Qualcomm just became the second major chipmaker in six months to walk away from a multibillion-dollar hyperscaler deal that has nothing to do with smartphones. On September 8, 2026, Qualcomm confirmed a multi-year, multi-generational partnership with Amazon Web Services to co-develop custom AI inference silicon and high-speed optical networking gear for AWS data centers, according…
Akihabara is usually where Tokyo’s PC builders go to hunt for a deal. This month it became ground zero for the opposite. A major Japanese retailer issued a public alert warning shoppers of further graphics card price increases, days after stores across the district had already pushed through 20% to 30% hikes on many GPU…
Three Android emulators dominate different corners of the PC gaming market, and as of September 17, 2026, they are moving at wildly different speeds. LDPlayer just shipped version 14.0.27.1, a build focused entirely on Hyper-V smoothness and Vulkan rendering fixes for Intel Arc graphics cards. MEmu pushed its own update, 9.5.7.0, within the same two-week…
YourAgeMeets FAQ: The Questions People Ask Before Signing Up Some platforms are easy to size up in thirty seconds. YourAgeMeets platform takes a little longer. It is a communication platform, not a social network in the conventional sense, and not a straightforward swipe-based app. That gap between what people expect and what the platform actually…
It’s Thursday, September 17, 2026, and the AI boom just hit the physical world. The technology industry is starting to look less like a collection of products and more like a reengineering of the systems beneath modern life. AI is […] The post Top Tech News Today, September 17, 2026: Apple, Cisco, Google, Huawei, OpenAI,…
Attackers now weaponize new vulnerabilities in about five days (Mandiant, part of Google Cloud). The median organization takes 43 days to patch one (Verizon DBIR 2026). A new free guide explains how autonomous AI agents are closing that gap, and what security leaders must demand before pointing one at production. TL;DR Exploitation is now the…
Today, I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. As you’re no doubt aware, the biggest story in tech right now is the spiraling debate about AI safety and regulation. It should come as no surprise that Mustafa has strong opinions on how AI should be built and regulated. Microsoft just published a…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet a mouse whose brain cortex is made up of human cells Multiple cameras tracked a mouse as it wandered around a small arena. A computer charted its position and speed,…