This is not a review of the MSI Claw 8 EX AI Plus, the first gaming handheld available with Intel's new Arc G3 Extreme handheld gaming chip. Now that my colleague Sean Hollister is done reviewing the Steam Machine, I'll let him go deep on the new Claw at some point in the future. This […]

For the past three years, "Meta" and "Ray-Ban" have been synonymous in the smart glasses space. Not anymore. Yesterday, I slipped on several pairs of Meta Glasses - no Ray-Bans - in three different styles and seven colors. One style, I was told several times by various enthusiastic Meta spokespeople, is a collaboration with socialite […]

MSI's Intel-powered Claw gaming handhelds have so far mostly been Windows machines, meaning that anyone who picks one up has to deal with the crusty experience that is Windows on a handheld gaming PC. But now, both Valve and Intel tell The Verge that they're working with each other, and people like YouTuber ETA Prime […]

Ben Weiss / Fortune:
New York-based crypto analytics startup Allium raised a $40M Series B led by Amplify Partners, with participation from Kleiner Perkins and others  —  Blockchains are public databases, but that doesn't mean they're legible.  Even experts struggle to read their complicated strings of letters, numbers, and transactions.

Toby Sterling / Reuters:
The Netherlands joins the US-led Pax Silica initiative alongside South Korea and Japan to coordinate AI supply chains; Taiwan endorses it as a non-signatory  —  The Netherlands will join the Pax Silica group of U.S.-allied countries coordinating AI supply chains, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday …