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South Korea's chip giants pledge $550 billion as a memory shortage bites

  • Samsung and SK Hynix, the South Korean firms that dominate the world's memory-chip market, are committing more than $550 billion to expand production — a vast response, coordinated with the government, to a shortage and price surge that the industry has nicknamed 'RAMageddon.'

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In brief

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AI-aligned super PACs pour millions into a New York primary over Alex Bores

  • Super PACs tied to the artificial intelligence industry and to its critics have spent a combined total reported at around $27 million on a Democratic congressional primary in Manhattan, turning a race featuring AI-safety legislator Alex Bores into a national test of the sector's political muscle.

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