NASA ditches its 40-year-old relay satellites ... NASA ditches its 40-year-old relay satellites to stream Artemis III in 4K via Starlink Two Starlink Mini laser terminals on Orion will stream live 4K video of orbital docking — the first time a crewed NASA spacecraft has done that in real time. today
No cowling, no problem: CFM's open ... No cowling, no problem: CFM's open fan engine targets 20% fuel savings by the 2030s CFM International is testing a propeller-like jet engine with no outer casing that could cut fuel burn by a fifth — but certification and Boeing's skepticism remain unresolved. today
Netflix Used AI on 300 Titles ... Netflix Used AI on 300 Titles in Six Months — and Wants to Cut Crew Costs by Half The streaming giant's Q2 2026 earnings reveal industrial-scale AI adoption in post-production, but cost targets tied to its $600M acquisition raise uncomfortable questions about labor. yesterday
TSMC Posts Record Profits — Then ... TSMC Posts Record Profits — Then Its Stock Fell Anyway A $40 billion quarter and 77% profit growth weren't enough to impress investors spooked by a massive capex hike and shrinking margin forecasts. yesterday
Jensen Huang's leather jacket sells for ... Jensen Huang's leather jacket sells for $960,000 at Sotheby's The NVIDIA CEO's signed Tom Ford jacket fetched 16 times its pre-auction estimate, with all proceeds going to a nonprofit funding tech fellowships and residencies. yesterday
Seven mini-PCs, one AI cluster: Bosgame ... Seven mini-PCs, one AI cluster: Bosgame wants to bring DeepSeek to your desk Bosgame chains seven Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini-PCs via USB4 to pool 896GB of memory and run a 671-billion-parameter model locally — no server room required. July 18, 2026, 9:33 p.m.
A brain implant let a paralyzed ... A brain implant let a paralyzed man feel and move his arm again Feinstein Institutes' double neural bypass restored partial sensation and arm strength in a quadriplegic patient — and the effects persisted even after the device was switched off. July 17, 2026, 5:39 p.m.
Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook ... Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook — here's what actually changed The research tool now has 30 million users and a new name, plus a code execution feature rolling out to Pro subscribers in the coming weeks. July 17, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
Google's AI Mode can now build ... Google's AI Mode can now build playlists and grocery lists from Search Connected apps bring Canva, YouTube Music, and Instacart into Google Search — but the feature is US-only for now, leaving UK users on the sidelines. July 17, 2026, 3:22 a.m.
Grok Build goes open source — ... Grok Build goes open source — and drops usage limits xAI released the Grok Build CLI under Apache 2.0 and removed all usage caps, but the move comes after a summer privacy crisis — and community contributions are explicitly blocked. July 16, 2026, 12:15 p.m.
Apple is hunting AI chip startups ... Apple is hunting AI chip startups as its in-house silicon falls short For the first time in decades, Apple is talking to chip startups and financial bankers about acquisitions — a sign its own server silicon can't keep up with AI demand. July 16, 2026, 3:15 a.m.
Third-party app stores are coming to ... Third-party app stores are coming to Google Play on July 22 A US court injunction — not a regulatory deal — forces Google to open its Play Store catalog to competing app stores for the first time. July 15, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
China's brain implant is already covered ... China's brain implant is already covered by insurance — Neuralink isn't even close China approved the NEO brain-computer interface for routine clinical use in March 2026 and added it to national health insurance days later. Neuralink has 12 trial patients and no FDA approval in sight. July 15, 2026, 2:41 p.m.
Samsung wins Red Dot awards for ... Samsung wins Red Dot awards for AI kids robots and a smart beauty mirror Eight design concept prizes — including two 'Best of the Best' — signal where Samsung wants AI to go next, from children's companions to skin-scanning mirrors. July 14, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
AI Premium: stock markets are pricing ... AI Premium: stock markets are pricing in AI gains before companies earn them A Yale-led study of 380 trillion AI tokens finds companies with high AI exposure earn 0.64% more per week — driven entirely by investor expectations, not actual profits. July 14, 2026, 4:10 p.m.
The Milky Way is bigger than ... The Milky Way is bigger than we thought — cosmic explosions just proved it Astronomers used X-ray echoes from gamma-ray bursts to measure our galaxy's spiral arms more precisely than ever before — and found they're 10% farther away. July 14, 2026, 3:47 p.m.
Grok 4.5 nearly matches GPT-5.5 on ... Grok 4.5 nearly matches GPT-5.5 on coding benchmarks — and costs a fraction of the price xAI's new model lands third on the terminal-coding leaderboard but wins on cost per task at $2.49 versus $11.80 for rivals. July 14, 2026, 2:27 p.m.
TSMC's June revenue jumped 68% — ... TSMC's June revenue jumped 68% — and the AI chip bottleneck just moved The world's dominant chipmaker posted $13.8B in a single month. Now the constraint isn't making chips — it's packaging them. July 14, 2026, 1:19 p.m.
Honda will pay workers up to ... Honda will pay workers up to $1,000 a month to get certified in AI The automaker is offering monthly bonuses to employees who prove they can actually use AI tools — part of Japan's race to close a projected 3-million-worker skills gap by 2040. July 13, 2026, 5:39 p.m.
Gulfstream flew a G700 on 100% ... Gulfstream flew a G700 on 100% sustainable fuel — and the contrails shrank by 56% New high-altitude test data suggest cutting aviation's non-CO2 warming effect may matter more than carbon accounting alone. July 12, 2026, 6:21 p.m.
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