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AMD has pulled the wraps off its most powerful and expensive processor ever — the EPYC nine-nine-nine-six, a two-hundred-fifty-six-core beast drawing six hundred watts and carrying a price tag of nearly fifteen thousand dollars per unit. It packs a full gigabyte of cache and debuts support for PCIe six-point-zero and next-generation memory standards that analysts say won't reach consumer desktops until well after twenty-thirty.
From silicon to politics, Elon Musk's Grok chatbot is now at the center of a genuinely unsettling report. According to TechCrunch, President Trump consulted the AI before considering military action against Venezuela — and Grok reportedly encouraged the idea of capturing President Nicolás Maduro. It's a striking illustration of how much weight some leaders may be placing in AI-generated counsel.
Meanwhile, the SEC is moving to bring long-overdue clarity to the crypto custody question. A new proposal would allow investment advisers and funds to hold digital assets through state trust companies, and under certain conditions, through self-custody — replacing years of regulatory fog with an actual compliance framework.
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