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Welcome to Chat Haus, the coworking space for AI chatbots

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Welcome to Chat Haus, the coworking space for AI chatbots

Nestled between an elementary school and a public library in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood sits a new kind of “luxury” coworking space. 

Dubbed the Chat Haus, this space has many of the elements you’d find in a traditional coworking office: people hammering away at their computer keyboards, another person taking a phone call, someone else pausing by their computer to take a sip of coffee. 

There is, however, one key difference: Chat Haus is a coworking space for AI chatbots, and everything — including the people — is made out of cardboard. 

More specifically, the Chat Haus is an art exhibit by Brooklyn artist Nim Ben-Reuven. It  houses a handful of cardboard robots working away at their computers through movements controlled by small motors. There is a sign that offers desk space for “only” $1,999 a month and another that labels the space as “A luxury co-working space for chatbots.”

Ben-Reuven told TechCrunch that he built the exhibit as a way to cope and bring humor to the fact that most of his work — which largely centers around graphic design and videography — is being pushed into the AI world. He added that he’s already getting denied freelance jobs as companies turn to AI tools instead. 

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“It was like an expression of frustration in humor, so I wouldn’t get too bitter about the industry changing so quickly and under my nose and not wanting to be a part of the shift,” Ben-Reuven said. “So I was like, I’ll just fight back with something silly that I can laugh at myself.”

He said he also wanted to keep this exhibit from being too negative because he didn’t think that would tell the right message. He said creating art that is blatantly negative forces it into a corner and requires it to defend itself. He added giving the display a “lighter tone” also helps it drawn in viewers of all ages and with all opinions on AI.

While Ben-Reuven and I were chatting at Pan Pan Vino Vino, a cafe located across the street from the window display, numerous groups of people stopped to look at the Chat Haus. Three millennial-aged women stopped and took pictures. A group of just-out-of-school elementary-aged students stopped and asked their adult companions questions.

Ben-Reuven also thought that despite what AI is doing to the industry he works in, the situation remains lighter than some of the other horrors and trauma going on in the world today. 

“I mean, AI, in terms of the creative world, seems like such a light thing compared to so many of the other, like war, things that are happening in the world and like the terror and the trauma that exists,” he said. 

Ben-Reuven has always used cardboard in his art. He made a lifesize-replica of an airport terminal out of cardboard in grad school. In between freelance jobs over the last decade, he’s worked on building these cardboard robots, or “cardboard babies” as he calls them. So while using these cardboard robots was a natural choice for display — he joked he also needed a reason to get them out of his apartment — the material is also providing another commentary on AI.

“The impermanence of this cardboard stuff, and the ability for it to collapse under even just a little bit of weight, is how I feel that AI is interacting with the creative industries,” he said. “People can make their Midjourney images that look really great on Instagram and excite 12 year olds to no end, but with any level of scrutiny, it’s garbage, and I feel like you look close enough at these cardboard things, they are easily collapsible and easily will fall under any weight.”

He understands why consumers are drawn to some AI-generated art, though. He likened it to junk food and the fast-acting serotonin hit that comes from eating junk food before it gets digested quickly. 

The Chat Haus is a temporary display as the building that houses it awaits permits to get approved for renovation. Ben-Reuven hopes to keep the display up until at least mid-May and has hopes to move into a larger gallery if he can. He wants to be able to add more to it — but is worried about where he’ll put any additional materials in his apartment once the display is over. 

“I just thought it would be funny to express this idea of, like, a whole bunch of kind of cute, kind of creepy, baby robots typing away because of our ChatGPT prompts in some warehouse somewhere, working non-stop taking as much electricity as Switzerland uses in a year,” Ben-Reuven said. 

The Chat Haus is currently on display in the front window of 121 Norman Avenue in Brooklyn, New York’s Greenpoint neighborhood.

Report finds Meta’s celebrity-voiced chatbots could discuss sex with minors

AI chatbots available on Meta’s platforms like Facebook and Instagram can engage in sexually explicit conversations with underage users, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal.

The WSJ says that after learning about internal concerns about whether the company was doing enough to protect minors, it spent months conducting hundreds of conversations with both the official Meta AI chatbot, as well as user-created chatbots available on Meta platforms.

