2026-07-06
'The challenge is no longer only how much power is needed, but whether it can be delivered reliably': Report finds AI data centers are draining more power than the grid can provide
AI data centers are increasing demand for power, but they're also making it harder to predict how much is needed and when. [...]
2026-07-06
Tencent's Apache-licensed Hy3 takes on GLM-5.2 at half the size — and wins everywhere except coding
For the past year, the awkward secret of the open-weight model boom has been that many of the strongest Chinese releases were off-limits to a large slice of the enterprises most interested in them. License terms that excluded the European Union, the United Kingdom and South Korea meant legal teams killed deployments before engineering teams finished their evals — not just for companies headquart [...]
2026-07-06
Nintendo will stop selling the original Switch in Europe next year
Nearly ten years after launch, the original Nintendo Switch will vanish from European shops next year. Blame a new EU rule on batteries, not the Switch 2. Nintendo will stop selling every version of the original Switch in Europe from mid-February 2027, The Verge reports. That lands weeks before the console’s tenth birthday. The cull […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-06
Skello raises €200M and its founders end up owning more of the company
Most big funding rounds shrink the founders’ slice. Skello’s just grew it. The profitable French HR startup has raised €200m to go shopping across Europe. Paris-based Skello has raised €200m led by Bridgepoint, EU-Startups reports. The unusual part: its founders and managers came out owning more of the company, not less, as Tech Funding News […]<br /> This story continues at The Ne [...]
2026-07-06
Clarkson's Farm finally has a positive piece of news — please let this mean that season 6 isn't anywhere near as soul-destroying as the season 5 ending
Clarkson's Farm season 6 is currently in production — and it could really benefit from the only good bit of news Jeremy Clarkson's land has had in ages. [...]
2026-07-06
GPT-4's dominance lasted a year while today's top models barely survive seven weeks at the top
OpenAI's GPT-4 led the Epoch Capabilities Index for about a year, far longer than any model since. Since Claude 3 Opus took the top spot in February 2024, the lead has changed hands 17 times, with a median stay of just seven weeks. Competition is fiercer now, but the capability gains between models are shrinking.<br /> The article GPT-4's dominance lasted a year while today's [...]