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SpaceXAI has extended its Grok Bot AI teammate app beyond iPhone and Mac to iPad and Android, while adding enterprise support for Grok and Cursor customers. The subscription cost has dropped sharply from an initial $300 per month down to Cursor Pro's $20 monthly tier, with enterprise users getting free access for a limited time.
Georgi Gerganov, creator of llama.cpp, addressed Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face, noting Nvidia engineers have contributed code and hardware to the project for over a year. He said llama.cpp and its ggml backend will remain hardware-agnostic and community-driven despite the new corporate ties.
Best Buy's Labor Day promotion closes within 24 hours, offering discounts of up to $900 on select gaming laptops, $500 off a MacBook, up to $600 off gaming PCs, and up to $500 off monitors. The retailer warns that stock on these deals may run out before the sale officially ends.
Best Buy has launched a Labor Day sale offering steep price cuts across gaming laptops, desktop PCs, monitors and a MacBook. Highlights include hundreds of dollars off machines from Gigabyte, Acer, Lenovo and Asus, with savings reaching as high as $900 on select gaming laptops and $600 off gaming PCs.
Nvidia pushed an update through its App that appeared aimed at disabling unofficial mods enabling DLSS Multi-Frame Generation on RTX 40-series GPUs, a feature officially reserved for the newer RTX 50 Blackwell cards. Modders quickly found workarounds, restoring the feature across several games including Resident Evil 9 and Forza Horizon 6 within hours of the update landing.
GoPro published an open letter addressing customer concerns that its planned merger with Starman could shift focus away from consumer and professional cameras. The company said the deal will strengthen its finances and enable continued investment in new cameras, accessories and software, pointing to its history of over 2,500 patents as evidence of ongoing innovation.
SmallRig has released two power banks, the Nano 36 and Nano 72, designed specifically for camera rigs rather than pockets. Both include 1/4"-20 threaded holes and V-mount plates so they can attach directly to cages, tripods, and gimbals within SmallRig's accessory ecosystem. The Nano 36 offers 10,000mAh with 45W output for lighter tasks, while the Nano 72 packs 20,000mAh with 100W bi-directional charging for heavier, longer shoots.
AMD used IFA 2026 to reveal the Threadripper Halo Station, a workstation built around a 96-core Threadripper Pro 9995WX processor and two liquid-cooled Instinct MI350P accelerators, with 2TB of system DDR5 and up to 576GB of HBM3E memory across GPUs. AMD says the machine can handle trillion-parameter AI models and describes it as the most powerful workstation available, though it has not named any OEM partners to actually build and sell it yet.
An engineering firm's COO ran AI agents and large language models across the company's full software development lifecycle to test their real impact on production projects rather than demos. The experiment found AI most useful for automating repetitive boilerplate code, catching edge-case bugs during review, and speeding up documentation searches, while architectural decisions still required human judgment.
A roundup of executive commentary identifies 26 commonly stated company values—including accountability and transparency—that frequently fail in practice rather than in intent. The leaders quoted argue that these values are often poorly defined, inconsistently enforced, or reduced to slogans rather than lived behaviors. The piece compiles their perspectives on where organizations most often stumble when trying to embed these principles into daily operations.
Nvidia has confirmed it will acquire Hugging Face, the New York startup behind the leading platform for open-source AI models, in a deal valued at $12.9 billion. CEO Jensen Huang said the price reflected competition from other bidders, making it Nvidia's second-largest acquisition after its $20 billion purchase of Groq's assets. Hugging Face hosts millions of models and datasets used by over 200,000 companies and 18 million developers.
HeyGears is releasing its G1X Series printer with a dedicated 2D UV and 3D Texture Printing package priced at $2,799 after a limited-time cashback. The device can print directly onto more than 400 materials, including plastic, wood, metal, glass and leather, using the Blueprint Studio software to auto-calibrate and position designs on the print bed. An optional rotary attachment, available at launch, lets users print onto cylindrical objects like bottles and vases.