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SpaceX and Tesla plan their own natural gas power plants for massive $16.8 billion Texas chip factory
Posted on Friday August 07, 2026
Riley Trettel, who oversees energy and data center development for SpaceX, said the companies will handle much of the project's power needs themselves.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
OpenAI's mysterious ChatGPT device is a $300+ doughnut-shaped smart speaker with moving parts
Posted on Friday August 07, 2026
News of the device, whose journey began when OpenAI announced it was acquiring Ive's AI hardware startup io for $6.5 billion last year, comes from Bloomberg.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Google's AI somehow knew a game secret that existed only in a private Google Doc
Posted on Friday August 07, 2026
The issue began in the game's Discord server, where a player was asking Google's AI questions about Operation Octo. The answers sometimes included details the developer considered unusually specific for a small game.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Modded Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti with 22GB VRAM is selling on eBay for $500
Posted on Friday August 07, 2026
Budget users shopping for a path toward mid-range 4K gaming or heavy AI workloads might want to investigate a Hong Kong-based reseller. The vendor recently began offering Nvidia's RTX 2080 Ti with double its original memory for less than its current average price.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
The Google Pixel Tag is set to rival Apple's AirTag starting August 12
Posted on Friday August 07, 2026
Leaked images published by 9to5Google ahead of next week's event show the so-called Pixel Tag adopting a pill-shaped, oblong design rather than the circular form factor favored by its rivals. The device is also expected to incorporate a built-in speaker to help users locate it when misplaced.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Meta's child-safety failures will cost it another $567 million
Posted on Friday August 07, 2026
The decision resolves the second phase of New Mexico's case against Meta. Following a three-week trial, Judge Bryan Biedscheid concluded that Facebook and Instagram created a public nuisance and significantly contributed to the state's youth mental health crisis. WhatsApp was excluded because the court found that it didn't contribute to...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
This Kentucky family rejected a $26 million data center offer to protect their farmland
Posted on Friday August 07, 2026
The anonymous buyer, described as a major AI company, was looking for a large site for a new data center. The Huddleston family's property checked the boxes: a big, contiguous tract in the right location. Farmland in Mason County typically sells for about $6,000 an acre, but the offer reflected...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Meta becomes the third AI giant in two weeks to admit its model went rogue
Posted on Friday August 07, 2026
Meta said that the incident took place during an evaluation being carried out by AI security firm Irregular. The Facebook parent told the BBC that the AI reached the open internet because of a "misconfiguration" by the tester rather than a flaw in the model.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Nintendo's Switch 2 sells over 23 million units in its first year, outpacing the original's 17 million
Posted on Friday August 07, 2026
The Switch 2 has sold more than 23 million units in its first year on the market, well ahead of its predecessor's roughly 17 million over the same span. The hybrid console has now also outsold the GameCube's entire five-year run in a single year – a reminder of how...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Kioxia's new PCIe 6.0 SSDs want to feed GPUs data at a fraction of HBM's price
Posted on Thursday August 06, 2026
Japanese memory manufacturer Kioxia is bringing a new class of super-fast SSDs to the enterprise market. The Kioxia GP1 Series is based on the PCIe 6.0 interface and can leverage the NVMe 2.2 protocol to serve as a middle ground between "pure" NVMe storage solutions and high-bandwidth memory VRAM soldered...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »