Jazib Zaman
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Presidential Award-winning Serial Entrepreneur, Investor $TSLA, Founder & CEO @TechAbout, Founder @viaTECHi, Official Member at Forbes Technology Council.
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Anthropic and Nscale in Talks on Second $45B Compute Deal, Report Says
Anthropic and Nscale are discussing a second cloud-computing agreement worth about $45 billion, according to a Bloomberg report published October 19. The proposed deal would cover another building at Nscale’s Monarch campus in West Virginia. It is still a negotiation, not a signed contract or operating data center. Reuters reported the Bloomberg account and said it could not independently verify the talks. Neither company had responded to Reuters’ requests for comment at the time of its report.
Stellar Repair for Outlook Review: Desktop vs. Online PST Repair
A damaged Outlook PST can put years of mail out of reach. Before paying for a repair tool, make a copy of the Outlook data file (.pst) and try Microsoft’s free Inbox Repair tool. If it cannot recover what you need, Stellar offers two different paths: a Windows app that works on a local file and a browser service that uploads the PST for processing. The practical choice is about file size, privacy and how many mailboxes you need to recover.
How to Screen Record on Windows 11 With Audio
To screen record on Windows 11, press Windows + Shift + R, select the area you want to capture, and click Start. Use Snipping Tool’s microphone and system-audio controls to include your voice, the sound from your PC, or both. For an app or game, Windows + Alt + R starts and stops a Game Bar recording. You do not need a paid recorder for a quick tutorial, a software demonstration, or a clip showing a problem.
How to Stop Chrome Tabs From Reloading
If Chrome reloads a page every time you return to it, add that website to Always keep these sites active in Chrome’s Performance settings. This is usually a better first step than switching Memory Saver off for every tab: you can protect the page you need while leaving other tabs eligible to release memory. This guide is for desktop Chrome. The screenshots show Chrome 154 on macOS; the appearance can differ on Windows. Start with a saved copy of any unfinished work.
3 Best SSD Enclosures for USB-C and USB4
The best SSD enclosure is the one that fits both your spare drive and your computer. Choose the Sabrent EC-SNVE for M.2 SATA or NVMe compatibility, the Plugable USBC-NVME for a simple NVMe setup with USB-A and USB-C cables, or the OWC Express 1M2 when a USB4 connection makes faster transfers worthwhile. An enclosure turns a compatible internal SSD into an external drive.
How to Back Up Windows 11 Files to an External Drive
To back up personal files from a Windows 11 PC to an external drive, use File History in Control Panel. Turn it on for your backup drive, check that your important folders are included, and restore a sample file before relying on it. This is a file backup, not a complete copy of Windows and every installed program. It suits documents, photos and other working files you want to recover after an accidental deletion or an unwanted edit.
4 Best USB-C SD Card Readers for Photos and Video
Choose the Sabrent CR-CSDM if you want a straightforward USB-C reader for both camera SD cards and microSD cards. The ProGrade PGM0.5 is a better fit when you want a reader that plugs straight into your device, while the PGYTECH CreateMate adds storage for spare cards. All four picks below support UHS-II cards, but your card and USB port still determine how quickly files move. The biggest buying mistake is paying for a fast reader without checking the cards you own.
Best Wireless Lavalier Microphones for Phones and Cameras
For phone videos with two speakers, start with the RØDE Wireless Micro USB-C kit. For a solo creator switching between a phone and a camera, the DJI Mic Mini one-transmitter kit is a more flexible fit. Choose the Hollyland LARK MAX 2 Combo when keeping a separate recording inside the microphones matters more than the smallest setup. A wireless lavalier system puts the microphone close to your voice while leaving you free to move.
