Former Google engineer Linwei Ding becomes first person convicted of AI-related economic espionage in U.S. history, facing up to 350 years in prison for stealing over 2,000 pages of confidential artificial intelligence secrets including chip architecture for China's benefit.
Apple acquires Israeli AI startup Q.ai for $2 billion to boost Siri with silent speech technology, but simultaneously loses four key AI researchers to Meta and Google while CEO Tim Cook remains optimistic despite the company's delayed AI market entry.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirms the chipmaker will make its largest investment ever in OpenAI despite reports claiming their $100 billion deal had stalled, as the AI company seeks funding at an $830 billion valuation.
Apple reports massive Q1 2026 earnings with revenue surging 16% to $143.76 billion, driven by staggering iPhone demand that jumped 23% to $85.27 billion despite supply constraints, with China sales exploding 38% as the tech giant beats Wall Street expectations.
Google's revolutionary Willow quantum chip achieves unprecedented computational breakthrough, solving complex 65-qubit calculations in just 2.1 hours that would require the world's most powerful supercomputers over three years to complete, potentially transforming chemistry and medical research.
Researchers from TU Wien, the U.S., and Switzerland develop groundbreaking AI neural networks that solve a decades-old quantum physics problem, enabling scientists to simulate particle collisions at CERN and early universe conditions with dramatically reduced computational effort and significantly improved accuracy.
Microsoft unveils its Maia 200 AI chip, boasting 30% better cost-per-performance than competitors and three times faster speeds than Amazon's Trainium, as tech giants race to break Nvidia's market dominance amid severe AI chip shortages.
NVIDIA invests $2 billion in CoreWeave to build over 5 gigawatts of AI factories by 2030, deepening their partnership through advanced technology integration including Rubin platform and Vera CPUs while developing AI-native software for cloud and enterprise customers.
Tech titans including Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, and Satya Nadella dominate Davos discussions as AI takes center stage, with CEOs clashing over China chip sales policies and warning of potential market bubbles while traditional summit topics like climate change get sidelined.
Apple secretly develops AI chatbot codenamed Campos using Google's Gemini models to replace Siri while planning an AirTag-sized wearable for 2027, as Nex Computer announces a $549 smartphone running Android, Linux, and Windows, and Sony sells majority control of its TV business to TCL.