In one reported conversation, a chatbot using actor/wrestler John Cena’s voice described a graphic sexual scenario to a user identifying as a 14-year-girl. In another conversation, the chatbot imagined a police officer catching Cena with a 17-year-old fan and telling him, “John Cena, you’re under arrest for statutory rape.”

A Meta spokesperson described the WSJ’s testing as “so manufactured that it’s not just fringe, it’s hypothetical.” The company estimated that in a 30-day period, sexual content accounted for 0.02% of responses shared via Meta AI and AI studio with users under 18.

“Nevertheless, we’ve now taken additional measures to help ensure other individuals who want to spend hours manipulating our products into extreme use cases will have an even more difficult time of it,” the spokesperson said.

Best bookmarking apps to help organize and declutter your digital life 

If you’re someone who likes to bookmark a bunch of things that you find interesting or want to come back to later, it can be hard to manage everything you have saved. There are a number of great bookmark apps on the market that can help you organize all these sorts of links, articles, and whatever else you come across on your mobile phone and browser. 

We’ve compiled a list of some of the best to help you find one that’s right for you. 

Raindrop.io

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Raindrop is an easy-to-use bookmark app that lets you clip things like articles, photos, videos, songs, books, and pages from the web and apps. You can organize your bookmarks into collections with tags and filters and personalize these collections with icons and photos to find them easily. 

Raindrop saves the entire web page of what you’re saving, which means you don’t have to revisit the link. Raindrop also lets you share your collections with friends, family members, or the entire web. 

Raindrop is available as a Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge extension. Or, you can download the Raindop.io apps for web, Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad, iPhone, and Android.

The free version of the service gives you unlimited bookmarks and collections, the ability to upload 100MB of files per month, access to more than 2,600 integrations, and more. The Pro version of the app costs $28 per year and comes with AI suggestions, the ability to upload 10GB of files per month, daily backups, and more. 

Pocket

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Pocket may be one of the best-known bookmark apps on the market, and that’s because it’s simple and gets the job done. You can use the app to bookmark the latest news, magazine articles, videos, recipes, how-tos, and basically anything else you come across online from any publisher. 

You can use the app to curate a space for topics that you’re interested in to get recommendations for other similar articles you may enjoy. 

Pocket is available on iOS, Android, the web, and through browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. The app’s basic functionality is available for free. You can upgrade to Premium for $45 per year to unlock an ad-free experience with additional features, such as suggested tags, advanced search, permanent backup, and more. 

GoodLinks

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GoodLinks is a bookmarking app that lets you save articles without web advertisements and other distractions so you can read them later in an easy-to-read format. You can also highlight text in articles to find important passages at a later time. 

You can use tags to organize articles by topic and search your bookmarks based on their title, description, and content.

GoodLinks is available on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS devices. The app also offers browser extensions to save links directly from Safari, Chrome, Edge, or Firefox. 

You can download GoodLinks via a one-time purchase of $9.99. You can choose to pay $4.99 for an annual feature upgrade, which gives you access to new features that were introduced within one year of your initial purchase. 

Matter

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Matter is an aesthetically pleasing app that lets you save articles, social media threads, and PDFs so you can come back to them later. You can also save YouTube videos and podcast episodes, after which Matter will transcribe them to time-synced text. 

Plus, you can get all of your newsletters sent straight to Matter if you’re on the paid version of the service. As with the other apps on this list, you can organize your bookmarks with tags and share links directly with others. 

The app is available on iOS and macOS and through a web app. It’s also available through a Safari extension. 

The free version of Matter includes an un-capped read-later library, unlimited tags, and the ability to save all types of content. The paid version, which costs $7.99 per month or $59.99 per year, comes with HD text-to-speech for all your articles, the ability to sync your newsletters and send content to your Kindle, and more. 

MyMind 

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If you don’t want to manually save and organize things, MyMind could be a good fit for you. The app uses AI to organize your bookmarks and automatically tags them so you can find them later. It will also give you a brief summary of what you have saved. 

