https://www.techi.com/ Latest stories from TECHi. en-US Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:17:58 GMT 60 https://www.techi.com/intel-15-billion-stock-offering/ https://www.techi.com/intel-15-billion-stock-offering/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:17:58 GMT Omer Sheikh Markets & Equities Intel announced a $15 billion stock offering and INTC fell 3.5%. Why sell after a 175% rally — the dilution math, the foundry bet, and what happens next. https://www.techi.com/ai-chip-materials-synthesis-bottleneck/ https://www.techi.com/ai-chip-materials-synthesis-bottleneck/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:41:57 GMT Fatimah Misbah Hussain Tech Breakthroughs AI agents logged 526 chip-material candidate rows representing 193 formulas. One BC4N deposition recipe passed an automated screen, not lab validation. https://www.techi.com/kings-cross-ai-talent-cluster-bottleneck/ https://www.techi.com/kings-cross-ai-talent-cluster-bottleneck/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:30:31 GMT Zoha Imdad Ali AI & Intelligence King’s Cross shows how AI labs turn proximity into economic infrastructure, tightening demand for talent and offices while remote hiring limits the premium. https://www.techi.com/supernatural-vr-fitness-reboot-3000-workouts/ https://www.techi.com/supernatural-vr-fitness-reboot-3000-workouts/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:18:17 GMT Saba Javed Tech Breakthroughs Supernatural plans a fall 2026 Quest relaunch with returning coaches, a rebuilt library and higher prices, but music licensing limits what can return. https://www.techi.com/us-sanctions-shelbit-aban-tether-iran-crypto/ https://www.techi.com/us-sanctions-shelbit-aban-tether-iran-crypto/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:17:28 GMT Fatimah Misbah Hussain Crypto & DeFi U.S. sanctions target Shelbit and Aban Tether over separate Iran-linked crypto risks after Dubai VARA’s earlier action against Shelbit General Trading. https://www.techi.com/ai-camouflage-surveillance-camera-test-proof/ https://www.techi.com/ai-camouflage-surveillance-camera-test-proof/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:11:43 GMT Zoha Imdad Ali Tech Breakthroughs A noRecognition pattern reportedly fooled one surveillance camera, but its public benchmarks remain simulated and the field-test evidence is not yet available. https://www.techi.com/claude-code-auto-mode-default-11-percent-miss-rate/ https://www.techi.com/claude-code-auto-mode-default-11-percent-miss-rate/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:54:35 GMT Saba Javed Research Tools & Guides Anthropic is making Claude Code auto mode the default August 14 after tests showed it beat manual review while still missing some dangerous commands. https://www.techi.com/x-original-content-rewards-premium-impressions/ https://www.techi.com/x-original-content-rewards-premium-impressions/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 08:47:50 GMT Fatimah Misbah Hussain Policy & Impact X is replacing creator revenue sharing with Original Content Rewards, excluding reposts while keeping Premium-user impressions at the center of payouts. https://www.techi.com/openai-astra-critical-cyber-capability-proof/ https://www.techi.com/openai-astra-critical-cyber-capability-proof/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:47:32 GMT Zoha Imdad Ali AI & Intelligence OpenAI says Astra may reach its Critical cyber threshold, but key test results remain private. Here is what the disclosure proves—and what it does not. https://www.techi.com/firebird-armenia-ai-factory-300mw-roadmap/ https://www.techi.com/firebird-armenia-ai-factory-300mw-roadmap/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 06:27:53 GMT Saba Javed Tech Breakthroughs Firebird opened its Armenia AI factory, but the 70,000-GPU, 300 MW vision still depends on power, financing and customers. Here is what is actually live today. https://www.techi.com/meta-ai-email-calendar-agent-permissions/ https://www.techi.com/meta-ai-email-calendar-agent-permissions/ Mon, 27 Jul 2026 06:00:41 GMT Zoha Imdad Ali Research Tools & Guides Meta AI can now use email and calendar context for recurring tasks. Here is what to test before granting primary-account access and trusting its research. https://www.techi.com/atoms-kalanick-industrial-ai-1-7-billion/ https://www.techi.com/atoms-kalanick-industrial-ai-1-7-billion/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:54:54 GMT Fatimah Misbah Hussain AI & Intelligence Kalanick's Atoms raised $1.7B led by a16z, with no valuation disclosed — a bet that physical-AI profit belongs to whoever owns the kitchens, mines and trucks. https://www.techi.com/microsoft-mistral-europe-gpu-compute-supply/ https://www.techi.com/microsoft-mistral-europe-gpu-compute-supply/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:57:08 GMT Saba Javed Tech Breakthroughs Microsoft's expanded multibillion-dollar Mistral pact reverses their 2024 roles — Microsoft now buys European GPU capacity and ships Mistral's models to regulated firms. https://www.techi.com/korea-sovereign-ai-factory-naver-nvidia-financing/ https://www.techi.com/korea-sovereign-ai-factory-naver-nvidia-financing/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:57:05 GMT Fatimah Misbah Hussain Tech Breakthroughs NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield are tripling Korea's AI factory to 200MW. The real story isn't the megawatts — it's the ~$10 billion capital stack behind sovereign AI. https://www.techi.com/alphabet-ai-capex-negative-free-cash-flow/ https://www.techi.com/alphabet-ai-capex-negative-free-cash-flow/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:51:08 GMT Fatimah Misbah Hussain AI & Intelligence Alphabet posted record Q2 2026 net income and its first negative free cash flow together. Why $44.9B of AI capex — not