Javier Alarcón

The AMD BC-250 is a PlayStation 5 APU discarded for console use that ended up as a crypto mining board and today, with hardware and firmware mods, becomes a low-cost gaming PC. It costs between $70 and $100 on the secondhand market and runs titles like Cyberpunk 2077, GTA V, Counter-Strike 2, and Hitman 3.

Mistral documents how to enable the training opt-out in Vibe, the mobile app, and the API: two separate toggles that you need to configure yourself. The exact steps vary depending on whether you use the consumer plan, Vibe Enterprise, or Mistral Studio.

GPU World is a short story contest imagining a 2040 with billions of GPUs available to all of humanity, even if AI progress freezes in 2026. It awards $100,000 in prizes, judged by Neal Stephenson, Gwern Branwen, and Matt Huang. Submissions close on October 31, 2026.

Nvidia is negotiating to buy Hugging Face for over $13 billion dollars, Business Insider revealed on August 27, 2026. The deal, still unclosed, would give Nvidia control over the central repository of open AI models. Hugging Face had already turned down a smaller Nvidia offer in late 2025.

DuckLabs, the company behind DuckDB, will join Amazon Web Services (AWS) in early September 2026. The team will stay in Amsterdam, and DuckDB, DuckLake, and Quack will remain free software under the MIT license, governed by the DuckDB Foundation.