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31SpaceX's Starship Survived Reentry Intact for the First Time. Now Musk Wants to Catch It With the Launch Tower.Jul 25

SpaceX's Starship Survived Reentry Intact for the First Time. Now Musk Wants to Catch It With the Launch Tower.

32One Fallen Power Line Yanked 3.1 GW Off the Grid in 30 Seconds. The AI Data Center Buildout Is Making It Worse.Jul 25

One Fallen Power Line Yanked 3.1 GW Off the Grid in 30 Seconds. The AI Data Center Buildout Is Making It Worse.

33Intel Bets on Glass Substrate Packaging With Chinese Manufacturer Lens Technology as AI Chip Bottleneck Shifts to Advanced PackagingJul 25

Intel Bets on Glass Substrate Packaging With Chinese Manufacturer Lens Technology as AI Chip Bottleneck Shifts to Advanced Packaging

34Environmental Groups Warn Musk and Bezos Space Data Centers Could Be Catastrophic, Petition FCC to Halt Satellite LicensingJul 25

Environmental Groups Warn Musk and Bezos Space Data Centers Could Be Catastrophic, Petition FCC to Halt Satellite Licensing

35Meta Pauses Smart Glasses Subscription After Backlash Over Paywalling an On-Device FeatureJul 25

Meta Pauses Smart Glasses Subscription After Backlash Over Paywalling an On-Device Feature

36Qualcomm Tells Customers Chip Prices Rise by Double Digits Starting September 1Jul 25

Qualcomm Tells Customers Chip Prices Rise by Double Digits Starting September 1

37Nvidia Pays $1.5 Billion Up Front to Break the AI Chip Packaging BottleneckJul 25

Nvidia Pays $1.5 Billion Up Front to Break the AI Chip Packaging Bottleneck

38China's Memory Chip Giants Now Outprice Samsung and Are on Track to Overtake MicronJul 25

China's Memory Chip Giants Now Outprice Samsung and Are on Track to Overtake Micron

39SpaceX Deploys First V3 Starlink Satellites but Loses Another Super Heavy Booster, Extending Post-IPO Stock SlideJul 25

SpaceX Deploys First V3 Starlink Satellites but Loses Another Super Heavy Booster, Extending Post-IPO Stock Slide

40Intel posts fastest revenue growth in 15 years as AI demand lifts its CPU businessJul 24

Intel posts fastest revenue growth in 15 years as AI demand lifts its CPU business

41AMD unveils Helios rack system with OpenAI and Meta as launch customers, mounting a credible challenge to Nvidia's AI hardware dominanceJul 24

AMD unveils Helios rack system with OpenAI and Meta as launch customers, mounting a credible challenge to Nvidia's AI hardware dominance

42Meta exits decade-long clean energy pact as its natural gas buildout for AI data centers acceleratesJul 23

Meta exits decade-long clean energy pact as its natural gas buildout for AI data centers accelerates

43AI chip startup Etched doubles to $10.3B valuation in under a month, armed with $1B in contractsJul 23

AI chip startup Etched doubles to $10.3B valuation in under a month, armed with $1B in contracts

44Ford picks Apple Maps over Google for its next-generation electric vehicle platformJul 23

Ford picks Apple Maps over Google for its next-generation electric vehicle platform

45Tesla's $25B capital binge collides with slipping timelines as Cybercab, Semi, and Megapack production delays mountJul 23

Tesla's $25B capital binge collides with slipping timelines as Cybercab, Semi, and Megapack production delays mount

46Tesla walks back 2026 volume production for Cybercab, Semi, and Megapack 3 as capital spending hits record highsJul 23

Tesla walks back 2026 volume production for Cybercab, Semi, and Megapack 3 as capital spending hits record highs

47Apple's iOS 27 reveals a system to lock down your iPhone when you miss a paymentJul 22

Apple's iOS 27 reveals a system to lock down your iPhone when you miss a payment

48Google puts AI task agents across 40+ apps on Samsung foldables in the biggest consumer push for agentic AI yetJul 22

Google puts AI task agents across 40+ apps on Samsung foldables in the biggest consumer push for agentic AI yet

49A new wave of smart glasses bets professionals will pay $599 to skip the cameraJul 22

A new wave of smart glasses bets professionals will pay $599 to skip the camera

50Nvidia's Vera Rubin goes beyond GPUs: the company now wants to own the CPUs, networking, and cooling inside every AI data centerJul 22

Nvidia's Vera Rubin goes beyond GPUs: the company now wants to own the CPUs, networking, and cooling inside every AI data center

51Pat Gelsinger's post-Intel bet: a startup trying to push lithography past the limits of today's chipmakingJul 21

Pat Gelsinger's post-Intel bet: a startup trying to push lithography past the limits of today's chipmaking

52You don't need a robot to train one: open-source handheld gripper aims to crowdsource robot learning dataJul 21

You don't need a robot to train one: open-source handheld gripper aims to crowdsource robot learning data

53Google's 'Frozen v2' chip targets a 6-10x efficiency leap for Gemini, just days before earningsJul 20

Google's 'Frozen v2' chip targets a 6-10x efficiency leap for Gemini, just days before earnings

54You can now run full voice AI on an 80-cent microcontroller: Moonshine Micro delivers speech recognition and neural text-to-speech in under 500KBJul 20

You can now run full voice AI on an 80-cent microcontroller: Moonshine Micro delivers speech recognition and neural text-to-speech in under 500KB

55An SRE replaced a $120,000 bowling center scoring system with $1,600 in ESP32 microcontrollers, and plans to open source the entire stackJul 20

An SRE replaced a $120,000 bowling center scoring system with $1,600 in ESP32 microcontrollers, and plans to open source the entire stack

56Japan is spending $6.2 billion to build a sovereign AI for its factories and robots, and it will all run on Nvidia's chipsJul 20

Japan is spending $6.2 billion to build a sovereign AI for its factories and robots, and it will all run on Nvidia's chips

57Jensen Huang left Tokyo with deals spanning Japan's entire tech ecosystem, and the stakes go far beyond chipsJul 20

Jensen Huang left Tokyo with deals spanning Japan's entire tech ecosystem, and the stakes go far beyond chips

58The US EV market is shrinking: Honda killed the Prologue and a wave of electric models have disappeared from American dealerships this yearJul 19

The US EV market is shrinking: Honda killed the Prologue and a wave of electric models have disappeared from American dealerships this year

59India's smartphone market just suffered its worst quarter in six years, and the cause traces directly back to the AI data centers thousands of miles away that are hoarding memory chipsJul 19

India's smartphone market just suffered its worst quarter in six years, and the cause traces directly back to the AI data centers thousands of miles away that are hoarding memory chips

60Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 becomes the first open 3-trillion-parameter model, and it can autonomously build GPU compilers and design siliconJul 18

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 becomes the first open 3-trillion-parameter model, and it can autonomously build GPU compilers and design silicon