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DeepSeek Builds AI Chips & Microsoft Datacenter Lawsuit | Tech Field Dasy News Rundown: July 8, 2026
The global AI landscape is shifting fast as Chinese tech giants disrupt hardware norms and infrastructure demands trigger real-world community backlash.
In this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke dive into DeepSeek's ambitious move to develop its own AI silicon to bypass U.S. export caps, coupled with a surprising trend of U.S. companies turning to lower-cost Chinese AI models.
Meanwhile, infrastructure growth hits a rocky patch as Microsoft faces a class-action lawsuit from Wisconsin residents over deafening data center cooling systems, even as…
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