.On Thursday, AMD said it’s entered into an…
Going legit While much of the visual media generated by AI has flown under the legal radar, the music industry is famously litigious. Suno is being sued by Universal and Sony for copyright infringement in the US, and a German court recently found the company was violating the country’s music licensing laws. Both cases could lead to hefty fines. Suno is also in hot water after a hack in late 2025 that showed it scraped content from YouTube, Deezer, and others to train its models. Suno did not disclose the hack, which may have included the private information of millions…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday earnings season has revealed investing themes he thinks will produce the market’s best buying opportunities.”I love themes. They help you craft a portfolio of stocks with the wind at their backs, not in their faces — the kind of stocks that you can confidently buy more of when they go down,” the “Mad Money” host said.For investors trying to decide what stocks to buy, Cramer said a good place to start is by focusing on broader market themes to narrow the field. He said the latest earnings season has reinforced five themes that he thinks…
Asking the 5th Circuit to reverse Boyle, X argued that advertisers colluded to boycott X, “eliminat[ing] the independent decision-making that would otherwise force each firm to weigh the competitive benefits of continuing to advertise on the platform, suppressing competitive rivalries and insulating the boycott from market forces. The group boycott targeting X thus distorts competition in multiple markets in clear contravention of the antitrust laws.” X’s claims relate to the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), an initiative by the World Federation of Advertisers to define violent and obscene content and help advertisers create brand-safety guidelines. The ad industry shut…
Bacon’s appointment comes after Tom McCabe suddenly quit the post shortly after Reform took control of the authority in May.Alongside his hospitality ventures, Bacon spent 19 years as chairman of the Norfolk Independent Care Association, which supports more than 600 organisations and 11,000 staff in the adult social care industry, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.The 63-year-old has also sat on the Norfolk and Waveney Sustainability and Transformation Partnership – a network of local NHS organisations and councils, and previously was given an Outstanding Leadership in Public Services award by the county council.Last year, he emerged as winner on Four…