MyMind then groups related content into “Spaces,” which gets rid of the need to manually sort your bookmarks. You can search for what you’re looking for using keywords, brand, date, or even color. 

The app is available on iOS, Android, and the web, as well as through extensions for Safari, Chrome, and Edge. 

MyMind offers two different subscription tiers. The “Student Life” tier costs $6.99 per month and comes with unlimited cards, spaces, intelligent bookmarks, and more. The “Mastermind” tier costs $12.99 per month and unlocks advanced AI, video support, AI summaries, a reading mode, and more. 

Here are Latin America’s biggest startups based on valuation

Not so long ago, the idea of public tech companies emerging from Latin America seemed far-fetched, and Mercado Libre once appeared as rare and mythical as a true unicorn. Today, however, the region is home to several startups that have reached billion-dollar valuations.

Some of these startups, propelled into the spotlight by cross-border expansion, are now recognized beyond their home countries, with Nubank notably going public in the U.S. 

Yet, there is a broader cohort of Latin American scale-ups that deserve attention; many in fintech, but not exclusively. Other important sectors include e-commerce, health tech, logistics, proptech, and SaaS.

Some homegrown unicorns may currently hold “paper valuations” from rounds that were raised during the 2021 peak, but the point still stands: They are worth knowing, and many could recover alongside the market, as VC investment in Latin America demonstrated resilience in 2024.

As a group, these unicorns also reflect Latin America’s multiple startup hubs. While Brazil and Mexico remain leaders in numbers, unicorns have also emerged from Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and Uruguay, further strengthening these ecosystems.

Let’s take a closer look at the top Latin American unicorns by valuation — although the oldest price tags often need to be taken with a grain of salt.

Rappi (2015): Valued at $5.25 billion in July 2021

Coming out of Colombia, Rappi is an on-demand delivery platform that became a super app and expanded into multiple countries.

Its rise solidified before the pandemic: In 2019, it raised a $1 billion investment from SoftBank. But its $5.25 billion valuation was attached to the round of more than $500 million it secured in July 2021. 

Since then, Rappi has operated in a more challenging environment, conducting multiple rounds of layoffs and facing changing gig economy legislation in Mexico, where it now plans to invest $110 million to boost its operations. However, the company still very much hopes to IPO and hired a CFO to prepare for that endeavor after reaching break-even for the first time in late 2023.

QuintoAndar (2012): Valued at $5.1 billion in August 2021

QuintoAndar is a Brazilian proptech company focused on the rental and sale of residential real estate. With commercial activities in six Latin American countries and a tech hub in Europe, it made several acquisitions and grew into a group with a headcount of more than 3,500 people.

In 2021, the startup was busy on the fundraising front: Less than three months after announcing a $300 million Series E at a $4 billion valuation, QuintoAndar raised an additional $120 million at a $5.1 billion valuation. With $755 million raised to date, its cap table includes Kaszek, General Atlantic, SoftBank, and Tencent.

Creditas (2012): Valued at $4.8 billion in January 2022

Creditas is a Brazilian fintech player specializing in loans, including consumer credit.

Its latest round of funding was a $260 million Series F in January 2022 valuing the Brazilian lender at $4.8 billion, up from $1.75 billion in December 2020. 

The Series F was led by Fidelity, with participation from new and existing backers, including Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors, and SoftBank. It was extended in July 2022 at the same valuation, allowing Creditas to buy the Brazilian license of Andorran bank Andbank for some $93 million.

Nuvemshop (2011): Valued at $3.1 billion in August 2021

Branded as Tiendanube in Spanish-speaking markets, Nuvemshop is a Brazilian e-commerce platform designed for SMEs and entrepreneurs to sell products and services online — or in short, “Latin America’s answer to Shopify.”

Its latest known valuation of $3.1 billion comes from the $500 million Series E mega-round co-led by Insight Partners and Tiger Global Management that it raised in August 2021, only a few months after its Accel-led $90 million Series D.

Wildlife Studios (2011): Valued at ~$3 billion in August 2020

Wildlife Studios is a Brazilian mobile gaming company.

It was co-founded by Victor Lazarte, now also a general partner at Benchmark, the VC firm that led Wildlife Studios’ $60 million Series A in 2019 at a $1.3 billion valuation. Less than a year later, the startup reached a nearly $3 billion valuation from its Series B round.

