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Issue 65: White House Names an AI Panel Chief
2026-10-04. axis 82. Clayton told the Journal he will lead a panel the administration calls the Super Intelligence Force, and that the group has 120 days to report on risks and on the federal role....

Issue 64: Nvidia Lists a $4,999 Desk Computer
2026-10-03. axis 81. Nvidia put a $4,999 computer on sale for October 23 and said it can run a 100-billion-parameter model in the room. Apple said a Mac app will need a clearer yes before it can read...

Issue 63: Micron Says Shortage Runs to 2028
2026-10-02. axis 82. Micron has already accounted for 75 percent of its 2027 memory, with high-bandwidth memory for AI servers taking the supply. Nvidia's faster Astra mode runs on Blackwell chips...

Issue 62: Google Prices Argon at $2 a Million
2026-10-01. axis 81. Google priced Gemini 4 Argon at $2 per million input tokens and kept the model on its own computers. The Senate blocked a bill on data-center power costs. FERC suspended a PJM...

Issue 61: OpenAI Charges $100 a Month for Dots
2026-09-30. axis 80. OpenAI said it will sell Dots, always-on agents that run on its computers, from $100 a month. Anthropic's prospectus locks in $518 billion of cluster contracts. Trump asked the...

Issue 59: Nvidia Ships Agent Safety Software
2026-09-28. axis 78. Nvidia put the agent cutoff on its own chips. Trump told Amodei the United States would not slow. Anthropic will not face Australia's Senate on Thursday. The cluster still holds...

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