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Samsung, SK Hynix to Supply Memory Chips to OpenAI's Stargate Project

Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Jae-yong (2-L) listens as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (C) talks to South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (R) during their meeting at the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, 01 October 2025. (EPA/Yonhap)
Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Jae-yong (2-L) listens as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (C) talks to South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (R) during their meeting at the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, 01 October 2025. (EPA/Yonhap)
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Samsung, SK Hynix to Supply Memory Chips to OpenAI's Stargate Project

Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Jae-yong (2-L) listens as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (C) talks to South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (R) during their meeting at the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, 01 October 2025. (EPA/Yonhap)
Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Jae-yong (2-L) listens as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (C) talks to South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (R) during their meeting at the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, 01 October 2025. (EPA/Yonhap)

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have signed letters of intent to supply memory chips for OpenAI's data centers, they said on Wednesday, as South Korean chipmakers join forces with the ChatGPT maker to meet rising demand from its Stargate project.

The announcements were made on Wednesday after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and the chairmen of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix at the presidential office in central Seoul.

US President Donald Trump announced the $500 billion Stargate project in January, charging OpenAI and partners including SoftBank and Oracle with ensuring the US remains a leader in artificial intelligence.

Expanding chip availability was one of the key ideas of the project, and Nvidia said last week it would invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI and supply it with data center chips.

South Korea's presidential office said OpenAI's chip demand for Stargate was expected to reach 900,000 wafers a month, and OpenAI hoped to source much of that from Samsung and SK Hynix. It added that the supply timeline had not yet been decided.

The office said the partnership gave South Korean chipmakers an early foothold in the world's largest AI infrastructure project, providing a growth opportunity for the domestic chip industry.

Samsung and SK Hynix together hold about 70% of the global Dynamic Random Access Memory chip market and nearly 80% of the HBM market.

HBM - a type of DRAM standard first produced in 2013 - involves stacking chips vertically to save space and reduce power consumption, helping to process the large volumes of data generated by complex AI applications.

OpenAI this year set up its first office in Seoul as South Korean demand for its ChatGPT service surged. The country has the largest number of paying ChatGPT subscribers after the United States, according to OpenAI.

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Apple Agrees to $250 Mn Settlement over AI Siri Claims

FILE PHOTO: A woman uses her smartphone inside the Apple store in Beijing's Sanlitun area as the new iPhone 17 series smartphones go on sale in Beijing, China September 19, 2025. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A woman uses her smartphone inside the Apple store in Beijing's Sanlitun area as the new iPhone 17 series smartphones go on sale in Beijing, China September 19, 2025. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo
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Apple Agrees to $250 Mn Settlement over AI Siri Claims

FILE PHOTO: A woman uses her smartphone inside the Apple store in Beijing's Sanlitun area as the new iPhone 17 series smartphones go on sale in Beijing, China September 19, 2025. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A woman uses her smartphone inside the Apple store in Beijing's Sanlitun area as the new iPhone 17 series smartphones go on sale in Beijing, China September 19, 2025. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo

Apple on Tuesday agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing it of misleading millions of iPhone buyers by falsely touting artificial intelligence capabilities for its Siri voice assistant in late 2024.

Plaintiffs accused the California tech giant of having "promoted AI capabilities that did not exist at the time, do not exist now, and will not exist for two or more years" in order to boost iPhone sales, the document -- reviewed by AFP -- stated.

The Better Business Bureau's National Advertising Division, the US advertising watchdog, had also concluded that Apple falsely suggested the new AI-powered Siri was "available now."

The settlement filed Tuesday for court approval, which includes no admission of wrongdoing by Apple, covers roughly 36 million eligible devices -- the iPhone 16, as well as the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max -- purchased in the United States between June 10, 2024 and March 29, 2025.

Each class member could receive $25 per device, a sum that could reach $95 depending on the number of approved claimants.

"We resolved this matter to stay focused on what we do best: delivering the most innovative products and services to our users," Apple told the Financial Times.

A Morgan Stanley survey cited in the complaint indicated that "enhanced Siri" was the feature that potential iPhone buyers most anticipated.

Apple had launched a major advertising campaign in 2024 to promote these capabilities, before confirming their indefinite delay and pulling its ads.

The settlement must still be approved by Judge Noel Wise of the federal district court for the Northern District of California at a hearing set for June 17, 2026.

