Apple is making a major leadership shift as Tim Cook transitions to Executive Chairman and hardware engineering chief John Ternus takes over as CEO, effective September 1, 2026, marking the end of a transformative era and the beginning of a new chapter led by a 25-year Apple veteran.
Tech giants Amazon, Google, and Microsoft shed a combined $900 billion in market value as investors revolt against $660 billion in projected AI spending with little return, while Apple surges 7% by taking a lean, asset-light AI approach that keeps its 2026 capital expenditure at just $14 billion, signaling a …
Slackbot launches as an always-on AI agent inside Slack, delivering personalized, secure assistance by searching, summarizing, and drafting content directly within workflows to combat the 40% productivity loss caused by fragmented work.
Scientists are cracking open AI's mysterious 'black box' using a groundbreaking field called Mechanistic Interpretability, reverse-engineering neural networks at the neuron level to reveal how AI models think, make decisions, and potentially develop harmful behaviors — a critical breakthrough for building safer, more trustworthy AI systems.
A groundbreaking new AI model called LingBot-Map's Geometric Context Transformer reconstructs 3D scenes in real-time at 20 FPS across sequences exceeding 10,000 frames, offering a powerful open-source tool for streaming 3D scene reconstruction with interactive browser-based visualization.
Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop two new AI chips targeting surging inference costs, expanding its custom silicon supply chain beyond existing partners Broadcom and MediaTek as AI query demands increasingly outpace training as the dominant compute expense for hyperscalers.
Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new AI-powered visual creation tool built on Claude Opus 4.7 that enables teams to generate flyers, slides, and prototypes from simple text prompts while maintaining brand consistency through integrated design assets and seamless export options.
Sam Altman's World launches a full-stack human verification system at its Lift Off event, partnering with Match Group, Zoom, DocuSign, and Razer to combat bots, deepfakes, and AI impersonation across dating, video calls, document signing, gaming, and AI agent workflows.
Palantir releases a bold 22-point manifesto defending AI weapons development and Western military dominance, arguing Silicon Valley has a moral obligation to the nation that enabled its success, while critics warn the document represents the dangerous public ideology of a company that directly profits from the very defense and immigration …
Vercel launches its built-in feature flag system, Vercel Flags, now generally available with native Next.js and SvelteKit support, enabling teams to create, manage, and target feature flags directly from the Vercel Dashboard with OpenFeature standard compatibility for other frameworks.