Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
DragonFire: High Power Laser Shoots Down Fast Moving Drones
November 24th, 2025Via: Tom’s Hardware: The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced that the high?power laser system DragonFire successfully shot down drones travelling at speeds up to 403 miles per hour (650?km/h) during recent trials at the Hebrides range in Scotland and has signed a $413 million (£316?million) contract with MBDA UK to begin deploying the […]
RAMpocalypse: AI Buildout Sends Memory Prices Skyrocketing
November 22nd, 2025I bought a 32GB (2x16GB) kit of CORSAIR Vengeance 6000MHz CL30 DDR5 on November 25, 2024 for $99.99. I thought I should buy another 32GB of that before prices rise… The same product is $427.99 now. haha Via: Tweaktown: With the AI boom and the rise of next-gen data centers in nearly every major city, […]
Google Boss Says Trillion-Dollar AI Investment Boom Has ‘Elements of Irrationality’
November 18th, 2025Via: BBC: Every company would be affected if the AI bubble were to burst, the head of Google’s parent firm Alphabet has told the BBC. Speaking exclusively to BBC News, Sundar Pichai said while the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) investment had been an “extraordinary moment”, there was some “irrationality” in the current AI boom. […]
Anduril Unveils Omen Hybrid-Electric Vertical Takeoff And Landing Drone
November 18th, 2025Via: The War Zone: Anduril has unveiled Omen, a new tail-sitting vertical takeoff and landing drone with a hybrid-electric propulsion system. The design, which the company is now developing in cooperation with EDGE Group in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is intended to be modular and adaptable to a wide array of military and non-military […]
Project Prometheus: Jeff Bezos Launching $6.2 Billion AI Startup He Will Co-Lead
November 17th, 2025Haha no way ? Copy ? https://t.co/TG8UMrWwQr — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 17, 2025 Via: Forbes: Jeff Bezos is set to serve as the co-CEO of Project Prometheus—a new artificial intelligence startup he is partially funding—the New York Times reported on Monday, the billionaire’s first significant executive role since he stepped down as Amazon’s CEO […]
Yann LeCun Leaving Meta — Large Language Models Are a Dead End
November 16th, 2025Warning: Not investment advice. I provide ideas and analysis to a Cryptogon reader who is very active in equity investing. What follows is based on information that I’ve provided to this investor. Making money on long side trades in tech related stocks, and stocks in general, has been easy in recent months. This is due […]
BlackRock’s Larry Fink Says ‘We’re At The Beginning Of The Tokenization Of All Assets,’ Promotes Necessity Of Digital ID To Form A Social Credit Score
November 5th, 2025This piece contains a totally wild run-on sentence! Via: The Wine Press: Indeed, it is an unholy alliance: President Donald Trump yoking up with big-data harvesters such as Palantir, Oracle, and other big-tech companies to steal our private data and transactions, merged together with the likes of BlackRock, globalist institutions such as the UN, IMF, […]
Belgium Closed Airspace Due to Drone Incursions
November 5th, 2025Via: Express: Belgium closed its airspace after drone sightings on Tuesday evening, sparking travel chaos at major airports, including the capital Brussels. Drone sightings were also reported over military bases in Belgium, according to local media. Air traffic at Brussels Airport was suspended as a security measure following the sighting shortly before 8pm local time […]
Scion Asset Management Bought a Billion Dollars in Put Options on Nvidia and Palantir
November 4th, 2025Via: Fortune: Storied investor Michael Burry has talked the AI-bubble talk, and now he’s walking the walk. Burry, made famous in the 2015 film The Big Short for his prescience on the 2008 housing market collapse, disclosed some cynical bets against tech giants Nvidia and Palantir amid concerns of AI company valuations swelling beyond their […]
Data Centers in Orbit?
October 31st, 2025Via: Ars Technica: As artificial intelligence drives the need for vastly more computing storage and processing power, interest in space-based data centers has spiked. Although several startup companies, such as Starcloud, have begun to address this problem, the idea has also attracted the interest of tech barons. In May, it emerged that former Google chief […]
