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Sunday 8 November

AI pulls up the civil service ladder to Southeast Asia’s middle class

AI-generated summary Observers say that while mass lay-offs are off the table, slower recruitment driven by artificial intelligence could freeze out university leavers in Southeast Asia. Unlike the Netherlands, which aims to cut an estimated 25,000 full-time equivalent civil service posts over the next decade in an efficiency drive that includes plans to harness artificial intelligence, Southeast Asian governments face competing pressures.

Trump backs Nvidia's Huang amid affair, spy investigation

AI-generated summary President Trump defended Nvidia chief executive officer Jensen Huang on Sunday night as the company investigates his affair with a suspected Chinese spy. House Republican committee chairs have requested that Huang agree by Nov. 11 to a briefing date regarding national security controls.

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Terafab Is Now Aiming For A Memory Production Capacity Of Around 700,000 Wafers Per Month, Which Is Roughly Equal To Samsung's Entire DRAM Capacity

AI-generated summary Terafab is a semiconductor joint venture between SpaceX and Tesla with technological backing by Intel that aims to produce AI compute for space-based data centers and Optimus humanoid robots. Nikkei reports that Terafab has informed semiconductor equipment suppliers of an ambition to reach a production capacity of 700,000 wafers per month for memory by 2032.

Could HBF be the solution to the Memory bottleneck? By Investing.com

AI-generated summary Bernstein reports that high-bandwidth flash technology could ease artificial intelligence infrastructure constraints by combining high read bandwidth with significantly greater capacity and a lower cost per gigabyte than high-bandwidth memory. SanDisk Corporation is targeting its first product samples for inference applications in 2027, though Bernstein notes that the technology faces hurdles such as a lack of formal endorsement from Nvidia.

White House Request Raises US AI Safety Center Independence Concerns

AI-generated summary The Associated Press reported that officials at CAISSI were asked to report informally to a White House office, raising concerns about the independence of federal AI safety evaluations. Critics warned that the arrangement could politicize cybersecurity and bioweapon decisions, while others argued that closer ties to Donald Trump could bring greater prominence and funding.

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