Samsung Union Moves to Block Pay Vote Over Bonus Gap
At Samsung Electronics, the size of a year-end bonus now depends almost entirely on which part of the company you work for. A union representing the company’s non-chip divisions has…
At Cisco, AI Raises Output but Lowers Trust
A network engineer in one of Cisco Systems’ offices has a question about a routing protocol. Instead of walking to a colleague’s desk or pinging the team chat, she pastes…
Micron Joins $1 Trillion Club as Memory Prices Surge
A stock that many investors had written off as a cyclical also-ran has become one of the fastest ways to bet on the AI boom. Micron Technology shares jumped 18%…
Apple Reaches $250 Million Settlement Over AI Marketing
In June 2024, Apple took the stage at its developer conference and promised a new era of artificial intelligence: Apple Intelligence, a suite of features the company pitched as its…
SK Hynix Builds Cooling Into Its Next-Generation Memory
Inside the newest artificial-intelligence data centers, the hottest components are no longer the processors doing the calculations. The memory chips stacked beside them, eight, twelve, or sixteen layers of silicon,…
TSMC Denies Benefit Cuts as Strike Talk Spreads
On factory floors and internal message boards across Taiwan this past week, conversation turned to a subject the world’s largest contract chip maker has rarely had to address: walking off…
Google Resets Gemini Quotas to Placate Developers
A developer asks a chatbot to fix a typo, draft a function, or summarize an email, and watches the same meter drain that a heavy coding session uses. Complaints of…
Faraday Future Signs 23-Robot Deal With Education Group
On Tuesday morning, Jia Yueting took to social media with news that his electric-vehicle company, struggling for years to prove it could survive, had landed its biggest robotics order yet.…
Lenovo Retains Top Spot in China’s IT Services Market
When IDC published its latest ranking of China’s IT services market this month, the name at the top did not change. Lenovo’s solutions-and-services unit kept the No. 1 position for…
Global AI Usage Rises for a Fifth Week, Led by Chinese Models
The counter on OpenRouter’s dashboard keeps climbing. The service, which routes traffic from developers to hundreds of AI models, recorded 28.9 trillion tokens of usage in the week ending May…
