Enhanced geothermal notches another win as Google buys 400 MW from Fervo
Fervo’s deal with Google could expand to 1 gigawatt of geothermal power, enough to supply a very large AI data center in Utah.
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Wonderful more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under 6 months
Wonderful said it will use its $550 million Series C funding to develop products faster, expand its FDE teams, and meet demand for its products.
The best tech and gadgets announced at IFA so far
The doors to Europe’s largest consumer tech show haven’t opened to the public yet, but there’s already plenty of news coming out of IFA 2026 in Berlin, Germany. If you’re already struggling to keep up with what has been announced, here are some of the best new gadgets and upgrades from the show – including…
Apple Mac Revenue Hits $10.4B as AI Labs Buy In [2026]
Apple just posted the strongest June quarter for the Mac in the product line’s 42-year history, and a chunk of that growth traces back to an unlikely customer type: AI labs buying desktop computers by the pallet. Apple’s fiscal Q3 2026 results, released July 30, showed Mac revenue of $10.4 billion, up nearly 29% year…
PrimeOS vs Android-x86 vs Phoenix OS: 4-Yr Gap [2026]
Every few months, the same question resurfaces on forums like r/Androidx86 and r/gachagaming: can you skip the emulator entirely and just install Android as your PC’s actual operating system? The answer is yes, and three projects have tried to make it work for over a decade. In September 2026, only one of them is still…
REFACTOR-VLA: Unsupervised Library Learning of Typed Motor Programs
Most current vision-language-action (VLA) models—such as OpenVLA, π0, RT-2, and RDT-1B—are “monolithic.” This means they generate raw motor commands or very short sequences of actions, without organizing behaviors into reusable, well-defined abstractions. As a result, these models perform poorly on long-horizon (multi-step) tasks, and it’s difficult to interpret what they have learned. Existing approaches for…
Book insights in Google Play Books is now available in more than a million ebooks and in the iOS app.
Book insights in Google Play Books is now in over a million ebooks, including top bestsellers, and available on the iOS app.
Google is sending MrBeast into the wilderness, armed with AI
MrBeast will feature Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in upcoming videos as part of a multi-year partnership with Google. The deal will kick off with a video featuring Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson turning to Gemini for wilderness survival advice: First up on September 5 is a new MrBeast video following Jimmy and his crew…
Google dodges another breakup attempt
US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema declined the Justice Department’s request to make Google sell off parts of its ad tech business, accepting milder remedies to restore competition to markets it illegally monopolized for years. Brinkema said she would adopt most of the behavioral changes proposed by the parties, with some modifications. But those won’t…
Contentful vs Sanity vs Strapi: $1.5B Deal, 66x Gap [2026]
Contentful just changed owners. On June 1, 2026, Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to buy the headless CMS pioneer, and the deal closed on September 1, 2026 — yesterday, as of this writing. Salesforce never confirmed the price tag, but The Information pegged it between $1 billion and $1.5 billion, a number multiple outlets have…