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Five Star Franchising CEO Scott Abbott says nearly half of owners in the company's Card My Yard brand are Gen Z or millennials, drawn to low-cost, home-based franchise models. He links the trend to broader survey data showing 43% of Gen Z plan to start a business this year rather than pursue traditional entry-level corporate jobs.
Tom's Hardware is offering free access to its Premium AI Chip Design Week coverage from September 28 to October 2, available to anyone who creates a free account. The lineup includes an interview with OpenAI hardware lead Richard Ho about Jalapeño, the company's AI-designed inference ASIC unveiled at Hot Chips 2026, plus reports on AI's role in EDA tools and future AI-assisted chip design.
OpenAI's VP of Hardware, Richard Ho, spoke with Tom's Hardware following the August 2026 Hot Chips reveal of the company's Jalapeño inference ASIC. Ho said the chip's development leaned heavily on AI tools to compress the design timeline, and that efficiency, not raw performance, was the primary driver behind building custom silicon.
A tech reviewer has published a list of budget-friendly earbuds that rival Apple's AirPods Pro 3, which cost $249. All the recommended alternatives include active noise cancellation, matching the core feature set of Apple's buds, though they lack the deep iPhone, iPad and Mac integration that AirPods Pro offer.
Anthropic's Cat de Jong will join Gamma's Grant Lee and a Clay representative on the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 for a session on how enterprises deploy AI in practice. De Jong, who works directly with enterprise Claude deployments, will discuss where implementations succeed or stall after the initial rollout.
Edge-AI chipmaker SiMa.ai closed a $150 million Series C round co-led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Amplify, with Alter Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, and StepStone Group also participating. The deal values the company at $1.45 billion, up from a $960 million valuation after its July 2025 Series B, and brings total funding raised to over $500 million.
Cloudflare introduced cf, a new command-line tool designed to let AI agents access essentially all of Cloudflare's API rather than the roughly 280 operations supported by Wrangler. The open beta is installable now via npm, uses JSON as its default output format, and introduces a cloudflare.config.ts configuration format along with Vite-based local development.
Mavi, an AI-powered talent marketplace co-founded by Molly Liu and Aman Puri in 2023, has exited stealth mode. The platform matches U.S. companies with AI-proficient accounting and finance professionals from around the world, aiming to fill full-time, mid- to senior-level roles within days while handling contracts, compliance, and payroll for cross-border hires.
Sony told Bloomberg that neither it nor its affiliates will exhibit products at CES in January 2027, ending its decades-long presence at the show. The company said it is shifting emphasis toward entertainment businesses including games, anime, film and music, along with its intellectual property and creator-support technology.
Amazon's early fall Prime Day sale now includes a $500 discount on the 14-inch M5 Pro MacBook Pro with 24GB RAM and 2TB storage, bringing it to $2,699. The sale also features M5 MacBook Air models discounted up to $150, M6 Mac mini and Mac Studio deals, and Apple's refurb store offering the 2026 Studio Display at $300 off.
Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien won France's Prix du Roman Fnac for his debut novel 'C'était ça ou mourir,' and the book has also been shortlisted for the Goncourt, Renaudot, Femina and Médicis prizes. A French watchdog group called Balance ton Claude claims AI-detection tests on multiple passages returned '100% AI' results, an accusation Orélien and his publishers have rejected.
A new alpha-stage project called ProsperoEden ports the open-source Eden Nintendo Switch emulator to jailbroken PS5 consoles, according to a report from VideoCardz. Testing shows games like Cuphead, Metroid Dread, Hollow Knight and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe running at playable frame rates, while titles such as Breath of the Wild are unplayable and Animal Crossing: New Horizons runs poorly at around 15 FPS.