July 28, 2025
Samsung Electronics in Seoul said on Monday it has signed a US$16.5 billion deal on Saturday to supply semiconductor chips for an unidentified major global company, sending its shares up 3.5 per cent. The deal comes as South Korea is seeking US partnerships in chips and shipbuilding as it is making last-ditch efforts to reach a trade deal to eliminate or cut potential 25 per cenrt US tariffs. This deal was confirmed by Elon and Bloomberg.
There are additional details of the agreement including the counterpart and terms would not be disclosed until the contract is completed at the end of 2033.
Musk said, "Samsung’s giant new Texas fab will be dedicated to making Tesla’s next-generation AI6 chip. The strategic importance of this is hard to overstate. Samsung currently makes AI4."
Samsung is grappling to boost production yields of its latest 2-nanometer technology, and the order is unlikely to involve the cutting-edge tech, Lee Min-hee, an analyst at BNK Investment & Securities, said. Samsung has been losing market share to TSMC in contract manufacturing, underscoring technological challenges the firm faces in mastering advanced chip manufacturing to lure the likes of Apple and Nvidia away from TSMC, analysts said.
Samsung, which is set to deliver earnings on Thursday, expects its second-quarter profit to more than halve. An analyst previously told CNBC that the disappointing forecast was due to weak orders for its foundry business and as the company has struggled to capture AI demand for its memory business.
July 26, 2025
The company behind the application Tea confirmed it had been hacked yesterday, leading to over 70,000 photographs from a pre-February 2024 dataset, including selfies, have been leaked to 4chan. Another 59,000 images that were publicly viewable in the app from posts, comments and direct messages were also accessed. The dataset mentioned was linked to archived data that was kept for compliance with law enforcement requests related to cyber-bullying investigations, not active user accounts or recent uploads.
Sean Cook is the founder of the Tea application. He founded the company in 2022 due to being a witness to his mother's horrendous experiences when dating men, many of whom were catfishing or had hidden criminal records or even attempting to partake in an affair.
In an Apple Store review, one woman wrote that she used a Tea search to investigate a man she'd begun talking to and discovered “over 20 red flags, including serious allegations like assault and recording women without their consent.'' She said she cut off communication. ”I can't imagine how things could've gone had I not known," she wrote. A columnist for The Times of London newspaper called Tea a man-shaming site.
According to the statement by Tea, no emails or phone numbers were accessed and only users who registered before February 2024 had their information accessed (what little safety that provides).
“We have engaged third-party cybersecurity experts and are working around the clock to secure our systems. We are currently working to determine the full nature and scope of information involved in the incident,” San Francisco-based Tea Dating Advice Inc said in a statement.
The application owners have stated that additional security measures have been put in place and that members do not need to modify any of their information.
News Piece Forward Press Opinion:
The way this is being reported is absolutely disgusting. Those sources that are considered left are stating this app doxxes and rates men based on dates rather than the fact that this application provides for the safety, security, and peace for women in relation to men who could be potential or who are active abusers, whether verbally, mentally, physically, or sexually.