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There's a dose of skepticism circulating around xAI's reported deal with Anthropic, and what it might mean for SpaceX as the parent company. The Equity podcast team isn't buying the optimism, raising pointed questions about whether this partnership serves genuine strategic interests or something murkier. Worth watching closely.
Shifting to hardware, AMD's Radeon RX nine thousand seventy is hitting an all-time low price, with the PowerColor Hellhound variant dropping twenty-three percent to five hundred fifty-four dollars. That's a serious discount on a card that handles fourteen forty p gaming with confidence and can push four K with upscaling. If you've been waiting for a window, this might be it.
And in a story that feels equal parts engineering and science fiction, MIT researchers have revived a forty-year-old triangular zipper concept, now made real through three-D printing. Their Y-Zipper can transform floppy, tentacle-like structures into rigid load-bearing beams in seconds, opening possibilities for shape-shifting robots and deployable frameworks that were simply impossible to manufacture before now.
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