A $100 million crypto campaign fund with a pro-Trump vibe so far failed to show up

Many of hyperscalers have already made public commitments in to cover electricity cost increases.

President Donald Trump tried to quell Americans' concerns about rising electricity costs during his State of the Union speech by claiming that he's negotiated a "rate payer protection pledge" with major tech companies, which would see them build out or pay for new electricity generation for their data centers. Leaders from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle and OpenAI are expected to attend a March 4th event to sign the pledge, Fox News reported today. There are very few details at this point on what the pledge entails, nor how companies would be held accountable for following through on any commitments. "Under this bold initiat … Read the full story at The Verge.

Samsung unveiled its Galaxy S26 lineup at its recent Unpacked event in San Francisco. As expected, the new series consists of the baseline S26, which starts at $899.99, and the bigger S26 Plus, which starts at $1,099.99. At the high end, there's also the $1,299.99 S26 Ultra, which is the largest in the lineup and comes with a bigger battery, better cameras, S Pen support, and expanded options for both storage and RAM. The price difference between Samsung's cheapest and most expensive S26 phones is $400 (last year, it was $500). While some of its updated Galaxy AI software features are new, it's another year of minor hardware updates for Sam … Read the full story at The Verge.

Nearly five years after graduating into an independent Alphabet company, Intrinsic is moving under Google's domain.

The software engineer is famous for his online stunts. Now he’s joining the company behind ChatGPT to work on new ways for humans to use AI systems.

Google just announced that Gemini will soon be able to take care of some multi-step tasks on your phone, like ordering food or hailing a car, starting first with the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and the just-announced Samsung Galaxy S26 phones. It all sounds a bit like features Apple announced for Siri way back at the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference - before Apple delayed those planned features in March 2025 and which still aren't released. Onstage, Sameer Samat, Google's president of Android, showed off a demo of how Gemini's new agentic features would work to help wrangle a pizza dinner order from his busy family group chat. Samat asks Ge … Read the full story at The Verge.