In a bold bid to catch up in the AI software race, AMD is offering its next-gen “Strix Halo” laptops as bug bounty prizes. The company is also publishing early Linux driver patches for its future GPUs, signaling a new open-source push.
ExpressVPN is unifying its desktop apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux on the Qt framework. This promises faster updates and new features like a Linux GUI and restored Mac split tunneling. It’s a major backend shift aimed at ending platform drift.
A new Windows 11 update is causing headaches. The KB5072033 cumulative update appears to trigger a memory leak in the Delivery Optimization service, leading to high RAM usage and sluggish performance for many users.
The future of payments isn’t about a new card or app. It’s about invisible infrastructure—APIs, data, and AI—that lets transactions happen anywhere, automatically. Paysafe is betting that the next step is “agentic commerce,” where software agents shop and pay for you.
Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi says Gen Z is propping up the economy by taking on record credit card debt while they still have jobs. But with real wages lagging and wealth concentrated elsewhere, this spending might be a ticking time bomb.
Financial tech giant Fiserv has finalized its acquisition of StoneCastle Cash Management. The deal, first agreed to in September, is a key move to bolster Fiserv’s ecosystem with insured deposit funding and its FIUSD stablecoin project.
US Senator Bernie Sanders is proposing a nationwide moratorium on datacenter construction to slow the AI boom. He warns AI could eliminate nearly 100 million US jobs and is driven by billionaire interests. The tech industry, predictably, is pushing back hard.
Google has launched Gemini 3 Flash, a new AI model promising massive speed and cost advantages over its predecessors. It’s aimed squarely at developers for coding, gaming, and enterprise tasks. But in the race against OpenAI and others, raw speed might not be the only thing that matters.
Amazon is in talks to invest at least $10 billion into OpenAI, a deal experts call a “framework” for circular financing. The move aims to validate Amazon’s AI chips while giving OpenAI the compute it desperately needs without cash.
A Financial Times report claims funding for a massive Oracle data center for OpenAI has stalled, sparking a broad sell-off in AI and tech stocks. Oracle denies the report, but investor anxiety about soaring AI debt is clearly mounting.