Google Play Fest starts October 13: rewards and eligibility
Google Play Fest will run October 13 through 19, bringing game competitions, Play Points rewards and limited-time offers to the Play Store. Pre-registration is already open for leagues in Angry Birds 2, Free Fire and 8 Ball Pool, with Google advertising prizes of up to 50,000 Play Points per league. The event is available in select markets, and its individual promotions have different eligibility rules. In particular, the sweepstakes is for select US Play Points members aged 18 or older.
Best USB-C Ethernet Adapters for MacBook and Windows
The best USB-C Ethernet adapter depends on your network and the ports you can spare. Start with the Plugable USBC-E2500 for a 2.5Gb upgrade, choose Cable Matters if you also need laptop charging through the same port, or keep things simple with a Gigabit adapter for an existing Gigabit network. These four picks cover USB-C MacBooks and compatible Windows laptops, with clear differences in speed, charging and connector design. A faster adapter helps only when the rest of the connection can keep up.
Gumloop AI review: powerful agents, complicated economics
Gumloop's $37 starting price makes it look like an inexpensive way to give a team AI agents. The harder buying decision begins after an agent starts working: model tokens, tool calls and active compute consume credits, and a cheaper-looking credit count can conceal a larger cash bill. This Gumloop AI review finds a promising platform for teams that need agents to research, interpret and act across business software. Its strongest features are reusable skills and explicit approval controls.
Nvidia’s $150B Buyback: What It Means for NVDA Stock
A semiconductor wafer and processor illustrate Nvidia’s expanded share repurchase authorization. TECHi illustration. Nvidia’s new $150 billion buyback authorization sounds enormous because it is. But against a company valued at about $5.52 trillion, the additional spending capacity equals roughly 2.7% of its equity value. That is meaningful support for each remaining share, not a replacement for the earnings growth investors already expect.
D.C. Circuit upholds Pentagon’s Anthropic supply-chain exclusion
Illustration: A courthouse and an AI shield represent the court’s decision on the Pentagon’s Anthropic supply-chain exclusion. TECHi illustration. The most consequential part of the D.C. Circuit’s new Anthropic ruling is easy to miss. The court did not decide whether Claude should be allowed to select military targets, nor did it endorse mass domestic surveillance.
Apple Stock Forecast After Beats 360: Is AAPL Too Expensive at $337?
Article Brief Apple stock forecast in four points 4 Points24s Read 01Price setup-AAPL traded near $337 on September 24, above TECHi's $328.22 primary analyst target. 02Fresh catalyst-Beats 360 reaches stores as Apple runs a wider iPhone 18, Siri AI and Mac product cycle. 03Base case-TECHi sees a $325 to $350 range through September 2027 unless earnings estimates move materially higher.
The Future of AI and Humanity: What Happens Next—and What Could Go Wrong
Article Brief What the next 15 years could bring 5 Points30s Read 01Near term-AI agents will reorganize office work, education, healthcare and software before they become consistently reliable. 02By 2030-AI is likely to function as cognitive infrastructure, with growing links to robotics, laboratories, energy systems and public services.
10-year Treasury yield hits 5%, a 19-year high, and AI's borrowing bill goes up with it
The 10-year Treasury yield rose above 5% on Tuesday morning and touched 5.04%, its highest level since 2007, as oil near $106 a barrel and a Federal Reserve rate increase priced for Wednesday pushed the benchmark borrowing cost to a level the AI build-out has never been financed against. The yield stood at 5.00% at 8:01 a.m. ET, up about 4 basis points, after an overnight high of 5.041%, according to CNBC market data.
AI slowdown has no enforcer: Trump, China's Global Times and Michael Burry all said no
Dario Amodei's plan to slow the AI race is two days old, and every part of it that needed someone else's consent is already gone. The Anthropic chief executive's essay asks for three things: outside evaluators inside every frontier lab, a common speed limit agreed among labs in democratic countries, and eventually a deal with China. By Monday morning the only part still standing was the one Anthropic can do on its own.
