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A 439,000-worker construction shortage is delaying AI data centers while electricians command $200K salaries and Big Tech scrambles to fill the gap.

A startup founder's vibe-coded app exposed Stripe secret keys in frontend code, letting attackers charge 175 customers $500 each before he could rotate the credentials.

OpenAI ships GPT-5.3 Instant with 27% fewer hallucinations, a less preachy tone, and better web search - available now across all ChatGPT tiers and the API.

Junyang Lin, the 32-year-old architect behind Alibaba's Qwen open-source AI models, announces his departure in a brief tweet - the fourth major exit from Tongyi Lab in two years.

AMD launches the first desktop processors with Copilot+ qualified NPUs, putting 50 TOPS of on-device AI into AM5 desktops starting Q2 2026.

Up to 500 protesters marched through London's King's Cross tech hub in the largest anti-AI demonstration globally, demanding a pause on frontier AI development and democratic oversight.

China's National People's Congress opens this week with a 15th Five-Year Plan that puts $70 billion in semiconductor subsidies and AI-plus manufacturing at the center of its tech race with the West.

Trump's executive order threatens to sue any state that regulates AI, but Republican governors, Heritage Foundation allies, and grassroots conservatives are pushing back hard - with Florida's AI Bill of Rights as the test case.

NVIDIA will unveil a new inference processor built on Groq's LPU architecture at GTC 2026, with OpenAI as its first major customer allocating 3 GW of dedicated capacity.

Amazon invests $50 billion in OpenAI, commits 2GW of Trainium capacity, and becomes the exclusive third-party distributor for OpenAI Frontier - reshaping how enterprises deploy AI agents on AWS.

A developer cracked Apple's undocumented ANE private APIs, measured its real throughput at 19 TFLOPS FP16 (not the marketed 38 TOPS), and trained a 109M-parameter transformer on hardware Apple designed exclusively for inference.

Alibaba completes the Qwen 3.5 lineup with four small models - 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B - all natively multimodal, 262K context, Apache 2.0. The 9B outperforms last-gen Qwen3-30B and beats GPT-5-Nano on vision benchmarks.