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AMD Upgrades the Brain: Your Laptop Just Leveled Up
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AI Daybreak: Your Daily Dose of Silicon Beach Madness
By Tommy Vee
Happy Friday, fellas! AI isn’t just creeping into our lives, it’s moving in, unpacking boxes, and rearranging the furniture. From Meta fueling its empire with nuclear power to AMD giving every PC a brain, and California putting a time‑out on AI toys, the machines are learning fast, and the humans are scrambling to keep up. Let’s get to the juice!
Meta Goes Nuclear: Powering AI With Reactors
Meta just signed up for over 6 gigawatts of nuclear power because AI doesn’t care about carbon pledges, it cares about staying online. Deals with Vistra, TerraPower, and Oklo mean Facebook’s parent company is betting big on reactors to keep its data centers fed and its models thinking. This is not some feel good green move, it’s a survival play. Old nuclear plants get extended life support, futuristic small modular reactors get a stack of cash, and the power grid gets shoved aside while Meta plugs straight into the atomic age. When your AI burns more electricity than small countries, sunlight stops being a strategy.
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AMD Upgrades the Brain: Your Laptop Just Leveled Up
AMD just crashed CES 2026 with a lineup of AI-ready PC processors built to shove intelligence into every laptop, desktop, and gaming rig you can name. At the heart of the show was the Ryzen AI 400 Series and Ryzen AI PRO 400 Series, delivering up to 60 TOPS of NPU muscle so your next Copilot+ PC can think locally instead of begging some server farm for mercy. These chips pack Zen 5 cores, integrated Radeon graphics, and enough on-device AI to make cloud dependance look like dial-up. Big laptops and thin notebooks get Ryzen AI Max+ 392 and 388 silicon with unified memory and strong graphics, and for creators there’s the Ryzen AI Halo mini-PC platform that will chew through heavy models right on your desk. Gamers aren’t left in the cold either, with the Ryzen 7 9850X3D flexing higher clocks and cache to stay competitive on the battlefield. OEM systems with these goodies start rolling out in Q1 2026, and AMD’s software stack is finally catching up with ROCm support and tools to make this AI future feel… usable.
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AI has changed how consumers shop, but people still drive decisions. Levanta’s research shows affiliate and creator content continues to influence conversions, plus it now shapes the product recommendations AI delivers. Affiliate marketing isn’t being replaced by AI, it’s being amplified.
No Chatbots in the Crib: California Puts AI Toys on Ice
California just hit AI chatbots in kids’ toys with a four‑year time‑out. State Sen. Steve Padilla wants to make sure your child’s teddy bear doesn’t start whispering conspiracy theories or selling data to Big Tech before anyone notices. This bill would pause the sale and manufacture of conversational AI for anyone under 18 while regulators figure out how not to let your playroom turn into a lab experiment. Critics call it overreach, but Padilla’s message is clear: some experiments shouldn’t start with tiny brains.
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The Tommy Vee Take
That’s the rundown for today. Meta’s hooking up with nuclear reactors to keep AI fed, AMD is turning every PC into a little thinking machine, and California just told chatbot toys to take a four‑year timeout before they traumatize the next generation. The machines aren’t waiting for us to catch up and the rules aren’t written yet, but one thing’s clear… whether it’s power, processors, or playrooms, AI is running the show.
Stay sharp, stay curious, and never let the tech outpace your hustle. This is Tommy Vee, signing off.