🇹🇼— MediaTek has now brought out and revealed an immersion-cooled AI data center in Miaoli, Taiwan. Marking this to now be the island's most advanced facility. Servers are constructed and installed by Gigabyte, with core hardware supplied by Nvidia, Intel, and AMD. The facility is going to be ran for MediaTek's own R&D operations.

This move now seems to project a broader pattern among leading chipmakers to do AI computing infrastructure on the inside and amongst themselves rather than rely solely on third-party cloud providers. For MediaTek as they are the world's top mobile chip developer by volume, this in-house AI capacity will support the next-generation of chip designs as well as validation cycles critical to making sure designs are up to market competition. Taiwan's semiconductor cluster is making more thorough moves with its vertical integration across chip design, fabrication, and now AI training infrastructure.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Russian forces have now used the double-tap strike over 400+ times, targeting emergency responders and civilian helpers, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in 2022

📊 According to Truth Hounds, these incidents have caused at least 42 deaths and 258 injuries among emergency responders, and damaged or destroyed at least 248 emergency operations vehicles and 138 fire stations

📊 According to the official data from the SES, it is significantly higher: 111 deaths, 550 injuries, 617 vehicles damaged or destroyed, and 449 affected fire stations and other SES facilities during the same period

✍🏻 The difference in figures suggests the actual scale of double-tap strikes likely exceeds what is captured in open sources

🇨🇳— Chinese military court has given death sentences with two-year reprieves to some ex-defense ministers Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu on graft charges. Both will not be eligible for parole periods if the courts decide to commutate the sentences converting them to life imprisonment.