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The electric vehicle charging company plans to repurpose its existing 1,600-plus U.S. locations and 200MW of electrical capacity to build what it calls the world's first edge inference network using idle charging infrastructure.
Amazon's Big Deals event brings significant price reductions to Samsung's 9100 Pro storage lineup, with discounts available on 1TB through 8TB models while inventory lasts.
As AI agents move beyond answering questions to executing tasks, infrastructure must balance GPU-powered reasoning with CPU-intensive execution work. Nvidia and CoreWeave are deploying the Vera CPU to eliminate this emerging constraint.
The remotely operated assault vehicle lost its command link repeatedly during the Tsentr-2026 military exercise, forcing operators to switch to manual control before it became immobilized in mud.
A Reddit modder has designed a custom power distribution module to address thermal issues with Nvidia's RTX 5090 graphics card, claiming it could be offered with full warranty coverage through a partner channel.
Elon Musk has acknowledged ongoing discussions with Taiwan's leading chipmaker about a potential joint venture to produce semiconductors for his companies under the Terafab initiative.
Tom's Hardware Premium has released an extensive interview with OpenAI's hardware VP Richard Ho about the company's Jalapeño inference ASIC, developed with Broadcom and unveiled at Hot Chips 2026.
According to OpenRouter platform data analyzed by Futurum Group's CEO, machine-driven AI agents have dramatically outpaced human usage, with projections suggesting the gap will widen further as cached prompts dominate token consumption.