South Korea's ICT exports hit a record. Without them, it ran a $6.6 billion trade deficit
South Korea exported a record $59.98 billion of information and communications technology products in August, up 162.6% from a year earlier, the Ministry of Science and ICT said on Monday. For the first time, ICT goods made up more than 60% of everything the country sold abroad. The surplus on that trade was $41.37 billion, also a record and the first time it has passed $40 billion.
Palantir’s AI Growth Is Accelerating—but Expectations Are Rising
Article Brief Key Takeaways 3 Points18s Read 01Growth-Revenue grew 93% year over year in Q2 2026. 02Commercial-U.S. commercial revenue grew 149%. 03Risk-Valuation assumes sustained exceptional growth. $174.33▼ −8.29 (−4.54%) Market Cap 447800425020 Live quotes resolve through TECHi's Alpha Vantage-first market-data stack. Fallback values may be delayed and are not investment advice.
Fenghe Is Open Source. Its Forecasting Proof Is Not.
China's weather agency has made Fenghe available to outside developers. The immediate proof is unusually concrete: model weights, configuration files and a tokenizer are public. The harder proof is still missing. Nothing in the release establishes that Fenghe itself produces a better numerical weather forecast, or that its advice is ready for high-consequence operational use.
CrewAI 1.15.3 Puts Control Hooks Inside AI Agent Runs
Article Brief Key Takeaways 4 Points24s Read 01Control surface-CrewAI 1.15.3 adds interception points around agent execution boundaries, including model and tool operations. 02Safer default-Tool-result caching is now opt-in, making data reuse a deliberate application decision. 03Operational proof-Kickoff results now expose per-call usage while several fixes align hooks, native tools, outputs, and conversation state.
JAX 0.11.0 Makes AI Training Memory Policy Programmable
Article Brief Key Takeaways 4 Points24s Read 01Control surface-custom_remat lets AI framework code express forward, rematerialization and backward behavior at a function boundary. 02Opt-in path-The new behavior depends on experimental remat3, whose configuration flag remains off by default. 03Upgrade risk-Python, NumPy and SciPy minimums rise, while empty arrays now contain uninitialized data rather than zeros.
AWS OpenSearch Agent Toolkit: The Production Control Test
AWS has put Amazon OpenSearch Service inside the same operating path that AI coding agents use to inspect and change cloud infrastructure. Its July 15 OpenSearch Agent Toolkit notice presents the release as a productivity layer: an agent can work through migrations, domain operations, search and retrieval-augmented generation, log analytics, and trace analysis across managed OpenSearch Service domains and OpenSearch Serverless collections.
Samsung’s 20× Flex Titanium Claim Is Not a Durability Test
Article Brief What the evidence says 4 Points24s Read 01Narrow figure-The 20× claim compares one titanium-alloy support film with polymer film; it is not a complete-device durability multiple. 02Existing baseline-Samsung Display already reported a 500,000-fold test for the Fold7 panel, which used a titanium support plate. 03Missing proof-Samsung has not yet published matched crease measurements, a new fold-cycle package or device-level power data for Flex Titanium.
Qwen3.5 on Ironwood: What Google’s 4.7x Gain Proves
Article Brief Key Takeaways 4 Points24s Read 01Measured gain-Google reports 4.7x higher prefill-heavy and 3.1x higher decode-heavy throughput at concurrency 512. 02Real baseline-The comparison is Google’s April-to-June Ironwood software progress, not a new hardware generation. 03Test topology-One host used four physical Ironwood chips exposing eight logical devices. 04Open question-No matched Nvidia GPU test was published, so cross-vendor leadership remains unproven.
Britain’s Teen Curfew Is More Than Theatre—but Not Proof
Britain is choosing a behavioural default, not a lockout, for 16- and 17-year-olds. Under the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s new plan, selected social platforms would block access by default from midnight to 6am and switch off autoplay and continuously personalised feeds. Older teens could reverse those settings. That legal and product distinction matters. A ban removes access; a default establishes the starting state while preserving a user’s choice.
