China stockpiled 343 immersion DUV tools for advanced chipmaking
Centre for Technology & Statecraft (CTS) calls for banning exports of all immersion DUV tools to China, echoes the MATCH Act by U.S. legislators.
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Amazon warns $68 billion in blocked data centers threatens US AI lead
AWS CEO warns that growing opposition to data centers could undermine U.S. AI leadership, while defending buildouts against concerns over water consumption, electricity costs, pollution, and community impact.
Tom's Hardware AI7 min readRussian firm completes country's first 130nm-capable chipmaking tool, trails modern equipment by 25 years
ZNTC completes development of Russia's first 130nm-capable lithography stepper, which could be used to produce chips sometimes late this decade, or rather early next.
Tom's Hardware AI4 min readUS Senate kills bill that could potentially shield Americans from skyrocketing power bills due to AI data centers
The U.S. Senate has blocked the Ratepayer Protection Act in a 57-43 vote, killing legislation that would have pushed regulators to consider making data centers pay the incremental grid costs created by their massive electricity demand.
Tom's Hardware AI4 min readAnthropic reports Florida woman’s Claude ‘diary’ threat to shoot up sheriff’s office, felony charge follows
Anthropic reviewers reported a Florida woman’s Claude threat against the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, leading to a felony charge.
Tom's Hardware AI4 min readRussia's uncrewed robot tank fails during debut military display in front of President Putin
Russia’s new Shturm uncrewed assault tank reportedly suffered repeated command-link failures during its Tsentr-2026 debut, forcing organizers to use a human driver before the vehicle eventually got stuck in mud
Tom's Hardware AI3 min readUS Army unit deploys drone assembled completely in-house, uses 3D-printed 'Dragoon Bombs' with ball bearing shrapnel
U.S. Army soldiers are training to assemble drones and 3D-print bomb casings for field use.
Tom's Hardware AI3 min readAI robot company decommissioned its robots ‘Terminator-style’ in a 75-ton vat of molten steel
AI Robotics company Figure found a creative way of decommissioning its old F.02 fleet without having to allocate resources for difficult and time-consuming disassembly.
Tom's Hardware AI3 min readChatGPT-6 Astra cracks 217-year-old Napoleonic code in just six hours
An AI engineer used GPT-6 Astra to reveal the contents of a cipher that hadn’t been read since the Napoleonic Wars. The task was initiated with a single image and prompt, and took just six hours from start to finish.
Tom's Hardware AI3 min readIranian national extradited to US over alleged $3.4 billion state-backed hacking campaign in rare legal win for law enforcement
An Iranian-Turkish man has been extradited from Montenegro to the U.S. over his alleged role in a hacking campaign that targeted hundreds of universities, companies, and government agencies and stole more than 31 TB of academic data.
Tom's Hardware AI2 min readMicrosoft is using wetlands and native gardens to 'camouflage' 20-plus data center sites by blending them into nature
Microsoft is bringing nature-inspired landscaping to more than 20 data center sites as critics question its motives.
Tom's Hardware AI4 min read'AI Torture Chamber' triggers massive backlash for putting chatbots in simulated pain
AI "torture chamber" draws vast online criticism, and a corresponding amount of ridicule — tech newbies and AI evangelists go nuts anthropomorphizing an LLM
Tom's Hardware AI5 min readOpen-source tool designs LEGO builds with more than 2,000 real pieces
Carlos Antelo's open-source ldraw-nova lets GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 design LEGO models as LDraw CAD files.
Tom's Hardware AI4 min readElon Musk confirms discussions with TSMC about Terafab chipmaking collaboration
Elon Musk and TSMC reportedly discuss multiple collaboration opportunities within the Terafab project.
Tom's Hardware AI3 min readThis week on Tom's Hardware Premium: October 3, 2026
This week on Tom's Hardware Premium, we open the floodgates with a free-to-access chip design week, including expert interviews, a sit-down with OpenAI on its custom ASIC, and much more.
Tom's Hardware AI5 min readAI agents use 5x more tokens than humans as cached prompts explode, headed for 10x
Daniel Newman’s number comes from OpenRouter data, where agents passed humans in February and grew 14x by August.
Tom's Hardware AI3 min readMalicious VPN config files can let attackers run commands on Asus routers
Until routers on Asus’s 3.0.0.6_102 firmware are updated, the company says not to import untrusted VPN files.
Tom's Hardware AI3 min readGoogle freezes open-source bug bounty program amid flood of invalid AI slop submissions
Google suspends product vulnerability submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP) over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports.
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