The $5.5 Billion Perk SoftBank’s Data-Center Venture Offered to Land OpenAI
SB Energy’s agreement deepens its financial ties with the artificial-intelligence company in an effort to build out projects.
Month: August 2026
Keychron K3 HE vs Air75 V3 vs K3 Max: 22x Battery Gap [2026]
Programmers who spend eight or ten hours a day at a keyboard have started asking a different question than gamers do. It is not “how fast can this board react,” it is “how does my wrist feel at hour six.” That shift is why low-profile mechanical and Hall-effect keyboards have moved from a gaming niche…
Marvel Tokon Sells 485K, PS5 Beats Steam 74% to 26%
Arc System Works and Sony spent three years building a case that Marvel needed a proper tag-team fighter again. Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls launched on August 6, 2026, and the first hard sales numbers landed on August 13 courtesy of analytics firm Alinea: roughly 485,000 copies sold in week one, split 74% PlayStation 5 and…
Grindr wants to be the everything app for gay men; investors are still deciding whether it can pull it off
George Arison is done letting Wall Street’s “Grindr discount” go unchallenged — in a wide-ranging Q&A, the CEO walks us through how AI, a controversial $350-plus EDGE tier, and a bet on healthcare and long-distance matchmaking are turning Grindr into the “gayborhood in your pocket” he’s been promising since 2022.
The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them
The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere.
AYANEO KONKR Pocket Advance Sells 20K at $89 [2026]
AYANEO opened pre-orders for the KONKR Pocket Advance on August 5, 2026, pricing the Game Boy Advance-style Android handheld at just $89. Within days, the company says it sold out of its first production run, restocked with a new colorway, and watched orders climb past 20,000 units sold through China’s JD.com platform alone. For a…
OpenAI Buys Macs as $4,699 RTX Spark Sells Out [2026]
OpenAI has quietly become one of Apple’s biggest hardware customers, and Nvidia’s newest desktop AI box sold out before it reached a single store shelf. Two separate stories broke within two weeks of each other in August 2026, and together they say something sharper than either headline alone: the fight for AI compute has spilled…
Trump Weighs New Chip Tariffs: Laptops, Servers Hit [2026]
The Trump administration is weighing a new round of semiconductor tariffs that would reach far beyond raw chips, extending duties to laptops, data center servers, and gaming hardware, according to a Politico report published August 27, 2026 and confirmed the same day by CNBC. Eight people familiar with the internal discussions told Politico the plans…
React vs Vue Animation: Motion vs GSAP in 12 Steps [2026]
Type “framer motion vs gsap” into Google in August 2026 and you will land on a debate that has quietly reshaped how front-end teams pick their animation stack. Framer Motion renamed itself Motion in early 2025, expanded past React into a framework-agnostic library, and now competes directly with GSAP on turf GSAP owned for over…
Blacknut vs Antstream vs Utomik: 4x Price Gap [2026]
Everyone who writes about cloud gaming keeps circling the same three names: GeForce Now, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and Boosteroid. Meanwhile a different tier of services has spent 2026 quietly signing telecom deals, licensing retro catalogs, and landing on smart TVs without ever showing up in a mainstream comparison piece. Blacknut just closed a $215 million…