Mill, the food waste startup from Nest’s founders, just locked in a major deal with Whole Foods. Starting in 2027, every store will get a commercial Mill bin. The strategy? Sell to executives at home first.
A major custom PC company is now letting customers mail in their own RAM kits for new builds. This bizarre workaround highlights a severe, multi-year shortage that’s sending memory prices through the roof and scrambling the entire industry.
The CEO of software giant Databricks isn’t mincing words about the current AI investment craze. Ali Ghodsi calls the trend of funding companies with zero revenue “clearly a bubble” and “insane,” predicting the situation will deteriorate over the next 12 months.
For a decade, hyper-converged infrastructure ruled the data center. But the unique, massive demands of AI workloads are breaking that model. The future is looking disaggregated, flexible, and far more efficient.
Ron Deibert founded the Citizen Lab research center in 2001 to act as “counterintelligence for civil society.” He now warns that the United States, long a democratic standard, is seeing its foundational norms come under serious threat.
The US government is funding new AI research hubs to tackle economic and cyber threats. The centers aim to protect American dominance in AI innovation and supply chains.
Samsung’s chip fabrication business is on a serious hot streak. After landing deals with Apple and Tesla, it’s now reportedly in talks to manufacture Google’s most powerful AI chips. This could be a game-changer for the semiconductor industry’s balance of power.
Samsung is pushing to make India a core manufacturing hub, not just for phones but for critical components like displays. The move leverages government incentive schemes and could reshape global supply chains.
The AI streamer Neuro-Sama has broken her own Twitch Hype Train world record during her third birthday subathon. This time, she did it without any promotional help from the game Valorant.
Andrej Karpathy, the former Tesla AI chief and OpenAI cofounder, published his 2025 year-in-review for LLMs. He doubled down on his prediction that “vibe coding,” a term he coined in February, will “terraform software and alter job descriptions.”
