2026-08-22

I asked ChatGPT if I should get Botox — its answer made me understand why ChatGPT for teens needs to exist

I tested ChatGPT with questions about dieting, relationships and AI companions, and quickly saw why age changes everything. [...]

2026-08-22

Best Buy's 60th Anniversary sale has some seriously tempting TCL TV deals — our favorite models are up to $2,000 off

Looking for a decent TV that doesn't cost the earth? TCL's Mini LED models are a fantastic value option. [...]

2026-08-22

How to limit Instagram from using your data for AI and ads

You can keep Instagram from using your activity outside the app to influence the ads you get. [...]

2026-08-22

Floating 10 MW nuclear reactor proposed for California: barge-mounted SMR aims to power 15,000 homes

Bluecore Energy proposes floating small modular reactor at Long Beach, aiming to power 15,000 homes despite regulatory hurdles. [...]

2026-08-22

Enterprises winning with AI agents are limiting how much the agents can do alone

For much of the past two years, the general belief in enterprise AI has been that more autonomy equals better performance. Build agents that can plan, decide, and act across multi-step workflows, and give them as much room to run as possible. That assumption is now being tested at scale, in real production environments — and in a lot of deployments it's failing. The companies that end up be [...]

2026-08-22

If Waymo cars are Level 4 automation, what does it take to be a Level 5?

We break down the different autonomous driving levels, and why Level 5 is so hard to achieve. [...]

2026-08-22

A free AI model is winning over developers. And nobody knows whose servers it runs on

An anonymous model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter last week, free to use with a million-token context window, and developers have been impressed. OpenRouter’s own listing says prompts and completions are retained by the unidentified provider. A model that nobody will take credit for is being tested across the industry. Ox Alpha appeared on […]<br /> This story continues at The Ne [...]

2026-08-22

Nvidia AI server prices are rising more than 15% from early next year

Nvidia’s largest customers have been notified that servers containing its AI chips will rise in price by more than 15% in many cases from early next year, driven by memory costs. The company reports quarterly earnings next week. Nvidia’s biggest customers have been told what the memory shortage is going to cost them. Servers containing […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-08-22

Quote of the day by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel: 'Anyone that has a monopoly will pretend that they're in incredible competition' — exposing how tech titans bend the market in their favour

Plenty of massive technology companies have come under fire in the last few years for antitrust violations [...]