AI
Quantinuum’s IPO: The First Quantum Listing, and a $14B Valuation on Shrinking Revenue
Quantinuum pulled off the first traditional IPO for a full-stack quantum company, raising $1.68B at a ~$14B valuation, on revenue that shrank…
AI
CHIPS & AI
Nvidia’s Korea Deals: SK Hynix, Naver, Doosan, and the Sovereign-AI Roadshow
Nvidia signed deals with SK Hynix, Naver, and Doosan to build AI data centers across South Korea. A sovereign-AI roadshow, a physical-AI…
GAMING
Xbox at 25: A New CEO, the Green X25, and Exclusives Are Back
Xbox's 25th anniversary show was new CEO Asha Sharma's debut, and she used it to reverse course: console exclusives are back, plus…
AI
Alphabet’s $84.75B Raise: When Even Google Has to Pass the Hat for AI
Alphabet just pulled off the largest equity raise in tech history to fund its AI buildout, and got Warren Buffett to anchor…
AI
Welcome to the new M1k.tech
Introducing M1k.tech as a personal blog focusing on honest, hands-on tech reviews, insights from their investment career, and unique perspectives as a…
AI
Anthropic IPO: The Filing, the $965B Valuation, and What It Means
The Anthropic IPO is in motion: a confidential filing at a 965 billion dollar valuation, with run-rate revenue that went from 87…
AI
How the Data Revolution and the AI Revolution Became One Story
From Hadoop to Snowflake to ChatGPT: the data revolution and the AI revolution are the same revolution, viewed at two different points…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
BBK’s Invisible Hand: How the Conglomerate Structured Its Brands and Why It Backfired for OnePlus
In June 2026, OnePlus's struggles reflect the complexities of the BBK conglomerate, which has undergone significant restructuring. The consolidation with Realme threatens…
AI
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra: The Chip Company Just Shipped a Free 550B Open Model Built for Agents
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Ultra: 550B parameters, 55B active (Mixture-of-Experts), hybrid Mamba-Transformer, 1M token context, 300+ tokens/second, and the weights are free. Built…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
Noctua NL-LC1: The Brand That Swore Off Liquid Cooling Just Built Its First AIO
Noctua's first-ever liquid cooler: the NL-LC1. Asetek Emma V2 pump with a proprietary noise absorber, NF-A12x25 G2 fans, per-fan RPM offsets to…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
Intel at Computex 2026: Xeon 6+, SambaNova, and a Realistic New AI Strategy Built on the CPU Layer
Intel at Computex 2026: Xeon 6+, a rackscale AI partnership with SambaNova, and vertical collaborations with Foxconn, Siemens, and Hitachi. The clearest…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 Edition 20: The Wraparound-AMOLED Halo Card That Crowns ROG’s 20th Anniversary
The ROG Astral RTX 5090 Edition 20 wraps a flagship Blackwell GPU in a continuous wraparound AMOLED display: the most visually striking…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
Bambu Lab A2L: The H2S Lite Nobody Knew They Needed, Launching at $469
Bambu Lab's A2L takes the large-format 3D printing category into its ecosystem for the first time: same 330x320mm build volume as the…
AI
Microsoft Build 2026 and the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box: The Agentic Era Arrives With Hardware to Match
Microsoft Build 2026: Surface RTX Spark Dev Box (1 petaflop, 128 GB, 100W sustained), the MAI model family, GitHub Copilot autonomous agents,…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
ASUS ROG 20th Anniversary, Xbox Ally X20 Bundle
ROG's 20th anniversary lands as the Xbox Ally X20 Bundle: the first OLED display in the Ally line (7.4-inch, 1,400 nits, 0.2ms),…