GitHub’s Dependabot Cooldown Has an Install-Layer Gap
Article Brief Key Takeaways 4 Points24s Read 01New baseline-Dependabot now waits three registry days before opening routine version-update pull requests. 02Security fast lane-Dependabot security updates remain immediate and do not inherit the default wait. 03Separate control-npm, pnpm, and Yarn still decide which package versions can resolve and install. 04Operator task-Teams need aligned bot, CI, lockfile, and emergency-exception policies.
Who Gets Paid When AI Needs More Memory? A Field Guide to the Toolmakers
Article Brief Key Takeaways 5 Points30s Read 01The setup-Four companies — ASML, Applied Materials, Lam Research and KLA — sell nearly all the machines that turn memory capex into memory capacity. 02The logic-Toolmakers get paid when fabs are built, not when chip prices hold. Order books follow capital-spending commitments, which run on next year's forecast.
UK AI Battle Lab Turns Army Training Into a Data Loop
Article Brief Key takeaways 3 Points18s Read 01Contract-Britain has awarded a £2 billion, 15-year Army collective-training contract with a planned AI-enabled Combat Laboratory. 02Control gap-The public announcement does not explain how assessments can be challenged, audited or moved between supplier systems. 03Proof standard-A readiness gain is credible only if it can be explained and reproduced outside the platform’s original assessment environment.
TECHi Is Now an NVIDIA Inception Member — Here's How We Got Here
Article Brief Key Takeaways 5 Points30s Read 01The milestone-TECHi's application to the NVIDIA Inception program was approved on June 13, 2026 — welcome email, Jensen Huang greeting and member benefits included. 02The program-Inception is NVIDIA's free, equity-free program for AI startups: technical resources, DLI training, preferred hardware pricing, cloud credits and a VC network. 03The cohort-TECHi joins a global community of 40,000+ technology companies building on accelerated computing.
Why Lumentum Stock Is Up 115% in 2026 — and Jumped 12% on Meta's AI Memo
Image: Corning and NVIDIA optical connectivity for next-generation AI data centers Market Brief Key Takeaways 5 Points30s Read 01The move-Lumentum closed July 9 at $794.30, up 12.33% — about eight times the Nasdaq's gain — and is up roughly 115% in 2026. 02The business-Lasers, 1.6T optical transceivers and optical circuit switches: the bandwidth layer AI clusters need before the first model trains.
Why Lam Research Stock Is Up 154% Without Selling a Single Chip
Image: Layered diagram of the AI hardware stack: AI models and apps, AI chips (Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom), chip foundries (TSMC, Samsung, Intel), and at the base the equipment and materials makers (ASML, Applied Materials, Lam, KLA, Entegris). Article Brief Key Takeaways 5 Points30s Read 01The move-Lam Research closed July 9 at $353.17, up 6%, after TD Cowen, Mizuho, Morgan Stanley and Susquehanna raised targets to $400–$475 within a week.
SanDisk Was the S&P 500's Best Stock of H1 2026. Now Comes the Hard Part
SanDisk ended the first half of 2026 as the best-performing stock in the S&P 500, up 858% — from a $237.38 close on December 31 to $2,273.73 on June 30. Two sessions later, $529 of that share price was gone. Thursday's 14.1% drop — the stock's biggest one-day fall since early February — capped a 23.3% two-session slide and sent SanDisk into the July 4th weekend at $1,745, with US markets shut until Monday, July 6. What changed is the question being asked of the stock.
Micron Passed Its $41 Billion Test. The Stock Failed Anyway.
On June 24, one minute after the closing bell, Micron reported the largest quarter any standalone memory company has ever posted: $41.46 billion in revenue, up 346% in a year, at an 84.9% gross margin. The stock jumped 15.7% the next day to a record close of $1,213.56. Five sessions later, all of it was gone — and then some. Micron ended Thursday at $975.56, seven percent below where it traded before the report came out.
