Japanese Passive Component Makers Post Record Capacitor Shipments
The unglamorous parts inside every electronic device are having a moment. Japanese manufacturers of capacitors, resistors and other passive components shipped 231.4 billion yen worth of goods in April, up…
Explosives Maker Orica Backs Australia’s Biggest Green Hydrogen Project
The company that supplies much of the explosives used to blast ore out of Australian mines has decided that its future also runs on hydrogen. Orica, the Melbourne-based maker of…
Anthropic’s Claude Models Arrive on Microsoft’s Azure Cloud
The model catalog inside Azure AI Foundry gained a new entry this week, and for many of Microsoft’s enterprise customers it was the name they had been waiting for. Anthropic…
Schneider Electric to Buy Industrial AI Firm Cognite for $3.1 Billion
Schneider Electric has agreed to acquire Cognite, a Norwegian company whose software organizes data streaming off factory floors, for $3.1 billion in cash, the French energy-management group said. The deal…
Machine Learning Points to Two New Superconductors, Finnish Team Says
A research team led by Finland’s Aalto University says it has discovered two new superconducting materials by screening a vast field of candidates with a method that combines machine learning…
Samsung Staff Weigh Exits as Bonus Gap Stings Appliances Unit
A five-year veteran of Samsung Electronics’ appliances and mobile division spent part of last week forwarding SK Hynix job openings to coworkers in an internal chat room. He had never…
iPhone 18 Pro Photos Surface on Dark Web After Breach at Apple Supplier
Photographs of an unreleased Apple iPhone appeared on the dark web last week, the visible aftermath of a ransomware attack on Tata Electronics, the Indian manufacturer that assembles a growing…
ChatGPT to Deploy on U.S. Military’s GenAI.mil Platform in Early July
The laptop an Air Force analyst opens in a few weeks will have a new icon on its desktop. ChatGPT is arriving on GenAI.mil, the U.S. military’s artificial-intelligence platform, in…
U.S. Orders Equipment Halt for Chinese Foundry Hua Hong
The export license that Hua Hong Semiconductor needed for new chip-making equipment will not be coming. The U.S. government has ordered equipment makers to stop shipping certain tools to Hua…
Prime Day Opens Strong as Amazon Tests Drone Deliveries to Balconies
The first hours of Amazon’s Prime Day brought the kind of numbers the company’s retail business has been waiting for. Sales on the first day of the annual shopping event…

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