Robots, chips, and the technology shaping our future.
⚡ Tech A $400M bet on open-standard chips signals that AI infrastructure won't be Nvidia's GPU monopoly forever. RISC-V is emerging as the architecture for AI's edge future.
⚡ Tech For the first time in 2026, a major tech CEO is naming AI as the reason for mass layoffs — not restructuring, not strategy shifts, just raw automation replacing human work.
⚡ Tech Black Forest Labs proved a 70-person team can compete with OpenAI and Google. Now they're taking on robotics with the same scrappy approach.
⚡ Tech Disney's Project Imagine restructuring eliminates 1,000 roles under new CEO D'Amaro, with language signaling AI integration across content production.
⚡ Tech DeepMind's embodied AI upgrade enables robots to pinpoint objects in clutter, read instruments with sub-tick accuracy, and detect human safety risks faster.
⚡ Tech Gemini now reads your email, knows your face, and remembers what you watched last night. Google calls it Personal Intelligence. You call it your life.
⚡ Tech OpenAI's massive London lease signals the AI talent war shifting to Europe, even as infrastructure challenges force a pause on UK data center plans.
⚡ Tech A bipedal robot you can add to cart on a shopping site. The future of humanoid accessibility isn't coming — it's on a delivery truck.
⚡ Tech AI bot traffic has surged over 300% in 2026, scraping content that feeds the models replacing it. Small businesses are caught in the squeeze — but the ones winning treat AI as a distribution channel, not a traffic source.
⚡ Tech Molotov cocktails at executives' homes, gunfire at council houses, nation-state threats — the anti-datacenter backlash is turning violent. New Zealand's South Island might be the answer.
⚡ Tech The CEO digital twin era begins: Meta builds an AI Zuckerberg for internal use.
⚡ Tech Anthropic silently cut Claude Code's cache TTL from 1 hour to 5 minutes. Users with 120K API calls of data prove they're overpaying by up to 25% — and hitting subscription quotas in under an hour.