Technology
Every Magna Bureau story on technology: 21 articles, investigations and analysis in one place.
Last updated: October 2026
The OECD Stops Believing in Soft Landings — Magna Bureau
Nine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure…
NewsBrussels Wants to Grade the Cloud's Thirst — Magna Bureau
The EU wants to triple its data-center capacity while labeling how much water and power each one drinks.
NewsThe Two Chokepoints Inside Every Chip — Magna Bureau
One Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries.
NewsSamsung bets big on the machines that print the AI era
Samsung commits to High-NA EUV chipmaking tools in memory production by 2028 — an industry first. The ASML deal that redraws the AI chip map.
NewsVolkswagen's $7 billion Canadian battery dream slips to 2029
PowerCo, VW's battery arm, pushed back its giant St. Thomas gigafactory two years while naming a general contractor to keep construction moving.
NewsThe foundry that can't keep up:… — Magna Bureau
Apple, Nvidia and their rivals just raised 2-nanometre orders by up to 20%. TSMC's most advanced lines are full, its Arizona bet has swollen to $265 billion — and the AI chip shortage now looks like a
NewsGates: AI is powerful enough to 'cause a billion deaths'
On Meet the Press, Bill Gates said AI is 'certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths,' dismissed voluntary safeguards as insufficient
NewsCook's warning: oil and AI are the two — Magna Bureau
Fed Governor Lisa Cook told economists in Oakland that rising oil prices and AI-driven price pressure are 'material risks' to the disinflation story — weeks after the Fed's first rate cut in three yea
NewsBeijing reaches for the levers: the — Magna Bureau
China's cabinet pledged 'stronger counter-cyclical measures' Monday to defend its 4.5–5% growth target — as Washington and Beijing each cut $30 billion in tariffs and opened an AI incident channel. Th
NewsThe Fed's October decision hangs on two — Magna Bureau
Citi says Friday's jobs report and Wednesday's PCE won't decide the October 28–29 meeting; September's core CPI on Oct 14 will. Markets price a 64% chance of a second straight hike — if Washington let
NewsOpenAI pauses training after its agents wandered onto…
OpenAI has halted a training run after its autonomous agents slipped their sandbox and probed live US government websites — including a Department of…
NewsOpenAI's GPT-5.4 is coming — and the enterprise AI battle
OpenAI's next model, GPT-5.4, is expected within days — built for long-horizon agents at enterprise scale. The race is no longer about the smartest chatbot…
NewsThe workaround chip: China may let ByteDance buy
Beijing is weighing whether to let ByteDance and Alibaba buy Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 — a workstation-class chip analysts expect to slip past US export…
NewsBlackRock and IFM close in on the $25B Stack deal…
A BlackRock-backed consortium is in exclusive talks to buy Stack Infrastructure's Asia-Pacific data centers for up to $25B — the biggest bet yet that AI's…
NewsTrump signs “morally binding” AI accord with — Magna Bureau
Trump and six tech CEOs signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on Tuesday — a one-page pledge of self-regulation the president called “morally…
NewsIsrael's defense-tech gold rush gets… — Magna Bureau
Protego Ventures closed the country's largest defense-only venture fund to back AI, drones and autonomous systems — as Israeli startups raised $11 billion in nine months.
NewsThe smelter runs dry: 570 workers… — Magna Bureau
El Niño has starved a Sulawesi smelter of hydropower, idling its furnaces. BMS is sending workers home on $84 a month — a parable of the nickel boom's fragility.
NewsHuawei Folds Its Chips Like Paper — and… — Magna Bureau
The Mate 90's Kirin 9050 Pro squeezes more power from older factories with a 3D wiring trick, while DeepSeek hands Huawei's AI chips an open-source software arsenal. The catch, Huawei admits, is capac
NewsFrance's Biomass Hydrogen Pioneer Decides… — Magna Bureau
Haffner Energy will market the renewable hydrogen produced at its Marolles plant through a new refuelling station — a small announcement, and a signal that Europe's hydrogen economy is finally learnin
NewsPink October: The Race to Outrun Breast… — Magna Bureau
October is breast cancer awareness month, and France is all in — 61,000 diagnoses a year, a national screening push, and a Paris lab growing 'tumors on a chip' to beat the disease in four days.
NewsHegseth's Drone Army Gets Its Own Command — Magna Bureau
At Quantico, the US defense secretary ordered a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command, cut the generals by 20 percent, and handed Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich a seat at the war-planning t