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Samsung chip workers are defecting to SK Hynix driven by superior AI-era bonuses and a competitive talent market, amid a wave of multi-year profit-sharing schemes, union negotiations, and looming labor shortages that could affect the HBM race.
CuspAI raises a $450 million Series B at a $2.6 billion valuation to scale its AI-driven materials discovery platform, unveiling the AI Materials Foundry with 45 founding members including Nvidia, Meta, Samsung, Hyundai, and Merck.
Microsoft restricts internal use of Claude Fable 5 due to Anthropic's data retention requirements, while still rolling out Fable 5 to GitHub Copilot and Foundry users; internal tools continue with other Claude models under Zero Data Retention.
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman outlines a pivot to self-developed frontier models, a renewed OpenAI partnership, heavy enterprise focus, and governance strategies for superintelligence amid regulatory and public scrutiny.
IBM-led Anderon quantum foundry backed by a $2B CHIPS Act quantum package ($1B DoC incentives + $1B IBM cash) across nine companies, cementing a 300mm superconducting silicon manufacturing hub and a two-tier funding approach that favors fabrication-ready tech over alternatives.
Intel’s advanced packaging push, backed by a $500M CHIPS Act grant and potential multi-billion dollar packaging deals (Google/Amazon), is being scaled via Fab 9/11X in Rio Rancho and a Malaysia expansion, with margins targeted around 40% and capex signals tied to customer signings.
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