OpenAI Eyes Slowing the AI Race, Asks Congress If It's Legal

September 4, 2026 • 5 min read

Google Begins Shutting Down Assistant on Android Today as Gemini Takes Over for Good

Google has started removing Google Assistant from Android phones, tablets, Wear OS watches and phone-projected Android Auto, completing its years-long migration to Gemini. Once Assistant disappears from a device, there is no way to switch back.

September 3, 2026 • 6 min read

OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra, and Its President Says the 'AGI Era' Has Begun

OpenAI has begun rolling out GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model yet — the first to trip the company's 'critical' cybersecurity threshold. Greg Brockman called it a generational leap and said the AGI era may have arrived.

September 3, 2026 • 6 min read

Nvidia in Advanced Talks to Buy Hugging Face in Deal Worth Up to $14 Billion

Nvidia is in advanced talks to acquire AI model-sharing platform Hugging Face in a deal that could total about $14 billion — a $12.9 billion base agreement plus a roughly $1 billion employee retention package, Bloomberg reported.

September 1, 2026 • 5 min read

John Ternus Takes Over as Apple CEO, Ending Tim Cook's 15-Year Run

John Ternus officially became Apple's CEO on September 1, 2026, succeeding Tim Cook after a 15-year tenure that grew the company's value from about $350 billion to roughly $4.6 trillion. Cook stays on as executive chairman.

September 1, 2026 • 6 min read

OpenAI's Unlikely Training Rig: Tens of Thousands of Apple Mac Minis

A new report says OpenAI has quietly bought tens of thousands of Mac mini and Mac Studio desktops for reinforcement learning and computer-use agent training — and Anthropic is renting Apple's desktops through AWS.

August 28, 2026 • 5 min read

Nvidia's $105 Billion Backstop for OpenAI's Giant Ohio Data Center

Nvidia has agreed to guarantee up to $105 billion of lease obligations on OpenAI's planned 8-gigawatt Ohio campus — days before posting a quarter in which revenue more than doubled to $96.2 billion.

August 26, 2026 • 5 min read

A Server Rack of 16 Million Living Human Neurons Just Switched On in Singapore

NUS Medicine, DayOne and Cortical Labs have installed what they call the world's first independently operated biologically integrated server rack — twenty CL1 units running on lab-grown human neurons.

July 7, 2026 • 5 min read

Xbox's Reset: Microsoft Cuts 3,200 Jobs, Divests Four Studios

New CEO Asha Sharma calls it the most significant restructure in Xbox's history: 3,200 jobs cut, four studios divested, and a hard pivot back to the console that drives 80% of the business.

July 3, 2026 • 5 min read

Anthropic in Talks With Samsung to Build a Custom 2nm AI Chip

Early-stage talks over a custom inference chip make Anthropic the latest AI lab trying to loosen Nvidia's grip on compute — and Samsung's foundry business a big potential winner either way.

June 27, 2026 • 5 min read

SpaceX Set for Nasdaq-100 on July 7, Unlocking a Wave of Passive Money

SpaceX joins the Nasdaq-100 on July 7 under Nasdaq's new fast-entry rule — forcing index ETFs and passive funds to buy SPCX at weight, with ripple effects across every portfolio that tracks the index.

June 27, 2026 • 5 min read

Qualcomm Bets the Company Isn't Just Phones Anymore — Meta Signs On for Data Center CPUs

Qualcomm's new Dragonfly C1000 server CPU lands a multi-generation supply deal with Meta — a clear signal that AI infrastructure is fracturing across vendors, not consolidating into a single chip story.

June 24, 2026 • 5 min read

Samsung Rolls Out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to Workers Worldwide

OpenAI calls it one of its largest enterprise deployments; the rollout covers all Samsung Electronics employees in South Korea and Device eXperience staff globally.

June 23, 2026 • 5 min read

Meta's ~$900M Cred Bet Puts Kunal Shah in Charge of WhatsApp's Global Ambitions

Meta is investing nearly $900 million in Indian fintech Cred, with founder Kunal Shah set to take on a global leadership role at WhatsApp — one of 2026's biggest India–Silicon Valley crossover stories.

June 19, 2026 • 5 min read

Starlink's V3 Satellites Reach Orbit, but the "10-Gigabit Beta" Claim Doesn't Hold Up

SpaceX's satellite internet service reaches a massive milestone, delivering fiber-like 10 Gbps speeds from low Earth orbit — though the claim comes with caveats once you look past the headline number.

June 18, 2026 • 5 min read

Nvidia's New 'Rubin' GPUs Promise a 5x Inference Leap

Nvidia unveils 'Rubin' — its next-generation GPU design aimed squarely at solving the exploding energy demands of AI data centers.

