A small Miami startup says it has done what every frontier AI lab has been chasing for nearly a decade. The company, called Subquadratic, claims its new SubQ model finally escapes the quadratic scaling wall that has bottlenecked transformers since 2017, and it has the eye-popping numbers (and skeptical critics) to match.
Across small towns, suburbs, and even rural farmland, residents are showing up to town halls in record numbers with one message for tech giants: build your servers somewhere else. What started as scattered grumbling has turned into an organized, bipartisan movement that’s already reshaping how and where Big Tech expands.
The most consequential alliance of the AI era just got an open marriage. After years of running almost exclusively on Microsoft Azure, OpenAI is free to sell its models through any cloud, and Microsoft is walking away with a fatter wallet and fewer legal headaches. Both sides are calling it a win, and honestly, the math checks out.
Buying a phone in 2026 feels like trying to read a menu in a language you don’t speak. Prices keep climbing, AI buzzwords keep multiplying, and every brand insists its model is the one. Then there’s the Google Pixel 9a, a $499 phone that quietly does most of what a $1,000 flagship does and saves you a stack of cash in the process.
