Welcome to Tech News of the Week for 08/24/2026. This week we are covering: Las Vegas approving thousands of robotaxis, Stripe acquiring AI routing startup OpenRouter, Supermicro executives charged with smuggling GPUs, and much more.
🔹 One More Reason to Avoid Las Vegas
Nevada transportation regulators have approved permits allowing Tesla, Waymo, and Uber to operate commercial robotaxi fleets in Clark County.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/tesla-uber-and-waymo-all-get-the-ok-to-operate-thousands-of-robotaxis-in-nevada/
🔹 Stripe Buying AI Routing Company OpenRouter Because Reasons
Payment infrastructure giant Stripe has finalized a multi-billion dollar acquisition of AI model routing platform OpenRouter.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-16/stripe-nears-deal-to-buy-ai-firm-openrouter-for-over-7-billion
🔹 You Wouldn’t Steal a GPU
Senior executives from Supermicro were indicted by the DOJ for allegedly smuggling 2.5 billion dollars worth of Nvidia GPU servers into China.
https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/08/21/supermicro-fired-staff-after-probe-into-25-billion-gpus-to-china-smuggling-operation/5290791
🔹 Legendary N64 Game GoldenEye 100% Decompiled After Five Years Of Effort
A community developer has completely reverse-engineered the classic Nintendo 64 game GoldenEye 007 into human-readable source code after five years of effort.
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/goldeneye-007-for-n64-has-been-100-percent-decompiled-success-of-half-decade-project-opens-up-possibilities-for-complex-mods-and-ports
🔹 Taxation Is Theft
A new federal bill proposes taxing electricity consumption by large-scale data centers to help fund environmental and public infrastructure programs.
https://techstrong.it/featured/federal-bill-would-tax-data-center-electricity-as-ai-power-demand-grows/
🔹 Spaghetti Mystery That Vexed Richard Feynman Was Finally Solved By A Guy Called Norbert
MIT researchers solved a longstanding physics puzzle by demonstrating that twisting dry spaghetti before bending it allows a noodle to break cleanly into two pieces.
https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-mathematicians-solve-age-old-spaghetti-mystery-0813
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- (00:00) - - Intro
- (01:16) - - One More Reason to Avoid Las Vegas
- (03:58) - - Stripe Buying AI Routing Company OpenRouter Because Reasons
- (06:53) - - You Wouldn't Steal a GPU
- (09:11) - - Legendary N64 Game GoldenEye 100% Decompiled After Five Years Of Effort
- (12:12) - - Taxation Is Theft
- (14:10) - - Spaghetti Mystery That Vexed Richard Feynman Was Finally Solved By A Guy Called Norbert
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