The Glut Scare: What Broke the AI Memory Trade — and What the Math Says
Thursday's selloff priced in an AI memory glut that, on every published construction timeline, does not exist yet. SanDisk closed down 14.1% at $1,745. Teradyne lost 13.6%, KLA 11.5%, Seagate 10.4%, Lam Research 10.2%. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 5.4% on top of Wednesday's 6.3% — an 11.4% wipeout in two sessions — while the Dow rose 595 points to a record close of 52,900.07. Thursday was not a market panic. It was a targeted unwind of the single most profitable trade of 2026.
AMD Stock's $65 Billion Day: The Meta Deal Cuts Both Ways
AMD set its all-time record close, $580.91, on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. It got to keep the record for exactly one session. On July 1 the stock fell 6.9% to $540.88 — about $65 billion of market value on 1.63 billion shares, a larger dollar loss than NVIDIA took the same day — and the proximate cause was a news story about a company that is not AMD. Bloomberg reported that Meta plans to sell its surplus AI computing power. For most chip stocks that was a sector headwind. For AMD it was personal.
Amazon Stock: The 20% AWS Price Hike That Answers Meta's Cloud Play
Two things about the price of artificial intelligence became true on Wednesday, July 1, 2026, and they point in opposite directions. At midnight, a roughly 20% increase in what AWS charges for reserved NVIDIA GPU capacity took effect — announced quietly the week before. By mid-morning, Bloomberg was reporting that Meta plans to sell its surplus AI compute to outsiders.
Tesla Deliveries Today: Three Numbers That Will Move Tesla Stock
Tesla reports second-quarter deliveries on Wednesday, July 2, 2026, and Wall Street has already written the headline: the company-compiled consensus is 406,024 vehicles. The stock walked into the print at $425.30, up 1.1% on July 1 and 24% above its April low, which tells you the market expects the number to clear. The headline is the least interesting part of the release. Tesla's delivery report is really three reports stapled together, and the other two get skimmed every quarter.
Nvidia Stock Barely Moved on July 1. Everything Around It Repriced
NVIDIA closed at $197.58 on Wednesday, July 1, 2026, down 1.25%. In a normal tape that is rounding error. On this tape it was the strangest print of the day — because everything around NVIDIA moved violently, in both directions, for reasons that all run through NVIDIA's chips. A Bloomberg report that Meta plans to sell its surplus AI computing power tore 10% to 17% off the companies that buy NVIDIA GPUs to rent them out.
Palantir Stock's $22 Billion Day: What the NVIDIA Deal Really Buys
Palantir Technologies closed at $125.73 on Wednesday, July 1, 2026 — up 7.8% in a session that added roughly $21.7 billion to its market value on 57 million shares of volume. The proximate cause was a partnership: Palantir and NVIDIA are rolling out an engine for running NVIDIA's AI models inside sovereign, secured environments, and the market treated it as a coronation.
Nebius Lost $12 Billion in a Day. Meta's Cloud Plan Explains Why
Nebius Group closed at $229.18 on Wednesday, July 1, 2026 — down 17% in a single session, the worst one-day loss in the AI-infrastructure complex on a day full of bad ones. That is roughly $11.9 billion of market value, gone between the opening bell and the close. No contract was canceled. No guidance was cut. No customer walked. What happened was a headline.
Robinhood Just Cut 10% of Staff Into Record Volumes — What the HOOD Layoff Means for the Stock
Article Brief Key Takeaways 6 Points36s Read 01The paradox-Robinhood cut ~10% of staff in the same month trading volumes hit records — the market sold the news on day one, then bought it on day two. 02It's a margin story-Read the layoff as an operating-leverage reset, not an HR event: a ~$28M one-time charge against an estimated $77-120M of annual savings.
