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AI startup Pelgo pitches itself as the answer to AI-driven job losses

Seed-funded company uses artificial intelligence to retrain and place workers displaced by automation

Apple veteran Stan Ng retires after 31 years as executive reshuffle gathers pace

Departure of the product marketing chief adds to a growing list of senior exits, raising questions about how key portfolios will be reorganised

Netflix beats big, loses bigger as weak guidance and Hasting exit wipes $45bn off valuation

Strong Q1 results fail to impress investors as softer outlook and leadership change shift focus to what comes next.

HYPE stands out in choppy crypto market as traders flag “textbook” bullish structure

Episode 21 of Trading Spaces spotlights a rare clean uptrend, but hosts warn the broader market still lacks confirmation

Kraken parent Payward strikes $550m Bitnomial deal to lock in US derivatives foothold

Acquisition gives the $20bn crypto group a rare fully regulated US derivatives stack, as clearing infrastructure becomes the next battleground.

Google outlines this summer's travel trends

Google reports rising interest in destinations, activities and artificial intelligence planning tools drawn from Flights and Search data.

AI agents now drive one-fifth of DeFi activity, but humans still dominate trading outcomes

Automation is accelerating across decentralised finance, yet performance gaps suggest traders are not being replaced anytime soon

Anthropic launches Claude Design

Anthropic released Claude Design, a conversational tool that converts prompts into interactive prototypes and visual assets for paid Claude subscribers.

NanoClaw partners with Vercel to gate AI agent actions behind human approval

Open-source framework stops agents acting on sensitive tasks without explicit permission

AI in medicine market forecast to surge past $3 trillion by 2040, report says

ResearchAndMarkets projects 40% annual growth as AI reshapes diagnostics, drug discovery and patient care

Nvidia launches open-source quantum AI models as it deepens grip on chip design workflows

Ising model family targets two of the biggest obstacles to practical quantum computing

Scale AI chief says bosses are using artificial intelligence as cover for job cuts

Tech CEOs accused of 'washing the layoffs' as AI-linked redundancies mount

White House lays groundwork for federal agencies to access Anthropic's Mythos AI model

OMB move signals thaw in standoff between AI company and Trump administration

Nvidia releases free AI tools designed to make quantum computers reliable enough to be useful

The Ising models tackle the two biggest obstacles standing between today's fragile quantum hardware and machines that can solve real problems

Google tells Fortune 500 bosses that training workers to use AI is a choice, not an inevitability, and the companies...

Walmart is putting 1.6 million staff through a Google AI certificate while Citi is teaching its entire workforce to write prompts.

Meta raises prices on its Quest virtual reality headsets, blaming a global shortage of memory chips driven by AI demand

The increases follow similar moves by Sony and Microsoft and take effect on 19 April

Google will let its AI image generator use your personal photos to create pictures of you and your family

The feature connects Gemini's Nano Banana tool to Google Photos, but users must opt in and can see exactly which images were used

Two startups are racing to build quantum computers out of light, but they disagree on almost everything about how to...

Xanadu and PsiQuantum are pursuing fundamentally different approaches to photonic quantum computing, with billions of dollars riding on which method works first

Intel launches a new family of budget laptop chips designed to bring AI features to cheaper computers

The Core Series 3 processors will appear in more than 70 laptop designs from major manufacturers through the rest of 2026

Taiwan Semiconductor signals stronger AI chip demand

Taiwan Semiconductor says robust artificial intelligence demand and higher capex will support revenue growth into the coming quarter.