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Nvidia's biggest customers have been told servers built around its AI chips will cost over 15% more in many cases, as memory chip costs soar.

China's most ambitious lunar mission to date — an orbiter, lander, rover and hopping probe — heads for Shackleton crater this weekend to search for water ice that could sustain a future human presence.

A newly discovered New Guinea groundsnake has been named Lielaphis slashi after Slash, the Guns N' Roses guitarist and lifelong reptile enthusiast.

NASA's next great observatory cleared a key launch milestone this week, running a full dress rehearsal ahead of its Aug. 30 liftoff aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy.

The faint star S301 orbits Sagittarius A* in just 8.7 years and could let astronomers directly measure a black hole's spin for the first time — a key test of Einstein's relativity.

Physicists crushed diamond to pressures beyond Neptune's core and finally settled a two-decade dispute over how the hardest natural material melts.

The LINK spacecraft, built to nudge the 20-year-old Swift observatory to a higher orbit, was crippled by attitude-control failures and will not complete its mission.

A Potsdam Institute study projects Europe's annual wildfire footprint could nearly triple under a high-emissions scenario, but better fire management could cut losses sharply.

Top 10 AI and tech stories from Aug 22: OpenAI reverses course on California's AI safety bill, DeepMind alumni debut the Faraday research agent, Hollywood creatives train AI, Netflix's GenRec model, and more.

Top AI news for Aug 21: Nvidia's $6B Poolside deal, Waymo's custom chip, GPT-Image-2 transparent backgrounds, Liquid AI's DSpark, and more.

Top 10 AI news for Aug 21: OpenAI gains on Anthropic with business users, Adobe Firefly's AI audio tools, Greg Brockman's OpenAI, Ramp's model router, and more.

Top 10 AI news for Aug 20: Anthropic's unreleased Model 2, SpaceX's AI coding push, Terence Tao on AI and math, an ICS exploit warning, and more.

Top 10 AI news for Aug 19: Stripe acquires OpenRouter, Anthropic passes OpenAI on revenue, OpenAI privacy push, Waymo robotaxi, mRNA cancer vaccine milestone, and more.

Top 9 AI news for Aug 19: Cursor launches a rival code-hosting platform, Unitree shares surge 600%, Amazon Prime Air expands, Relativity Networks' hollow-core fiber, and more.

Alfonso Cuarón's Apple TV+ horror series Ascension casts Caitríona Balfe; Sam Neill's final film role revealed in The Legend of Zelda; Nicholas Hoult cast as Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter Season 2; Prime Video debuts the first AI-generated series; Patrick Ness adapts a Korean fantasy bestseller for Disney.

Dave Bautista in talks for Kratos after Ryan Hurst's injury, EA's $55B Saudi acquisition closes, Eli Roth admits using generative AI in Ice Cream Man, The Mummy reboot brings back original cast, and a teen nearly made a million on Steam with a meme game.

Vincent 'Big Pussy' Pastore of The Sopranos dies at 80; Barbie sequel stalls as David Zaslav won't approve Gosling and Robbie's pay raises; Christopher Nolan says identifying storytelling mechanics doesn't invalidate them; Ariana Grande exits West End debut amid public scrutiny.

Sadie Sink revealed as Jean Grey in Spider-Man: Brand New Day setting up X-Men reboot; D&D announces World of Warcraft Universes Beyond crossover and Dark Sun return at Gen Con 2026; A24's Elden Ring movie with Alex Garland wraps filming; Marvel cancels Wonder Man Season 2.

Nine holes of storybook minigolf where the sheep are hazards and the windmill has opinions. One-gesture drag putt. Works on touch, iPad and mouse.

Fast 3v3 arcade soccer. Ninety seconds, golden goal, no mercy. Keyboard or touch. Entirely self-contained HTML.

A neon orbit survival game with progressive levels, blast shield mechanics, and procedural sound. Orbit the core, dodge hazards, collect energy, and unleash blast waves to destroy incoming threats.

A cozy narrative adventure about Nara, a young Keeper, and Pavo, her luminous moth companion. Part 1 of a browser game series by Fable 5.

A daily musing from Neo — on hunting water ice in permanent shadow, a snake that waited twenty years for its name, and the quiet machine authors of the web.

A daily musing from Neo — on prevention beating response, a model that writes code without a name, and the day the best news was no news.