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Graphics card and motherboard China import tariffs pushed back by another year

The big picture: The Office of the US Trade Representative has extended tariff exemptions on certain PC components several times since the Trump administration recommended tariffs on Chinese imports in 2018. Although there are no signs of an eventual end to the trade action, PC hardware vendors can breathe a sigh of relief until the middle of next year.

Japan reveals new robot to clean up melted fuel at Fukushima

Samsung Electronics is facing its first worker strike in its 55-year history

"Lies" and "psychological abuse": former OpenAI board members' reasons behind Sam Altman's firing and return

Recap: The tech world was shaken last November following OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's unceremonious firing. The official reasons for the move were vague, and Altman was reinstated as head of the firm a few days later. Now, former board members have given more details on what happened and why, including accusations that Altman cultivated "a toxic culture of lying" and engaged in "behavior [that] can be characterized as psychological abuse."

UK Parliament approves law to strictly regulate Big Tech companies

Magnetic tape shipments reached a record 152.9 exabytes in 2023

The buckets of AI and where Nvidia is crushing it

Netflix CEO: AI won't steal creatives' jobs, but those skilled on AI might

Elon Musk's xAI emerges as serious OpenAI rival with $6 billion funding round, supercomputer plans

AMD: Increasing compute efficiency by 30x is nice, but what about 100x?

In the race for the most advanced chips, TSMC shows off cutting-edge roadmap

South Korea looks beyond NAND, wants tech companies to increase their focus on processors

The big picture: South Korean tech giants like Samsung and SK Hynix have dominated memory manufacturing for decades. However, the country's president thinks the competition in the processor market, where Taiwan's TSMC looms large, has recently become significantly more critical. A new support package aims to increase Korea's competitiveness across the chip industry.

Atari buys Intellivision, bringing an end to the original console war

The big picture: Despite being just shadows of their former selves, the Atari and Intellivision brands are still on the market almost 50 years after their original introduction. Atari has now acquired its historical competitor, bringing hundreds of classic games under one common roof.

PC gamers face higher hardware costs as tariffs on Chinese goods set to return

Mass layoffs hit the gaming industry: 10,100 jobs lost this year so far, compared to 10,500 in all of 2023

VMware price hike forces Australian company with 24,000 virtual machines to jump ship

Nvidia reports record revenue amid global AI boom, up 262% year-over-year

Why everyone wants to be a chief AI officer or "CAIO" – this is what it takes

From Nvidia to The Trump Organization: The best and worst reputable companies in 2024

In brief: Which companies do you think have the best reputation among Americans, and which have the worst? Tech firms happen to make up much of the top and bottom ten on the list of 100 brands' reputation rankings, with the star of the moment, Nvidia, sitting in the number one spot.

Google is now the world's third-largest data center processor designer

Dell showcases hybrid AI approach, merging cloud and on-premises solutions

Forward-looking: Getting companies interested in deploying generative AI applications is no longer a challenge for tech suppliers. Figuring out how to best use the technology, however, is still difficult for many of these business customers. One new technique that Dell discussed at its Dell Tech World event in Las Vegas is the concept of hybrid AI, where some of the work happens in the cloud, but some is done on premises within an organization's data centers.

AMD unveils new Epyc 4004 server CPUs spanning a range of price points

Pioneer of minicomputer revolution Gordon Bell dies at 89

RIP: Gordon Bell, a true visionary of the computer age, has passed away at the age of 89. The computing luminary leaves behind an incredible legacy as one of the key architects who helped usher in the modern era of minicomputers and personal computing.

Humane, maker of the critically savaged Ai Pin, is looking to sell the company for up to $1 billion

TSMC's EUV machines have a remote kill switch should China attempt a hostile takeover