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A detailed Gumloop AI review of agents, pricing, BYOK costs, security claims and alternatives, with original calculations and a practical buying verdict.

Nvidia added $150 billion to its buyback plan. TECHi calculates the share reduction, EPS benefit and limits of the $235 billion remaining authorization.

A 15-year forecast for AI and humanity, covering jobs, science, war, power and loss-of-control risk through the views of global AI leaders.

CMA's 106B-parameter Fenghe model is open for inspection, but its release does not independently verify forecasting skill or operational safety at scale.
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Nvidia added $150 billion to its buyback plan. TECHi calculates the share reduction, EPS benefit and limits of the $235 billion remaining authorization.

A 15-year forecast for AI and humanity, covering jobs, science, war, power and loss-of-control risk through the views of global AI leaders.

The 10-year Treasury yield touched 5.04%, the highest since 2007, before a Fed hike. What it means for Big Tech's $194 billion bond binge, Oracle and CoreWeave.

Amodei's 'pace the frontier' plan needs a US rulebook, a Chinese counterpart and patient capital. Within a day, Trump, Global Times and Michael Burry said no.

South Korea's ICT exports hit a record $59.98B in August, over 60% of all exports. Chips were 47.5%, and outside ICT Korea ran a $6.6B trade deficit.

Palantir’s Q2 2026 results show explosive commercial growth and higher guidance, but investors must weigh AIP momentum against valuation risk.

CMA's 106B-parameter Fenghe model is open for inspection, but its release does not independently verify forecasting skill or operational safety at scale.

CrewAI 1.15.3 adds interception hooks, opt-in tool caching, and per-call usage data, giving teams finer control over production AI agent runs and costs.

JAX 0.11.0 adds programmable rematerialization for AI training, while a higher dependency floor and changed empty-array behavior raise upgrade risk for teams.

Samsung says Flex Titanium is 20 times stiffer than polymer film. Here is what that proves—and the durability data still missing before Unpacked.

GitHub now delays Dependabot version pull requests for three days, but package-manager installs need a separate release-age policy to close the gap.

A field guide to the four companies selling the machines behind AI memory — ASML, Applied Materials, Lam Research and KLA — and how the capex cycle pays them.

TECHi's application to NVIDIA's Inception program was approved on June 13, 2026. What the membership means, how we got here, and what changes for readers.

Lam Research closed July 9 at $353.17, up 6%, as four banks raised targets to $400–$475. Up 154% in H1, LRCX sells the tools every memory fab must buy.

Micron posted the biggest quarter any standalone memory maker has reported — and days later the stock closed below its pre-earnings price. What the disconnect means.

SanDisk gained 858% in H1 2026, the best in the S&P 500, then fell 23% in two sessions. The backlog, the bears, and what to watch into the August report.

Memory and chip-equipment stocks crashed on AI glut fears while the Dow hit a record. The new supply lands in the 2030s — here is the math the selloff skipped.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings dropped a surprising statistic during an interview with Dutch website Tweakers last week, as he made the rounds promoting the launch of Netflix Netherlands. When asked if Dutch viewers would switch from piracy to Netflix, Hastings said sure, some will switch, and that pirac
Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington’s widespread online spying, a move that many experts fear will be a potentially dangerous first step toward fracturing a global network built with minimal interference by governments. President Dilma Rousseff ordered
Most business owners sued by patent trolls don’t talk about it to anyone other than their lawyer; a typical response is to cross one’s fingers and hope the problem goes away. It won’t, of course. Often they do the next best thing—hope it will go away for as little money as possible
The internet is chuckling over a quirky news item which uncovered, perhaps, the most ominous flight plan ever: Flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th. It’s a series of sinister coincidences picked up by the Associated Press. In many countries, the number “666” carries diabolical biblical connotations
NASA’s unmanned LADEE rocket headed to the moon with an unexpected passenger, a small frog which was caught on camera launching into the air from its home in the marshy wetlands surrounding the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. One of three still-cameras setup around the launch site, trigge
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced today at TechCrunch Disrupt that Yahoo monthly active users are up 20% to 800 million globally, including 350 million monthly active users on mobile. Mayer said those figures are increases since she took over as CEO in July of 2012, and that they do not include Tumb
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2 articles from Jazib Zaman's earlier editorial era on TECHi. These remain available at their original URLs but aren't part of the current beat.

APPLE is keeping quiet on how many iPhone 5C devices it pre-sold in its first 24 hours. It's the first time since 2009 that it has withheld pre-order...

A couple of days ago, we heard of a rumor saying that BlackBerry is going to make BBM a separate company and that Samsung is taking over the Canadian...