NewsSemiconductors & Chip Supply
Samsung LPDDR5X-PIM Puts AI Compute Inside DRAM With 8× the Bandwidth
Samsung's first LPDDR-based processing-in-memory chip hits 614 GB/s and triples Llama 3.1 8B token throughput, in a drop-in 561-ball package.
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NewsRobotics & Drones
XPeng Raises $900M for IRON Humanoid Robot at $6.3B Valuation
XPeng's robotics arm just closed the largest embodied AI round in Chinese history, but nearly a third of the money came from inside the company.
NewsAI Video
Alibaba Wan3.0 Ships With 30-Second Clips and Closed Weights
Alibaba's Wan3.0 AI video model doubles clip length to 30 seconds at 1080p, but ships closed-weight after Alibaba pre-announced an Apache 2.0 release.
NewsAI Safety
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Teens With Automatic Age Detection and Parental Controls
OpenAI now auto-routes suspected under-18 users into a stricter ChatGPT experience, even without ID verification. Here's what actually changes.
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Smartphones
Google Pixel 11 Arrives August 20 at $899 With Gemini Intelligence Baked Into Android 17
Google's Pixel 11 lands August 20 at $899 with a Tensor G6, a MediaTek modem swap, and a 12GB RAM ceiling that sits below Gemini's own stated minimum.
NewsPrivacy & Security
INC Ransomware Chains Two SonicWall SMA1000 Zero-Days for Root Access
INC Ransomware is chaining a CVSS 10.0 SSRF with a path-traversal root escalation to fully take over SonicWall SMA1000 VPNs, with victims already posted since…
NewsMobile Platforms
Google Assistant Shuts Down September 4 on Android With No Rollback
Google's email to users confirms Assistant disappears from Android phones, Wear OS, and Android Auto starting September 4, 2026, with no opt-out.
NewsConnected Cars & ADAS
Uber and Wayve Win London's First Robotaxi Passenger Licenses
Uber and Wayve just secured the first London robotaxi license to carry paying passengers, beating Waymo and Baidu to the UK capital's paid market.
NewsPC Components
Nvidia Raises RTX GPU Prices Up to 30% in Third Hike of 2026
Nvidia's third 2026 price hike lifts GeForce RTX bundles 20-30% for board partners, and this time every tier is in scope, not just the RTX 5090.
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Robotics & Drones
Unitree Robotics' $618M IPO Is the First Real Market Test for Humanoid Hardware
Unitree's approved 4.2 billion yuan STAR Market listing hands public investors their first pure-play humanoid robot stock, with a 60% gross margin to defend.
NewsOpen-Weight AI
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max Previews at 2.4 Trillion Parameters With No Benchmarks
Alibaba's 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max arrived at WAIC with no model card, no license, no active-parameter count, and one telling coincidence: Kimi K3 shipped…
NewsAI Infrastructure
TSMC Commits $265 Billion to Arizona as Q2 Profit Surges 77%
TSMC's $265 billion Arizona pledge lands the same day it books a record $22 billion quarter, with 2nm and CoWoS packaging at the center.