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SoftBank seeks $100 billion for AI-refined projects from Middle Eastern investors
SoftBank plans to buy companies that do not use AI or robotics, then apply new technologies to improve their operations...
Super Micro smuggling co-conspirator pleads guilty to sending AI chips to China
Ting-Wei "Willy" Sun, one of the three people charged of smuggling Super Micro servers with advanced Nvidia AI chips to...
PS5 hack delivers native PS2 disc support and 4K upscaling where Sony refused to
Modder Sword has released PS5SX2 for the PlayStation 5, allowing gamers to play discs from previous PlayStation 2 games.
This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: October 10, 2026
This week on Tom's Hardware Premium, we covered how the AI buildout is affecting the industry supporting it across all a...
DistroKid has been quietly taking down songs in response to UMG lawsuit
Artists are taking to social media to complain that DistroKid has unceremoniously removed their work without notice. Now...
We tested gaming performance in 17-year-old Windows 7 on a modern gaming PC against Windows 11
We managed to install Windows 7 on a modern PC and put it to the test across eight DirectX 11 games and two DirectX 9 ti...
Top AI labs reportedly planning for catastrophic AI event fallout
One focus of these contingency plans is how to manage Congress after a catastrophic event puts these labs in the spotlig...
Microsoft skipped OpenAI’s decision model and built its own on Alibaba’s Qwen
Microsoft on Friday launched Microsoft-Decision-1 in Foundry, three days after OpenAI opened its Decisions API to every...
Free Steam demo runs up $1,000 daily AI bill and forces devs to take out bank loan
Easy Fox were surprised by the number of users and didn't expect that the demo's popularity would cause its AI expenses...
Ledger wallet tampering suspected after reports of crypto thefts
Reports have been mounting that users of the Ledger crypto wallet have seen their accounts drained, and it appears to be...
Nvidia reportedly halts GeForce RTX 5090 production in favor of AI data center and professional GPUs
Nvidia reportedly discontinues GeForce RTX 5090-series products leaving GB202 for data center and professional graphics...
Ukranian modder slaps DLSS 5 onto Pac-Man with 4x Multipass
Russian YouTube channel dedicated to DLSS 5 experiments tries Pac-Man, and it's genuinely cursed.
Justin Sun says Tron’s post-quantum cryptography has gone live on testnet
“We’re ready to bring quantum resistance to mainnet at any time,” Sun said in a post on X. Justin Sun, founder of the Tr...
AnyPS5 project reaches critical GPU milestone in race to enable running PS5 games natively on PC
The open-source AnyPS5 project has reached 100% GPU shader instruction coverage.
Crazed modder straps 360mm AIO radiator to laptop, cuts temps to below 40 degrees
PC modder TrashBench attached a 360mm radiator and custom cooling to a laptop and gained up to 14% in performance at the...
K-pop star Sunmi loves Notion and ear cleaning videos
Sunmi is an undeniable force in K-pop. She first made her debut as a member of the Wonder Girls back in 2007, one of the...
Anthropic is cutting off its internal evaluations from the internet
After a recent spate of high-profile incidents in which AI agents escaped containment, Anthropic is cutting off internet...
Ukrainian drones strike largest data center in Russia, multiple parts of 1.4 million square foot campus knocked offline
Following a Ukrainian drone strike on a D.C. in Sasovo, Russia, a Yandex facility in Kaluga has suffered a similar fate...
World’s first 3D-printed remote control aircraft with a jet turbine takes flight, aims for Mach 0.8 to beat world record for fastest model aircraft
Team of graduates attempts to beat Guiness World Record for fastest jet-powered model aircraft using PETG and clever eng...
Elon Musk’s Grok Bot will pick Claude over Grok when it’s better. One-model loyalty is dead.
I’m Matt Burns, Chief Content Officer at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments,...