• Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe first drive: Where tech and fun collide
• Nintendo's biggest ROM chip supplier is bowing out of the business
• Hackers exploited iOS and Android flaws to infect phones
• Uranium cubes reveal why the German nuclear project failed
• VMware releases vSphere Express for virtualization on up to 128 cores
• AMD's record quarter: Data center business doubles, while gaming craters
• Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech”
• After Texas' blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX?
• Ted Cruz aims to stack FCC with Republicans before Democrats take Senate control
• People say they want small smartphones—the Enough Phone will put that to the test
• Binance says hackers who stole billions in crypto spent months planning heist
• What I learned driving the Slate electric truck prototype
• The DEA banned a drug some opioid users called a miracle
• California fights "preposterous" Trump admin demand to scrap state broadband laws
• Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers
• NYT demands Brave shut down its paywall blocker and end deals with AI firms
• Buttons are back and storage is king when it comes to car interiors
• Google will let schools skip AI tools, but they have to give up search, too
• Another child dies of measles as CDC reportedly holds up health alert
• Google dismantles botnet secretly running on 1.3 million Android TV boxes
| • Amazon partners with Uber to make Uber Eats the "official" US restaurant delivery partner for Amazon Prime subscribers, after previously partnering with Grubhub (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
• Study: UK consumer AI spending passes £1B annually, with 5.1% of adults paying for subscriptions as of July 2026; Claude is rapidly catching up to ChatGPT (Bloomberg)
• X is rolling out a redesigned web app country by country for signed-in users, with a single unified server, saying it improves load times over slow connections (Jay Peters/The Verge)
• Sources: at Jensen Huang's election event, tech executives expressed concern over anti-data center results; OpenAI discussed resetting its 2027 capacity plans (Wall Street Journal)
• Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says his P(doom) is "close to zero", arguing that future AI risks stem from closed frontier AI labs, not open-source systems (Will Knight/Wired)
• Ricursive releases Ripple-65B Preview, a general-purpose variant of its AI model for automating advanced chip design, under Apache 2.0, costing $0.60/1M output (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
• Nintendo reports Q2 net profit down 16% YoY to $468M, as rising Switch 2 component costs cut into its margins; Switch 2's H1 FY 2027 sales fell 37% YoY to 6.49M (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
• An interview with two Nintendo producers on the new Ocarina of Time remake for the Switch 2, which has modernized gameplay mechanics like full camera control (Andrew Webster/The Verge)
• OpenAI pledges to change how it handles data center deals, including avoiding nondisclosure agreements and cutting power usage, after Democrats' midterm wins (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
• Sunil Mittal, founder of India's second-largest telco Airtel, says Airtel-backed OneWeb can build a satellite-internet network independent of the US and China (Aryan Gupta/Bloomberg)
• Sony reports Q2 revenue of ~$21.7B, operating profit of $3.94B, both above est., and 2.6M PS5 sales, as GTA VI sparks a US sales jump, especially of the PS5 Pro (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
• OpenAI President Greg Brockman says H1 2026 was "pretty rough", but agentic coding tools, GPT-5.6 Sol, and ChatGPT Work drove a "revenue inflection" in Q3 (Maxwell Zeff/Wall Street Journal)
• Adzuna: UK entry-level job postings mentioning AI are up ~3x since early 2025; Indeed says one in six vacancies in AI-exposed fields now mentions AI, up 2x YoY (Irina Anghel/Bloomberg)
• Pro-AI PAC Leading the Future ended the midterms with $20M+ in its bank, from ~$100M, after focusing on safe bipartisan candidates; its riskier bets fell flat (Tess Owen/Wired)
• Chinese chipmakers' aggressive hiring of experienced engineers is increasingly at odds with efforts to protect trade secrets in Taiwan and South Korea (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
| • Amazon teams with Uber Eats for new Prime perks
• Switch 2 sales fell by almost 40 percent after Nintendo increased prices
• Sony is selling more PS5 games but still struggling to meet console demand
• Snap has more than 30 million paid subscribers across Snapchat+ and other plans
• Pangram expands its AI detection tools to video and images
• Xbox is testing two new controller options for Cloud Gaming
• Nintendo's main Switch cartridge supplier is leaving the ROM business
• God of War Laufey is delayed until May 20
• Redditor uses AI to get Switch games running natively on Apple TV
• Bluetooth is going to get a lot faster in 2027
• Elon Musk spent nearly $500 million on the midterms and lost big-time
• Americans overwhelmingly voted against data centers in the midterms
• Apple Music's upcoming feature will let you record yourself doing karaoke
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time review: A masterpiece reborn
• Binance attackers used fake job interviews to pull off $6.3 billion crypto heist
• Valve just changed its Steam release rules amid a flood of AI games
• iPad mini OLED vs. iPad mini: What's new?
• Your phone's apps could have more permissions than they need – here's how to check
• Your desktop's front USB ports may be slowing down every device you plug into them
• Arkane and its Blade game may end up at Ubisoft as Xbox considers offers
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