Alphabet’s shares surged 5% yesterday, pushing its valuation toward $4 trillion on reports that Meta may buy billions worth of Google’s TPU AI chips. The news suggests Google is becoming a serious competitor to Nvidia in the AI hardware race.
The AI datacenter boom is driving massive demand for battery energy storage systems, but Chinese suppliers maintain their advantage despite political headwinds. Tesla emerges as the primary domestic alternative in what could become a 20GW market over the next decade.
Researchers found glutathionylated DNA adducts accumulate at levels 80 times higher in mitochondrial DNA than nuclear DNA. These “sticky” lesions make DNA rigid and disrupt energy production. The discovery could reshape our understanding of diseases from cancer to diabetes.
Intel’s upcoming Panther Lake mobile processor has appeared in Geekbench 6 benchmarks, showing significant performance advantages over current-generation chips. The Core Ultra 9 386H demonstrates impressive single-core and multi-core results that challenge both AMD and Intel’s own recent offerings.
The most dangerous system failures aren’t technical breakdowns but conceptual ones. As organizations race to digitize everything, many systems work efficiently while forgetting their original purpose and ethical commitments.
Meta conducted research in 2020 that showed users felt better mentally after deactivating Facebook for a week. The company then terminated the study and didn’t share findings with Congress despite claiming it had no evidence of harm to teens.
Cybersecurity leaders Jessica Sica and Fred Kwong explain how AI screening tools are creating hiring blind spots. They argue the system now favors résumé optimization over actual skills, potentially missing the best candidates.
Eurozone banks are launching EUR-denominated stablecoins while regulators scramble to catch up. Meanwhile, agentic AI promises to transform balance sheet management just as traditional deposits face potential migration to CBDCs.
Signal has finally brought its secure backup feature to iOS devices after launching it on Android last September. The feature offers both free and paid tiers for encrypted message and media storage, with plans to expand to desktop soon.
The Trump-branded T1 smartphone was supposed to launch in August but remains unavailable months later. Customer service gives conflicting December delivery dates while blaming government shutdowns for delays. Journalists and customers continue waiting for the promised “All-American” device.
