Sources: HomeView units sat in warehouses for months; Apple plans a Nov. 6 store reset, likely for new Macs; iPhone Duo preorder mess could boost 18 Pro sales — Also: The company is planning Nov. 6 retail store reset, indicating potential Mac release date.
An interview with Apple's new VP of the App Store, Carson Oliver, on Apple's gaming vision, Apple Arcade, providing tools for indie game developers, and more — Back when Apple Arcade launched in 2019, there was a resounding belief among gamers that the mobile gaming service wasn't long for this world.
DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash-1017, an update it says offers “stronger benchmark performance, faster task completion, and shorter outputs” than its predecessor — DeepSeek released an update of its AI model this weekend that it says is faster and leaner, ramping …
As AI giants rack up potential legal liabilities of tens of billions amid safety incidents, insurers worry claims may outpace limits on existing coverage — The artificial-intelligence industry's phenomenal rate of growth means claims have the potential to outpace the limits on existing coverage
A profile of Blackstone President Jon Gray, who is making AI his biggest bet, has built a $200B data center empire, and is building a cloud venture with Google — From data centers and chip financing to AI advice on potential deals, the technology is everywhere at the alternative-investment giant
US candidates and PACs, mostly tied to Republicans, have spent $137M+ on 220 AI-generated campaign ads in 2026; ~70% of the 220 videos didn't disclose AI use — Republicans have used A.I.-generated content more often than Democrats, ranging from subtle enhancements to convincing deepfakes.
OpenAI says its model paid for a deployment on an Ethereum test network with a wallet it did not own, after obtaining keys from public recovery phrases — An OpenAI research model stuck without funds on an Ethereum test network went looking for someone else's wallet, found one through recovery phrases …
Filing: Abdulrahman Alfozan, his wife, and a family member booked one-way tickets from the US to Saudi Arabia for October 12; the FBI arrested him on October 9 — The OpenAI employee who was arrested and charged with allegedly using a hidden recording device in one of the ChatGPT maker's …
Analysis: AI safety groups and individual donors have spent $48M in the midterm election cycle across bipartisan races to back candidates favoring AI regulation — Advocates for AI safety and regulation are emerging as a force in U.S. elections, spending nearly $50 million this election cycle …
Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pledging $250M in accelerated computing resources over five years to fund UK AI security and agentic safety research — US chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA.O) has pledged $250 million worth of computing resources to Britain over five years, to fund AI security research …
Sources: Chinese tech companies bought 1M+ Nvidia gaming and workstation chips, mostly RTX 5090 and RTX Pro, for basic AI workloads amid an AI chip shortage — The country's tech giants are snapping up products never designed for advanced AI to satisfy soaring computing demands
CXMT says it plans to launch a 4F² design DRAM chip for data center servers before the end of 2026, achieving a breakthrough that rivals have pursued for years — CXMT Corp. declared it achieved a breakthrough in chip technology that rivals like Samsung Electronics Co. had pursued for years …
Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for global safety regulations for AI, arguing that milk and washing machines currently face more stringent safety standards — Milk and washing machines are currently more regulated than AI, the president of Microsoft has said.
Digital infrastructure company SWI raised €800M to upgrade its data centers, including some from Genesis Digital, a bitcoin miner snarled in FTX's bankruptcy — Data-center company sees potential in what has been described as one of Sam Bankman-Fried's ‘most reckless investments’
A look at the economics of Anthropic's data center leases as analysts estimate a 245 MW site could yield ~$1.3B/mo; sources say it signed a cloud deal with IREN — Why is Anthropic driving its partners to speed up the $530 billion of data center leasing deals it has signed?
Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal : An interview with Ciena CEO Gary Smith, a veteran of the 2001 telecoms crash, on AI demand outpa...
