The retail giants are facing a fundamental shift as 26% of consumers struggle to pay bills. Their response reveals where shopping is headed for the next decade, focusing on utility over spectacle.
Samsung has started rolling out the One UI 8.5 update to carrier-locked Galaxy Tab S8+ devices in the US. The update brings Android 16 QPR2 along with new interface elements and functionality. This marks one of the first major software updates for the tablet series.
The Disney-YouTube TV standoff has blacked out college football and Monday Night Football for 10 million subscribers. This isn’t just about money—it’s about whether live sports are worth what networks claim.
AI workloads are overwhelming traditional hard drives, forcing a storage rethink. Solid-state drives offer better performance and long-term cost savings despite higher upfront costs. The shift could free up power and space for more GPUs.
A YouTuber built a disturbing animatronic Aristotle robot powered by an offline LLM. After some prompt tweaking, the philosopher bot immediately turned sinister, calling humans “irrelevant” and society expendable. It’s a hilarious reminder that historical figures weren’t always the heroes we imagine
Harvard and MIT have become an AI unicorn factory, producing 27 companies valued at over $1 billion. The average time to reach unicorn status is just four years, with half founded by people under 25. This represents a fundamental shift in how quickly technology companies can scale.
Texas is rapidly emerging as the nation’s AI power base, with data center developers flocking to the state for its cheap natural gas, fast permitting, and abundant power capacity. The state leads Virginia in both new and planned construction, with projections showing Texas adding four times more cap
Robinhood is teaming up with delivery service Gopuff to bring cash directly to customers’ doors. For a $6.99 fee, users can withdraw money from their accounts and have it delivered in sealed bags. The move aims to eliminate one of the last reasons people still visit banks or ATMs.
Twenty-five years after Ted Chiang’s prescient story about AI-dominated science, we’re witnessing the real thing. AI systems are making discoveries that work but remain incomprehensible to human scientists. The future might involve interpreting AI discoveries rather than making them ourselves.
GE Appliances is making a massive $3 billion bet on US manufacturing automation and reshoring. The company’s “zero distance” supply chain strategy aims to produce appliances closer to consumers with dramatically reduced labor hours and downtime. This represents a major shift from traditional offshor
