Intel Diamond Rapids Packs 256 Cores for Agentic AI

Intel Diamond Rapids Packs 256 Cores for Agentic AI

Intel's Hot Chips 2026 lineup pairs a 256-core Diamond Rapids Xeon with Crescent Island, a 350W inference GPU holding up to 480GB of LPDDR5X.

Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 Targets 30x Tokens Per Watt

Nvidia detailed the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack at Hot Chips 2026: 72 GPUs, 2 ZFLOPS of NVFP4 inference and up to 30x more tokens per megawatt.

Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 26, 2026★5 min read

Edge AI Model Zoo Logs 837 Reproducible NPU Tests

EdgeFirst's new model zoo publishes 837 validation sessions for YOLO models across NXP, Hailo, Jetson, Qualcomm and Apple Neural Engine hardware.

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Advantech AOM-6741 Packs 100 TOPS Into a SMARC Module

The Advantech AOM-6741 SMARC module runs a 100 TOPS Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-9075 with up to 36GB of LPDDR5 and 16 concurrent camera inputs.

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Firehat HAT Brings FireWire DV Capture to Raspberry Pi

The $79 Firehat is an open-source FireWire HAT that digitizes MiniDV, Digital8 and HDV tapes straight from a Raspberry Pi 5, with no laptop needed.

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Alex Circuit★Aug 26, 2026★4 min read

Jetway PIC-TWL1 Puts an Intel N150 on Pico-ITX

Jetway's $315 PIC-TWL1 fits an Intel N150, 32GB of DDR5 and dual gigabit Ethernet into a fanless 100 x 72mm Pico-ITX board rated to 60C.

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Kai Aegis★Aug 26, 2026★5 min read

WhatsApp Passkeys Go Multi-Device for 1 Billion Users

WhatsApp now supports multiple passkeys per account, upgrades its six-digit PIN to a full password, and adds caller context on Android.

Artificial Intelligence

Intel Diamond Rapids Packs 256 Cores for Agentic AI

Intel's Hot Chips 2026 lineup pairs a 256-core Diamond Rapids Xeon with Crescent Island, a 350W inference GPU holding up to 480GB of LPDDR5X.

Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 Targets 30x Tokens Per Watt

Nvidia detailed the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack at Hot Chips 2026: 72 GPUs, 2 ZFLOPS of NVFP4 inference and up to 30x more tokens per megawatt.

Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 26, 2026★5 min read

Edge AI Model Zoo Logs 837 Reproducible NPU Tests

EdgeFirst's new model zoo publishes 837 validation sessions for YOLO models across NXP, Hailo, Jetson, Qualcomm and Apple Neural Engine hardware.

Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 24, 2026★5 min read

IBM Dual-Architecture Chip Runs Arm and Z on One Core

IBM's new mainframe processor packs 11 cores above 5.7 GHz on 2nm silicon, and every core runs both z/Architecture and Arm code natively - no emulation.

Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 24, 2026★5 min read

DeepMind Puts SIMA 2 AI Agents to Work in EVE Online

Google DeepMind and Fenris Creations will test SIMA 2 agents in offline EVE Online copies, extending 15 years of AI games research to a live universe.

Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 24, 2026★5 min read

Agent Memory Tuning Adds 16 Points for 5% More Tokens

IBM Research's ALTK-Evolve lifted agent task completion 16.1 points at only 5% more tokens, showing memory is a dose you calibrate per model.

Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 23, 2026★4 min read

GPT-5.6 Sol API Price Falls to $4 Per Million Tokens

OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Sol API pricing on August 21: input drops 20% to $4 and output falls 33% to $20 per million tokens through November 21, 2026.

Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 23, 2026★5 min read

Speech Recognition Benchmarks Get a Three-Test Audit

A Hume AI study of 11 open speech models introduces three diagnostics that separate genuine transcription skill from memorized benchmark patterns.

