2026-06-19
The US says one of ASML’s top chip tools is in China. ASML says it isn’t.
The US has accused the one company on Earth that makes the machines behind cutting-edge chips of letting one slip into China. It has not shown its proof, and the company says it never happened. In a series of recent meetings, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told ASML’s senior leaders that Washington believes one of its […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-19
Bernie Sanders’ AI bill would hand the public half of OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI
Bernie Sanders has turned a talking point into a bill, and it goes further than anything Silicon Valley or the White House has put on the table. On Thursday, the Vermont senator introduced legislation that would hit the largest AI companies with a one-time 50 per cent tax on their stock, paid in shares rather […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-19
AI’s memory crunch just killed a phone. Even Apple flinched.
For a year, AI’s hunger for memory chips was a price story: your next laptop or phone would cost more. This week it became a product story. Nothing has scrapped its planned CMF Phone 3 Pro, with a co-founder saying the company could not build a budget phone that felt like “a genuine step forward” […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]