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AI, hardware and big tech: not the announcement itself, but what it means.

  • TechnologySeptember 20

    How a Twitch CEO's Aside Became GTA 6's Unofficial 2027 Multiplayer Timeline

    On September 17, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy talked about GTA 6 multiplayer arriving 'next year.' On the same day, Take-Two reiterated the game's single-player launch plans. The remarks do not contradict each other — but Clancy's comment is not a release window announced by Rockstar.

  • TechnologySeptember 20

    16GB VRAM Tops Steam's Survey. But Windows Tells a Different Story

    Steam's overall survey put 16GB VRAM ahead of 8GB, yet its Windows-only results tell the opposite story. A VRAM reporting fix, an unusual February sample and an unexplained gap between platform totals make the headline harder to interpret than it looks.

  • TechnologySeptember 19

    AI Can Control Fusion Plasma in Milliseconds — But It Can't Override the Safety Limits

    Princeton's PACMAN framework can predict and prevent plasma instabilities in a tokamak roughly 200 milliseconds before they develop. The more important story isn't its speed: AI can be given real control over a machine without being allowed to change its physical safety limits.

  • TechnologySeptember 18

    25,000 Robotaxis Announced — but No Order Has Been Placed, No Money Has Changed Hands, and the Software Is Still Unclear

    Lucid and Bolt have announced a partnership targeting at least 25,000 autonomous vehicles across Europe. The number is impressive, but the details are more measured: there is no binding vehicle order, the first model based on the underlying platform has been delayed until 2027, and the provider of the Level 4 driving software has not been disclosed.

  • TechnologySeptember 18

    AI Agents Can Now Control Devices in Your Home — but They Can't Unlock the Door

    Google has opened its smart home ecosystem to third-party AI agents. The most interesting part isn't what it allows, but where it draws the line: agents can read the state of a smart lock, but unlocking the door is blocked at the server level.

  • TechnologySeptember 18

    $2,195 Snap Specs Are Up for Preorder — but Snap Still Won't Tell Us the Resolution

    Snap's new AR glasses are up for preorder. The specs it has revealed are interesting; the ones it hasn't may be even more important. Resolution, brightness, refresh rate, RAM, and battery capacity are still undisclosed — and one of those missing figures directly relates to an issue reviewers noticed in hands-on testing.

  • TechnologySeptember 18

    Who Pays AI's Electricity Bill? What the 417–3 Data Center Bill Solves — and What It Doesn't

    The U.S. House passed a bill aimed at preventing data center infrastructure costs from being shifted onto ordinary ratepayers by a 417–3 vote. A day later, an attempt to fast-track it through the Senate by unanimous consent was blocked. The numbers explain the broad agreement; the mechanism shows why the underlying problem is far from settled.

  • TechnologySeptember 18

    Benchmarks Aren't Enough: OpenAI Is Treating Model Misalignment Like Incident Reporting

    OpenAI introduced a framework on September 16 for reporting model misalignment incidents and disclosed six cases. All six were observed during training. What matters may be less the incidents themselves than the reporting model OpenAI is beginning to adopt.

  • TechnologySeptember 17

    Did AI get depressed in Minecraft, or did we just want to see it that way?

    A creeper blew up GPT-6 Astra's chest, and the model spent hours farming potatoes. The internet called it 'depression.' That interpretation is unproven, but the incident raises a useful question about recovering from setbacks.

  • TechnologySeptember 17

    Nemotron has only 3B active parameters. So why doesn't it use as little memory as a 3B model?

    Nemotron 3.5 Lightning uses around 3 billion parameters per token. But its VRAM footprint reflects a very different number. A look at what MoE architecture reduces, and what it doesn't.

  • TechnologySeptember 15

    AI companies say we should slow down. Is this genuine concern, or a move to shut out rivals?

    Amodei published a plan to slow the frontier, and Altman and Musk backed it. The immediate reaction was that big AI wants to block open-source rivals. Here is where that reading holds up — and where it gets more complicated.

  • TechnologySeptember 14

    GLONASS disappeared from the Apple Watch Ultra 4. So why is it still on the Series 12?

    Apple removed Russia's GLONASS satellite system from the new Ultra. The obvious explanation is political — but the Series 12, launched the same day, still supports it. That single detail changes the story.

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