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The U.S. Senate has opened a bipartisan investigation into Roblox, the gaming platform that puts more than 100 million daily users — many of them children as young as five — inside a marketplace of user-built worlds. On August 13, 2026, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chair and ranking member of…
Steam Deck has quietly turned into one of the best pocket-sized machines for playing every mainline and spin-off Pokémon game ever released, from the original Game Boy Advance cartridges to GameCube-era spin-offs like Pokémon Colosseum. The trick is that Valve’s handheld runs a full Linux desktop underneath SteamOS, and that desktop can host the same…
Running a full Kubernetes control plane on a Raspberry Pi cluster, a retail point-of-sale box, or a single developer laptop has always been a stretch. Standard Kubernetes, installed the vanilla way with kubeadm, wants 2 GB or more of RAM per machine and at least two CPUs on the control plane, according to the official…
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, a deal that would put the world’s dominant AI chipmaker in control of one of the most important distribution hubs for open AI models. The Information first reported the agreement […] The post Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion in major AI…
China’s Moonshot AI is negotiating with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google over deals that could put its Kimi K3 model inside America’s biggest cloud platforms, creating an unusual collision between Washington’s AI restrictions and the economics of selling AI. The Beijing-based […] The post China’s Moonshot AI in talks with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to bring…
It’s Wednesday, August 26, 2026, and the bill for the AI decade came due in cash, silicon, and human work. Meta is writing a check of up to $16.68 billion to settle claims it designed Facebook and Instagram to hook […] The post Top Tech News Today, August 26, 2026: Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Waymo…
Transfyr has launched with $25 million in seed funding to tackle a problem that AI models trained on mountains of scientific literature still cannot see: much of what makes an experiment work never makes it into the scientific record. General […] The post Transfyr launches with $25M in funding to bring physical AI to scientific…
Meta has agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion in a sweeping settlement with 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories over allegations that Facebook and Instagram harmed children through addictive features, ending a closely watched federal trial […] The post Meta agrees to $17.1 billion settlement over Facebook and Instagram harms to…
Startup investors put more than $546 million in disclosed dollar-denominated capital, plus €11.6 million, into the 10 most significant qualifying rounds identified in the latest 16-hour window. The biggest checks went to autonomous freight, AI data-center power management, and consumer […] The post Startup Funding News Today, August 26, 2026: Emerald AI, Gatik, Stellaria &…
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, ending a 21-year experiment in crowdsourced digital labor that once put humans behind tasks computers could not handle. The timing carries a certain irony: artificial intelligence is getting better at many of the jobs […] The post Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after 21 years as AI reshapes…