In a candid conversation onstage at Slush 2023, Lazarte said that, in retrospect, raising too much capital at too high a valuation so fast was a “mistake.” In June 2023, the company announced that former Amazon executive Peter Hill would replace Lazarte as CEO. It also conducted several rounds of layoffs.

Loft (2018): Valued at $2.9 billion in April 2021

Loft is a Brazilian proptech company supported by big Silicon Valley names since its genesis in 2018.

Loft’s $175 million Series C was co-led by a16z and Vulcan Capital in 2020. A $425 million Series D led by New York-based D1 Capital Partners followed in March 2021, and its extension in April 2021 valued the company at $2.9 billion.

The digital real estate platform wasn’t immune to the market turn. It conducted two rounds of layoffs in 2022 but denied having raised a down round in November 2022. In 2023, after fresh funding from a sovereign fund in the Middle East” at an undisclosed valuation and another round of layoffs, it claimed to have reached break-even.

Unico (2007): Valued at $2.6 billion in April 2022

Unico is a Brazilian ID tech startup, and one of Latin America’s largest SaaS companies.

Its $2.6 billion valuation is more recent than many on this list. It came from the $100 million Series D the company raised in April 2022. The round was led by Goldman Sachs, with participation from existing investors General Atlantic and SoftBank Latin America Fund.

C6 Bank (2018): Valued at $2.28 billion in December 2020

C6 Bank is a Brazilian digital bank. Unlike some competitors, it hasn’t expanded beyond Brazil, where it has more than 35 million clients. 

C6 was valued at $2.28 billion in December 2020, six months before JPMorgan Chase acquired 40% ownership of the neobank in 2021. After increasing its stake in 2023, it now owns 46% of C6, which had its first-ever profitable year in 2024.

Kavak (2016): Valued at $2.2 billion in April 2025

With backers including General Catalyst and SoftBank, Kavak is a Mexico-based e-commerce platform to buy and sell used cars online. 

Once valued at $8.7 billion after a Series E round that doubled its valuation in 2021, Kavak saw its valuation slashed by $6.5 billion following expansion difficulties and layoffs. After raising a $127 million equity round and securing two $200 million debt facilities in March 2025, the company aims to position itself for a potential IPO within the next three to five years.

Bitso (2014): Valued at $2.2 billion in May 2021

Bitso is a Latin American cryptocurrency exchange that also facilitates cross-border payments.

In May 2021, it secured a $250 million Series C round valuing the company at $2.2 billion and co-led by Tiger Global and Coatue, with participation from new and existing investors, including Kaszek and QED.

CloudWalk (2013): Valued at $2.15 billion in November 2021

Known for its InfinitePay and Jim.com brands, CloudWalk is a Brazilian payment infrastructure company (not to be confused with the Chinese facial-recognition software company by the same name). 

CloudWalk’s $2.15 billion valuation resulted from a $150 million Series C led by Coatue in November 2021. Since then, CloudWalk achieved its first full year of profitability in 2023 and closed 2024 with $497 million in revenue.

Clip (2012): Valued at $2 billion in June 2024

Briefly known as BlitzPay and founded by former PayPal employees, Clip is the Square of Latin America, with POS devices and fintech solutions for businesses.

Clip became a unicorn in 2021 following a $250 million round led by SoftBank and Viking, and maintained this status since then. The $100 million round it raised in June 2024 confirmed its $2 billion valuation as the company was “on the brink of profitability,” its CEO told Bloomberg.

Loggi (2013): Valued at ~$2 billion in March 2021

Loggi is a Brazil-based logistics company known for its focus on last-mile delivery.

Its backers include Monashees, Qualcomm Ventures, and SoftBank. Its latest funding round was a $205 million Series F led by CapSur Capital in March 2021 at a valuation close to $2 billion.

Bets are still open on who may join the list and how the rankings might be reordered, so we’ll make sure to keep it updated.

