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Malaysia is evaluating Huawei's Ascend 910C chips for a 2 billion ringgit sovereign AI program, despite U.S. warnings that using them could violate export regulations. Telekom Malaysia won the state-linked operator role through public tender. No final decision has been made.

Arm launched Neoverse CSS N4, a semi-custom chip platform supporting 8 to 128 Neoverse N4 cores at up to 3.8 GHz on TSMC's N3P node. It offers up to 256 MB L3 cache, 2 MB L2 per core, and 128 PCIe 7/6 lanes, doubling socket performance over Neoverse N3.

OpenAI Group PBC chief scientist Jakub Pachocki called for an artificial intelligence research slowdown in an essay published Sunday, urging leading AI labs to voluntarily pace model development until the industry establishes safety measures. He said such slowdowns should become commonplace.

Huawei unveiled the Kirin 9050 Pro at the Mate XT 2 launch, claiming 42% faster performance than previous Mate XTs. The tri-folding Mate XT 2 Ultimate Design features a 10.2-inch inner display, 5,600mAh battery, and starts at CNY 19,999.

Anthropic PBC has decided against acquiring AI startup Decart AI after performing due diligence, walking away from talks valued at approximately $6 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

Arm's Mali G2-Ultra NX, its first AI-native GPU, launched in China inside the Xiaomi 18 Fold's Xring O3 chip. It enables neural super sampling, frame rate upscaling, and denoising, claiming up to four times the framerate and 85% performance gains over prior GPUs.

Matt Clifford is stepping down as chair of the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency, days after taking a role as Anthropic's managing director of international affairs. The move reverses his earlier intention to keep both jobs, which had drawn conflict-of-interest warnings from MPs.

Bankers for Anthropic and OpenAI are pushing for top-tier credit ratings after the companies' IPOs. The effort targets investment-grade status to lower borrowing costs and attract institutional investors. The ratings push follows the AI firms' public market debuts.

AI is ushering in an era of mass toe-treading at work, according to a Financial Times report. The trend describes workers doing minimal tasks while AI handles core responsibilities, reshaping workplace productivity and job roles.

Huawei is investing in Chinese lithography companies and helping them secure deals with fabs like SMIC to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers. The tech giant plays a project management role to build components for DUV machines and avoid export controls.