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India Approves Two Semiconductor Projects Worth $414 Million

Prime minister of India Narendra Modi leaves after the hand shake photo with President of Vietnam To Lam prior to a meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, 06 May 2026. EPA/RAJAT GUPTA
Prime minister of India Narendra Modi leaves after the hand shake photo with President of Vietnam To Lam prior to a meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, 06 May 2026. EPA/RAJAT GUPTA
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India Approves Two Semiconductor Projects Worth $414 Million

Prime minister of India Narendra Modi leaves after the hand shake photo with President of Vietnam To Lam prior to a meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, 06 May 2026. EPA/RAJAT GUPTA
Prime minister of India Narendra Modi leaves after the hand shake photo with President of Vietnam To Lam prior to a meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, 06 May 2026. EPA/RAJAT GUPTA

India said it had approved two new semiconductor projects worth $414 million, as the government accelerates efforts to establish the country as a global electronics powerhouse.

The projects -- an LED display facility and a semiconductor packaging unit -- were cleared late Monday, taking the total number of facilities in India to 12, with a total investment of about $17.2 billion.

New Delhi launched its push into domestic chipmaking in 2021 and has since backed a range of fabrication, design and packaging units as part of a broader strategy to cut import dependence and strengthen supply chains.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the two new projects were a part of "our efforts towards making India a leader in the global semiconductor value chain".

"India's advances in the world of semiconductors will boost economic transformation, technological self-reliance and encourage the innovation ecosystem," AFP quoted him as saying on social media.

The LED project will be an "integrated facility for compound semiconductor fabrication" aimed at producing mini and micro display modules, the government said in a statement.

The packaging unit will cater to automotive, industrial and electronics sectors.

The projects would provide a "significant boost" to the country's semiconductor ecosystem and "complement the growing world class chip design capabilities coming up in the country", it said.

India's chip market has risen from around $38 billion in 2023 to an estimated $45-$50 billion in 2024-2025.

The government is targeting $100-$110 billion by 2030.

Several previously approved plants have begun production, with two facilities already starting commercial shipments.

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Major Publishers Sue Meta for Copyright Infringement Over AI Training

Cars drive past a sign of Meta, the new name for the company formerly known as Facebook, at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, US, October 28, 2021. (Reuters)
Cars drive past a sign of Meta, the new name for the company formerly known as Facebook, at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, US, October 28, 2021. (Reuters)
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Major Publishers Sue Meta for Copyright Infringement Over AI Training

Cars drive past a sign of Meta, the new name for the company formerly known as Facebook, at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, US, October 28, 2021. (Reuters)
Cars drive past a sign of Meta, the new name for the company formerly known as Facebook, at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, US, October 28, 2021. (Reuters)

Publishers Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan and McGraw Hill sued Meta Platforms in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, alleging that the tech giant misused their books and journal articles to train its artificial intelligence model Llama.

The publishers, as well as author Scott Turow, alleged in the proposed class action complaint that Meta pirated millions of their works and used them without permission to train its large language models to respond to human prompts.

“AI is powering transformative innovations, ‌productivity and creativity ‌for individuals and companies, and courts have rightly ‌found ⁠that training AI ⁠on copyrighted material can qualify as fair use," a Meta spokesperson responded in a statement on Tuesday.

"We will fight this lawsuit aggressively.”

The publishers allege that Meta pirated works ranging from textbooks to scientific articles to novels including "The Fifth Season" by N.K. Jemisin and "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown for its ⁠AI training.

They asked the court for ‌permission to represent a larger class ‌of copyright owners and an unspecified amount of monetary damages.

"Meta’s mass-scale ‌infringement isn’t public progress, and AI will never be properly ‌realized if tech companies prioritize pirate sites over scholarship and imagination," Maria Pallante, president of the Association of American Publishers, said in a statement.

The lawsuit opens a new front in the ongoing copyright ‌battle between creators and tech companies over AI training, in which dozens of authors, news outlets, ⁠visual ⁠artists and other plaintiffs have sued companies including Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic for infringement.

All of the pending cases will likely revolve around whether AI systems make fair use of copyrighted material by using it to create new, transformative content.

The first two judges to consider the matter issued diverging rulings last year.

Amazon- and Google-backed Anthropic was the first major AI company to settle one of the cases, agreeing last year to pay a group of authors $1.5 billion to resolve a class-action lawsuit that could have cost the company billions more in damages for alleged piracy.