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California has apparently discovered the sentence nobody expected to need in 2026: please stop putting people in cages with humanoid robots. Prediction-market platform Polymarket flagged the surreal development after California reportedly ordered San Francisco robotics startup REK to stop staging unsanctioned human-versus-humanoid cage fights. The timing is almost comedic. Humanoid robotics has spent years promising…

Tencent has reportedly signed a five-year Oracle lease giving it access to roughly 100,000 advanced AI chips across Southeast Asian data centers.

A new programming-history video traces how software moved from machine-level instructions toward compilers, databases, scripting and modern platform languages.

Bitcoin mining power estimates have fallen from 2025 highs, but Cambridge’s published series puts the high at 227.43 TWh in October, complicating claims of a December peak.

Italian energy company Eni is moving humanoid robotics closer to real industrial work through a new collaboration with Generative Bionics, a deep-tech company developing humanoids powered by Physical AI. The companies will evaluate robots inside industrial and operational environments rather than limiting the work to laboratory demonstrations. Under the new agreement, Eni and Generative Bionics…

Hammer Miner’s new Glod Omni combines 1.2 TH/s of desktop Bitcoin mining with a 5.08-inch smart display, LAN miner discovery, fleet monitoring and an open API.

PowerCompute has removed Bitcoin from its secured-debt structure while preparing to push more of its owned electrical capacity into mining. The company said its subsidiary fully repaid and terminated a Bitcoin-backed credit facility with Arch Lending, satisfying about $22.45 million of obligations and releasing all remaining Bitcoin collateral. The September 24 settlement used about 267.3…

Micron Technology closed fiscal 2026 with a record quarter as demand for memory and storage used in artificial intelligence infrastructure accelerated. The company reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $54.23 billion, up from $41.46 billion in the prior quarter and $11.32 billion a year earlier. Full-year revenue reached $133.19 billion. The numbers matter beyond Micron’s income…

GoMining shows failed ASIC chip replacement at its South Carolina mining farm, highlighting the board-level repair work behind Bitcoin mining uptime.

OpenAI and Synopsys are building GPT-Synopsys, a specialized model designed to operate EDA tools directly and iterate on semiconductor design workflows.

Hammer Miner’s dual-BM1373 Thor P2 reaches 10 TH/s while ThorOS 1.0.3 beta adds multi-pool switching and configuration changes with fewer restarts.