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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…
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…
Anthropic spent the last week of August 2026 doing something no AI lab has managed before: fighting off the Pentagon in federal court, opening its Claude models to control physical lab equipment, and telling prospective IPO investors that its total addressable market is bigger than the one SpaceX pitched before its record-setting public debut. Three…
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…
Nvidia used its Gamescom 2026 keynote to confirm what Valve fans had been asking for since the Steam Machine’s June 30 launch: GeForce NOW is getting official support for the Steam Controller and the Steam Machine itself. The Verge first reported the news on August 25, 2026, and Nvidia followed up with a Gamescom stage…
Anthropic spent the last week of August 2026 doing something no AI lab has managed before: fighting off the Pentagon in federal court, opening its Claude models to control physical lab equipment, and telling prospective IPO investors that its total addressable market is bigger than the one SpaceX pitched before its record-setting public debut. Three…
Over 12 terabytes of data, containing builds of every game uploaded to Steam between 2003 and 2013, has been leaked. We don’t know everything in the archives yet because of its massive size. But people have already dug up assets related to the canceled Half-Life 2: Episode 3, content cut from Portal 2, and a…
After funding struggles and a name change, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successfully launched. It will now make a three-month, one-million-mile journey to its orbit at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2) beyond the Moon. From this vantage point, Roman will conduct an unprecedented survey of the universe. Its field of view…
As backlash grows over Flock’s AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on them. The move came just ahead of the publication of a Texas Tribune investigation that revealed the state spent over $30 million on Flock cameras. That money was primarily raised by tacking a $1 fee onto insurance policies,…
Chess.com has done one thing, and one thing very well, for almost 20 years, but now it’s going beyond its domain name. The biggest name in online chess quietly launched its first companion site in beta back in May: Gambit, a free online poker website where players can learn the game without risking any real…
