Why the Drugmaker Behind a Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough Stayed Independent
Revolution Medicines attracted takeover interest but decided to go it alone. This week’s FDA approval of its pancreatic cancer pill is the payoff.
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Nvidia Insists It Can Keep Printing Money to Fund the AI Boom
The chip maker says its sales “flywheel” is more than robust enough to fund the financial support it gives frontier AI labs and data-center developers.
AI, athletes, and Keith Rabois: StrictlyVC is back in New York on September 10
A boutique StrictlyVC evening returns to New York’s West Village on September 10 with Keith Rabois, Craig Shapiro, Jason Levien, Tristan Walker, Brynn Putnam, and Deven Parekh — covering AI, sports investing, community-building, venture economics, and politics, with cocktails, food, and networking throughout the night.
The GTA VI ‘extended look’ is now streaming on YouTube
Rockstar has officially published its “extended look” at Grand Theft Auto VI on YouTube and on its website, as promised. The in-depth preview, which “entirely” features footage captured from the PS5 version of the game, initially premiered on Netflix at 3PM ET. But because Rockstar allowed creators to post reaction videos, you’ve technically been able…
Twitch Outage Hits 17,000 Reports as GTA 6 Trailer Drops [2026]
Twitch buckled on August 27, 2026, at almost the exact moment the internet needed it most. Minutes after Rockstar Games dropped its “Extended Look” at Grand Theft Auto VI on Netflix, the world’s largest live-streaming platform started throwing errors for millions of viewers who had piled in to watch creator reactions. Downdetector logged more than…
Pokémon Stadium ROM Setup on PC: 13 Steps, 90 Min [2026]
Pokémon Stadium never really left. Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack added the original Stadium on April 12, 2023, and Stadium 2 followed on August 8, 2023, so anyone with a subscription can already battle in 3D on a modern console. What that official rerelease skips is the feature that made Stadium worth owning back…
Anthropic launches Model Hardware Standard to let AI agents control physical machines
Anthropic is giving AI agents a way to reach beyond screens and software and start operating machines in the physical world. The Claude maker on Thursday unveiled the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a new specification that lets AI agents communicate […] The post Anthropic launches Model Hardware Standard to let AI agents control physical machines…
The biggest video game of all time looks like a movie
I think I know why Rockstar Games debuted its “extended look” of Grand Theft Auto VI on Netflix instead of immediately dropping it for free on YouTube. Unlike most video game trailers, the almost 27-minute preview of GTA VI felt more like a slice of a prestige crime drama than any video game trailer that…
AWS Bedrock AgentCore vs Azure AI Foundry vs Vertex AI: 15 Regions, 1 Deadline [2026]
Three deadlines are colliding at once in cloud AI right now. OpenAI retired its Assistants API on August 26, 2026, taking the Azure OpenAI Assistants API (Preview, classic) down with it on the same date. AWS pushed Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and the wider Bedrock 2 platform into general availability with a visual agent builder in…
DigitalOcean vs Vultr vs Lightsail: 2.2x IOPS Gap [2026]
Pick the wrong $5-a-month server and you will not notice for weeks. Then a marketing post goes semi-viral, traffic triples overnight, and your droplet, instance, or Lightsail box falls over at the exact moment it mattered most. DigitalOcean, Vultr, and AWS Lightsail all compete for that same budget-conscious developer who wants real infrastructure without an…