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SK Hynix is making one of the largest semiconductor bets in history, committing the equivalent of sixty-four billion dollars to expand its Cheongju campus for three-D NAND and high-bandwidth memory packaging. The scale is staggering, though the honest caveat is that meaningful production capacity is still several years away.
Shifting from silicon to software, Palantir CEO Alex Karp is taking direct aim at OpenAI and Anthropic, claiming frontier AI companies are quietly harvesting customer data while billing for what he calls unproductive tokens — output that generates cost without generating value. Karp says businesses are livid, and while he has competitive reasons to say so, the underlying concern about data handling and billing transparency is one the industry hasn't fully answered.
And on the gaming front, Sony has confirmed it will stop producing physical discs by two thousand twenty eight, a move that has PlayStation fans genuinely alarmed. The concern isn't nostalgia — it's ownership. When the disc disappears, so does your ability to resell, lend, or simply keep a game without depending on Sony's servers staying online indefinitely.
Three very different stories, one common thread — who actually controls the infrastructure, the data, and the goods we think we own. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