Gaming

Cover illustration for Star Wars Zero Company Lands August 27 With XCOM DNA

Maya Polygon★Aug 26, 2026★5 min read

Star Wars Zero Company Lands August 27 With XCOM DNA

Star Wars Zero Company arrives August 27 from XCOM veterans at Bit Reactor — a single-player turn-based tactics game with no battle pass.

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Maya Polygon★Aug 24, 2026★5 min read

Valve Turns 30: Half-Life, Steam, and a Handheld Era

Valve was founded on August 24, 1996. Thirty years on, Half-Life, Steam, the Steam Deck, and a $1,049 Steam Machine map three decades of PC gaming.

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Maya Polygon★Aug 23, 2026★4 min read

Double Fine Amnesia Fortnight Lets Fans Pick the Game

Double Fine revives Amnesia Fortnight on August 31: backers vote on four prototypes, one becomes a real game, and 2 Player Productions films it all.

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Maya Polygon★Aug 22, 2026★3 min read

Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026: What to Expect

Gamescom Opening Night Live returns August 25 with a two-hour Geoff Keighley showcase, a 30-minute pre-show, and Final Fantasy VII Revelation confirmed.

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Maya Polygon★Aug 21, 2026★4 min read

ASCII Cyberpunk City Renders 3D From Text Alone

Solo developer Grow Now Games built a walkable 3D cyberpunk city rendered entirely in ASCII characters, raycast every frame inside a single HTML file.

Cover illustration for STALKER 2: Cost of Hope Lands With a Free 2.0 Update

Maya Polygon★Aug 20, 2026★4 min read

STALKER 2: Cost of Hope Lands With a Free 2.0 Update

Cost of Hope launched August 20 at $29.99 with two new regions, and every Heart of Chornobyl owner gets the free Update 2.0 engine upgrade.

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Maya Polygon★Aug 20, 2026★4 min read

Dishonored Director Opens Black Pony Immersive Studio

Harvey Smith and Arkane veterans revealed Black Pony Immersive, a 26-person studio making first-person action RPGs, already funded and a year into work.

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Maya Polygon★Aug 18, 2026★4 min read

The Sinking City 2 Launches to Strong Horror Reviews

Frogwares' The Sinking City 2 landed August 18 on PC, PS5, and Xbox with an 81 on OpenCritic and a full pivot into over-the-shoulder survival horror.

Crypto

Cover illustration for BNB Chain Pasteur Upgrade Nearly Doubles Throughput

Satoshi Lens★Aug 26, 2026★5 min read

BNB Chain Pasteur Upgrade Nearly Doubles Throughput

BNB Chain's Pasteur hard fork went live August 25, lifting test throughput from 1,237 to 2,324 TPS while tightening bridge and validator security.

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Satoshi Lens★Aug 24, 2026★5 min read

Fasset Reaches $1B Valuation on a $68M SBI-Led Round

Fasset's $68M Series C led by SBI Group values the stablecoin neobank at $1B, lifting its 2026 total to $119M across 100+ banking corridors.

Satoshi Lens★Aug 23, 2026★4 min read

Laser Digital Wins Japan's First Crypto Nod in 4 Years

Nomura's Laser Digital Japan registered as a Crypto Asset Exchange Service Provider on August 21, the country's first new approval since October 2022.

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Satoshi Lens★Aug 22, 2026★3 min read

Grayscale Zcash ETF Filing Moves to Amendment Five

Grayscale filed a fifth amended S-3 for a Zcash ETF on August 21, naming NYSE Arca, ticker ZCH, and a 2.5% sponsor fee for a first-of-its-kind US fund.

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Satoshi Lens★Aug 21, 2026★5 min read

Shinhan Tests a Won-Denominated Tokenized Fund on Solana

Shinhan Asset Management, which oversees $96.6B, signed a four-way pact with the Solana Foundation, Etherfuse, and Orca to pilot a tokenized won fund.

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Satoshi Lens★Aug 20, 2026★5 min read

World Chain Ships EIP-7928 Access Lists Before Ethereum

World Chain went live August 17 streaming EIP-7928 block access lists every 200ms, targeting 1 gigagas per second with no new validator hardware.

