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Neocloud General Compute, which specializes in bare-metal infrastructure, raised a $100M Series A led by Blackbird and Abstract at an $800M post-money valuation (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)

OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra: Sam Altman says ‘we are especially excited for …’ - The Times of India

Former Yahoo CEO Needed AI to Help Describe What Makes Her Own Daughter Special

Broadcom arranges a $63B deal with BofA, Blackstone, Citi, and Morgan Stanley to finance the purchase of chips for Anthropic via a new special purpose vehicle (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)

House Democrats Call for Special Counsel to Scrutinize Trump’s Ties to Epstein

Cadence reveals Maestro, fine-tuned AI models built to run specialized chip design agents, with early access coming for 'select customers' in Q4 2026

Euro open source specialist proposes LLM gateway to ease token bills

Report: SK Hynix gained ~$15B from selling down its Kioxia stake earlier this year, and plans to return ~$12B to shareholders via a special dividend (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : Report: SK Hynix gained ~$15B from selling down its Kioxia stake earlier this year, and plans to return ~$12B to shareholders via a special dividend — SK Hynix Inc.'s s…

Samsung's archrival wants to spread 100 special CPUs in every SSD controller ahead of PCIe 8.0, High Bandwidth Flash onslaught

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Nacon announces the Revolution Pro X – Special Edition, a new Hell Is Us-inspired Xbox controller offering 'joystick tension adjustment, Hall Effect sensors, and micro-switch combine technologies'

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'The Terminal List' season two features new Kip Moore track inspired by special operations world

Kip Moore revealed how a Central America surf trip and a scribbled note about two wolves inspired "The Wolf" for "The Terminal List" season two.…

Stranger Than Heaven director says the game's combat was inspired by old 'Ninkyo' Yakuza movies because the 'raw and gritty' action scenes fit Daito's character as an inexperienced fighter — 'We felt that atmosphere was what made those genres special'

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'I believe we were making something special' — BioWare dev says the now-canceled Mass Effect 5 offered 'a level of autonomy and choice that no other game has been able to match'

How the AI boom is boosting paint maker PPG's sales: its specialized gray coatings serve critical functional needs and total $3M to $8M per data center, per JLL (Emmy Martin/New York Times)

Skullcandy headphones are about to get a whole lot better thanks to Bose, especially the cheaper buds

Walmart unveils its Agent Gateway, a new MCP server to help users' approved AI agents shop its website, and dedicated Agent Profiles with special "terms" for AI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Walmart unveils its Agent Gateway, a new MCP server to help users' approved AI agents shop its website, and dedicated Agent Profiles with special “terms”…

How Specializing the Vocabulary of SLMs Can Cut Inference Cost by 77% in Real Applications