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Twitch streams of different AI models playing old Pokemon games have garnered hundreds of thousands of comments as the audience watches robots try to emulate human thinking. Unlike Pong or its derivatives, a game like Pokemon is much more complex, requiring risk assessment and logical reasoning, all great metrics to test and improve an AI.

An Atari computer enthusiast is planning to produce a new TKL-sized FPGA-powered remake dubbed the MiniST.

The People's Liberation Army revealed its latest drone swarm tech with 200 units that's resistant to jamming, can make autonomous decisions, and is controlled by a single soldier.

Intel's management stabilized the company in 2025, but after posting rather good results in Q4, the company claims that it will face supply constraints in Q1 2026.

A new report claims that Alibaba's chip manufacturing business, T-head, is preparing to IPO. It's likely that Alibaba is pinning its hopes on T-head to raise capital for the company's domestic AI accelerator solutions, and to fund further infrastructure projects.

Asus says it is investigating reports concerning its 800-series motherboards and 9800X3D processors following user complaints of hardware failures.

Intel earns $52.9 billion in revenue for 2025, which is flat with the previous year, and losses of $300 million, which looks good compared to an $18.8 billion loss in 2024. However, to post such results, the company had to get external financial injection of $20.4 billion.

Toilet manufacturer Toto has seen its shares soar at their most rapid pace in five years, as it benefits from AI memory market tailwinds.

As Jensen Huang plans to jet off to China to smooth over H200 imports, companies are racing to secure supply chains amid the big AI squeeze. Now, the future of the tech industry is being negotiated in boardrooms and restaurants.

Ubisoft just announced a massive internal restructuring that involves gutting the company of a few studios and cancelling six games, including a Prince of Persia remake. The news caused Ubisoft's stock price to fall to a historic low, wiping hundreds of millions off its market cap, reducing the company's worth to less than a billion Euros.

U.S. lawmakers have advanced the AI Overwatch Act, a bill that would lock the highest-performance AMD and Nvidia data center AI processors behind Congressional approval and veto power for exports to China and other adversaries.

Designed as an all-in-one computing device, NexPhone lets users switch between Android, Linux, and Windows 11 depending on the task

Days after Beijing stopped the entry of H200 chips at the border, Chinese tech companies are reportedly considering purchasing them from the black market at a higher price just to get their hands on the powerful AI GPU.

We had the opportunity to sit down with AMD at CES 2026 for a press roundtable discussion, where we discussed ROCm and other AMD software, as captured in this transcript of AMD's Q&A session.

If you're on the hunt for a new premium monitor, the new Asus ROG Swift OLED PG27AQWP-W could be a winner.

3D-printed passive cooler can pull 600 W off a datacenter chip

Despite Elon Musk's claim that xAI's Colossus 2 has already reached a 1 GW scale, satellite analysis by Epoch AI indicates the supercomputer is still far below that level due to limited cooling capacity.

The Chinese semiconductor industry is working to localize production of HBM3 memory, in addition to the tools required for HBM assembly. However, the exact progress of these projects is unknown.

The Quantum Advantage Challenge offers a 0.25 BTC wallet prize to anyone who can answer a specialized problem that can be solved in under two hours on today's quantum hardware.

An anonymous blog claims that your Steam client continues broadcasting your log-on and log-off times, regardless of your privacy status. Your friends' clients just hide your profile, but your log data is still stored on the devices of other people.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is heading to China in late January for a customary Lunar New Year visit that has taken on outsized importance, as it coincides with negotiations over how many H200 AI GPUs Beijing will allow into the country amid U.S. export approval.

A $160 saving can be had right now on this Creality K1C 3D printer, fully enclosed and capable of fast printing, and available for just $399 right now, just $30 off its Black Friday pricing.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discusses AI's wider impact and what it needs to do to not be a bubble.

Razer's superfast 8K polling Viper V3 Pro Wireless drops to its lowest ever price on Amazon

Nvidia has reportedly increased the TDP of premium Rubin processors by 500W to 2.30 kW in a bid to boost clocks, memory bandwidth, and performance per Rubin GPU and per rack.