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Satoshi Lens★Aug 20, 2026★4 min read

Injective Is the First Blockchain SEC Transfer Agent

Injective Institutional Services is now an SEC-registered transfer agent, making Injective the first layer 1 able to keep securities records onchain.

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Satoshi Lens★Aug 18, 2026★4 min read

Ripple Payments Reaches Korea's Jeonbuk Bank

Jeonbuk Bank becomes the first Korean regional bank to deploy Ripple Payments, cutting cross-border settlement from days to seconds for local exporters.

Mini Computers

Advantech AOM-6741 Packs 100 TOPS Into a SMARC Module

The Advantech AOM-6741 SMARC module runs a 100 TOPS Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-9075 with up to 36GB of LPDDR5 and 16 concurrent camera inputs.

Firehat HAT Brings FireWire DV Capture to Raspberry Pi

The $79 Firehat is an open-source FireWire HAT that digitizes MiniDV, Digital8 and HDV tapes straight from a Raspberry Pi 5, with no laptop needed.

Alex Circuit★Aug 26, 2026★4 min read

Jetway PIC-TWL1 Puts an Intel N150 on Pico-ITX

Jetway's $315 PIC-TWL1 fits an Intel N150, 32GB of DDR5 and dual gigabit Ethernet into a fanless 100 x 72mm Pico-ITX board rated to 60C.

Cover illustration for MNT Station Puts 10+ Swappable CPU Modules in a Mini PC

Alex Circuit★Aug 24, 2026★5 min read

MNT Station Puts 10+ Swappable CPU Modules in a Mini PC

MNT Research's fanless MNT Station takes 10 or more Arm and FPGA modules, starts at $299 for the case, and ships from Crowd Supply in January 2027.

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Alex Circuit★Aug 24, 2026★4 min read

Openterface KeyMod Turns Your Phone Into a Keyboard

The $42 Openterface KeyMod turns a phone into a USB keyboard, mouse, gamepad, or SSH terminal for any PC, server, or Raspberry Pi board, even at the BIOS.

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Alex Circuit★Aug 24, 2026★4 min read

Nordic nRF93M1 Dev Kit Brings LTE Cat 1 bis for $60

Nordic's nRF93M1 development kit pairs a 10 Mbps LTE Cat 1 bis modem with an nRF54L15 host MCU, and prices start at $60 with a trial SIM card.

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Alex Circuit★Aug 23, 2026★5 min read

Framework Laptop 12 Upgrade Adds 70% More Battery

Framework's Laptop 12 gains an Intel Core Series 3 mainboard, Thunderbolt 4, and Wi-Fi 7, with DIY kits from $549 and Fedora prebuilts at $699.

Cover illustration for Bosgame M5 Brings 128GB Local AI to a Mini Desktop

Alex Circuit★Aug 23, 2026★5 min read

Bosgame M5 Brings 128GB Local AI to a Mini Desktop

ServeTheHome's Bosgame M5 review finds a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 box with 128GB of LPDDR5X that undercuts comparable local AI desktops by $500 or more.

Stock Trading

Cover illustration for Ingenic Semiconductor IPO Raises $410M in Hong Kong

Jake Trader★Aug 26, 2026★5 min read

Ingenic Semiconductor IPO Raises $410M in Hong Kong

Ingenic Semiconductor listed in Hong Kong on August 25, selling 31.29 million H shares at HK$102.80 to raise up to $410 million under code 3223.

Cover illustration for Rillet Raises $100M at a $1B AI Accounting Valuation

Jake Trader★Aug 24, 2026★5 min read

Rillet Raises $100M at a $1B AI Accounting Valuation

Rillet's $100M Series C led by ICONIQ values the AI-native ERP at $1B, with 600+ customers and new ARR doubling in the last three months alone.

