Irish regulator fines Google €403 million over location data processing

Weekly news roundup: <strong>AI boom strains chips; </strong>Google's TPUs pay off, China eyes 3nm without EUV

This week’s reports centered on intensifying competition and bottlenecks across the semiconductor and AI supply chains,

Digitimes · September 21, 2026

Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google face antitrust lawsuit for agreeing to slow AI development — plaintiffs say plan has been in motion for months before, calls agreement ‘self-serving’

A proposed class action lawsuit has been lodged against the four big AI tech companies after they agreed to slow AI deve

Tom's Hardware · September 20, 2026

An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious supply-chain hacking gang

Google’s threat intelligence group said it had a mole inside TeamPCP's inner circle.

Ars Technica (Tech) · September 20, 2026

Google's simulated fruit fly brain 'mines Bitcoin' in web browser proof of concept — FutureBit says real organic neuron miner could have '10x the efficiency of the best silicon 3nm ASICs'

A project claimed to represent 'the first organic neuron Bitcoin miner based on the fly brain' has gone live.

Tom's Hardware · September 20, 2026