To bypass U.S. restrictions and feed a desperate need for compute, China’s modding community is creating custom RTX 5080 GPUs with double the VRAM. These “turbo” style cards are being snapped up for local AI training and inference tasks, raising questions about their long-term durability.
According to a report cited by Inc, the average lifespan of a company on the S&P 500 has collapsed from about 67 years to roughly 15. This isn’t just a statistic; it’s a fundamental shift in what it means to run a sustainable business in a hyper-accelerated market.
Nothing has started the phased stable rollout of its Android 16-based Nothing OS 4.0 for the CMF Phone 1. The CMF Phone 2 Pro is slated for the update “in the coming weeks,” while the Nothing Phone (3a) Lite will begin receiving it “at the beginning of January.”
The conversation around AI is fixated on end-user features. But a bigger transformation is happening for the engineers and product teams creating those tools. AI is changing the very process of creation itself.
A large study suggests AI’s role in creativity is being misunderstood. When tools present a wide variety of ideas, including bad ones, humans engage more deeply and produce better work. It’s about collaboration, not replacement.
In a first-of-its-kind move, New York State will require social media platforms to show warning labels about potential harm to young users’ mental health. The law targets features like infinite scrolling and algorithmic feeds.
LG is going big for CES 2026, announcing a monstrous 52-inch curved UltraGear evo gaming monitor. The lineup also includes a 39-inch OLED and a 27-inch mini-LED model, all boasting 5K resolutions and high refresh rates. The real question is who actually needs a monitor this huge.
While tech giants chase the next AI model, a strategy is emerging to buy profitable, low-tech Main Street businesses and supercharge them with automation. The dispersion gap between invention and real-world adoption creates a window of opportunity. Here’s the three-step playbook.
Business leaders are largely unaware of how often their teams are already using AI tools like ChatGPT. The challenge is turning that ad-hoc experimentation into a real strategic edge.
A new JavaScript engine called MicroQuickJS aims to run on devices with extreme memory constraints. Created by prolific developer Fabrice Bellard, it needs only about 100 kB of ROM. This could open up JavaScript programming for tiny embedded systems.
