Sources: Apple is locked in last-minute EU negotiations over App Store changes to avoid fines set for this week, and is expected to offer “steering” concessions — Tech group must make concessions to comply with Digital Markets Act or be hit by escalating levies from Thursday
How Walmart, seeking to compete with e-commerce rivals like Amazon, built a multibillion-dollar HQ in Bentonville, aiming to attract workers and woo shoppers — The retailing giant is spending billions to attract workers to a new headquarters and woo shoppers with drone delivery and a broader range of items …
Tesla quietly launches its robotaxi service in Austin, with ~10 vehicles and a human safety driver; Elon Musk says customers will pay “a $4.20 flat fee” — Self-driving technology on which Elon Musk has staked the future of his company debuts in Texas
Texas enacts legislation, effective September 1, requiring a permit to operate self-driving vehicles, just before Tesla's planned robotaxi trial in Austin — Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, has signed legislation requiring a permit to operate self-driving vehicles …
Purism's $1,999 security-focused Liberty Phone, assembled in the US with decade-old specs and some US-made parts, exposes the gaps in US phone manufacturing — Despite the president's domestic manufacturing push—and the Trump Organization's launch of an ostensibly U.S.-made phone—the challenges remain massive
A look at the US Army Reserve's Detachment 201, which lets tech executives, like Meta's Bosworth, give advice as senior officers while keeping their day jobs — Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth and leaders from OpenAI and Palantir have joined a detachment intended to make the US Armed Forces “leaner, smarter, and more lethal.”
Experts say China-linked groups have repeatedly hacked Russian companies and government agencies in search of military secrets since the war in Ukraine began — Since the war in Ukraine began, analysts have monitored a series of intrusions aimed at stealing information about weaponry and warfighting.
A look at “Generative Engine Optimization” startups like Profound and Bluefish AI, which help businesses improve content to appear in AI search summaries — Businesses are scrambling to be cited in AI-generated answers on Google, Perplexity and ChatGPT.
Kantar: the share of Indians consuming media exclusively on mobile phones grew to 23% in Q1 2025, up from 15% in Q1 2023, as TVs stay unaffordable for many — The number of users who only use digital channels ballooned to 23% in the March quarter of 2025, according to market research firm …
Microsoft suspending an ICC judge's email account raised alarms across EU about how dependent its governments, businesses, and citizens are on US tech companies — To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently suspended the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor …
Sources: Masayoshi Son is pitching Trump officials and TSMC on a Shenzhen-like $1T AI and robotics manufacturing hub in Arizona, codenamed Project Crystal Land — Son envisions a version of the vast manufacturing hub of China's Shenzhen that would bring back high-tech manufacturing to the US …
Sources: Foxconn and Nvidia are in talks to deploy humanoid robots at a new Foxconn factory in Houston by Q1 2026 to produce Nvidia AI servers — Taiwan's Foxconn (2317.TW) and U.S. artificial intelligence chips maker Nvidia (NVDA.O) are in talks to deploy humanoid robots at a new Foxconn factory …
Israeli authorities urge citizens to turn off home cameras, and say Iran is tapping into security cameras in Israel to gather real-time intelligence for attacks — Iran is tapping into private security cameras in Israel to gather real-time intelligence about its adversary …
An MIT study of 54 ChatGPT users: using it for SAT essays led to the lowest brain engagement and poorer neural performance than using Google or writing unaided — Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT's Media Lab has returned some concerning results.
AWS says Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 launched on its Trainium2 GPUs, and Project Rainier, AWS' supercomputer built for Anthropic, uses 500K+ Trainium2 chips — Amazon Web Services is set to announce an update to its Graviton4 chip that includes 600 gigabits per second of network bandwidth …
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge : Uber partners with China's Pony AI and Croatia-based, Rimac-spinoff Verne to launch Europe's firs...