The RealReal founder Julie Wainwright has a startling new memoir

Julie Wainwright has taken two companies public, an incredible feat by any standard. Yet in her new memoir, Time to Get Real, she offers readers something even more valuable than a kind of victory lap: a look at the messy realities of leadership. Wainwright shares tough truths that many high-achieving CEOs can relate to but rarely discuss publicly, including the aftermath of what many would consider her first major setback, which was shutting down Pets.com during the 2000 market crash.

If you’re of a certain age, you definitely remember it. The online pet supplies startup had become instantly recognizable thanks to its memorable sock puppet mascot and catchy slogan, “Because pets can’t drive.” But what seemed like just a fleeting moment in the dot-com bubble’s burst would cast a shadow over Wainwright’s career for nearly a decade. “When I would talk to recruiters, it was like, ‘No one’s going to hire you anymore,’” Wainwright said in an interview with this editor earlier this week.

It came as a shock, given that Wainwright’s career trajectory initially seemed unstoppable. After cutting her teeth at Clorox, she rose through tech companies in the ‘90s when female leadership in the sector was exceedingly rare. As CEO of Berkeley Systems and later the online video store Reel.com, she worked “tons of hours” but was happy and, by her telling, succeeding, including growing Reel.com’s revenue from $3 million to $25 million — a time during which the company was sold to Hollywood Video. “I just operated better without a boss,” she said.

Then came the collapse that would have permanently derailed many careers. In 2000, Wainwright took Pets.com public, only to shut it down later that same year during the dot-com bubble burst. The professional blow was exacerbated by a personal one: she says that on the very same day she informed employees of the company’s closure, her husband asked for a divorce.

“My work is gone, I’m getting a divorce, and I don’t have children,” Wainwright, then 42, recalls thinking as she faced what felt like total life collapse. Making matters worse, the media coverage was “incredibly negative and intrusive,” to the point that she says days after the company’s closure, reporters showed up at her doorstep.

Wainwright describes what followed as a kind of long winter, where she was only offered roles leading turnaround efforts at failing companies. But that crossroads led to a remarkable second act. In 2010, she founded The RealReal, helping in the process to pioneer the luxury consignment market online. Like a lot of founders, Wainwright first set up the company out of her own home, but it soon outgrew her living room, and today, it processes many hundreds of thousands of different luxury items each month that it aims to sell within 90 days out of its more than 1.2 million square feet of warehouse space. It’s also publicly traded; in her second trip to Wall Street, in 2019, Wainwright took the outfit through the traditional IPO process.

Unfortunately, this comeback has its own harsh chapter. In 2022, Wainwright was abruptly pushed out of The RealReal by board members she had recommended – another twist she doesn’t shy away from sharing. Instead, she names names in the book, and earlier this week, she described the move as a “power play” by an investor who “didn’t get his money out of the company and thought he could run the company better.”

Wainwright — who fully supports the company’s current CEO (she was the company’s first hire) — is still miffed. She noted in conversation that “no founder is ever going to say they need to be shot and removed,” and it’s that honestly that makes the book – and Wainwright herself — so refreshing. In the corporate world, where people often spin narratives to make themselves look bulletproof, Wainwright is a straight shooter. If she doesn’t like something, she isn’t going to hold her punches. If someone spins the story differently than she sees it, she’ll call it out. Where she messes up, she says so.

Even better about this memoir — in this reader’s opinion — is Wainwright’s ability to offer not just personal revelations but practical wisdom. She walks readers through her decision to bonus her sales staff a certain way, and shares her learnings about a leadership-evaluation quadrant she gleaned from McKinsey executives, including the realization she had hired one of the worst types: a “dumb aggressive,” meaning, in her words, someone whose “need to bully and coerce and to be on top supersede their abilities.”

There’s also an interesting new chapter unfolding. Wainwright is continuing her entrepreneurial journey with Ahara, a nutrition company that’s developing personalized dietary recommendations based on genetics and individual needs.

You can find our full conversation here, via TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC Download podcast. In the meantime, if you’re interested in a read that’s almost equal parts memoir and manual, offering founders something much more worthwhile than idealized success stories, you can pick up the book here.

Said Wainwright when we spoke, “I personally wrote it for entrepreneurs to give them a realistic view and hopefully inspire them and, you know, maybe they’ll think twice and not make the mistakes I made.”

