Hot Summers, Water Supply And Frivolous AI Use On Social Media

Those cute AI-generated social media caricatures come with a potential cost for you and our planet.

Today’s Apple iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max deals include big discounts — I’m rounding up the best preorder promotions right here
Today’s Apple iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max deals include big discounts — I’m rounding up the best preorder promotions right here

Ready to upgrade? Here are all the best iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max deals to preorder today.

Where to preorder the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max
Where to preorder the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max

The iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max are almost here. Announced at Apple’s September 2026 “Sunrise and shine” event alongside the iPhone Duo and other new gear, the two upgraded phones feature the faster A20 Pro processor with more GPU power as well as more neural cores for AI-related tasks, plus some welcome improvements […]

This week on Tom’s Hardware Premium: September 12, 2026 — Benchmarking Qwen 3.8, the splintered compute economy and AI breakthroughs
This week on Tom’s Hardware Premium: September 12, 2026 — Benchmarking Qwen 3.8, the splintered compute economy and AI breakthroughs

This week on Tom’s Hardware Premium, we benchmarked Qwen 3.8 on a slew of different hardware, ruminated on the state of modern computing after returning from IFA 2026, and broke down everything

Perseid meteors meet mesmerizing star trails over Egypt’s Western Desert
Perseid meteors meet mesmerizing star trails over Egypt’s Western Desert

Osama Fathi captured this breathtaking view of Perseids cutting through star trails from Egypt’s Western Desert on Aug. 13-14.

Oracle has set aside $700M more for job cuts it has not made yet
Oracle has set aside $700M more for job cuts it has not made yet

Oracle has raised the cost of its 2026 restructuring by $700M to about $2.8B, covering actions it says it expects to take, and disclosed a plan letting Larry Ellison sell 50 million shares by 24 October. Roughly 92,000 of its 141,000 staff work outside…

Iran could potentially reverse-engineer captured US underwater drone — several Iranian embassies mock US over capture, Navy claims lost Anduril vehicle was defective and unclassified

Iran may reverse-engineer a captured U.S. Navy Anduril Dive-LD underwater drone, as Tehran mocks the loss and Washington downplays its military value.

China’s AI industry is moving from models to agents, a state report says
China’s AI industry is moving from models to agents, a state report says

China’s AI industry is moving from competing on models to deploying agents, and the China Telecom Research Institute expects inference to reach 80% of the country’s compute market by 2029. Europe’s answer is seven gigafactories whose bids close in Nove…

Nvidia may put $10bn into Anthropic’s IPO, more than Europe’s largest AI round in full
Nvidia may put $10bn into Anthropic’s IPO, more than Europe’s largest AI round in full

Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $10bn in Anthropic’s initial public offering, which seeks as much as $100bn at a valuation near $2trn and would be the largest listing in history. Three days earlier it returned as an investor in Mistral’s EUR 3bn rou…

Will Your Next Phone Battery Be Made From Recycled Solar Cells?

A new study demonstrates a promising recycling method: transforming silicon from end-of-life solar panels into high-capacity anodes for lithium-ion batteries.