Industry

SemiFive wins 11 billion won AI chip order in Japan

SemiFive is making visible progress in expanding into Japan, the custom chip (ASIC) design firm said on Thursday. It signed a contract with a Japanese AI semiconductor customer to supply mass-produced AI chips for high-performance computing use. The deal is worth about 11 billion won. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in stages from the second half of this year, and follow-on contracts are expected to continue.

AI & Enterprise

AI search risks uniform answers, vulnerability to manipulation, report says

Warnings are growing that AI search tools could produce more uniform answers and become easier to manipulate as they increasingly draw on AI-generated content. Axios reported that AI search visibility consultancy Graphite warned of an “AI search collapse” when tools surface pages derived from earlier AI answers, borrowing the “model collapse” concept. Graphite said simulations using OpenAI, Gemini and Anthropic APIs showed rising convergence in recommendations. Wharton research also found groups using ChatGPT tend to converge on similar ideas.