Meta is returning to the open-weight AI model category - a subset of large language models (LLMs) that it founded but then largely abandoned in a bout of misplaced priorities - with a loud and fairly sonorous bang, courtesy of the just-released Muse Glimmer open-weight model that employs creative tricks to make sure the model fits inside a single consumer GPU, and responds to queries in a lightning-fast manner.
TSMC Can Sidestep $1 Billion Apple Chip Glut by Rerouting Production Lines to AI, Taiwan Analyst Argues
Following a report that the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is sitting on a billion dollars' worth of inventory of Apple chips, an expert from Taiwan believes that the company can reallocate capacity to products that contribute more to its revenue. The rapid AI infrastructure buildout and the corresponding uptick in demand for the latest chips have led to a reshaping of TSMC's income statement, as most of the firm's revenue comes from high-performance computing chips.
Just as the AI race has reshaped NVIDIA's business
Sony and Arc System Works Patched MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls, After PC Players Revolted Over Broken 60 FPS Performance
MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls launched last week on PC and PlayStation 5 , but the experience differed greatly between PC and console. While the PlayStation 5 version plays flawlessly, the PC version of the latest fighting game developed by Arc System Works leaves a lot to be desired: most systems cannot run the game at a consistent 60 FPS, resulting in numerous issues during both offline and online play. Thankfully, the Japanese developer responded quickly to criticism, releasing the first PC patch today to address these performance issues .
Intel Scrambles To Raise $15 Billion In New Capital, As Signs Suggest It Has Finally Locked In Customers For The 14A Node Process
Intel's CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, has remained adamant in recent months that the company would only invest capital in its bleeding-edge 14A process node after definitively locking in customers for that node.
Well, Intel has just announced a major capital-raising exercise, setting the proverbial tongues wagging across the industry as to the possibility of confirmed customers for the 14A process.
Intel's Lip-Bu Tan has remained adamant that he would only invest significant capital in Intel foundry after locking in
AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 GRE Crashes To $479 At Micro Center Even As RAMpocalypse Sends Other GPUs Up 40%
The Radeon RX 9070 GRE might not be the fastest gaming GPU for its price, but it surely is the fastest at $479.
You might be aware of the reports that both AMD and NVIDIA have already implemented their latest price hikes for the Radeon RX 9000 and GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards. This means the already expensive GPUs will now sell for even higher prices. Some GPUs have witnessed a nearly 40% price hike overnight, making them almost unaffordable.
Such
Apple’s Bezel-Less iPhone 20 With An All-Glass Appearance Said To Be Canceled As Futuristic Design Too Difficult To Mass Produce In High Volume
As the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max face a possible price hike, Apple has reportedly faced yet another setback amid the DRAM crisis: the cancellation of its highly ambitious iPhone 20 release. According to analysts, the next-generation device couldn’t be mass-produced in higher quantities without introducing production defects.
Research firm Jefferies states below that the cancellation of the iPhone 20 means Apple won’t have a high-margin product to provide it with a sufficient financial cushion as memory costs
Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus Hits $153, While The 10-Core Ultra 5 225F Drops Below $100 For The First Time
One of the best gaming CPUs has dropped by nearly $50 while another 10-core powerful CPU dropped below $100.
This might be the biggest CPU deal this year as one of the fastest gaming processors has dropped way below its official MSRP. Just today, we published a deals post, which gives you the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus for lower than MSRP, but this Amazon deal is even better.
Right now, the
No Man’s Sky Hits 10 Years with Record Players, as Hello Games Teases ‘COSMOS’ Update and Light No Fire Next
Today, UK independent developer Hello Games celebrates the tenth anniversary of No Man's Sky , by far its biggest and most popular title. For the occasion, studio founder and managing director Sean Murray shared a lengthy letter with the community, reminiscing about everything that happened throughout this decade: 40 major (and free) updates , as well as ports to practically every noteworthy gaming platform except for mobile.
Murray highlights that " tens of millions of players " have been in the game, spending hundreds of millions of hours
Microsoft Executive Says Windows 11 Isn’t Taking Liquid Glass’ Transparency Slider Route; Doesn’t Deny A Future Release Either, But Under Certain Conditions
Apple’s Liquid Glass UI could be the next aesthetic change to copy, particularly that transparency slider, but Microsoft doesn’t wish to adopt this approach. According to an executive, Windows 11 won’t offer additional options for users to tweak the appearance of the operating system with customization tools, and provides his reasoning for that. Fortunately, he hasn’t denied that such a release won’t happen.
The software giant’s Partner Director of Design, Mark Rogers, was pinged by Emrah on
Valve Warns European Steam Hardware Buyers That Their Addresses Leaked after Shipping Partner CEVA Got Hit by a Cyberattack
Today, Valve has notified European customers via email (as first revealed on the ResetEra board ) that CEVA Logistics , the third-party company responsible for shipping Steam hardware across Europe, was targeted in a cyberattack between July 29 and August 1, 2026 . Valve says it learned on August 7 (last Friday) that customer data was likely compromised as a result.
Because CEVA needs delivery details to ship physical hardware, the attackers likely accessed a specific set of information tied to hardware orders , including:
