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Big Tech strategy, semiconductor supply chains and the money behind the technology industry, reported by The Silicon Ledger.
The tri-band TP-Link Archer BE9700 is discounted 24% from its list price, featuring Wi-Fi 7 connectivity, a 10G WAN port, and support for up to 120 devices across 2,600 square feet.
A team of Gemini 4 Argon agents defeated Minecraft's final boss by autonomously generating 2,783 programs and coordinating through in-game communication, though the feat cost roughly $520 in tokens.
MiniMax claims its new M3.1 Flash model cuts agent costs by 70 percent through lower token prices and faster inference, but independent benchmarks suggest the actual savings may be smaller and vary by workload.
Endurance Energy demonstrated a prototype subsea geothermal power system near an active underwater volcano, generating net-positive electricity for the first time and validating the technical feasibility of deep-ocean renewable energy.
The Chinese AI company has opened its internally built search engine to developers through new APIs priced at $0.75 per 1,000 requests, extending its cost-competitive strategy beyond AI models into the search infrastructure market.
Team Vitality's Paris headquarters was looted over the weekend as rioters took advantage of widespread protests over school funding and government spending. Video evidence shows looters extracting RAM sticks and other computer components from gaming PCs.
Arm unveiled benchmark results showing its AGI CPU outperforms AMD's EPYC 9755 by a significant margin in data center workloads designed for agentic artificial intelligence applications.
A solo developer has expanded his DLSS-NR project to bring the full suite of Nvidia's upscaling, frame generation and neural rendering capabilities to AMD's RDNA2, RDNA3 and RDNA4 graphics cards.
