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* Desktop CPU shipments dropped over 20% amid rising memory and GPU costs * AMD now holds nearly 35% of the entire desktop processor market * Mobile CPU shipments jumped as Intel finally closed its capacity gap Global processor shipments fell in the second quarter of 2026 compared with the same period a
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In Brief 5:24 PM PDT · August 26, 2026 Instinct, a startup founded only last year and helmed by a 23-year-old, has managed to ride the wave of AI enthusiasm toward a gargantuan valuation over the course of the summer. The company, which offers an AI assistant that has inspired
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* China has tested an airborne blimp called the S4000 * It generates electricity from wind power at an altitude of 4,000 meters * The airship can move to wherever it is needed most If you thought the age of blimps was over, think again. China has just launched a successful test
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Amazon and Nvidia just got a lot closer. The two companies announced Wednesday an expanded partnership that includes a deal to add another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to Amazon’s data centers. These GPUs, which are designed to handle the heavy compute demands of training and running AI models,
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been writing code, answering questions, and generating images for a while now. But thanks to a new open source project from Andrea Ricci, it can also stumble its way through the corridors of Doom running on an embedded microcontroller. The project combines an ESP32-P4 development board,
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I’m still very much on the fence about AI, but I do use it for projects to help with research and even boring coding that I don’t want to do myself. When I hit my usage limit, it always seems to happen at the most inopportune time — like
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* Iveda’s GX10-F100 claims more than 150 minutes of airborne endurance * The gasoline-powered aircraft carries up to 19 pounds of cargo during missions * Semi-symmetrical carbon-fiber frame targets coastal and remote operating environments Iveda has introduced a rotary-wing unmanned aircraft aimed at military logistics, reconnaissance, communications support, and other operations requiring
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Historically, humankind has sent only one thing to the moon at a time so that it has the whole metaphorical highway to itself. But NASA’s planned moon base is expected to have a lot more concurrent traffic in the future, which means it’s time to start writing rules
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Waystar has launched agents that interpret payer responses and automatically resubmit denied healthcare claims, which it calls the industry’s first autonomous resubmission capability. Germany caps how many hospital invoices may be audited each quarter and charges a flat fee when one is reduced. An American company has built software
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Google has added four capabilities to Gemini Live, letting spoken commands trigger background agents that work across Docs, Sheets and Drive, alongside hands-free Gmail control and a spoken daily brief. Its DMA settlement requires it to let rival assistants reach comparable functionality on Android by July 2027. Google has given
