Apple and Google are uniting on AI as Google Cloud powers Apple's next-generation foundation models built on Gemini technology, with a more personalized Siri launching later this year that taps into users' messages and emails through a redesigned Dynamic Island interface.
CADAM, a free open-source browser tool, is revolutionizing 3D modeling by instantly converting text descriptions and images into fully exportable 3D models using AI — no software installation required.
Google unveils its 8th-generation TPU chips — the TPU 8t and TPU 8i — delivering nearly 3x the compute performance per pod, 80% better performance-per-dollar, and 2x improved energy efficiency over the previous generation, set for general availability later this year.
Google Cloud is processing over 16 billion AI tokens per minute, launching its 8th-generation TPUs and a new Enterprise Agent Platform, while reporting that 75% of internal code is now AI-generated and AI-driven security tools are cutting threat mitigation time by over 90%.
Cursor is partnering with SpaceX to leverage xAI's Colossus infrastructure, dramatically scaling AI model training after rapid advancements with its Composer models achieved frontier-level performance at a fraction of competitor costs.
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab signs a multibillion-dollar deal with Google Cloud, gaining access to Nvidia GB300 GPU-powered infrastructure to fuel its reinforcement learning workloads and Tinker, its custom frontier AI model automation tool.
SpaceX signs a landmark $60 billion deal with AI coding tool Cursor, granting access to its 'Colossus' supercomputer and xAI's frontier models as the two companies race to dominate the coding agent space against OpenAI and Anthropic.
A breakthrough AI framework called FlashDrive slashes autonomous driving response times from 716ms to just 159ms — a 4.5× speedup — making real-time deployment of Vision-Language-Action models viable across multiple NVIDIA platforms with negligible accuracy loss.
Amazon is pouring up to $25 billion into AI startup Anthropic at a $380 billion valuation, as Anthropic commits to spending over $100 billion on AWS over the next decade while reporting $30 billion in annualized revenue amid a fierce race against OpenAI.
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.