Copilot fans discover metered billing is the new paywall

GitHub’s latest attempt to squeeze a few more bob from its users involves slapping monthly caps on high-powered AI features unless you’re willing to cough up extra.

Bets farm on 2nm

Samsung’s foundry arm is pressing pause on its hyped 1.4nm production ambitions, opting instead to dump resources into its slightly less disastrous 2nm process.

Debuts in China with GDDR7 and 10 per cent uplift over RTX 4050

Nvidia has kicked off its RTX 50 series laptop lineup with the official release of the GeForce RTX 5050 mobile GPU, bringing incremental improvements over the previous generation without shaking things up too much.

AI darling used shell firms and backend routes to access banned Nvidia tech

A senior US official has accused Chinese AI startup DeepSeek of supporting China’s military and intelligence services, while using shell companies and regional data centres to skirt around US export controls on advanced semiconductors.

Ubuntu 25.10 to ditch Intel graphics security trade-offs for OpenCL and Level Zero

Troubled Chipzilla's long-suffering GPU compute stack is getting a breather, as it and Ubuntu’s Canonical have decided to chuck out security mitigations that were kneecapping performance by up to 20 per cent.

Last-ditch talks aim to dodge hefty Digital Markets Act fines

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is frantically negotiating with Brussels to dodge another regulatory slap as its deadline to comply with the Digital Markets Act runs out on 26 June.

Semiconductor outfit gutted as creditors take the reins

Wolfspeed has managed to chop more than two-thirds off its $6.5 billion debt pile in a move that leaves its shareholders with barely a crumb.

Liberty Phone shows what making a smartphone in America actually looks like

While Donald Trump bangs on about his mythical $500 made-in-America T1 smartphone, the real price tag of US manufacturing is on full display thanks to a company called Purism. Its Liberty Phone, assembled in California, will set you back $1,999 and has the kind of specs that would’ve looked decent when Obama was president.

Dimensity 8450 could plug gap left by weak in-house silicon

MediaTek has  rolled out its Dimensity 8450 chip at the India Dimensity Summit, offering a lightly reworked version of the 8400 it pushed out in December 2024. The real eyebrow-raiser, though, was Samsung turning up to the launch. 

Desperate to sort out its AI mess 

Fruity Cargo Cult,  Apple is reportedly poking around AI startup Perplexity because it’s desperate to bolt someone else’s brains onto its failing AI plans.