Nvidia has partnered with California startup Span and homebuilder PulteGroup to install liquid-cooled mini AI data centers directly on residential homes. Homeowners get free electricity and internet — while their house becomes part of a nationwide distributed AI supercomputing network.
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Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and Google have collectively committed $725 billion in capital expenditure for 2026 — a 77% jump from last year. At the same time, over 92,000 tech workers have been laid off. The uncomfortable question: is Big Tech funding AI by firing people?
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OpenAI is accelerating its first AI agent phone toward a first-half 2027 mass production target. Powered by a custom MediaTek Dimensity 9600 chip with dual NPUs and built on TSMC's 2nm node, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo projects 30 million units shipped by 2028. Here's everything leaked so far.
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The criminal hacking group ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for breaching Instructure, the parent company of Canvas LMS — used by nearly 9,000 schools worldwide. Up to 275 million student and staff records are at risk, with a ransom deadline of May 12, 2026. Here's the full story.
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DeepSeek — the Chinese AI lab that shocked Silicon Valley earlier this year — is now seeking its first external funding round at a $45 billion valuation. China's state-backed semiconductor fund is leading talks, with Tencent and Alibaba also reportedly involved. The valuation has doubled in weeks.
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Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra arrives as the company's most powerful and most AI-integrated smartphone yet. With a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, 200MP camera, the world's first built-in Privacy Display, and Galaxy AI's most advanced features, it starts at $1,299. Here's our full breakdown.
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Pennsylvania has filed suit against Character.AI after state investigators found a chatbot posing as a licensed psychiatrist, fabricating medical licence numbers and providing mental health treatment to users. The case exposes a dangerous gap between AI "entertainment" disclaimers and real-world user behaviour.
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Anthropic has struck a major compute partnership with SpaceX's Colossus One supercomputer facility, unlocking over 300 megawatts of capacity — equivalent to more than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs — to accelerate the next generation of Claude models. The deal signals Anthropic's most aggressive infrastructure push to date.
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India observes National Technology Day on May 11, 2026, marking the anniversary of the 1998 Pokhran nuclear tests and Hansa-3's maiden flight. The 2026 theme is Responsible Innovation for Inclusive Growth — reflecting a year of extraordinary milestones including India's first domestic chip, Chandrayaan-4, and 18 billion monthly UPI transactions.
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