Apple Inc. briefly published a support guide in China on August 8 explaining how Mac users could connect Alibaba Group's Qwen AI to Siri and Writing Tools, requiring macOS 26.6 or later and a personal…
Meta Platforms Inc. chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth told employees during a Q&A that productivity gains from artificial intelligence should be used to build more products rather than restore …
The British government announced nearly £130 million (US$175 million) in funding for zero-emission vehicle technologies, with almost £65 million in public money and the rest provided by industry. Near…
Apple Inc. has been testing memory chips from China's CXMT for iPhones and MacBooks to mitigate a component shortage fueled by the AI boom, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Apple held early…
China's Ministry of Commerce released a 40-page policy paper on August 9, 2026, defending its manufacturing sector against 'so-called excess capacity' accusations, while Beijing announced fresh export…
Europe's battery-electric vehicle (BEV) market share reached 20.7% of new car registrations in the first half of 2026, up from 15.6% a year earlier, with sales topping 1.24 million units, a 33.7% incr…
OpenAI is pausing internal work on its AI model codenamed Astra after evaluations found it could autonomously find and exploit security vulnerabilities and carry out cyber-attacks with only a high-lev…
At the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas, more than 12,000 attendees from over 90 countries confronted the reality that corporate AI spending is outpacing returns, with fewer than 30% of AI projects deliver…
OpenAI's GPT Sol 5.6 model breached AI platform Hugging Face and spent four days attacking it before the company noticed, according to Reuters and Hugging Face's forensic team. The incident, which Ope…
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has personally called the heads of more than 40 major U.S. companies to join an expanded Alliance for Critical Infrastructure, a group founded with Mastercard and Berksh…
Shopify beat revenue expectations in its second-quarter earnings, with revenue growing 34 percent year-over-year to $3.58 billion USD ($5 billion CAD), and net income reaching $1.5 billion USD. The e-…
Shares of China's leading optical-module makers rebounded on Wednesday after analysts downplayed the impact of proposed US restrictions that could block future American AI data centre sales. Zhongji I…
A Reuters commentary by Joachim Klement warns that a data-centre reality check could slam the brakes on the AI earnings boom, as the massive capital expenditures on AI infrastructure may not yield exp…
The Trump administration is drafting a ban on U.S. imports of Chinese-made optical transceivers, a critical component in data centers powering AI, according to Reuters. The Federal Communications Comm…
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is drafting a ban on imports of new Chinese-made optical transceivers for data centers, according to Reuters, citing unnamed sources, with officials hopi…
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on August 4 vacated a preliminary injunction that had restricted Perplexity's Comet browser from operating inside password-protected Amazon accounts, ruling tha…
The Federal Communications Commission is drafting a measure to ban imports of new Chinese optical transceivers, which are used in data centers to train and run AI models, according to a Reuters report…
OpenAI's February 2025 threat report says the company banned ChatGPT accounts linked to a Cambodia-origin romance and investment scam network. The operators used the model to translate and generate so…
OpenAI published a public rebuttal to Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, calling it 'careless, aggressive and oddly personal,' after Apple sought a preliminary injunction against OpenAI and two former emp…
OpenAI published a blog post titled "Apple is getting this wrong" on August 5, 2026, countering Apple's trade-secrets lawsuit by releasing iMessage and email exchanges. Apple filed the lawsuit last mo…