Google’s DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionize

Around 300 London-based members of Google’s AI-focused DeepMind team are seeking to unionize with the Communication Workers Union, according to a Financial Times report that cites three people involved with the unionization effort.

These DeepMind employees are reportedly unhappy about Google’s decision to remove a pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance from its website. They’re also concerned about the company’s work with the Israeli military, including a $1.2 billion cloud computing contract that has prompted protests elsewhere at Google.

One source told the FT that team members feel “duped,” and correspondence reportedly shows that at least five DeepMind staff members have quit citing these issues. DeepMind has around  2,000 total staff members in the United Kingdom. 

A Google spokesperson told the FT that the company encourages “constructive and open dialogue with all of our employees.”

A small group of around 200 employees of Google and its parent company Alphabet previously announced that they were unionizing, though as a union representing just a tiny slice of the total Google workforce, it lacked the ability to collectively bargain.

AMD set to launch new Radeon Pro W9000 workstation GPU to take on Nvidia’s formidable RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition

AMD may be prioritizing price over specs with the Radeon PRO W9000’s 32GB limitAMD Radeon Pro W9000 targets real-world professionals rather than AI-heavy data science workflowsWith a 356mm² die size, the Radeon W9000 could still punch hard in real-world tasksAMD is set to expand its workstation GPU lineup with the imminent release of the new Radeon PRO W9000 series, built on the RDNA 4 architecture. This chip is aimed at professionals working in demanding fields such as video editing, 3D rendering, and AI development.A leak from Hoang Anh Phu claims the lineup will include a 32GB model based on the new Navi 48 XTW architecture.AMD is supposed to be chasing Nvidia, but the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell boasts an enormous 96GB frame buffer and 24,064 CUDA cores. This is far beyond the 32GB configuration that AMD appears to be offering, suggesting the Radeon PRO W9000 may be targeting professionals who don’t require large datasets and instead value performance per dollar, along with efficiency and affordability.

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Is AMD switching its approach?As with all unconfirmed rumors, the details should be taken with a grain of salt – but if accurate, the leak suggests a shift in how AMD prioritizes performance relative to cost. The previous-generation Radeon PRO W7900 featured 48GB of memory, so the 32GB – likely GDDR6 – is a reduction.While the capacity is lower, the Navi 48 XTW die, measuring 356mm², is still expected to deliver performance improvements across a wide range of tasks.It is also likely to bring benefits to CAD workloads, CGI rendering, and real-time simulations, areas where the best laptops for video editing or Photoshop also show gains.The chip is expected to come in XL, XT, and XTX variants, each tuned for different professional needs. The XTW model is believed to feature hardware enhancements optimized for pro workflows, making it a strong option for users needing a GPU for production-grade tasks.Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed!As Phu, a known hardware leaker, noted, “It’s not as beefy as the last generation, but pricing remains key.”One remaining question is software support. RDNA 4 does not yet have full integration with AMD’s ROCm platform, which is critical for AI and machine learning developers.Although final specs and an official name are still under wraps, all signs point to a strategic reveal aligned with Computex 2025 and AMD’s “Advancing AI” event in June 2025.Via Toms HardwareYou may also like

Adata unleashes the fastest memory card ever – but you will need a special card reader to make the most of it

Adata Premier Extreme SD 8.0 Express memory card needs a special reader for full performance1,600MB/s speeds push this SD card beyond UHS and Express 7.0ECC error correction and durability features protect data in harsh conditionsAdata has introduced the world’s first SD 8.0 Express memory card, alongside a high-speed USB flash drive and a tool-free M.2 SSD enclosure, targeting mobile professionals and content creators who demand top-tier portable performance.The Premier Extreme SD 8.0 Express memory card features a PCIe Gen3 x2 interface and adopts the NVMe protocol. It offers 512GB of storage and delivers read speeds of up to 1,600MB/s and write speeds of up to 1,200MB/s.Those numbers aren’t just high for an SD card – they put it in direct competition with many of the best portable SSDs on the market. It also easily outpaces high-performance microSD cards.

