AI09:31 UTC
Million-token context becomes table stakes as prices fall 40%
The context-window race is over. The retrieval race is just beginning.
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Business06:30 UTC
Asia's $90B counter-CHIPS act redraws the fab map
Korea, Japan and Taiwan coordinate subsidies for the first time.
Software07:03 UTC
Google quietly drafts Manifest V4, and ad blockers are nervous again
Early commits suggest network-request APIs move fully server-side.
Crypto06:45 UTC
Restaking protocols face first real stress test as slashing goes live
Two years of theoretical risk models meet an actual correlated failure.
Business08:47 UTC
EU regulators open audit into USB-C charging-speed compliance
Brussels says 'universal' should mean the wattage, not just the plug.
Software10:20 UTC
Rust code now touches every subsystem in Linux 6.16
Torvalds calls the milestone 'inevitable in hindsight' as legacy driver rewrites accelerate.
Crypto06:10 UTC
MiCA 2 draft targets agent-driven trading and onchain AI wallets
Brussels wants autonomous agents to have accountable owners. Good luck.
AI09:42 UTC
The agent wars begin: inside the race to own your computer's next operating layer
Three companies shipped autonomous desktop agents in the same week. The winner won't be decided by benchmarks — it will be decided by trust, and nobody has earned it yet.
Hardware07:40 UTC
IBM claims logical qubit milestone with 99.99% error correction
The demonstration ran for six hours — a record for a fault-tolerant array.
Hardware08:15 UTC
The first credible RISC-V laptop is here — and it's faster than you think
Ventana's 16-core developer machine benchmarks within 12% of Apple's base silicon.
Hardware09:58 UTC
Solid-state cooling chips hit mass production for thin laptops
Frore's membrane tech lands in three OEM ultrabooks this quarter.
Crypto07:12 UTC
Visa moves $12B in quarterly settlement to stablecoin rails
The pilot that started with a single corridor now spans 40 markets.
Startups06:27 UTC
A $40M seed for a screenless wearable? The post-phone bet is back
Halo's founders say the phone is the horse and buggy. Investors agree, loudly.
Software08:02 UTC
WebGPU ships in every major browser — the plugin-free AAA era starts now
Unity and Unreal both demo console-class titles running in a tab.
Startups06:58 UTC
YC's newest batch is 40% robotics — and the demos actually work
After a decade of software-only cohorts, hardware is fundable again.