Better founder who fired 900 employees over Zoom is now fighting to get his own job back
Garg says Better's board pushed him out just as profitability was in view
Apple will begin assembling Mac Minis at Foxconn's Houston plant later this year
Foxconn is building the production line while Apple will buy the computers made there
Amazon makes it harder for customers to sue as new terms block class actions and force arbitration
The company abandoned a similar clause five years ago after receiving 75,000 individual Alexa claims
Entry-level GPU shortages will get worse in the second half of 2026, warns PC Partner
It warns GDDR6 and GDDR7 constraints will tighten supply and push GPU prices higher through the end of 2026
Nvidia may have just built its own hyperscaler without owning a single data center
The neoclouds are burning cash by the billion. Nvidia just lined up the money to keep them building
Why it matters: Nvidia has quietly assembled every piece of a cloud giant, and it doesn't even need to own the buildings. That is the theory making the rounds, and once you see it laid out, the last two years stop looking like a chip company having a very good run and start looking like a plan. The financing arrangement Nvidia signed this month with BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and four other Wall Street heavyweights, aimed at funneling more than $500 billion of outside capital into AI data centers, would be the last piece clicking into place. Most outlets filed it under the now usual "more AI money" headline, but there is a more interesting read.
New study finds HGST, WD hard drives fail less often than Seagate and Toshiba
Backblaze data was adjusted for drive age, capacity, temperature, form factor, and early retirement
Nvidia's $5 billion Intel bet is now worth nearly $25 billion, and its SpaceX stake isn't far behind
A new SEC filing reveals a massive web of Nvidia's AI infrastructure investments
UK researchers are growing miniature human tissue from NHS patient cells to improve drug testing
The £20 million Cambridge hub will build organoid models for IBD, cancer, and neurological disease
Intel may refresh Raptor Lake for a third time as high DDR5 prices push buyers toward older hardware
Intel is joining AMD and Nvidia in reviving four-year-old hardware
Anthropic is heading toward the largest IPO ever, at a possible $2 trillion valuation
Investors expect Anthropic's annualized revenue to reach $100-$120 billion by year's end
Enterprise SSDs now consume 48% of global NAND flash supply
AI is turning the NAND market upside down, with training making way for inference
Elon Musk earned over 2.5 million times more than Tesla workers as CEO pay surged again
Excluding Musk, average S&P 500 CEO compensation still climbed 21% to $22.8 million
SK hynix is now Kioxia's biggest shareholder, but taking control won't be easy
Japanese government approval, antitrust scrutiny, and an investment agreement stand in the way
The memory crisis is killing off sub-$100 smartphones as US sales plunge 64%
Smaller brands are raising prices, cutting shipments, or leaving the US market
NYC could force Amazon and FedEx to directly employ its delivery drivers
Amazon is threatening to move out of New York if the bill passes
A four-year-old budget CPU is outselling AMD's best gaming chip in some markets
AMD marketing director's tweet inadvertently shows how distorted the CPU market is
Amazon's new Texas data center could become the single largest polluter in the US
The facility could release up to 33 million tons of CO2 a year, rivaling Switzerland and Ireland
A hot potato: A proposed Amazon data center in Texas has sparked concerns that its massive on-site power plant could become the single-largest source of pollution in the US, threatening to affect local communities, farmland, and small businesses. The facility is planned for Pecos County as part of Amazon's growing push into AI and cloud services.
Microsoft raises Windows OEM fees for PC makers by 7% to 10%
The higher fees come as manufacturers grapple with rising memory and component costs
Take-Two says GTA 6's $80 price is a "bargain" because Rockstar delivers "way more value" than it charges
The $100 Ultimate Edition is outselling the standard version, apparently
Bernie Sanders tells OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to pause AI development or face Senate action
The senator says recent rogue-agent incidents show AI firms are losing control of their own systems.
GameStop may drop its $56 billion eBay bid and offer up its 1,600 stores in a partnership
The proposed tie-up would focus on trading cards, collectibles, and live commerce
Memory prices have erased 20 years of progress in a single year, researcher says
This chart shows just how badly AI demand has broken memory prices
SK Hynix is spending $38 billion to build two new chip fabs
The Y2 fab will focus on HBM and next-gen DRAM, while the M17 plant will mainly produce NAND flash
Take-Two's CEO predicts streaming will 10x gaming's install base within three years
Zelnick isn't worried about next-gen consoles doubling their $500 price tags
SpaceX and Tesla plan their own natural gas power plants for massive $16.8 billion Texas chip factory
It will generate much of its own electricity with natural gas plants and massive battery arrays