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.

Kioxia Exceria Pro G2 2TB SSD Review — Speed built to last
Kioxia Exceria Pro G2 2TB SSD Review — Speed built to last

Kioxia’s Exceria Pro G2 pairs the SM2508 and BiCS8 TLC flash for fast, efficient PCIe 5.0 storage. It’s not the quickest PCIe 5.0 SSD, but it is a reliable Black SN8100 alternative.

Apple iOS 26.6.2 New iPhone Software: Should You Upgrade?

The last iPhone update before iOS 27 lands is now live. So, should you wait for iOS 27 or update now?

Mark Zuckerberg’s Muse personal AI agent is a work accessory designed by people who don’t do real work
Mark Zuckerberg’s Muse personal AI agent is a work accessory designed by people who don’t do real work

Meta’s Muse AI agent looks to solve all your problems – but is it over-promising already?