Converting 1080p to 4K creates four times as many pixels by estimating what the missing detail should look like, so it can end up softer or with artifacts rather than restoring true detail.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
Engadget
Samsung’s My FanCam (Galaxy AI) lets you reframe already-recorded videos by choosing a person afterward and creating a tighter tracking shot around them in a selected aspect ratio.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Engadget
About 25% of US adults (3,488 surveyed) use AI chatbots to diagnose symptoms, and Pew reports 72% say it’s extremely or very important for medical providers to disclose any AI use.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
CNET
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall sent a subpoena to OpenAI as part of an investigation into whether OpenAI’s “complete lack of oversight and adequate safeguards” in the Hugging Face incident violated the state’s consumer protection laws.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad will appear on the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco from October 13–15.
Aug 24, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Darkbloom, a distributed network of Apple Silicon Macs, has served 4.5B tokens and reached $102K ARR, with 900+ providers and 42M+ inference requests, after switching from free capacity on OpenRouter to paid inference providers.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
The Register
Wolfe Research reiterated Nvidia as its top AI semiconductor pick, citing a still-strong AI infrastructure spending backdrop and expecting continued demand beyond Nvidia’s upcoming earnings report.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Only 15% of organizations have achieved scaled, orchestrated multi-agent deployments across customer service, IT, and engineering, despite 42% testing small numbers of agents and 43% expanding deployments across functions.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
ZDNet
ByteDance and Tencent have reportedly started receiving Nvidia’s H200 AI chips in China, but Wedbush analyst Matt Bryson expects only a “minimal” boost to Nvidia’s China revenue because most H200 sales remain subject to case-by-case regulator approval and placement outside mainland China is preferred.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Apple reportedly trained a proprietary large language model for China with Alibaba’s support, marking a shift from relying on third-party Chinese AI models.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Applied Materials (AMAT) shares are down more than 34% from their 52-week high, after a strong rally, with the article pointing to AI-led semiconductor equipment demand as the reason to buy the dip.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Gemini matched handwritten text word-for-word and correctly identified the movie (“Hocus Pocus (1993)”) in the image tests, while ChatGPT missed the handwritten notes and couldn’t identify the movie art.
Aug 24, 2026 ·CNET
Instinct’s Terms of Service reportedly grant it a “perpetual and irrevocable” license to access, store, cache, reproduce, transmit, and modify users’ materials—including for training—along with authority to enter binding agreements on a user’s behalf.
Aug 24, 2026 ·TechCrunch
IBM said it joined and cooled two modular cryogenic systems into a single ultra-cold environment at temperatures below 15 millikelvin, a step toward fault-tolerant quantum systems that IBM says will support connecting hundreds of quantum chips.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
CoreWeave shares jumped more than 19% and Super Micro Computer shares rose more than 13% on August 12, 2026 to their highest levels since June after both companies delivered upbeat forecasts for AI computing capacity demand.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A backyard cleanroom build led him to make working blue LEDs by laser-etching GaN with a 355 nm UV wavelength, then packaging them with indium bumps on an ENIG-finished circuit board (and later converting them to warmer white LEDs by adding cerium-doped YAG).
Aug 24, 2026 ·The Register
Meta’s Pocket app lets users create small, playable games and widgets by describing what they want in plain language to an AI, with new creations appearing in about 59 seconds.
Aug 24, 2026 ·ZDNet
Bloomberg says Apple’s camera AirPods that feed what they see to Siri are still targeted for 2027, despite an earlier intended launch in 2026 and a prior slip driven by delays building the visual AI models the earbuds need.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Taiwan indicted nine people—including a Nvidia senior manager and two Supermicro employees—over an alleged scheme to forge documents and illegally export 130 Supermicro B300 AI servers to China in violation of US export controls, with 74 reportedly delivered to Chinese customers.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Michael Burry is short Nvidia (NVDA) on a macro/AI-financing bet rather than a bet against Nvidia’s technology, and he has posted about Etched, a startup claiming its Sohu chip can run transformer-model inference faster and cheaper than Nvidia’s general-purpose GPUs.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