the profit — is the real story. https://www.techi.com/flux-3-multimodal-image-video-audio-action/ https://www.techi.com/flux-3-multimodal-image-video-audio-action/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 11:46:28 GMT Fatimah Misbah Hussain AI & Intelligence Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 puts image, video, audio and robot-action prediction in one model — and holds the open weights back. Here's the market read. https://www.techi.com/ftc-ai-accuracy-deception-state-law/ https://www.techi.com/ftc-ai-accuracy-deception-state-law/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 10:53:55 GMT Saba Javed Policy & Impact The FTC's proposed statement calls secretly steering AI outputs deception under Section 5, even to obey a state law like Colorado's. Comments close July 31. https://www.techi.com/inference-chips-loan-collateral-financing/ https://www.techi.com/inference-chips-loan-collateral-financing/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 04:49:00 GMT Zoha Imdad Ali AI & Intelligence Upper90 will lend General Compute up to $400 million secured by SambaNova inference chips, not Nvidia GPUs. Why inference silicon as loan collateral is an untested bet. https://www.techi.com/specialized-inference-economy-fireworks-1-5b/ https://www.techi.com/specialized-inference-economy-fireworks-1-5b/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:35:02 GMT Fatimah Misbah Hussain AI & Intelligence Fireworks AI raised $1.505B at a $17.5B valuation. The number that matters is 95%: nearly all its tokens come from customer-specialized models, not raw open weights. https://www.techi.com/akash-akt-ai-compute-value-capture/ https://www.techi.com/akash-akt-ai-compute-value-capture/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:25:32 GMT Zoha Imdad Ali Crypto & DeFi Akash set a $5M compute-spend record and routes 1.7B AI tokens a day, yet AKT sits ~94% below its high. Inside crypto's AI-compute value-capture problem. https://www.techi.com/tesla-analyst-price-target-cuts-q2-2026-selloff/ https://www.techi.com/tesla-analyst-price-target-cuts-q2-2026-selloff/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:09:57 GMT Saba Javed Markets & Equities Tesla fell 14.5% to an 11-month low after Q2 margins hit 1.4%. Post-earnings analyst price targets now split from $130 to $600 — here's what it means for TSLA. https://www.techi.com/google-ironwood-tpu-no-public-price/ https://www.techi.com/google-ironwood-tpu-no-public-price/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:55:33 GMT Zoha Imdad Ali Tech Breakthroughs Google's Ironwood TPU has been generally available since April, yet there's still no public per-hour price. What that silence reveals about AI inference costs. https://www.techi.com/z-ai-gigawatt-chinese-chips-data-center/ https://www.techi.com/z-ai-gigawatt-chinese-chips-data-center/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:58:43 GMT Saba Javed Tech Breakthroughs Bloomberg says Z.ai switched on a ~1GW data center running only Chinese chips to train GLM. What it means for export controls, open models, and Nvidia's China thesis. https://www.techi.com/ai-agent-market-concentration-antitrust/ https://www.techi.com/ai-agent-market-concentration-antitrust/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:53:07 GMT Saba Javed Policy & Impact France's competition authority found OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic hold 84% of the AI-agent market and warned of lock-in. What Opinion 26-A-05 means for you. https://www.techi.com/deepseek-chat-reasoner-retirement-v4-migration/ https://www.techi.com/deepseek-chat-reasoner-retirement-v4-migration/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:04:21 GMT Zoha Imdad Ali Research Tools & Guides DeepSeek retires the deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner model names at 15:59 UTC on July 24. Migrate to deepseek-v4-flash and mind the thinking-mode cost catch. https://www.techi.com/tesla-q2-2026-ai-capex-margin-squeeze/ https://www.techi.com/tesla-q2-2026-ai-capex-margin-squeeze/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:54:51 GMT Saba Javed AI & Intelligence Tesla's Q2 2026 revenue rose 26% to a record $28.24B, but operating income fell 57% and margin sank to 1.4% as robotaxi and AI capex hit $5.79B. What it means for TSLA. https://www.techi.com/kimi-k3-open-weights-inference-economics/ https://www.techi.com/kimi-k3-open-weights-inference-economics/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:49:08 GMT Fatimah Misbah Hussain AI & Intelligence Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, the largest open-weight model ever, opens July 27. It's cheap per token but needs ~1.4TB resident — here's who can really run it. https://www.techi.com/spot-tao-etf-bittensor-subnet-exposure-gap/ https://www.techi.com/spot-tao-etf-bittensor-subnet-exposure-gap/ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:39:42 GMT Zoha Imdad Ali Crypto & DeFi Grayscale's amended TAO filing bars the trust from staking. Under dTAO, emissions follow staked TAO into subnet pools — so a spot wrapper sits outside the loop. https://www.techi.com/amd-cerebras-disaggregated-inference-5x-claim/ https://www.techi.com/amd-cerebras-disaggregated-inference-5x-claim/ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:39:35 GMT Saba Javed Tech Breakthroughs AMD and Cerebras will split AI inference across Helios racks and the Wafer-Scale Engine. The 5x per-watt claim is modelled against Cerebras-only hardware. https://www.techi.com/coinbase-x402-agent-payments-merchant-side/ https://www.techi.com/coinbase-x402-agent-payments-merchant-side/ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:37:59 GMT Zoha Imdad Ali Crypto & DeFi Coinbase Business can now accept USDC from AI agents over x402. The on-chain record shows a crypto-native payer cohort, not commercial demand.