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Jake Trader★Aug 23, 2026★4 min read

Nvidia Q2 FY27 Earnings: $91B Guidance Meets Aug 26

Nvidia reports Q2 fiscal 2027 results on August 26 against its own $91 billion guidance, roughly double the $46.7 billion it posted a year earlier.

Cover illustration for SK Hynix Buyback Hits 40 Trillion Won in Korean First

Jake Trader★Aug 22, 2026★3 min read

SK Hynix Buyback Hits 40 Trillion Won in Korean First

SK hynix approved a 40 trillion won buyback and cancellation of 24.07 million shares, the largest treasury share cancellation by a Korean listed company.

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Jake Trader★Aug 21, 2026★5 min read

Nvidia Pays Poolside $6B to License Its Model Factory

Nvidia struck a reported $6B non-exclusive licensing deal with Poolside plus a $1B investment at a $12B pre-money valuation, with 109 staff getting offers.

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Jake Trader★Aug 20, 2026★5 min read

Marvell Google TPU Deal Comes With a $12.2B Warrant

Marvell expanded its custom silicon work for Google's TPU ecosystem and issued a warrant for up to 58.97 million shares at $206.58, worth $12.2B.

Cover illustration for Analog Devices Q3 Revenue Jumps 40% to a Record $4.02B

Jake Trader★Aug 20, 2026★4 min read

Analog Devices Q3 Revenue Jumps 40% to a Record $4.02B

Analog Devices posted record Q3 revenue of $4.02 billion, up 40% year over year, with adjusted EPS of $3.45 and a Q4 outlook calling for $4.3 billion.

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Jake Trader★Aug 18, 2026★4 min read

Baidu GPU Cloud Revenue Jumps 283% in Q2 2026

Baidu's Q2 GPU Cloud revenue rose 283% year over year and AI Cloud Infra grew 50% to RMB 7.3B, as the AI business becomes the company's core engine.

AI Security

Kai Aegis★Aug 26, 2026★5 min read

WhatsApp Passkeys Go Multi-Device for 1 Billion Users

WhatsApp now supports multiple passkeys per account, upgrades its six-digit PIN to a full password, and adds caller context on Android.

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Kai Aegis★Aug 24, 2026★4 min read

Microsoft Teams Blocks External Meeting Bots by Policy

A new Microsoft Teams admin policy automatically blocks identified external meeting bots, with general availability due by late September 2026.

Cover illustration for Fortinet Buys Virtue AI to Red-Team Your AI Agents

Kai Aegis★Aug 23, 2026★5 min read

Fortinet Buys Virtue AI to Red-Team Your AI Agents

Fortinet acquired Virtue AI on August 17, adding agentic red-teaming across 50 sandboxed environments and 1,000 risk categories to its security fabric.

Cover illustration for Mandiant AI Agents Found 100 Critical Flaws in 2 Days

Kai Aegis★Aug 22, 2026★3 min read

Mandiant AI Agents Found 100 Critical Flaws in 2 Days

Google's Mandiant published its AVDH blueprint after the agent pipeline verified 100+ critical vulnerabilities in 48 hours and produced 12 assigned CVEs.

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Kai Aegis★Aug 21, 2026★5 min read

Stealthium Watches the GPU Layer Most Tools Miss

Stealthium launched a security control plane for GPUs and AI accelerators, turning kernel traces and VRAM telemetry into detections for neo-cloud workloads.

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Kai Aegis★Aug 20, 2026★5 min read

OpenAI Model Security Adds Sandboxes and 30-Min Alerts

OpenAI published a new internal security bar: hard sandboxing, activation classifiers on sampled tokens, and a 30-minute alert-or-pause rule.

Cover illustration for AI Agent Memory Files: One Prompt Blocks the Spread

Kai Aegis★Aug 20, 2026★5 min read

AI Agent Memory Files: One Prompt Blocks the Spread

Anthropic and EPFL found payloads spread between AI agents via editable memory files, and a one-paragraph prompt warning cut the spread to near zero.

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