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Former OpenAI staffers warn xAI safety failures could complicate SpaceX IPO

Its safety record is an “unpriced risk” that could complicate SpaceX’s plan to raise up to $75 billion in its expected IPO.

Vast Space will sell 15 kW-class high-power satellite buses

The company is expanding beyond its Haven-1 private station plan to offer a 15 kW-class satellite bus for power-hungry missions, with a four-unit customer order, options for up to 200, and a launch target of at least 10 satellites in Q4 2027.

Microsoft puts Intel back at the front of the Surface queue and charges a premium for the privilege

New Surface Pro 12 and Laptop 8 ship today with Intel's Core Ultra Series 3, starting at $1,950. Qualcomm variants come later.

Amazon's Trainium chips are starting to crack Nvidia's grip on AI developers

The $20 billion custom silicon business is winning real workloads from frontier labs, and the timing could not be worse for Nvidia's earnings week

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Nvidia's first CPU lands at OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX, and the pitch is all about agents

Vera marks Nvidia's move beyond GPUs into a part of the data centre stack it has never owned before

Deep Robotics seeks 2.5 billion yuan Shanghai IPO

The quadruped robot maker swung to the black in 2025, but government subsidies did a lot of the heavy lifting

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Apple Intelligence finds its most compelling use case in accessibility

Natural language navigation and AI-powered image descriptions are coming to VoiceOver, Magnifier and Voice Control later this year

AI's winner-takes-most economy is getting harder to ignore

BlackRock's reported $10 billion interest in SpaceX is the latest sign that institutional capital is clustering around a handful of names

Anthropic opens the door on Mythos cybersecurity findings

AI company drops confidentiality restrictions so partners can share threat intelligence with smaller firms

Apple will kick off Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8

Apple said it will open its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8, offering developers an early look at new tools, technologies and features and opportunities to meet Apple engineers and designers.

Musk loses OpenAI trial but verdict side-steps the real issue at the centre of the case

A unanimous jury needed less than two hours to dismiss the case on a technicality, clearing the way for what could be the largest tech IPO in history

Google DeepMind launches climate-focused AI accelerator for Asia Pacific startups

Selected organisations will receive expert mentorship, tailored support and help integrating frontier AI and science AI models from Google's researchers into their projects or products

Apple repurposes failed chips across products

The reuse of marginal dies has likely produced savings amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars

Nvidia earnings to test Wall Street's AI spending thesis

Wedbush's Dan Ives expects the chipmaker to beat estimates on Wednesday, with Big Tech capex set to top $750 billion this year

AWS chief's AI job message is more nuanced than the headline suggests: adapt or worry, but don't expect the status qu...

Matt Garman told the Wall Street Journal that AI will transform every job and every company, but argued the disruption creates more work than it destroys, provided workers are willing to keep learning.

Apple Watch Ultra 4 redesign could lift shipments 30% and signals Apple's plan to stretch the Ultra brand across its...

Digitimes reports the tech giant will overhaul the Watch Ultra 4 with a full redesign and significant sensing improvements that market watchers say could lift shipments and drive large sensor orders to Taiwan-Asia Semiconductor.

Bitcoin drops 7% to $76,000 as Trump's Iran threats remind crypto markets that geopolitics still trumps ETF inflows

Over $600 million in leveraged long positions were liquidated in 24 hours as oil surged above $100 and traders warned of a potential slide to $65,000 if support fails

Fabric.AI is targeting the AI infrastructure bottleneck that nobody outside data centres talks about

The company plans to demonstrate a MicroLED-based optical interconnect by year-end that it claims can move data between chips faster and cooler than existing technologies, addressing a constraint that is becoming as important as the processors themselves.

OpenAI trial sees public airing of deeply uncomfortable truths

The evidence has not been flattering

Space data centres are the new frontier, but the launch crunch is real

As AI workloads grow exponentially and terrestrial power and cooling constraints become binding, moving compute infrastructure into space, where solar energy is abundant and cooling is effectively free, starts to look rational