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Growth in regions like China and India are credited with pushing Apple’s phone sales higher than ever.

One intrepid Morgan Stanley analyst dared to ask how Apple will make money on its AI investments. The answer will not shock you.

If a deal materializes, it would mean Amazon is backing competing startups in the race for AI supremacy.

Medium gives its employees the option to take the day off to protest on Friday.

Microsoft says its own chip leapfrogs those made by other cloud providers like Amazon and Google. But it needs more.

The fintech giant said it plans to “seek recoupment of any expenses” from its firewall provider SonicWall after a 2025 data breach exposed customer firewall configurations.

With Microsoft spending many billions on data centers, and rumors that no one is using its AI, CEO Satya Nadella shared some usage numbers.

This merger would bring the Grok chatbot, Starlink satellites, and SpaceX rockets together under one corporation.

Waymo has worked for years to gain access to SFO.

Starting Thursday, Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can play around with Project Genie, which is powered by a combination of Google’s latest world model Genie 3, its image generation model Nano Banana Pro, and Gemini. 

Sora’s mobile app downloads fell 45% in January, and consumer spending dropped.

Originally, these music publishers had filed a lawsuit against Anthropic over its use of about 500 copyrighted works.

With the highest global usage of Gemini for learning, India is emerging as a key market shaping Google’s approach to AI in education.

A new AI lab called Flapping Airplanes launched yesterday, and a Sequoia partner has an interesting take on why they stand out.

Energy storage products like the Megapack, Megablock, and Powerwall drove

Spotify users can now share the podcasts, playlists, and audiobooks they’re listening to with up 10 people.

The new security feature makes it more difficult for police and malicious hackers to obtain a person’s precise location data from a cell phone company.

When you’re walking around and navigating with Maps, you can now ask Gemini questions like “What neighborhood am I in?” or “What are top-rated restaurants nearby?”

The $250 million Series B was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and Picture Capital.

Halide also released a public preview of its up coming app Halide Mark III.

Last year, Deezer introduced an AI detection tool that automatically tags fully AI-generated music for listeners and removes it from algorithmic and editorial recommendations. The company announced on Thursday that it’s now making the tool available to other streaming platforms in an effort to help address the rise of AI and fraudulent streams, as well … Read more

The reported financial losses follow a series of layoffs at the VR unit.

Mark Zuckerberg says 2026 will be “a big year for delivering personal super intelligence.”

The new rules apply to nuclear reactors built on Department of Energy property, which includes several currently being developed by startups.

Microsoft, one of OpenAI’s major investors, is benefiting greatly from the AI lab’s growth.

The company will stop making the pioneering EVs in the second quarter of 2026, CEO Elon Musk announced Wednesday.

Take Zuckerberg’s outlook with a grain of salt. After all, he thought we’d all be hanging out in the metaverse by now.

Elon Musk’s AI company xAI disclosed earlier this month it had raised $20 billion.

Elon Musk says X will begin identifying “manipulated media” but doesn’t share details.

paceX is reportedly lining up four major Wall Street banks for a 2026 IPO that could provide the reset the market needs.  The company just completed a tender offer at an $800 billion valuation, and secondary market demand is through the roof. If SpaceX goes public anywhere near its rumored $1.5 trillion valuation, it could trigger an IPO cascade for other late-stage unicorns like OpenAI, Stripe, and Databricks.  Watch as Equity host Rebecca Bellan … Read more