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China’s AI Price War Helped Push Token Costs Below $1—Without Slowing AI Spend
22 sources0Silicon Data’s blended LLM token price index reached a record low $0.97 per million tokens on September 1, 2026—less than half its earlier summer high—as low cost Chinese models reshaped the mix of inference...
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet: What Naughty Dog Has Confirmed—and What Remains Rumor
19 sources0Naughty Dog confirmed on August 31, 2026 that Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet’s cinematic shoot had wrapped, but the PS5 game still has no official release date; 2027 is only a reported target.
One unexplained LZ event is intriguing — but it is not a dark-matter discovery
17 sources0LZ reported one unexplained high energy candidate event in 220 live days of data, with a global significance of 2.6σ after accounting for the look elsewhere effect.
How did an MIT study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences find that short peptides can remain stable for weeks a
14 sources0The study’s central result is that concentrated sulfuric acid is not automatically incompatible with peptide structure: selected short peptides remained intact for weeks and adopted defined omega-loop-like f...
Huawei MatePad Pro 12 Goes Global: Specs, Battery Differences and Availability
16 sources0Huawei announced the global MatePad Pro 12 at its September 2 Munich event: a 4.7mm, 454g tablet with a 12 inch 3,036 × 1,952, 144Hz flexible OLED display and optional PaperMatte coating.
Bitcoin’s August Rally Improved the Bull Case—But $81,000–$83,000 Is the Real Test
20 sources0Bitcoin’s August rebound points to a potential exit from the bear market, not conclusive proof of a new bull cycle.
Toyota’s $373 Million Vietnam Expansion Adds Hybrid Assembly—and Highlights Its Global Trade Risks
20 sources0Toyota’s approved $373 million Phu Tho project adds hybrid capable vehicle production to a Vietnamese plant with registered capacity of about 52,000 vehicles a year.
Why Sam Altman Is Steering OpenAI Away From Smart Glasses—and Defending AI Data Centers
24 sources0Sam Altman says OpenAI is unlikely to prioritize camera equipped smart glasses because talking to someone wearing “a camera and a light” feels socially uncomfortable.
Gemini 3.8 Flash: Google’s Cheaper Agentic Coding Model, Pricing and Fairwind Cyber Program
21 sources0Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google’s new agentic coding and reasoning “workhorse,” priced at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens through December 31, 2026; it rises to $1.50/$7.50 in 2...
Harvard Maps 30,000 Chimeric mRNAs That Can Make New Proteins
15 sources0Harvard researchers catalogued more than 30,000 candidate chimeric mRNAs in mouse and human macrophages by directly reading long native RNA molecules.
Bitcoin’s $80K Rebound: New Bull Market or Short-Squeeze Rally?
17 sources0Bitcoin’s August rebound looks like a constructive but unconfirmed reversal—not proof of a new bull market.
Google AI Overviews Can Give Emerging Conspiracy Theories False Balance, QUT Study Finds
12 sources0QUT researchers found Google AI Overviews generally rebutted the long established chemtrails conspiracy, but 12.5% of relevant summaries about 15 minute cities presented false claims as part of a legitimate...