NVIDIA Packs AI Factories Into Containers. Please Supply Your Own Power.

NVIDIA’s DSX POD promises AI infrastructure in 14 days—at a prepared site. The engineering is useful. The electrical connection remains your problem.

Boston’s ASI Raises $325 Million to Give Airport Chaos a Scheduling Conflict

Boston’s ASI raised $325 million at a $3 billion valuation to expand infrastructure AI. Airline results show promise; nationwide deployment is the test.

DumbTV Lets an AI Agent Evict the Ads From Your Television

DumbTV strips ads, tracking, and bloat from Fire TV and Android TV. It’s clever, reversible, and still a ten-minute trust exercise.

Otter Raises $320 Million to Make Your Meetings Everybody’s Business

Otter’s $320 million growth financing backs a bigger ambition: turning office chatter into enterprise action. Useful memory, meet expensive distribution.

Visa Gives Invoice-Paying AI a Badge to Get Past the CAPTCHA

Visa, BILL and Billtrust pilot AI invoice payments through supplier portals. The useful breakthrough is authentication; the bigger question is who benefits.

Intel Is Teaching SteamOS to Use the GPU It Already Bought

Intel is adding XMX-accelerated XeSS to Proton, potentially making Arc handhelds faster on Linux. The upgrade is smart, unfinished, and gloriously invisible.

Money20/20 USA 2026’s Five Weirdest Finds Include IV Drips and Fraud Escape Rooms

Money20/20 USA 2026’s weirdest first-full-day finds: IV drips, fraud-company escape rooms, robot portraits, golden licenses, merch coins, and Timbaland.

Analogue Relaunched Two 16-Bit Consoles to Make Nostalgia Buy USB-C

Analogue’s Super Nt+ and Mega Sg+ revive FPGA cartridge consoles with wireless controllers and USB-C. Smart preservation or premium nostalgia?

HiBy Built a $439 Music Player With No Internet and 4TB of Peace

HiBy’s $439 RS2 II skips Wi-Fi and streaming for R2R audio, dual card slots, and 4TB of local music. It is gloriously focused—and deliberately inconvenient.

BILL Gives Finance AI an Off Switch. Accountants May Finally Exhale.

BILL rolls out AI invoice checks and finance controls. Here’s what the launch promises, what its savings claims miss, and why accountants still hold the keys.

MiniMax Cuts the AI Agent Bill. The Supervisor Still Costs Extra.

MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash with bargain token rates and ambitious agent benchmarks. Cheap attempts matter; correctly finished work matters more.

This Week in Snark: Flying Roadsters, Gold-Plated Walkmans, and Crypto Discovering the Term Deposit

A Tesla flew, a Walkman got gold screws, and crypto bought a bank. The future arrived this week, mostly with an asterisk and a withdrawal clause.