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Personal finance personality Suze Orman, who is worth tens of millions of dollars, says she still refuses to buy coffee out and brews her own Cafe Bustelo daily. She argues that redirecting the roughly $100 a month people spend on coffee into a Roth IRA could grow to about $1 million over 40 years, and she extends the same frugality to eating out, preferring home-cooked meals with her wife.
Jacob Stokes, a former Obama national security official now at the Center for a New American Security, published a report titled 'Superpowers and AGI' urging the US to prepare drastic responses if China reaches artificial general intelligence first. His proposed options range from cyberattacks to sabotage AI systems up to kinetic military strikes on physical data centers, which he acknowledges carries the highest risk of escalation.
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.
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.
Microsoft submitted 8.2 million Copilot chat logs as part of discovery in copyright suits from The New York Times, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and book authors. The company says only 59,545 logs shared at least 16 words with plaintiffs' news content, with far fewer showing substantial text overlap, and just 10 of 212 books evaluated had any matching passages.
Microsoft acknowledged a known issue causing delays of up to two minutes or outright failure when opening the Teams desktop client on Windows. Separately, the company is investigating a related problem preventing Mac users from joining Teams calls and meetings, though it has walked back its initial theory that a code change caused the disruption. Microsoft is reviewing logs and telemetry and advises affected users to switch to Teams on the web or mobile app in the meantime.
South Korean court documents allege that Chinese memory maker CXMT ran an internal program called Project Hefei, led by a former Samsung DRAM development chief, to systematically acquire Samsung's manufacturing know-how starting in 2016. Prosecutors say the plan involved poaching Samsung engineers, obtaining a 620-step Process Recipe Plan detailing equipment and production methods, and using it to launch DRAM wafer production by 2018.
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, a new flagship model arriving less than two months after its GPT-5.6 family, which the company calls its most intelligent and aligned system yet. Astra is built to handle multi-step computer-use tasks, coding, browsing and professional workflows simultaneously, and OpenAI backs the claims with strong scores on benchmarks like ARC-AGI-3, Terminal Bench 4.0, and the Agent's Last Exam.
Jim Cramer told CNBC viewers that most of the Magnificent Seven tech stocks—Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Tesla and Nvidia—have underperformed the S&P 500 this year and now trade at unusually cheap valuations. He argued the group's earnings multiples have fallen out of step with their growth prospects, particularly Amazon, which he says is poised to benefit from heavy AI infrastructure spending under CEO Andy Jassy.
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, a model trained on over 100,000 GPUs at its Texas Stargate site, marking the first time OpenAI used other AI models to help supervise training. President Greg Brockman described it as a 'generational leap' and hinted it could mark the arrival of artificial general intelligence. The model will roll out first to select partners in OpenAI's Daybreak Access program before reaching ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and API users.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang affirmed that Hugging Face will continue operating as an open platform accessible to the entire AI ecosystem, even as Nvidia deepens its financial and strategic involvement with the company. The statement comes as Nvidia expands its footprint beyond hardware into software and developer tools central to AI model development.
Meta released Muse Spark 1.3, an upgrade to its AI coding and agent model, touting benchmark scores that mostly come from a 'max' reasoning configuration still undergoing safety testing and unavailable through any API provider. The version actually shipping to developers via Muse Code and the Meta Model API uses the older 'xhigh' reasoning setting, which scores meaningfully lower on tests like GDPval-AA v2, OSWorld 2.0, and JobBench. Meta disclosed both sets of results in its evaluation report, but its marketing emphasized the higher, currently inaccessible numbers.