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For the first time in two years, the world bought fewer PCs. Global shipments of desktops, notebooks, and workstations fell 3.6% in the second quarter of 2026, to 65.7 million units, according to the analyst firm Omdia. The cause is not weak demand. It is the price of
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The AI boom is easy to measure in dollars raised and models shipped. It is harder to see where it physically lands. A new report from the real-estate platform VTS offers one answer, and it is striking. AI companies now account for nearly half of all the office space that
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Anthropic has appointed former Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke to its Long-Term Benefit Trust. The AI company announced the move on Thursday, adding a central-bank-grade name to the body meant to keep it honest. Bernanke led the Fed from 2006 to 2014, steering it through the 2008 financial crisis. He
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TL;DR Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora told CNBC that AI token prices need to fall by as much as 90% for large-scale enterprise adoption, calling OpenAI’s 54% GPT-5.6 efficiency gain “a good start” but not enough. He argued demand is “infinite” and costs will “rationalize over
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TL;DR AI companies and their backers are pouring hundreds of millions into the 2026 US midterms through super PACs, led by Leading the Future (funded by a16z’s Andreessen and Horowitz and OpenAI’s Greg Brockman) and the newer Innovation Council Action. Their consistent goal: a single national AI
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TL;DR Mark Zuckerberg has publicly confirmed Meta is exploring an AI cloud business, saying selling compute “makes sense”, putting his name to the earlier-reported “Meta Compute” plan. It would pit Meta against AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and threaten neoclouds like CoreWeave, Nebius, and IREN, which fell on the
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TL;DR AI’s data-centre boom is pushing developers onto Native American land, drawn by space, water, power, and tax incentives, with Indigenous-led group Honor the Earth tracking 100+ proposed projects on or near tribal territory. The issue genuinely splits Indian Country: the DOE and some tribes see economic opportunity
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I test a lot of espresso machines here at TechRadar — over a dozen a year — and so far 2026 has delivered a particularly impressive crop. Whether you're looking for your first ever coffee maker or are a seasoned pro hunting for the perfect premium brewer, there's
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Intel has officially rolled out the first public beta of SuperClaw, an enterprise-focused hybrid AI platform designed to tackle what the chipmaker calls the "Agentic AI Trilemma." By this, Intel is referring to the industry-wide friction between compute cost, scalability, and data privacy. Developed by the company'
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The Steam Machine may be a newer release, but the AMD Ryzen AI Halo remains a high-power alternative for SFF enthusiasts. But how much gaming performance over the Valve's Steam Machine can the Ryzen AI Halo potentially deliver? YouTuber ETA PRIME decided to put that to the test,
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * ChatGPT's Live model aims to enhance voice-based conversations with AI. * With Live, ChatGPT can speak and listen to you at the same time. * ChatGPT can now speak with you almost as if it
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* Meta is crossing the border to build a data center in Alberta, Canada * The data center will have a 1GW capacity and cost $9 billion to build * It will eventually lead to 300 operational jobs, Meta says Meta has announced its ambition to build a $9 billion datacenter in Alberta,