June 19, 2026 • 5 min read

OpenAI's GPT-5.5: The Flagship Model Now Running ChatGPT

OpenAI's current flagship is GPT-5.5, with Instant and Thinking variants in ChatGPT and the API, and Instant became the default for all users in May.

June 14, 2026 • 5 min read

Generative UI: How AI is Redesigning Websites on the Fly

For the past thirty years, navigating the web meant interacting with interfaces designed for the average user. Layouts were static, navigation menus were fixed, and the user experience was a one-size-fits-all compromise.

June 10, 2026 • 6 min read

AI Drive-Thrus Are Expanding Across Fast Food — Just Not at McDonald's

McDonald's quietly ended its automated drive-thru pilot with IBM in 2024, but voice AI ordering didn't die with it. Rivals have scaled it to hundreds of locations, even as a top vendor faced SEC fraud charges over how much of its "AI" was really human labor.

June 9, 2026 • 5 min read

WWDC 2026: Apple's Siri AI Faces Indefinite EU Delay Over DMA Security Concerns

Apple announced a complete overhaul of Siri at WWDC 2026, but European users won't see it on their iPhones anytime soon due to strict regulatory roadblocks.

June 9, 2026 • 4 min read

The Great Chatbot Heist: A Meta Support-Tool Bug Let Hackers Hijack 20,000 Instagram Accounts

Attackers didn't trick Meta's AI — they exploited a validation bug behind it, simply asking the bot to link a new email address to accounts that lacked two-factor authentication.

June 8, 2026 • 6 min read

The $1.3 Trillion AI Reality Check: Semiconductor Stocks See Historic Selloff

Tech sector's leading semiconductor companies saw $1.3 trillion in market value evaporate in a historic selloff.

June 8, 2026 • 5 min read

Modular Data Centers: The Quiet Solution to AI's Massive Energy Appetite

Factory-built, liquid-cooled data center modules are cutting deployment times by up to 60% as the industry races to keep pace with AI power demand.

June 6, 2026 • 4 min read

Microsoft Copilot Studio's Agent Flows: Enterprise AI Without Writing Code

Copilot Studio's agent flows let non-technical employees build and deploy multi-step AI agents across enterprise workflows using a drag-and-drop canvas — here's what's real, and what's third-party.

June 5, 2026 • 5 min read

Passwords Are Finally Dead: How Passkeys Reached 2 Billion Users in Three Years

The FIDO Alliance reports 2 billion accounts now use passkeys — a cryptographic standard that replaces passwords with device-bound biometric authentication.

June 4, 2026 • 5 min read

Windows 11 June 2026 Update Brings Shared Audio and NPU Monitoring

Microsoft's latest update introduces a Low Latency Profile, Shared Audio, and expanded NPU visibility in Task Manager.

June 3, 2026 • 5 min read

Google I/O 2026: The Agentic Gemini Era and TPU 8t

Sundar Pichai announces Gemini 3.5 Flash, TPU 8t for large-scale pretraining, and the new Google Flow agent.

May 30, 2026 • 6 min read

Anthropic Hits $965B Valuation as Its Project Glasswing Finds Over 10,000 Vulnerabilities

Fresh off a $65B funding round, Anthropic's cybersecurity initiative shows AI can now find critical software flaws faster than humans can patch them.

May 30, 2026 • 4 min read

Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy 3.0: What It Actually Changes

Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy 3.0, released in February, revises safety-level boundaries and pause commitments — here's what it does and doesn't do.

May 29, 2026 • 4 min read

Apple M5 Pro and Max: The Rollout Completes What October Started

With M5 Pro and Max now shipping alongside the base M5, Apple's newest chip generation changes what a laptop can do at the intersection of AI and creative work.

May 28, 2026 • 6 min read

Y Combinator's Summer 2026 Batch: Reading the AI Tea Leaves

YC's newest 197-company batch skews heavily toward AI — here's what that looks like on the ground, without the fabricated stats.

May 26, 2026 • 7 min read

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Review: The Phone That Replaced My Laptop

Full review after 30 days of daily use — productivity, camera, battery, and everything in between.

May 25, 2026 • 4 min read

AI Agents Are Booking Flights, Filing Taxes, and Writing Code

Analysis: agentic AI is no longer just a demo. Here's what's verifiably true about the tools people are actually using in 2026 — and what's just noise.

May 24, 2026 • 6 min read

Apple Vision Pro (M5) Review: A Sharper Second Pass, Not a Second Act

Apple's refreshed Vision Pro brings the M5 chip and sharper displays to the same $3,499 headset — is a faster chip enough to change the calculus?