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Kioxia Commits More Than ¥1 Trillion to Expand Kitakami NAND Fab

The company says the investment will scale production of 332‑layer 3D NAND to meet growing AI and cloud storage needs.

Amazon Tracked Buying and Destructively Scanning Books at Las Vegas Facility

Arthur Hayes Returns as CEO of Flop Labs to Launch FLOP Token

Nvidia Weighs $250 Billion Guarantee for OpenAI’s Ohio AI Campus

Kalshi Launches GPU‑Hour Markets and Forward Curves for AI Compute Pricing

2x Leveraged DRAM ETF $RAM Starts Trading on Cboe

Reports Link Thai Intermediary to Alleged $2.5 Billion Super Micro Server Diversion to China

Huawei Poised to Dominate China’s AI Chips in 2026 as Nvidia Shipments Stall

Samsung Warns Phone Unit Could Log First Annual Loss as AI Drives Up Memory Costs

AI Data Center Buildout Hits Grid Bottlenecks, Forcing Delays and Off-Grid Plans

Musk’s xAI Buys Third Building to Push Colossus Toward 2 GW of AI Training Power

Google Sues SerpApi Over Alleged Bypass of SearchGuard and Mass Scraping of Search Results

Meta Is in Talks to Use Google’s AI Chips, Rattling Nvidia

Nvidia Deepens Korea Ties as Samsung’s 2026 HBM Books Out and SK Hynix Lays Out HBM4 Timeline

Coinbase’s x402 Posts Record Usage as AI Micropayments Take Off

Astera Labs Joins Arm Total Design To Speed Custom AI SoCs on Neoverse CSS

Bezos Predicts Gigawatt-Scale Orbital Data Centers Within Two Decades

New Book Urges Halt to Superintelligent AI, Warning of Extinction Risk

China Orders Tech Giants to Halt Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000D as Antitrust Pressure Escalates

Anthropic Expands Ban to Block Majority-Owned Chinese and Other Restricted-Region Firms From Its AI