Technology and creativity keep blurring at the edges lately, and this week gives you three good examples. A new EP pairs virtual pop icon Hatsune Miku with Grimes and slayr, and it's shaping up to be one of the year's weirder, more interesting musical experiments. Studio Trigger, the studio behind Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and Promare, is also teasing a mystery project along with more Delicious in Dungeon material.

Then there's that nagging question some people have when a friend buys a Google Pixel overseas: why does theirs act a little differently? The hardware gap between international and American models runs deeper than most buyers realize. Also, if you think AI on social media is leading to needless slop, there’s more. It’s quietly changing your opinions, too, as per Oxford Internet Institute research.

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Apple may be planning to embed a health sensor directly inside one of the silicone bands for the Apple Watch Series 12, according to a new rumor. The sensor would reportedly be injection-molded into the band material itself rather than housed in the watch body, though the source does not specify what health data the sensor would actually measure. For Apple Watch owners who already rely on the device for heart rate, blood oxygen, and ECG readings, the prospect of expanding health tracking into the band itself represents a meaningful shift in how the hardware could be designed.

The same report notes that Apple has only managed to integrate the sensor into silicone so far, with other band materials proving more difficult to work with, a detail that points to an idea still being tested rather than a finalized feature headed to market. Apple has spent years exploring band-based health tools through patents covering areas like blood pressure monitoring, sweat analysis, hydration tracking, and skin authentication, but none of those concepts has made it into a shipping product.

The Apple Watch Series 12 is broadly expected to arrive this fall carrying a new chip inside a design similar to the Series 10, and while the band sensor rumor adds intrigue to that release, it remains unconfirmed and warrants caution until more is known.

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Studio Trigger used Anime Expo to pull back the curtain on several major projects at once, confirming that the studio has far more in the pipeline than just the already-anticipated Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2. Chief among the announcements is a second season of Delicious in Dungeon, the fantasy cooking series that earned strong acclaim when it debuted on Netflix in 2024, with critics describing it as a D&D-flavored hangout show that fills its monster-filled halls with good vibes and sitcom quirks. That second season will arrive in October 2027, following Edgerunners 2 this fall, and teaser visuals shared at the panel confirm the returning cast of characters carries the story forward.

Perhaps the more electric news for longtime Trigger fans is the confirmation that director Hiroyuki Imaishi and writer Kazuki Nakashima, the duo behind Kill la Kill and the film Promare, are collaborating again on a new project. In a video shared at the panel, Nakashima revealed that the script is already finished and that Imaishi is currently working on storyboards. The pair described the project as a culmination of their careers and everything they have built together, though no title, genre details, or release window have been announced.

With Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 set for this fall, Delicious in Dungeon season 2 locked in for October 2027, and the Imaishi-Nakashima project in active production, Trigger is clearly operating on an ambitious multi-year slate that gives fans of every corner of the studio's catalog something to watch for.

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The AI industry’s soaring electricity demand has already become a growing concern for governments, utilities, and technology companies. But a new study suggests the next generation of artificial intelligence could make that problem significantly worse.

Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have published what they describe as the first comprehensive analysis of the energy cost of AI agents – AI systems capable of reasoning, planning, and completing tasks autonomously. Their findings show that these systems can consume up to 136.5 times as much energy per query as conventional generative AI models, raising fresh questions about whether the infrastructure supporting tomorrow’s AI is ready for what’s coming.

The researchers found that AI agents can increase response latency by up to 153.7 times compared to conventional chain-of-thought reasoning. More surprisingly, the expensive GPUs powering these workloads remained idle for up to 54.5 percent of execution time while waiting for external tools to finish their tasks. In other words, the hardware continues consuming power even when it isn’t actively performing AI computation.

To understand the broader implications, the team modelled a future where AI agents handle 13.7 billion requests per day – roughly equivalent to Google’s daily search traffic. Under that scenario, AI infrastructure would require approximately 198.9 gigawatts of electricity, nearly half of the average power consumed across the entire United States and far beyond the capacity of today’s AI data centers.

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Hatsune Miku, the virtual singer at the center of Vocaloid culture, is heading somewhere new. She's the anchor of BEYOND BORDERS Vol.1: EMERGE MODE MIKU, a collaboration EP that Dwango announced at Anime Expo in Los Angeles alongside Nebula17's US Label. Miku takes lead vocals across every track, singing next to a genuinely varied lineup: Grimes, Odetari, slayr, MOLIY, George Clanton, Frost Children, and XAMIYA. The styles run from electronic and hyperpop to alternative, rap, and experimental, which reads as a clear attempt to push Vocaloid music toward a younger, more global crowd.

The production credits are just as loaded. You've got Grant Boutin, who's worked with Tate McRae, plus VADAKIN from Grimes' circle, Byrd off Bad Bunny collaborations, and MOMBRU, best known for his work with Fridayy. On the writing side there's Charles "Scoot" Anderson, who's penned tracks for Ariana Grande, and Cecile Believe, a longtime Charli xcx collaborator. Japanese Vocaloid producers jon-YAKITORY, SatapanP, and picco fill out the roster, keeping the project tied to the bedroom-producer roots that Vocaloid came from in the first place.

There's no firm release date yet, only a fall 2026 target. A run of singles is set for the summer to build some momentum before the full EP lands.

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