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Musk's AI Gets a National Security Pass for Polluting Memphis
Elon Musk's xAI built a power plant without permits in a Memphis neighborhood. Now the DOJ argues the pollution is vital for national security. This changes the price of building AI.
Your Body Has an API. Science Is Finally Mapping It.
Your body sends your brain 11 million bits of data every second. You're conscious of about 60. Decoding the rest is the new frontier in medicine, wellness, and control.
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Unusable Engineering Bets on Weird Software for Windows
Another software synth is not news. But a suite of deliberately strange, visually-driven tools escaping the Mac ecosystem is. Unusable Engineering just brought its vector-based sound design to the rest of us.
Kawasaki's New Arm Isn't for Building Cars, It's for an AI to Drive
The RL030N isn't just another robot arm. With eight axes and an open API, it's a physical body for the AI brains being built by startups. The platform war for automation just got very interesting.
Why Apple Abandons Its Partners So Ruthlessly
Apple has twice abandoned its core processor architecture, first from PowerPC to Intel, then from Intel to its own silicon. The logic is identical: the moment a partner's roadmap threatens the product, the partnership is over.
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Jeep's Grand Cherokee Fixes a Self-Inflicted Wound
The flagship SUV gets its off-road credibility back after a bizarre product planning failure. But the Trail-Rated badge now comes with a very different engine underneath.
A Bitcoin Miner Buys Spain's AI Future
IREN, once a pure-play crypto miner, just bought 490 megawatts of data center capacity in Spain. The pivot to AI cloud isn't a trend; it's a high-stakes race for grid-scale power.
The BCI Has Its First Power User, and He Has a Job
For years, brain-computer interfaces were a lab demo. Now, a man with ALS has used his for thousands of hours to speak, work, and live. This is not a trial run anymore.
Elektron Just Made A 14-Year-Old Synth New Again
A synth from 2012 just got a powerful generative sequencer, for free. This is not a bug fix. It’s a repudiation of planned obsolescence and a lesson in building customer loyalty that lasts a decade.
Industrial Robot Orders Fell. The Arms Race Did Not.
Robot sales took a post-pandemic dip. But while the West was distracted, China quietly built the world's largest robotic workforce. This isn't about efficiency; it's about control.
KPMG’s Expert AI Report Was Full of AI-Generated Lies
One of the world's biggest consulting firms published a report on AI. It turned out to be fiction, likely written by an AI. This is the new baseline for corporate incompetence.