Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

US Navy signs deal with AI firm for training underwater drones to detect mines in Strait of Hormuz — $100 million would allow drone minesweepers to update their detection algorithms in days instead of months

Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots

Open-source non-profit organization, Software Freedom Conservancy, claims Bambu Lab violated license — SFC steps in after multi-billion dollar 3D printer giant threatened independent developer Paweł Jarczak, issued cease-and-desist demand on OrcaSlicer fork that restored cloud printing features

Nvidia invests $300 million in Corning to build three new US-based optical fiber plants — AI infrastructure deal would boost fiber production capacity by over 50%

Compromised Mistral and TanStack packages may have exposed GitHub, cloud and CI/CD credentials in 'mini Shai Hulud' malware infection — supply-chain campaign spreads across npm developer ecosystems like wildfire

SoftBank, Intel to develop ZAM memory – new memory designed as lower-power HBM

Chinese grey market sells Claude API access at 90% off by using stolen credentials, model substitution, and harvesting users' prompts and outputs for resale as AI training data — 'transfer stations' operate through proxy networks that harvest user data

Iran threatens 'complete and utter annihilation' of OpenAI's $30B Stargate

Market slumps as OpenAI reportedly misses internal targets for active users and revenue