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Pixel 11 vs. Pixel 11 Pro vs. Pixel 11 Pro XL: Google’s Latest Phones Compared

The starting price for the Pixel 11 is $899, the 11 Pro is $1,099, and the 11 Pro XL is $1,299. Which one do you get? Here’s our Pixel buying guide.

Aug 13, 2026 • 5 min read

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ChatGPT: What's free in 2026 and what isn't?

As of August 2026, you can send unlimited texts to ChatGPT.

Aug 12, 2026 • 5 min read

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Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data

Business and technology leaders need no convincing that the time of agentic AI is here. Organizations are rapidly adopting agents, and few executives...

Aug 12, 2026 • 5 min read

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With the Pixel 11 Pro Fold, Google Doubles Down on Durability

Google says its new book-style foldable is tougher and thinner – which could make the steep $1,899 price a little easier to swallow.

Aug 12, 2026 • 5 min read

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The Pixel 11 Pro XL Has Main Character Energy Despite a $100 Price Hike

I took Google’s new flagship Android phone to Paris to test its new camera and features.

Aug 12, 2026 • 5 min read

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GMKtec Evo-T2 review: Panther Lake for a price

GMKtec has positioned its new Evo-T2 mini PC, built around Intel’s 18A Panther Lake silicon, as a compact personal AI workstation. It is also plenty c...

Aug 12, 2026 • 5 min read

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Honor Has Radically Reinvented the Phone for the Robot Age. I Played With It, and It’s Wild

I attended the launch of Honor’s Robot Phone in China. I’m so glad this bold device is actually going on sale.

Aug 12, 2026 • 5 min read

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Benchmarking AMD's BC-250, offering Steam Machine-like performance at half the price — unlocking 40 CUs, eight Zen 2 cores on the repurposed PS5 APU

The popular BC-250 APU has seen some major advancements over the past few months, including a 40CU unlock and enabling all eight Zen 2 cores. We put t...

Aug 11, 2026 • 5 min read

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FCC proposes import ban on Chinese optical transceivers — blockade targets key AI interconnects as China holds 56% global market share

The FCC is drafting a proposal that would expand its list of equipment and services covered by the Secure Networks Act to include imports of new-model...

Aug 11, 2026 • 5 min read

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Nvidia teams up with financial giants to create $500 billion AI infrastructure funds — six investment firms to enable access to long-term funding at attractive rates

Nvidia to arrange financing from major financial institutions at attractive rates for customers seeking to build AI data centers.

Aug 11, 2026 • 5 min read

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Beyond mobility: Unitree’s GD01 signals the next phase of China’s robotics battle

In 2026, Unitree Robotics once again put itself at the center of the robotics industry’s conversation. Last month, Unitree founder and CEO Wang Xingxi...

Aug 11, 2026 • 5 min read

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Import AI 468: 23 RSI ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency interplay with AI racing

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this,...

Aug 10, 2026 • 5 min read

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These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs

MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the...

Aug 10, 2026 • 5 min read

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We tested the impact of SSD speed on gaming performance in 11 titles — we analyzed from SATA to PCIe 5.0 to see whether upgrading to a faster NVMe SSD would have an impact

We tested gaming performance with both NVMe and SATA SSDs across 11 games to determine if upgrading to a faster drive is worth it.

Aug 08, 2026 • 5 min read

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Amazon cracks down on 'CPU waste' among engineers as agentic AI crunch intensifies — CPU demand makes low-utilization EC2 instances a hot commodity [Updated]

Amazon Web Services is telling engineers to slow down on EC2 usage as it struggles to meet CPU capacity demand for external customers.

Aug 07, 2026 • 5 min read

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This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 8, 2026 — Inside China's lithography efforts, co-packaged optics get a spotlight, and Samsung debuts next-gen memory tech

A redesigned Bench tool, inside China's domestic Chipmaking efforts, breaking, and we offer a free technical breakdown of Samsung's latest memory-rela...

Aug 07, 2026 • 5 min read

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The top junior VCs to watch in Europe, according to partners

In venture capital, much of the power and spotlight is soaked up by partners — those senior investment team members who hold more sway in dealmaking d...

Aug 07, 2026 • 5 min read

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Anthropic co-designing custom AI inference chips to bypass costly Nvidia GPUs — Samsung reported as manufacturing partner for Claude maker

Anthropic has announced its building a team to co-design custom ASIC chips for AI inferencing workloads. This will give it greater control over its co...

Aug 07, 2026 • 5 min read

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Python package security in 2026: How supply chain attacks are targeting your AI development environment

On March 24, 2026, developers building AI applications with LiteLLM — a Python package with 95 million monthly downloads — unknowingly installed malic...

Aug 07, 2026 • 5 min read

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Off the grid: explorer Ed Stafford & JETOUR test off-road boundaries in Harbin

Editor’s note: sponsored post In an event blending intelligent automotive engineering with the ethos of wilderness exploration, JETOUR ...

Aug 07, 2026 • 5 min read