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Futures Lab students build AI prototypes for learning Japanese and sign-language practice
The Google-funded partnership with the University of Waterloo developed working AI prototypes that generate custom Japanese-learning stories and provide real-time feedback for sign-language practice
Apple Music appears to be testing tiered plans with skip limits
Strings found in the Apple Music Android beta reference "premium access" and a skip limit, suggesting Apple is trialling subscription tiers with different usage limits.
Smart glasses are still a solution looking for a problem
The tech industry keeps promising AI will make smart glasses essential. The best use case anyone can come up with is finding your keys
Google bets on AI coaching and simpler hardware with Fitbit revival
A screenless $99 wearable paired with an AI health assistant signals a shift away from optimisation-focused fitness devices and back towards mainstream wellness tracking
Robinhood just handed the car keys to a teenager
Letting AI agents trade stocks and swipe credit cards unsupervised is not innovation. It is a liability time bomb dressed up as a product launch
DTE Energy and LG Energy Solution to build 1.5 GW of battery storage in Michigan
The pair are investing $1.6 billion on the facility
Snowflake signs $6 billion deal with AWS tied to Graviton and AI chips
The agreement signals a deeper commercial relationship between the two
Meta launches paid tiers across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Meta AI
Testing of the Meta One AI tiers is scheduled to begin next month
Tech-focused bank raises price targets on Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike as AI drives cyber spending
Rather than, undermining the industry, AI is proving to be the biggest growth catalyst for cybersecurity in the past 20 years, investors were told
Warren Buffett holds $397 billion in cash as Michael Burry shorts AI for $1 billion
Buffett and Burry have diagnosed the market correctly. The question is whether they can survive their own diagnosis
Dstl completes trials of optical satellite links for UK forces
The UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory completed field trials of deployable high-speed optical satellite links intended to give armed forces faster, more secure communications on operations.
NASA awards Moon Base hardware contracts to Blue Origin, Astrolab, Lunar Outpost and Firefly Aerospace
NASA awarded contracts to four companies to deliver cargo landers, crewed and autonomous rovers, and a carrier spacecraft as part of the first phase of its Moon Base program.
Bitcoin tests $75,000 support as ETF outflows and Iran uncertainty weigh on sentiment
With four trading days left in May, the margin for error is thin
ByteDance's $70 billion AI bet reveals the geopolitical stakes beneath the capex arms race
China's largest tech companies are spending at scale to achieve AI self-sufficiency as US export controls force a strategic pivot
Robinhood is automating stock trading for everyday investors
The retail brokerage is letting AI agents buy, sell and manage portfolios without human input. It's bringing hedge fund automation to people with modest accounts
Tesla's European recovery, but the competition is relentless
April marked the third consecutive month of growth, but Tesla lost market share in 2025 and Chinese rivals are accelerating past it
AI is making it easier for rogue states to hide money and evade sanctions
North Korea and Iran are using generative AI to forge documents, create fake companies and launder cryptocurrency at scale. Banks and regulators are unprepared
Two EV charging startups merge to control urban robotaxi infrastructure
Revel and Voltera are combining networks across 11 US cities. The merged company will operate over 1,000 charging stations for ride-hail and autonomous vehicles
SK Hynix solves the heat problem that's choking AI chips
The memory maker embedded cooling directly into its chips, cutting thermal resistance by 30%. HBM5 will ship with the technology.
SpaceX flies Starship and deploys Starlink simulators, but booster failure keeps Moon timeline tight
The vehicle demonstrated strong attitude control on reentry, executed a deliberate stress manoeuvre and guided itself to a pre‑planned splashdown zone in the Indian Ocean using two Raptors