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A software engineer and YouTuber known as bitluni has built a functioning graphics processing unit from 8,192 individual RISC-V microcontrollers, producing a homebrew GPU that draws more than 2,000 watts of power and requires a separate 3D-printed enclosure to program. The six-month project, undertaken in partnership with PCB design software firm Altium, uses CH570 RISC-V […]
Samsung Electronics has posted preliminary second-quarter results showing operating profits surging approximately 19-fold year-on-year, driven entirely by the artificial intelligence boom’s insatiable demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and advanced DRAM, yet its share price fell roughly 10% on the news. The South Korean semiconductor giant guided for Q2 2026 sales of approximately 170 to 172 […]
Electric vehicle batteries are significantly more durable than popular perception suggests, according to new data from battery analytics company Recurrent. The study, based on more than 30,000 connected vehicles, found that the average EV retains approximately 95% of its original driving range after five years on the road, and 97% after three years. The findings […]
Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude family of models, has signed a 20-year data center lease worth US$19 billion (approximately £15 billion) with TeraWulf, a former Bitcoin miner turned AI infrastructure developer, despite having never turned a profit. The lease covers the Justified Data campus in Hawesville, Kentucky, a 320-hectare (approximately 790-acre) site built […]
Electric vehicle batteries are significantly more durable than popular perception suggests, according to new data from battery analytics company Recurrent. The study, based on more than 30,000 connected vehicles, found that the average EV retains approximately 95% of its original driving range after five years on the road, and 97% after three years. The findings […]
Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude family of models, has signed a 20-year data center lease worth US$19 billion (approximately £15 billion) with TeraWulf, a former Bitcoin miner turned AI infrastructure developer, despite having never turned a profit. The lease covers the Justified Data campus in Hawesville, Kentucky, a 320-hectare (approximately 790-acre) site built […]
The AI bubble is no longer a concern confined to skeptical analysts and short-sellers. The Bank for International Settlements, the institution owned by the world’s central banks, has published a report drawing direct parallels between today’s AI infrastructure buildout and history’s great financial manias, from the British railway mania of the 1800s to the dot-com […]
ByteDance has unveiled Seedance 2.5, the latest version of its artificial intelligence video generation model, capable of producing 30-second native 4K clips from a single text prompt. The model was introduced at the company’s Volcano Engine FORCE conference in Beijing on June 23 and is expected to launch publicly as soon as this week, with […]
Microsoft has cut 4,800 roles, approximately 2.1% of its global workforce, in a sweeping restructuring that targets its commercial business and Xbox division, as the company admits it cannot keep pace with the speed of technological change. The cuts fall hardest on the newly created Microsoft Commercial Business (MCB) and the Xbox gaming division, which […]
Aalo Atomics achieved a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, known as criticality, for its Aalo-X Critical Test Reactor at Idaho National Laboratory on July 4, 2026, marking the first time a new sodium-cooled reactor has operated in the United States in more than four decades. The test reactor, which produces 10 megawatts of electric power (MWe), […]
