From AI Experimentation to Institutional Impact at EDUCAUSE 2026

Higher education’s AI challenge is no longer discovering what AI can do. It is building the institutional foundation to use it responsibly, securely, and at scale. At EDUCAUSE 2026, September 29–October 2 in Denver, Dell Technologies and NVIDIA will bring this conversation to life through the theme AI for Impact: Turning Discovery into Outcomes. At […]

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McDonald’s has been using AI to decide how much you should pay for a Big Mac

Recap: McDonald’s has made several attempts to deploy AI across its businesses over the past few years, not all of them successfully. A recent extensive report sheds light on one area where the fast-food giant has had a long and potentially lucrative history with machine learning and algorithms: dynamic pricing. Several sources, including store owners, […]

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UK crypto rules may block new contracts for existing users

The Financial Conduct Authority opened its authorization gateway for the new UK crypto rules on Sept. 30, starting an application window that can protect existing Bitcoin providers’ ability to keep serving UK customers and take new business if approval is still pending when the full regime begins. The window closes Feb. 28, 2027. The full […]

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PropAMMs lower Solana trade costs, and public pool returns crash

A trader can get a better Solana (SOL) swap price while a passive pool depositor remains exposed to traders picking off stale quotes, and a Sept. 29 preprint measures that divide. For quiet-market SOL/USDC fills, propAMMs, pools controlled by professional operators, had a reference-relative execution cost proxy of 0.26 basis points versus 2.59 for public […]

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“The Big Short” investor says he’s rooting for a crash just to stop OpenAI and Anthropic’s IPOs

Crystal ball: Michael Burry rose to prominence as one of America’s best-known investors after profiting from the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008. He no longer manages outside funds, but he remains deeply “bearish” on the AI boom, warning that a bubble could do severe damage to the world’s financial wealth. In a recent post on […]

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This flagship phone could cost nearly twice as much outside China

Add Android Authority on Google: The OPPO Find X10 and Find X10 Pro Max could cost €1,499 and €1,799 in Europe. That would make the Find X10 €500 more expensive than last year’s equivalent Find X9 configuration. OPPO is reportedly planning launch discounts and freebies, with the phones expected in Europe on October 21. Last […]

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Microsoft 365 and LinkedIn leadership update

Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, and Ryan Roslansky, Executive Vice President of LinkedIn and Microsoft 365, shared the below communications with Microsoft and LinkedIn employees this morning. SATYA NADELLA MESSAGE After nearly 18 years at LinkedIn and Microsoft, Ryan Roslansky has decided to leave Microsoft and embark on his next chapter. As Ryan and I […]

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Google’s Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit

Today, our prototype satellite for Project Suncatcher, built in partnership with Planet, launched into orbit aboard the Transporter-18 rideshare mission with SpaceX. Our team has confirmed contact with the satellite and it is operating as expected. This is the first step in a long-term research moonshot exploring whether space could one day host scalable machine […]

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Stablecoin cards enter ‘hyper growth’ mode as monthly spending hits record $1.17 billion

Stablecoin card spending is accelerating to record levels, but the payment rail remains a fraction of the traditional card market. Paymentscan tracked about $1.17 billion in spending through Sept. 30, already above August’s completed total and the highest monthly figure in its displayed series. Cuy Sheffield, head of Visa’s crypto unit, described stablecoin-linked cards as […]

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