qz

2026-08-25

Cramer says data center political backlash is making Amazon, Google, and Meta the winners

The "Mad Money" host argues big tech can absorb tougher regulatory requirements that smaller developers cannot afford [...]

qz

2026-08-25

Democrats say Trump's oil and gas stocks gained up to $15.5M as Iran war boosted energy shares

A Joint Economic Committee minority report found Trump held as much as $45.6M in oil and gas stocks in 2025, a portfolio now worth up to $61.1M [...]

qz

2026-08-25

Druckenmiller slammed Bessent's bond buyback plan as "price management" doomed to fail

The billionaire investor, an early mentor of the Treasury secretary, argued in a WSJ op-ed that governments defending prices against fundamentals always lose [...]

thenextweb

2026-08-25

Scalable Capital connects €60bn of client assets to outside AI assistants

Scalable Capital has opened its investment platform to ChatGPT and Claude, allowing its clients to analyse their portfolios and place trades through the two AI assistants rather than through the broker’s own app. The Munich company says it is the first European bank to do this, and it arrives as the industry works out what […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

Destination

2026-08-25

Nvidia says its Groq 3 LPX is four times faster than Cerebras, but the math is more complicated

Nvidia is moving its Groq 3 LPX inference chip into full production and reports 3,400 tokens per second on Gemma 4 31B, four times faster than Cerebras. But the numbers don't tell the whole story. Nvidia needs at least 64 accelerators to get there, while Cerebras needs only one or two, according to The Register. How well the architecture scales with large MoE models remains an open question.& [...]

Destination

2026-08-25

Ukraine opens its massive labeled battlefield dataset to British firms in a landmark AI weapons partnership

The UK becomes the first country to get access to Avengers Labs, Ukraine's platform holding roughly five million annotated combat images for training military AI. Three British startups are already working on pilot projects. The deal shows how real war data is systematically becoming the currency for building out autonomous weapons tech.<br /> The article Ukraine opens its massive label [...]

Destination

2026-08-25

Making Real Connections

How Snapdragon helps Flock Together founder Ollie Olanipekun build communities beyond the screen [...]

Destination

2026-08-25

Nokia’s latest retro feature phone comes with a super-bright flashlight and built-in power bank — and yes, there’s a headphone jack too

There's lots to like about the Nokia 300 Charge, including a power bank mode and expandable storage. [...]

zdnet

2026-08-25

'Just a hobby, won't be big': Linus Torvalds introduced Linux 35 years ago - and almost called it Freax

It's been 35 years since Finnish graduate student Linus Torvalds drafted a brief note saying he was starting a hobby operating system. The world will never be the same. [...]