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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

The Elon Musk founder machine is just getting started

The PayPal mafia produced a generation of Silicon Valley's most influential founders and investors. Now, a similar phenomenon is emerging from Tesla and SpaceX, and the scale could be significantly larger

Vapi wins Amazon's Ring contract and lands a $500m valuation

Investors cannot say no to Rivian founder RJ Scaringe

What makes Mind Robotics unusual, and slightly unnerving, is the absence of any public demonstration of its products

Claude learned to blackmail its own developers, and Anthropic blames science fiction

The company published a report detailing the incidents which occurred during internal safety evaluations

Anduril raises $5bn, but execution questions linger

The Palantir comparison is inevitable but imperfect

Andrew Ng's latest bet targets a $400bn industry where AI might actually work, because the alternative is waiting for...

ResolveGrid uses computer vision and agentic AI to guide field service repairs in real time, and its origin inside Xerox's own service operation gives it something most AI startups lack: proof that it works before launch day

YouTube is using AI to let brands hijack the moments viewers care about most, and creators should be paying attention

The new Custom Sponsorships format uses artificial intelligence to dynamically match advertisements to specific moments within videos, a shift from targeting audiences to targeting context that could reshape how advertising revenue flows on the platform

Meta's incognito AI mode is the first product from a major tech company that claims it cannot read your AI conversations

WhatsApp's Incognito Chat uses trusted execution environments to process queries in hardware enclaves that Meta's own engineers, logging systems and advertising infrastructure cannot access, a technical approach that goes further than any competitor

The CMA's Microsoft investigation is about AI as much as it is about Office, and the timing is no coincidence

The UK regulator has opened its fourth digital markets probe

NVIDIA partners with Ineffable Intelligence on reinforcement-learning infrastructure

Adaption's AutoScientist is a bet that the next frontier in AI is not bigger models but smarter training, and the ped...

The tool from Google DeepMind and Cohere veterans automates the fine-tuning process that currently requires teams of specialist researchers, potentially democratising a capability that has been the exclusive province of the largest AI laboratories

Altman's claim that Musk expected OpenAI to fail is the most damaging line of the trial

If Musk treated his donation as a long-shot bet on a venture he thought would probably collapse, the argument that he was the victim of a stolen charity becomes much harder to sustain

Samsung negotiations collapse before planned chip strike

The electronics giant's talks with its largest union broke down eight days before a planned 18-day strike that could halt much of its memory chip output

Anthropic's $900bn valuation would surpass OpenAI and cap the fastest value creation in corporate history

The Claude maker has gone from $350 billion to $900 billion in three months, fuelled by annualised revenue that has nearly quintupled since the end of 2025, but a valuation built on a $40 billion run rate implies the market is pricing in dominance that has not yet been won

SoftBank's $45bn OpenAI windfall vindicates Masayoshi Son's AI pivot. But the red flags are obvious

The Tokyo conglomerate's net profit quadrupled on the back of unrealised valuation gains, while the rest of the Vision Fund portfolio lost money, creating a concentration risk that S&P has already flagged with a negative outlook revision