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A Northeastern/Berkeley team's True Thinking Score, surveying 11 open-weight reasoning models, found that 30–60% of reasoning steps on math benchmarks are 'decorative' — deleting them does not change …

Apple CEO Tim Cook hinted during Apple's quarterly earnings call on Thursday that heavy use of the upcoming Siri AI assistant could lead to an upgrade charge as part of iCloud Plus, saying 'We do beli…

Apple CEO Tim Cook said during the company's earnings call on Thursday that Apple will offer "upgrade possibilities on iCloud+" for users who want higher access to Siri AI and Apple Intelligence featu…

Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that heavy users of the revamped AI-powered Siri will be offered paid upgrades through iCloud Plus subscriptions, marking the first public acknowledgment of a paid tier fo…

Apple's iOS 27, expected to launch this fall, introduces Siri AI, a revamped assistant rivaling chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT, along with over 80 speed and efficiency improvements, including app la…

Apple CEO Tim Cook said in his final earnings call that the company's Siri AI upgrade could include paywalled limits, with users able to purchase more compute through existing iCloud+ subscriptions. C…

Apple CEO Tim Cook said during the company's Q3 2026 financial call that Apple will offer "upgrade possibilities" on iCloud+ for users who want to use Apple Intelligence heavily, hinting at higher sto…

A 2026 investigation by Quanta Magazine science journalist John Horgan finds that large reasoning models (LRMs) from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and others exhibit both remarkable successes—such as solvi…

Antizuck Smart Glasses Scanner, a $3 iOS app that claims to detect nearby Meta AI glasses, reached #3 on the U.S. iPhone paid App Store chart, reflecting growing privacy concerns about AI smart glasse…

Michael Burry warned on 27 July that Big Tech's heavy AI spending is hurting stocks, with Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft expected to spend roughly $725B (£543B) on capital projects this year, w…

Analyst Jeff Pu of GF Securities claims iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max could be $250-$300 more expensive than current iPhone 17 Pro models due to higher 2nm silicon and DRAM/NAND costs, as Apple …

Apple CEO Tim Cook said on a late Thursday earnings call that the company faces a '100-year flood' in memory chip pricing, with exponential increases, prompting Apple to raise prices by $150 to $300 a…

Tim Cook's final Apple earnings call on Thursday revealed a $4.9 trillion company that has spent 15 years silencing dissent, bending to Beijing, and offshoring manufacturing, according to a critical a…

Apple's rumored iPhone Ultra and MacBook Ultra could cost up to twice as much as current Pro models, with the foldable iPhone potentially priced at $2,500, according to Macworld. The company's Upgrade…

Adi Prasad, a 35-year-old MIT-trained manufacturing engineer who worked at Tesla, Apple, CloudKitchens, and Rivian, is applying lessons from Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick to Matter, an AI manufacturin…

Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that the company may introduce a new iCloud+ tier to offer extended AI usage and recover compute costs, as its revamped Siri and Apple Intelligence features will be free i…

Adi Prasad, cofounder and CEO of AI manufacturing startup Matter, said in an as-told-to essay that working with Elon Musk at Tesla and Travis Kalanick at CloudKitchens taught him first-principles thin…

ZML, a Paris startup, released LLMD on July 8, a free, open-source inference server that runs LLaMA, Gemma, Qwen, and Mistral on NVIDIA CUDA, AMD ROCm, Google TPU, Intel oneAPI, and Apple Metal from a…

Apple's iPhone 18 lineup, including the iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max, and the rumored foldable iPhone Ultra, is expected to launch in fall 2026, with the regular iPhone 18, 18e, and iPhone Air arriving in e…

US stock futures rose Friday, with Nasdaq-100 contracts up 1.2%, as Big Tech earnings revived optimism in the AI trade after South Korea's KOSPI jumped 14% overnight. Amazon shares jumped 10% in prema…