Research led by former SEC chief economist Susan Wachter finds that hyperscalers—Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Oracle—must boost their own productivity nearly threefold by 2030 to cover the cost of the roughly $5 trillion they're projected to spend on AI infrastructure over four years. Current AI revenues sit around $150-200 billion annually, far short of the buildout's scale, according to former SEC chair Gary Gensler.
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works unveiled a full-scale model of Vectis, its uncrewed combat aircraft meant to fly alongside the F-35, at the Air, Space & Cyber Conference. The company is growing the program from one to five prototype vehicles and aims to fly the first one by the end of 2027.
A developer evaluated SeaweedFS version 4.06 as an alternative to MinIO for running a single-node local S3-compatible storage setup, swapping out Docker images while keeping the MinIO client tool mc in place for testing. The switch required minimal changes, though SeaweedFS needed a separate auth configuration file, which the author inlined directly into the Docker Compose setup.
Sam Altman reportedly sought a one-on-one meeting with Donald Trump last week, while Jensen Huang publicly praised Trump by phone during an on-stage appearance. The overtures come as industry leaders and policymakers argue over whether to pause or accelerate AI development.
Valve has begun taking reservations for its Steam Frame VR headset, which runs Linux-based SteamOS on an ARM chip. The device starts at $1,059 for the 256GB model and $1,299 for 1TB, with every order including a free copy of Half-Life: Alyx. Reservations close Sept. 17 at 10 a.m. PT, after which customers will be randomly assigned a place in the purchase queue.
Dutch startup Euclyd raised a 200-million-euro ($231 million) Series A round, with Samsung, Somerset Capital Partners, EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund and Innovation Industries co-leading the investment. Founded in 2024, Euclyd is building an AI chip system with a different architecture from Nvidia's GPUs, aimed specifically at inference workloads, covering both processor and memory design.
Starting Tuesday, pubs and shops in England and Wales can accept digital identity apps from government-approved providers like the Post Office, Yoti and Luciditi as proof of age, alongside traditional physical ID. The scheme is voluntary and technology-agnostic, letting businesses choose whether to adopt it, though officials say most venues will still accept physical documents too.
US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to give a keynote speech at a sold-out Washington, DC conference hosted by Children's Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group he formerly led. He'll share the stage with Andrew Wakefield, the discredited researcher who lost his medical license after publishing a fraudulent study falsely linking the MMR vaccine to autism.
President Trump phoned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang while Huang was speaking at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles, and was put on speakerphone to address the audience. Trump dismissed growing concerns about AI and data center expansion as a hoax, arguing that data centers create wealth for people and states. The call followed a weekend of Trump social media posts attacking Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to slow AI development and rejecting calls for new AI regulation.
Mahershala Ali says the physical preparation Marvel financed for his role as Blade, a project that was ultimately scrapped, wasn't wasted effort. He spent over a year in intense training for the Daywalker part, and he has said that conditioning proved useful when he worked on another film.
A tech explainer outlines the standard methods for closing Windows programs, from clicking the X button to using Alt+F4, and explains how some apps like Discord and Spotify minimize to the system tray instead of fully closing. It also covers alternative exit options like File > Quit menus and right-clicking tray icons, reserving true force-quitting for frozen, unresponsive applications.
Shares of cybersecurity firms CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks climbed by double-digit percentages on Monday. The rally came as tech industry figures voiced fresh worries about the pace and safety of AI development at companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.
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