Meta Tests Robots to Handle Data Center Work
The company says it needs more skilled workers as its AI infrastructure expands, but employees fear automation could reduce or eliminate some roles.
Solana validators approve proposal to accelerate SOL disinflation
The approved proposal doubles Solana’s annual disinflation rate from 15% to 30%, reducing future SOL issuance while leaving its long-term inflation target unchanged.
XRP Treasury Company Gets One Step Closer to Listing on Nasdaq
Evernorth has gained SEC clearance, teeing up a shareholder vote on its Nasdaq listing—while the firm’s XRP stash sits well below what it paid for it.
Batch write and discover records in Amazon SageMaker Feature Store
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is a fully managed, purpose-built repository to store, share, and manage features for machine learning (ML) models. It provides low-latency online serving for real-time inference, an offline store for historical retention and training feature data, and supports both streaming and batch ingestion patterns. As ML platforms mature, two operational gaps surface … Read more
An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI
Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance.
US Cities Eye AI Data Center Limits as Study Flags Water Risks
Austin is the latest city to consider restrictions as communities challenge the water and electricity demands of AI infrastructure.
Brave’s browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases
The feature, announced this week, allows Brave’s users to sign up for websites and other online services without having to share their personal email addresses.
Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets
There’s a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away.
Chelsea FC gets a stablecoin sponsor after UK FCA warning to clubs
According to Circle, the USDC stablecoin name will appear on the front of club jerseys for Chelsea’s upcoming football season.
Solana Will Now Print Less SOL as Disinflation Vote Passes in Dramatic Fashion
The “Double Disinflation” proposal squeaked through by a razor-thin margin after Kraken nearly sank it, while a separate fee-burning measure failed.
Fed Chair Warsh Calls AI a ‘Hinge Point in History’—4 Key Things He Said
Fed Chair Warsh devoted a full section of his speech today at Jackson Hole to AI’s weight on the economy. Here are the biggest takeaways.
How Sweden built one of Europe’s hottest startup ecosystems
Sophia Bendz, general partner at Cherry Ventures, stopped by Equity to break down the latest in the Swedish tech ecosystem.
Save hundreds on a TCL mini-LED TV with quantum dots and high refresh rate
Amazon and Best Buy have the TCL QM7L mini-LED TV on sale for as low as $797.99 for the 55-inch model, a $200 discount from the usual price. We spotted scaling discounts on larger sizes as well, although Amazon already listed low stock on the 65-inch version. While OLED televisions are great for deep black … Read more
Charles Schwab Expands Crypto Trading Beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum
The brokerage will expand Schwab Crypto trading to Solana, Avalanche, and Chainlink, but has not given a launch date for the three tokens.
Trump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution
Just as new data centers face growing backlash from neighboring communities, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to make it harder for people to weigh in on any pollution those centers create. The EPA plans to toss out a federal rule requiring public notice and an opportunity to comment when certain industrial sites … Read more
How Decathlon runs demand forecasting at scale with Chronos-2
This post is co-written with Vianney Bruned, Filippo Giruzzi, Belkiss Saidi, and Carlos Ramirez from Decathlon. Decathlon is one of the world’s largest sporting goods retailers, with more than 100,000 teammates and 400 million users worldwide. The company relies on accurate demand forecasting at scale to support the availability of the appropriate products in each … Read more
DLSS 5 leaked and modders are putting Nvidia’s AI effects on everything
The unofficial version of DLSS 5 makes Jesse Faden’s features much more pronounced. | Image: gabdeg via YouTube Modders are trying out an unofficial version of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 on Skyrim, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA V, and a bunch of other games after code for the AI upscaling tech appeared in an early-access build of NBA … Read more
Spreading the load: How Salesforce met Multi-AZ HA with SageMaker Inference Components
When Salesforce set out to make Agentforce (Salesforce’s AI foundation for agents) highly available (HA) across multiple Availability Zones (AZs), the team faced a gap. Amazon SageMaker AI Inference Components (ICs) could cut GPU costs, but their default placement didn’t guarantee the Multi-AZ resilience Salesforce’s compliance bar required. For Salesforce, the ICs delivered an 8x … Read more
Bullish provides USD.AI $100M stablecoin facility for GPU-backed lending
The institutional crypto exchange is providing $100 million in stablecoin liquidity to support loans backed by AI computing infrastructure.
Solana vote to double disinflation passes by a hair in dramatic finish
Solana’s first network-wide vote went down to the wire, with Kraken and Galaxy-linked validators switching sides before the disinflation proposal narrowly passed.
Bitcoin Miner IREN Shares Fall as AI Conversion Costs Mount
AI cloud revenue topped Bitcoin mining for the first time as IREN accelerated its data center conversion.
The HackerNoon Newsletter: 5 Trust-Building Mistakes Smart People Make (8/28/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 28, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The End of AppleTalk in 2009, Toyota Motor Corporation Was Established in 1937, First Issue of Scientific American hit the newsstands in 1845, and we present you with … Read more
More Americans oppose police license plate cameras than support them: survey
The backlash against license plate readers comes amid a wave of police abuses of surveillance cameras.
Friend-focused photo sharing app Retro snags $21M
Retro, a friend-focused photo-sharing app built by former Instagram employees, has raised more than $21 million in Series A funding.
Bitcoin dips to $78.4K as Fed’s Warsh downplays softer inflation prints
Bitcoin failed to make a decisive break above $80,000 as traders digested Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole keynote speech, which remained wary of US inflation trends.
The iPhone Fold could make concerts even worse
You know the person blocking your view of the concert because their phone is swaying in the air, recording the entire thing? Get ready for the unfolded version of it. This week on The Vergecast, we dive right into the big week of Apple news. First, it’s the refreshed Mac Mini and Mac Studio, as … Read more