With Google's frontier AI models again reported to have fallen behind their competitors, as evidenced by the recurring launch delays for Gemini 3.5 Pro, which has supposedly fallen short of Google's internal goals, there were increasing rumblings of a widespread upheaval over at Google.

Now, just a few days after Google released the Gemini 3.6 Flash to middling reviews, the architect of Google's AI strategy over the past 15 years or so, Jeff Dean, is leaving to build an AGI-

AMD has announced that the company is returning to IFA this year and will present the opening keynote to share the "vision for the next era of computing".

IFA is just one month away, & AMD is today announcing that it is returning to the keynote stage. The announcement comes from AMD's SVP and GM of the Computing and Graphics Group, Jack Huynh, who will be hosting the opening "Era of Personal AI" keynote on 4th of September at 5 AM CT.

Although there are no details

After Moonshot's Kimi K3 spurred multi-vector allegations of model distillation, China's AI labs are apparently becoming a lot more sensitive to this issue, with TikTok owner ByteDance becoming the second such AI lab to explicitly ban distillation from US models. Meanwhile, Anthropic has just confirmed that it's working on a dedicated ASIC for Claude, potentially extending its inference-related economies of scale.

For the benefit of those who might not be aware, Moonshot's Kimi K3 model jumped right into the

Nintendo Switch 2 players have been waiting a long time to hear about a port of Diablo IV to the latest Nintendo console. The first rumor circulated in early 2025 , even before the Switch 2's launch, but Activision Blizzard remained silent. This year, two different rating boards fueled fans' hopes:

• The Indonesian rating board listed the most recent expansion, Lord of Hatred , for the original Switch (which might have been a mistake);
• The Taiwanese rating board listed Diablo IV itself for the Nintendo

Samsung has introduced brand new memory and storage technologies at FMS 2026, such as V10 BV-NAND, zHBM, and zNAND-O .

As AI and compute requirements continue to grow, the current swath of technologies is starting to see drawbacks, requiring manufacturers to invest in transformative concepts that are going to play a fundamental role in future AI infrastructure.

At FMS 2026, Samsung displayed two brand new technologies that are currently in concept stage, but would become a major deal moving forward

One more lucky user got his hands on a budget GPU for the price of a cup of coffee,, allowing him to upgrade his second system.

I know it can be hard to digest it, but such deals do exist. These are rare, but if you are willing to check your local Thrift store, you might be able to snag a piece of hardware for super cheap. We have seen how some users have managed to get hardware for way cheaper than their original prices, and this case appears to be

One would ordinarily think that the US government would approach its relations with China as a strategic conundrum that is to be to sifted through, not bludgeoned; but then this might be a herculean task for an administration that has shown no such inclination or capacity, with its make-up-as-you-go-along stratagem - replete with hefty ad hocism - now producing a bevy of unintended consequences, such as Samsung and SK hynix choosing to populate their China-based fabs with Chinese equipment to insulate those facilities against

More evidence that almost every vendor is now increasing the GPU prices for both AMD and NVIDIA SKUs.

The latest generation of NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards is witnessing another significant price hike. There have been multiple reports of the same, and we have seen how some retailers have already started to increase GPU prices on their stores. Starting in August, some vendors have even begun cancelling GPU orders.

Recently, ASUS cancelled a user's RTX 5090 purchase in order to sell the GPU for $500

Chinese memory manufacturer CXMT has refused Apple's demand for a price cut in negotiations, says a report from the Korean press. Apple has widely been reported to be interested in procuring its chips from CXMT and has purportedly lobbied the US government for the permission to purchase the products for its gadgets sold outside the country. However, the report from the Korean publication Digital Daily outlines that demand from Huawei, Xiaomi and others has placed CXMT in a stronger position to negotiate with the world's largest consumer electronics firm.

According