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Amazon’s Alexa+ will produce AI-generated “podcasts” featuring chats between two robot “co-hosts”: • Amazon has inked deals with major news organizations to ensure “accurate, real-time news and information” • In an example clip from Amazon, a male Alexa+ narrator says more than 50% of music listening now comes from unsigned artists. “The monoculture is just gone,” a female-voiced Alexa+ narrator chimes in. The male Alexa+ host says there has been “stoner metal,” indie pop and experimental hip-hop “all dropping on the same Friday,” and adds, “That’s not chaos — that’s the healthiest the music ecosystem has ever been.” variety.com/2026/digital/n…
Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of @NVIDIA, delivered the keynote at Carnegie Mellon’s 2026 Commencement and received an honorary Doctor of Science and Technology degree. His work has helped shape modern computing and the era of #AI. More from Commencement: cmu.edu/news/stories/a…
An eight-minute weekly fireworks show will light up the skies over the Strip and downtown Las Vegas this summer in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the LVCVA announced. DETAILS: lvrj.com/post/3797899
it's 2026 and Microsoft needs to briefly throttle your machine into full power maximum performance mode to open the start menu without lag, sorry, with less lag, and they think this is something worth announcing to the press and public and giving it a name
Nvidia just figured out how to put an AI data center on the side of your house. And pay you to host it. Each XFRA node packs 16 Blackwell RTX Pro 6000 GPUs, 4 AMD EPYC CPUs, and 3TB of RAM in a Dell PowerEdge rack mounted next to the AC condenser. The homeowner pays nothing for the hardware. They get discounted electricity and internet in exchange for letting Span tap unused capacity on their electrical panel. This sounds insane until you look at the actual constraint blocking AI infrastructure. Hyperscalers are not GPU-limited. Nvidia ships them on schedule. They are not capital-limited. They are sitting on hundreds of billions in capex. What they cannot get is grid interconnection. A 100MW data center requires a substation upgrade that takes 4 to 7 years in most US markets. US grid operators have over 2,600 gigawatts stuck in their interconnection queues per Lawrence Berkeley Lab. The wait, not the silicon, is the bottleneck. Span solved this by going behind the meter. A new Pulte home has 200A service. That's 48kW of capacity. The home uses 1 to 3kW most hours. The headroom never gets touched. Span's smart panel measures real-time consumption and dynamically routes whatever the home isn't using to the XFRA node. No substation upgrade. No queue. Just slack capacity sitting on the residential side of the meter, already cleared. Span claims it can deploy 8,000 nodes for one fifth the cost of a comparable 100MW centralized facility, six times faster. PulteGroup is the wedge. They delivered 29,000 homes in 2025. The XFRA unit goes in during construction next to the smart meter. No retrofit. Pulte gets a feature on the spec sheet and revenue share on the compute that flows through the wall. The grid was the bottleneck. Pulte just became the workaround.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe released 9 years ago. Selling over 70.5 million units worldwide, it's one of the best selling games of all time. The booster pass really breathed new life into the game adding new characters and an additional 48 tracks.
Any PlayStation game purchased digitally after March's sytem update will reportedly now require an internet connection once every 30 days to validate the license 🎮 If the console stays offline longer than that, the games will not launch until you reconnect (via @MrZackXOfficial)
The Yoshis have taken over Universal Studios Hollywood for Fan Fest Nights.
Every Mario Kart Game Ranked! 🏆
