Gbps Fiber at Home: What Changed After 30 Days

Illustration of a home connected to gigabit fiber internet at 2 Gbps

BOTTOM LINE Gigabit fiber at home is sold as a transformation, but after thirty days the honest verdict is narrower. Day-to-day tasks, like browsing, email, video calls, and even 4K streaming, already ran fine on a mid-tier connection, so most of that bandwidth sits idle. The real payoff shows up in short, specific bursts: big … Read more

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NVIDIA Is Financing Its Customers. The Goal Is Bigger Than the Next Chip Order.

Abstract graphic of connected infrastructure nodes representing NVIDIA financing its AI customers

BOTTOM LINE NVIDIA isn’t just selling chips anymore. It’s writing checks, taking equity, and guaranteeing leases for the companies that buy those chips. In the past year its unlisted equity investments rose from about $3 billion to $42 billion, and it just backed a $105 billion lease guarantee for a single Ohio campus. The goal … Read more

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NVIDIA Just Filled the One Gap Left in Its AI Stack

NVIDIA and Kumo AI logos illustrating NVIDIA's acquisition of the predictive analytics startup Kumo AI

BOTTOM LINE NVIDIA just spent more than $400 million on Kumo AI, a four-year-old startup that predicts business outcomes like churn, credit risk, and demand, directly from a company’s own data tables. It’s a small deal by NVIDIA’s standards, buried under bigger headlines about GPUs and gigawatt campuses. But it closes the one gap left … Read more

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iOS 27 Beta 6: What’s New?

iOS 27 Beta 6 logo artwork

BOTTOM LINE iOS 27 Beta 6 doesn’t introduce anything new. That’s deliberate. Apple has shifted from building features to stabilizing the conversational Siri, speed gains, and Liquid Glass redesign it introduced earlier this summer. With a public release expected in mid-September alongside the next iPhone lineup, the remaining betas are about making millions of users’ … Read more

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