Louis Ashworth / Financial Times:
As OpenAI committed to spending ~$1.4T on data centers, it hasn't disclosed its auditor nor used an independent accountant to compile its financial statements  —  OpenAI is committed to spending about $1.4 trillion on data centres over the next decade or so.

Last year Qualcomm promised that games would “just work” on its Snapdragon X Elite laptops, but in my testing I found that was far from the case. Now, a year on, Windows on Arm is a lot more ready for gaming, thanks to emulator improvements, driver updates, a new Snapdragon Control Panel, and Qualcomm’s work […]

Benedict Evans:
An overview of macro tech trends for 2026, as “AI eats the world”: bubbles, the AI platform shift, Big Tech FOMO, capex, Nvidia, US power backlogs, and more  —  What happens in a platform shift?  The New Thing!  All tech innovation, investment and company creation switches …

Letterboxd:
Letterboxd plans to launch the Letterboxd Video Store, a curated rental platform with undistributed festival standouts, restorations, and more, in December 2025  —  Coming in early December: Letterboxd Video Store, our latest feature to get you adding films to your watchlist and, crucially, checking them off.

It would take about 30 minutes for a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to travel from Russia to the United States. If launched from a submarine, it could arrive even faster than that. Once the launch is detected and confirmed as an attack, the president is briefed. At that point, the commander-in-chief might have about […]