Setting up OpenClaw isn’t as straightforward as the internet wants you to think – running local AI on humble hardware
Setting up OpenClaw isn’t as straightforward as the internet wants you to think – running local AI on humble hardware

How realistic is it to run a local AI model and have it automate tasks for you using hardware that doesn’t cost the Earth? We gave it a shot with a Gorgon Point-powered Mini PC, with mixed results.

Qualcomm-powered robot collapses spectacularly on stage during company’s keynote — prepared stagehands rush to cloak and then carry off stricken humanoid (updated)
Qualcomm-powered robot collapses spectacularly on stage during company’s keynote — prepared stagehands rush to cloak and then carry off stricken humanoid (updated)

A Qualcomm exec suffered from one of the most disastrous tech demos we’ve ever seen live on stage at Computex 2026 this summer when a humanoid robot spectacularly collapsed.

Startup plans to put nuclear-powered data centers in the sea — modular units could be much faster to deploy, but questions about reliability and longevity remain
Startup plans to put nuclear-powered data centers in the sea — modular units could be much faster to deploy, but questions about reliability and longevity remain

Atomarine wants to put data centers on modular barges for ocean-based deployments. The firm says these can be powered by LNG-powered ships and seamlessly swap to ship-based SMRs when they become available.

Shanghai Aishengna named as the maker of China’s first domestic immersion DUV chipmaking tools — first viable domestic 7nm-capable scanner to be completed by 2038

Aishengna has been named by a single source who declined to be named, and its shareholders, SMEE, and Yuliangsheng didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Amazon accidentally spent $1.8 million using Claude for menial coding task, went 860% over budget —’catastrophically expensive’ coding blunders discovered in internal Amazon AI usage metrics
Amazon accidentally spent $1.8 million using Claude for menial coding task, went 860% over budget —’catastrophically expensive’ coding blunders discovered in internal Amazon AI usage metrics

An internal presentation revealed that a failed AI deployment cost Amazon $1.8 million, while a couple of other projects resulted in hundreds of thousands of extra AI expense. What’s worse is that the issue went undetected for several months.

Foreign-made robot vacuums caught up in FCC robot ban — covers any ground robot over 4.4 pounds with a 200 kbps connection

The FCC has added foreign-produced advanced robotic devices and connected power inverters to its Covered List.

30 Georgia homes are being acquired via sale or eminent domain to expand power grid — one affected family member says it’s ‘for the data centers’
30 Georgia homes are being acquired via sale or eminent domain to expand power grid — one affected family member says it’s ‘for the data centers’

Georgia’s largest power supply company is reclaiming 30 homes that lay in the path of its power line expansion project through sale or eminent domain. The company says the project is not for a data center, but the substation the line is connecting to sits less than five miles from a massive data center.