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Huawei Says It Has a New Law of Physics

He Tingbo, chairwoman of Huawei's semiconductor business, proposed a replacement for Moore's Law. Huawei is also calling it Her's Law. The new law's first claim is that Huawei plans to be three years behind TSMC in 2031, instead of five years behind today, which is being reported as a narrowing of the chip gap and which is, technically, a narrowing of the chip gap.

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Europe Makes a Compute Correction

Three months after an investor called Macron a 'clown' over a €30 million AI grant, a French-led consortium is bidding €10 billion for EU gigafactory funds. The AION project would deploy 288,000 GPUs at up to a gigawatt, with EDF's nuclear fleet as the differentiator. It is still dwarfed by US capex, but the checks are real now.

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Geopolitical Risk

Mythos Got Better Without a New Release

The UK AI Security Institute tested a newer Mythos Preview checkpoint and found it solved one cyber range in 6 of 10 attempts (up from 3) and a previously unsolved second range in 3 of 10. AISI's own framing flags the obvious problem: model capabilities can jump materially between checkpoints, which complicates every pre-deployment evaluation regime currently being drafted.

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Google Is Going to Space Too

The Wall Street Journal reported that Google is in talks with SpaceX to build data centers in orbit. Google has been researching space-based compute since November of last year under a project called Suncatcher. Neither company is confirming anything, but the underlying physics argument is genuine, the SpaceX IPO context is interesting, and nobody has answered the jurisdiction question yet.

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Claude Is Going to Space

Anthropic announced a deal for the entirety of compute capacity at SpaceX-owned xAI’s Colossus 1 supercomputer in Memphis, plus a footnote about jointly developing multiple gigawatts of compute capacity in orbit. The deal lands in the middle of week two of Elon Musk’s federal trial against Sam Altman.

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After Mythos, a Pre-Market Regime for Frontier AI

NIST signed pre-deployment evaluation agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI, joining existing deals with OpenAI and Anthropic. The Trump administration is reportedly drafting an executive order to formalize what is currently a voluntary regime. The structural question, which current coverage has mostly stepped past, is whether a pre-market gate that only covers closed-weight labs can hold.

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