If you told me last year the Nex Playground would outsell Microsoft's Xbox, even for two weeks, I would have laughed my way out of the room. It's a three-inch cube of a game console that's likely less powerful than your phone, one which uses a single camera to track your body. It only plays […]

Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal:
Micron projects FY Q2 sales to grow over 2x YoY to $18.7B and adjusted operating income to rise over 5x to $11.3B, signaling higher memory chip prices in 2026  —  The AI gold rush is creating shortages for memory chips that could raise prices for all sorts of gadgets

My Hero Academia will continue with a new episode presented at Jump Festa, coming in May 2, 2026

Jon Keegan / Sherwood News:
A look at Meta's 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, with the first phase opening in 2028; an analysis shows sales tax breaks on GPUs could total $3.3B+  —  $10 billion of investment.  Code names to disguise projects and companies.  Mixed opinions.  Skyrocketing property values.

OpenAI:
OpenAI introduces a framework to evaluate chain-of-thought monitorability and a suite of 13 evaluations designed to measure the monitorability of an AI system  —  We introduce evaluations for chain-of-thought monitorability and study how it scales with test-time compute, reinforcement learning, and pretraining.