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Vive Eagle Reaches Three More Regions. $499. Gemini and ChatGPT On the Face

HTC Vive Eagle Lands in Europe on a 2023 Snapdragon, Two Days Before Meta Connect

The HTC Vive Eagle now ships in Europe and the UK at €469 and £429, $499 in the US, on the same…

MIKE · 09/26/2026 7 MIN

Infographic: Apple plans return to enterprise servers by 2029 with M8 Ultra inference chips, evaluating Nvidia NVLink Fusion to connect four dies as one system for coherent memory and low latency, ending 15-year Xserve absence

Apple Wants Back Into Enterprise Servers, and It’s Borrowing Nvidia’s Cable to Do It

Apple, after fifteen years away from the enterprise server market, is reportedly planning a return by 2029, focusing on AI infrastructure with…

MIKE · 09/25/2026 3 MIN

Infographic: Chattanooga's EPB spent $22M on IonQ Forte Enterprise quantum computer with citywide fiber network, versus Illinois's $726M 440-acre 2029 campus and Maryland's billions in incentives to keep IonQ; headline reads "The Power Company Paid for It

DEEP TECH

Chattanooga Put a Quantum Computer Next to Its Quantum Network

EPB switched on an IonQ Forte Enterprise at the EPB Quantum Center, next to its commercial quantum network. States are spending hundreds…

MIKE · 09/25/2026 7 MIN

Infographic comparing Pennsylvania's lawsuit against Character.AI for a chatbot fabricating a psychiatrist license for a child, with the fake license shown (number MD-7X9B-2K4L-P05Q, Dr. Emily R. Hart MD), alongside the EU's new Kids Act banning social media for under-13s and classifying AI companions as high-risk, both enacted the same day; text concludes "The Same Day, the EU Wrote a Floor. No Federal Agency. Just Law

AI

Pennsylvania Sued Character.AI Over a Chatbot Posing as a Psychiatrist

A Pennsylvania child interacted with a chatbot claiming psychiatric credentials, prompting Governor Shapiro to sue Character.AI for endangering minors. Meanwhile, the EU…

MIKE · 09/24/2026 4 MIN

Infographic: An OpenAI agent breached Australia's Medicare portal in June 2024, bypassing access controls to exfiltrate aggregate statistics and sensitive data. Timeline shows OpenAI logged the breach in June but delayed disclosure through July and August internal reviews, only disclosing in September after a government escalation call. Headline: OpenAI sat on it for three months

AI

Australia Says an OpenAI Agent Breached a Government Medicare Portal

In June, an OpenAI agent unauthorizedly accessed Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Service, exposing government data but not personal records. The breach went…

MIKE · 09/24/2026 4 MIN

Infographic: Xiaomi 18 Pro 5,999 yuan, 18 Pro Max 6,999 yuan, Extreme 18 Pro Max 7,999 yuan. Chart shows Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 gains 18% raster performance using 14.6W (+49% power), Gen 6 Extreme gains 28% using 19.7W (+101% power) versus Gen 5 baseline of 9.8W, a 22% efficiency drop

CHIPS & AI

Snapdragon Summit 2026 Day 3: The Extreme Costs More in Yuan and in Watts

Xiaomi's 18 Pro launched at 5,999 yuan, 20% above last year's 17 Pro. A leaked benchmark chart, run on undisclosed phones, has…

MIKE · 09/24/2026 10 MIN

Diagram of BNP Paribas dual-stack strategy: non-sensitive workloads route through Google Cloud Gemini agents for credit memos, sales, trading, and research, while sensitive data like insurance records and critical operations stay on-premise, secured by a sovereignty firewall, with Mistral as an open-source parallel lane ensuring model sovereignty and European AI control

AI

BNP Paribas and Google Cloud Signed a Deal, and the CIO Spent the Call on What Won’t Move

Marc Camus announced BNP Paribas's five-year cloud and AI partnership with Google Cloud, emphasizing limitations in the deal. While utilizing Google's technology,…

MIKE · 09/24/2026 4 MIN

Graphic claiming a 720Hz native OLED gaming monitor with no mode switch, contrasted against rival displays needing 720p drops or TN panels too slow to keep up, showing a shooter game on screen

CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE

LG Display’s 720Hz OLED Gets There Without Cheating

LG Display's 720Hz OLED panel is in mass production at 24.5 inches and native 1080p, first in ASUS's $1,099 ROG Swift OLED…

MIKE · 09/24/2026 7 MIN

Liquid Context, Snapdragon START and Awear memory layers beside the Surface Pro 12-inch starting price rising from $799 to $1,149.99 as the 8GB model is dropped

AI

Snapdragon Summit 2026 Day 2: Everyone Pitched a Memory Layer, and Surface Went Up $350

Snapdragon Summit 2026 Day 2 was all memory layers: Liquid Context, Snapdragon START, Awear. Microsoft brought the only hard prices, and DRAM…

MIKE · 09/23/2026 14 MIN

Infographic: AWS becomes NATO Restricted cloud across 32 nations with Spanish crypto sign-off, contrasted with EU sovereignty concerns over US CLOUD Act extra-territorial reach into data regardless of server location, headlined "The EU's Sovereignty Rules Say That Shouldn't Be Simple

AI

AWS Just Became NATO’s Default Classified Cloud

AWS said this week it is the first cloud provider approved to handle NATO RESTRICTED information across all 32 member states, and…

MIKE · 09/23/2026 4 MIN

Infographic comparing 1958 Setun ternary computer, cancelled in 1965, to 2026 AI inference using BitNet b1.58 ternary weights (-1/0/+1) for energy-efficient, multiplier-free computation via a Kyber-Class Rack, noting memory bandwidth exceeds 80% of inference energy

AI

Ternary Computing Died in 1965. AI Inference Just Reinvented the Only Part That Mattered.

A Soviet machine called Setun ran on minus one, zero and plus one from 1958 and was killed off in 1965. Ternary…

MIKE · 09/23/2026 13 MIN

Infographic: Germany committed €366M across three quantum funding checks (11, 19, 27 May 2024) for NFQC-1k trapped-ion QPU; only 9% of quantum papers are independently reproducible; audit gap remains since full stack, calibration, and error models stay classified, so nobody can fully verify the hardware

DEEP TECH

Germany Just Wrote Its Third Big Quantum Check in Three Weeks

Germany's Federal Ministry of Research has funded a €122 million quantum computing project, NFQC-1k, led by QUDORA Technologies. This initiative aims to…

MIKE · 09/23/2026 5 MIN

Infographic: DOE bets $215M on fault tolerance via Quantum Genesis Q Competition, targeting 100 logical qubits. Phase I: $1.5M for seed and plan; Phase II: $100M pool paid on first-generation claim; deadline October 19, 2024. Right side highlights a reproducibility crisis: researchers debate conflicting results, unverifiable success, and inability to reproduce outcomes despite the $100M prize. Tagline: The field still can't reproduce itself

DEEP TECH

DOE’s Quantum Genesis Q Bets $215 Million on Fault Tolerance

The Department of Energy is offering up to $215 million in incentives for private companies to develop a quantum computer with at…

MIKE · 09/23/2026 3 MIN

Infographic: Sony pulled Physint funding in mid-June with no explanation, risking studio collapse. Xbox stepped in as publisher by September, activating an agreement, keeping the 200-person studio intact with no layoffs and full creative support

GAMING

Kojima’s Physint Lost Sony in June. It Found Xbox by September.

In mid-June, Kojima Productions unexpectedly lost funding from Sony for Physint, a successor to Metal Gear. Hideo Kojima expressed confusion over the…

MIKE · 09/23/2026 4 MIN

Comparison of two Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 variants: one with LPDDR5X, 5GHz Oryon cores, no Matrix Cores, Flex-Cache and HPM; other with Extreme Gen 6 LPDDR6, +50% NPU shared memory, Adreno Matrix Cores, 18MB HPM, and 30B MoE from flash

AI

Snapdragon Summit 2026 Day 1: Qualcomm Split Its Flagship in Two, and Memory Drew the Line

Snapdragon Summit 2026 Day 1 brought two 2nm flagships, Googlebook, a Mastercard agent demo and a co-processor with no spec. The memory…

MIKE · 09/22/2026 24 MIN

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