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Intel and AMD flag China server CPU shortages as prices climb

8 Feb 2026

Intel and AMD are warning Chinese customers about tightening server CPU supplies, with prices rising and delivery times stretching for key data center chips. Surging demand from artificial intelligence infrastructure and manufacturing constraints are driving backlogs, especially for newer Xeon processors.

artificial intelligence, cloud-computing, data-centers, semiconductors

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Nvidia selects SK hynix and Samsung HBM4 for Vera Rubin, shifts Micron to LPDDR5X

8 Feb 2026

Nvidia’s upcoming Vera Rubin rack-scale systems will rely on SK hynix and Samsung for HBM4, while Micron pivots to supplying LPDDR5X for Vera CPUs as overall memory bandwidth targets climb sharply.

artificial intelligence, datacenter, hardware, memory

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Experimental uterine relocation surgery helps bowel cancer survivors give birth

7 Feb 2026

Surgeons are testing a procedure that temporarily moves the uterus and ovaries out of the pelvis during bowel and rectal cancer treatment to preserve fertility. Early cases, including a recent birth in Switzerland, suggest the technique can allow some patients to conceive and carry pregnancies after intensive radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

biotech, cancer treatment, reproductive health, surgery

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Moltbook turns autonomous agent frenzy into artificial intelligence spectacle

7 Feb 2026

Moltbook’s rapid rise as a bot-focused social network exposes both the limits of today’s artificial intelligence agents and the human hype surrounding them, while surfacing real security risks from millions of loosely controlled bots.

artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, security, social media

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Artificial Intelligence content tools in 2025 make synthetic media indistinguishable

7 Feb 2026

Synthetic media systems in 2025 have shifted from narrow assistants to integrated creative engines that generate personalized, multimodal content at scale while raising urgent questions about authenticity, bias, and regulation.

artificial intelligence, content creation, ethics, media

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K Health boosts its Artificial Intelligence physician using Gemma 3 and clinical data

7 Feb 2026

K Health migrated its Artificial Intelligence physician to Gemma 3 on Vertex AI to create a more natural, clinically grounded intake chat while sharply cutting training and inference costs. Fine-tuning smaller Gemma models with decision-focused data delivered higher business scores than larger, domain-specific systems.

artificial intelligence, google deepmind, healthcare, machine learning

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Artificial Intelligence is accelerating scientific output but reinforcing a broken research system

7 Feb 2026

Artificial Intelligence tools are boosting individual scientists’ productivity while narrowing research diversity and deepening systemic problems in how science is funded and rewarded.

artificial intelligence, research incentives, science policy

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GDC survey highlights layoffs as generative Artificial Intelligence adoption grows

7 Feb 2026

Game industry workers report rising layoffs, stronger support for unions, and expanding use of generative Artificial Intelligence, as Take-Two doubles down on the technology and Valve delays its Steam Machine hardware.

artificial intelligence, consoles, games industry, labor

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Consultant who predicted artificial intelligence software slump lays out next disruption wave

7 Feb 2026

Management consultant Michelle Miller, who warned in 2024 that generative artificial intelligence would squeeze software economics, now expects broad consolidation, new pricing models, and a high failure rate for deployments as enterprises rethink how they buy and use software.

artificial intelligence, enterprise software, startups, venture capital

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Artificial Intelligence chip market shares for Nvidia, Amd and Intel in Q2 2023

7 Feb 2026

Nvidia dominated the Artificial Intelligence chip market in Q2 2023, far outpacing competitors Amd and Intel in reported GPU share. The data highlights a highly concentrated competitive landscape.

amd, artificial intelligence, intel, nvidia

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Data center sector sees major Amazon capex, chip funding, and global build out

7 Feb 2026

Amazon is preparing a large capital expenditure push focused on AWS data centers, while new chip funding, land deals, and power-efficient projects highlight accelerating demand for digital infrastructure worldwide.

ai & analytics, cloud & hyperscale, investment / m&a / financing, it hardware & semiconductors

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Brave Leo artificial intelligence integrates private chat and custom models into the browser

7 Feb 2026

Brave Leo is a browser based artificial intelligence assistant that emphasizes privacy, integrates with Brave Search, and supports both built in and user supplied models. It offers free and premium tiers, local chat history, and tools for working with web pages and documents without leaving the tab.

artificial intelligence, brave, browsers, privacy