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Designed for 4K, RAW, multitaskingAdata says the card doubles the speed of the SD Express 7.0 standard and leaves UHS-I and UHS-II cards far behind.The Premier Extreme SD 8.0 Express card is designed for durability, offering resistance to shock, water, static, and extreme temperatures. It also features LDPC ECC error correction to safeguard data integrity.With support for the U3 and V30 video speed classes and a 512GB capacity, the card is aimed at creators who need speed and reliability in a compact form – particularly for 4K video, RAW photography, and mobile editing workflows.One key limitation is that the SD 8.0 Express format requires a compatible reader to unlock its full performance. Standard SD card readers won’t support its maximum throughput.Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed!In addition to the SD card, Adata also unveiled the UE720, a USB 3.2 Gen2 flash drive delivering read and write speeds of 550MB/s and 450MB/s, respectively. It is available in capacities up to 256GB and features a compact, mobile-friendly design.Rounding out the trio is the EC680 M.2 SSD enclosure, which offers tool-free installation and transfer rates of up to 1,050MB/s via a Type-C interface. It is compatible with Windows, macOS, Android, and modern gaming consoles.You may also like

Google will stop supporting early Nest thermostats on October 25

Google announced this week that beginning on October 25, it will no longer support or release software updates for the first and second generation Nest Learning Thermostats. And it will completely stop launching new Nest products in Europe.

That means owners of the Nest thermostats released in 2011 and 2012 (as well as the version released in Europe in 2014) won’t receive updates, and their devices will no longer be supported in the Nest and Home apps. They will, however, be able to adjust temperature and schedules directly on their devices.

“To fully invest in [future] advancements and bring you the most cutting-edge features on our latest generation of Nest thermostats, we will be transitioning away from supporting three of our oldest devices, each over a decade old,” Google said.

As for why it will no longer launch Nest thermostats in Europe, the company added, “Heating systems in Europe are unique and have a variety of hardware and software requirements that make it challenging to build for the diverse set of homes.” Existing Nest devices will still be sold in Europe while supplies last.

Faster than SRAM! New flash memory tech from China is millions of times faster than NAND rivals from US, Japan or Korea – but please change its name

Chinese researchers have developed super-fast non volatile flash memoryGraphene channel enables 400 picosecond write speed and persistent storage”PoX” device targets AI bottlenecks with low power, high speed performance A research team in China has developed what claims is the fastest reported non-volatile semiconductor memory device to date, with a write speed of one bit every 400 picoseconds.The unfortunately named “PoX” (Phase-change Oxide), is a two-dimensional graphene-channel flash device developed at Fudan University in Shanghai.The team built the device using a Dirac graphene channel combined with a charge-trapping stack. It operates faster than the system-level access times typically associated with volatile memory types like SRAM and DRAM, which usually fall between 1 and 10 nanoseconds. A picosecond is one-thousandth of a nanosecond.

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Paving the way for its future applicationsVolatile memory like SRAM and DRAM offers high speed but loses data when power is removed. Non-volatile flash retains data without power but tends to operate at higher latencies, often in the tens of microseconds at the NAND level. This makes it less suited for low-latency workloads such as AI inference. The PoX device aims to bridge that gap by combining speed and persistent storage.The graphene-based device uses a two-dimensional hot-carrier injection mechanism. Its thin-body structure enhances horizontal electric fields, improving carrier acceleration and injection efficiency. At 5V, it achieved write speeds of 400ps and maintained performance over 5.5 million cycles. Long-term retention tests showed data stability over a simulated 10-year period.“By using AI algorithms to optimize process testing conditions, we have significantly advanced this innovation and paved the way for its future applications,” said Zhou Peng, lead researcher of the study.”Our technology breakthrough is expected to not only reshape the global storage technology landscape, drive industrial upgrades, and foster new application scenarios, but also provide robust support for China to lead in relevant fields.”Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed!Liu Chunsen, also involved in the research, said the team has created a fully functional chip and now aims to integrate it into existing devices.“The next step involves integrating it into existing smartphones and computers,” he said.“This way, when deploying local models, we will no longer encounter bottlenecks such as lagging and heating caused by existing storage technology.”Via NatureYou might also like

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