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Sam Altman told the world the singularity is here, and he sounded thrilled about it. On a late-July appearance on the podcast Relentless, the OpenAI chief executive said, “We are now, like, in the singularity,” and followed it with a line that has since been quoted everywhere from cable news chyrons to Discord servers: “I’ve…
Original cartridge gaming just got a new contender. Hyperkin’s SupaBoy Crimson and Prime handhelds are shipping October 28, 2026, at $129.99, promising something software emulation can’t: a slot that accepts a real Super Nintendo or Super Famicom cartridge and plays it with no ROM file, no account, and no firmware update involved. That launch reopens…
Most tutorials about running dedicated game servers on Kubernetes point at the same three clouds: Google Kubernetes Engine, Amazon EKS, or Azure Kubernetes Service. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure rarely comes up, even though Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) is CNCF-certified, ships a genuinely free cluster control plane tier, and has been an officially documented installation…
Broadcom has locked in a chip-pricing arrangement with Samsung Electronics that mirrors the terms Nvidia commands from its own memory suppliers, according to media reports cited by ad-hoc-news.de on October 4, 2026. The agreement builds on the $200 billion memorandum of understanding Samsung and Broadcom signed on July 25, 2026, and it puts Broadcom’s custom…
Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5.5 on September 28, 2026, and the model has already become the default mid-tier pick for developers who need strong coding performance without paying flagship prices. If you have been running production workloads on Claude Sonnet 5 or an older Claude model, the upgrade path is mostly a one-line change, but…
Google’s AI tools aim to help educators achieve their teaching goals and provide students with personalized learning experiences.
Norbert Wiener, godfather of cybernetics, once said, “The thought of every age is reflected in its technique.” For the past century, our thought has been reflected in our computers, including by those in the AI industry. Google’s Demis Hassabis calls the brain “a biological approximation to a Turing machine.” Elon Musk puts it more bluntly,…
Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do. At the start of the call, he said something that’s been stuck in my head since: “We often say that we’re a self-loathing AI…
Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research, explores how AI is beginning to reshape biology, infrastructure, manufacturing, and science, and why its greatest impact may come when it intersects with other fields. Step inside the newsroom with our MIT Technology Review editors for sharp analysis and unpublished insights from the team that researches…
Four months remain in 2026, and the year’s release calendar is nowhere near finished. On September 30, 2026, Top Gear (syndicated the same week on Top Gear Philippines) published a roundup titled “Here are seven huge videogames still to come in 2026,” written by Phil Iwaniuk, arguing that the year’s headline event isn’t the only…
