Nvidia has cut off more than half of its approved buyers across three major Asian hubs, according to a Financial Times report published Monday and picked up by Reuters. The move centers on a new “white list” system built to…
Apple released the first public beta of iOS 27 on July 13, giving anyone with a compatible iPhone free access to the biggest Siri overhaul the company has ever shipped. With roughly 2.5 billion active Apple devices in use worldwide,…
StepFun beat OpenAI to a headline OpenAI hadn’t even earned yet. At a launch event in Shanghai on July 13, the Tencent-backed AI startup unveiled the StepX Neo, calling it the world’s first mass-market agentic smartphone. It is built around…
AI has become one of the fastest-growing line items on many companies’ budgets, and a growing number of them are responding the same way businesses always respond to rising costs: shopping around. Data from OpenRouter, a platform developers use to…
OpenAI’s long-rumored hardware debut has a shape now, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman: a screen-free, portable smart speaker built to feel less like an appliance and more like something alive in the room with you. Citing people familiar with the…
South Korea’s AI-linked chip stocks have taken another sharp hit, and the instinct is to read that as evidence the AI boom itself is losing steam. The more accurate read, according to the numbers underneath the selloff, is narrower than…
Nokia is back with four new feature phones, and this time the headline isn’t nostalgia — it’s a button. Right in the middle of the D-pad, where you’d expect the “OK” key on any classic brick phone, HMD has wedged…
Something odd happened at Google DeepMind over six days in June 2026. Four senior researchers walked out the door, and two of them weren’t just any researchers — one had a Nobel Prize, the other co-invented the architecture that every…
I’ve downloaded way more personal AI assistants than any reasonable person should, deleted most of them within a week, and kept a small handful that actually stuck around on my home screen. That’s the real filter I used for this…
Meta removed the most controversial part of its Muse Image feature on July 10 after widespread criticism. The feature had allowed anyone to tag a public Instagram account and generate AI images from that person’s public photos without notifying them…