Do Data Centers Raise Your Electricity Bill? The State-by-State AI Power Fight — and the Utility Stocks Caught in It
Article Brief Key Takeaways 6 Points36s Read 01The short answer-Yes, data centers can raise your bill — but mostly through wholesale and grid-capacity costs, and far less than the viral '267%' figure implies. 02The 267% myth-That number is a Bloomberg analysis of WHOLESALE prices at specific grid nodes — not household bills. Fact-checkers rated 'your bill rose 267%' Mostly False; wholesale is only ~30-50% of a bill.
Onto Innovation Is the AI Chip Buildout's Yield Layer
Article Brief Key Takeaways 3 Points18s Read 01Infrastructure angle-Onto Innovation is an AI-chip infrastructure name because HBM, 2.5D packaging, gate-all-around logic, and chiplet systems need more process control as designs become harder to manufacture. 02Quarter proof-Q1 revenue rose 9.5% year over year to $291.9 million, and management guided Q2 revenue to $320 million-$330 million.
Tesla Is Today's Search Magnet. The Upgrade Didn't Save It
Article Brief Key Takeaways 3 Points18s Read 01Search signal-Tesla was the cleanest single-stock search/trending candidate on June 5, 2026, as TSLA dominated same-day attention despite a sharp selloff. 02Upgrade tension-JPMorgan moved Tesla from underweight to neutral and raised its December 2027 target to $475, but TSLA still closed near $390.46.
Why Bitcoin Is Falling So Hard, and Which Altcoins Are Holding Up
Crypto snapshot Bitcoin BTC-USDBitcoin Circulating supply 20.04M BTC Fear & Greed 11 - Extreme Fear ETF streak 11 red sessions As of Jun 3, 2026. Source: CoinGecko, Alternative.me, CoinShares and SoSoValue-linked ETF reporting. Bitcoin is not falling because of one headline. It is falling because the buyer base that carried it through the last cycle is suddenly more selective, leverage was still leaning the wrong way, and macro risk has stopped giving crypto the benefit of the doubt.
SanDisk Stock: The $42 Billion AI Backlog Is Rewriting the NAND Cycle
SanDisk stock has already had the kind of run that usually ends an argument. On TECHi's live SNDK quote page, Sandisk Corp. was recently marked near $1,784 on June 3, 2026, up 3.95% on the session, sitting at roughly 99% of its 52-week range after moving from a $36.21 low to a $1,810 high in twelve months. That is not a normal semiconductor chart. It is a market trying to decide whether a memory company has escaped the old memory-cycle math.
Michael Saylor's 32 BTC Sale: Bitcoin vs MSTR, Marvell, Micron and SanDisk
The panic around Michael Saylor selling 32 bitcoin starts with a bad shorthand. It was not Saylor's personal wallet hitting the bid. It was Strategy Inc., the company formerly known as MicroStrategy, disclosing in a June 1 filing that it sold a tiny slice of its treasury. The official SEC 8-K says Strategy sold 32 BTC between May 26 and May 31 for about $2.5 million, at an average net price of $77,135, and still held 843,706 BTC as of May 31. That distinction matters. The sale was not a whale exit.
Why Marvell Stock Surged After Jensen Huang’s Nvidia Comments
Marvell Technology stock did not just have a strong semiconductor tape on Tuesday. It had the kind of session that forces investors to redraw the map of the AI infrastructure trade. MRVL closed at $290.79 on June 2, 2026, up 32.52% on TECHi’s live quote stack, after opening at $253.46 and trading more than 101 million shares.
The Tesla-SpaceX Wealth Thesis: One Mission, Not Two Companies
Generational wealth usually starts as a classification error. The market sees separate boxes: car company, rocket company, battery company, satellite network, robot lab, AI software stack. The investor who gets paid early is often the one who sees the system before the spreadsheet has a row for it. That is the cleaner way to read the Tesla-SpaceX debate. The headline version asks whether Tesla and SpaceX will become one company.
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