☕️ Nvidia jumps into PCs with new Arm-based chip

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💻 Nvidia jumps into PCs with new Arm-based chip

👓 Apple targets eyewear market with 2027 smart glasses

🧠 China approves first invasive brain-computer chip

🔌 US closes loophole on Nvidia chips reaching China

🏃 Strava declares war on scrapers

Plus: 🎁 12 other news you might like, 🧰 6 tools, and 📚 1 papers.

💻 Nvidia jumps into PCs with new Arm-based chip LINK

Nvidia has unveiled the RTX Spark, a new superchip for Windows PCs built with Microsoft that the company is calling the most efficient PC chip ever made, arriving this fall.

The RTX Spark fuses a Blackwell GPU with a new Arm-based N1X CPU custom designed by MediaTek, paired with 128 gigabytes of unified memory and built on TSMC's 3-nanometer technology.

Nvidia plans more than 30 laptops and 10 desktops from Dell, HP, ASUS, Lenovo, MSI and Microsoft, with the first laptops as thin as 14 millimeters and aimed at creators, AI developers and gamers.

👓 Apple targets eyewear market with 2027 smart glasses LINK

Apple is preparing to enter the eyewear market in 2027 with smart glasses that will compete not only against Meta and Samsung but also traditional brands like Oakley, Ray-Ban, and Warby Parker in the $200-$500 range.

According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is skipping the luxury end of eyewear, a market worth an estimated $180 to $200 billion annually, after its $10,000 gold Apple Watch failed to gain traction with high-end buyers.

Apple is betting that its brand, industrial design, iPhone integration, ecosystem of over 2 billion active devices, global retail footprint, and artificial intelligence features will convince regular glasses shoppers to pick an Apple pair instead.

🧠 China approves first invasive brain-computer chip LINK

China has cleared NEO, the world's first invasive brain-computer interface approved for use outside clinical trials, giving patients aged 18 to 60 with limb paralysis from spinal cord injuries access to the implant.

Built by Shanghai startup Neuracle Technology with Tsinghua University, the coin-size NEO places eight sensors on the dura mater rather than piercing the cortex like Neuralink's N1, lowering the risk of hemorrhage and scarring.

The device reads brain signals and sends them to a computer that drives a soft robotic glove during daily 2.5-hour training, and China is already adding NEO to its health insurance system through a unique code.

🔌 US closes loophole on Nvidia chips reaching China LINK

The US Commerce Department has shut a loophole that let Chinese AI companies buy Nvidia's top chips through overseas subsidiaries, with new guidance tying export-licence rules to where a company is headquartered rather than physically located.

The rule now covers advanced processors including Nvidia's Rubin and Blackwell and AMD's MI350x, and one industry source told Reuters that hundreds of thousands of these chips may have reached Chinese-linked entities abroad while the gap was open.

The guidance applies only to future sales, so data centres already running the chips can keep using them and servicing of servers continues, closing ambiguity left after the Trump administration declined to enforce the Biden-era AI Diffusion rule in May 2025.

🏃 Strava declares war on scrapers LINK

Strava is cracking down on AI scrapers by locking public profiles and fitness club listings behind logins, and charging developers a flat $11.99 monthly fee for API access that used to be free under a tiered program.

The company will retire some API endpoints that let outside apps pull data like club details, give developers a 90-day grace period, and add support for Model Context Protocol so AI assistants get structured, controlled access.

CEO Michael Martin said Strava refused data licensing deals from leading AI labs and called out Perplexity for routing scraping through aggregator services to hide its origin after being turned away by the company.

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📚 Trending papers & reports

Parquet file performance on GPUs improves dramatically with smarter settings, reaching up to 125 GB/s read bandwidth, proving the format itself isn't the problem, just how it's configured.LINK

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