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Headlines screaming that iPhone Air order cuts mean the death of the model and is a failure ignore that Apple has absolute mastery of its supply chain, and guessing in advance what will be popular at launch time is an imprecise art.

Overall sales of new lineup defies weak market and tariff war

Investment firm Morgan Stanley says that the initial very strong demand for the iPhone 17 family is continuing, and just based on that, Apple should slightly exceed Wall Street expectations for the quarter.

GM said Cruise’s technology stack, including its AI models trained on five million driverless miles and simulation framework, feed directly into the automaker’s next-generation driver assistance and autonomy programs.

GM is the latest automaker to lean into generative AI-based assistants that promise to respond to driver requests in a more natural-sounding way. Stellantis is collaborating with French AI firm Mistral, Mercedes is integrating ChatGPT, and Tesla has brought xAI’s Grok to its vehicles.

The U.S. automaker's technological overhaul will debut in two years with the Cadillac Escalade IQ.

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Alan Hamel and Suzanne Somers enjoyed 55 years together before the actress' death at 76 in 2023. Hamel, 89, tells PEOPLE working hard on several projects that will keep Somers' legacy alive, including an "AI twin" of the actress.

OpenAI has more than 100 ex-investment bankers helping train its artificial intelligence on how to build financial models as it looks to replace the hours of grunt work performed by junior bankers across the industry.

It’s been ten years since Apple released the first iPad Pro. In 2015, there were already people trying to integrate the five-year-old iPad platform into their working lives, but the wisdom of…

Data protection authority says chatbots are ‘clearly biased’, as Netherlands prepares for national poll

Samsung is partnering with Perplexity to bring the startup’s AI Search engine to its smart TVs.

No, we’re not doing science at California’s most beautiful lake. We’re looking for bugs. A popular cross-platform app development framework called Electron is using private and undocumented API that’s causing system-wide slowdowns in macOS Tahoe. We’re hearing from customers that some of our apps are running slowly on Tahoe and I suspect that this bug […]

After leaking Apple's Liquid Glass iOS 26 designs, Jon Prosser hasn't replied to the company's lawsuit — so the court is moving forward without him.

The video gaming platform faces mounting scrutiny and multiple lawsuits, including a suit by the Louisiana attorney general and in an earlier case in San Francisco.

It’s the calm before the earnings storm. Netflix kicks off tech earnings on Tuesday with its third-quarter report, and most of the big tech names come next week. Already, though, investors are anticipating the news. That’s most obviously true of Apple, whose shares jumped 4% on Monday on a ...

With the fourth betas of iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS 26.1, Apple has introduced a new setting that's designed to allow users to customize...

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A foreign actor infiltrated the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Kansas City National Security Campus through vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s SharePoint browser-based app, raising questions about the need to solidify further federal IT/OT security protections.

Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting a long-standing weakness in the internet's infrastructure.

By stripping away the fabric tape that’s held zippers together for a hundred years, Japanese clothing giant YKK is designing the future of seamless clothing.

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A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required

The court overseeing Elon Musk’s breach of charitable trust lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday ordered OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever to provide information about his financial stake in OpenAI and a document called the “Brockman Memo,” an apparent reference to OpenAI’s president and co-founder Greg Brockman. The court initially declined to intervene on the matter

US District Judge Phyllis Hamilton has reduced the damages Meta is getting from the NSO Group from $167 million to $4 million, but she has also ordered the...

The Computer & Communications Industry Association and Students Engaged in Advancing Texas filed separate lawsuits challenging the state's upcoming age...

When recognizing faces and emotions, artificial intelligence (AI) can be biased, like classifying white people as happier than people from other racial backgrounds. This happens because the data used to train the AI contained a disproportionate number of happy white faces, leading it to correlate race with emotional expression. In a recent study, published in Media Psychology, researchers asked users to assess such skewed training data, but most users didn’t notice the bias — unless they were in the negatively portrayed group.

Microsoft has ended support for Windows 10, and one of the most popular Ubuntu-based Linux distros is celebrating its "biggest launch ever" after a spike in downloads from former Windows 10 users.

A federal judge has granted Meta-owned WhatsApp’s request for a permanent injunction blocking Israeli cyberintelligence company NSO Group from targeting the messaging app’s users. At the same time, the judge dramatically reduced the fine that NSO Group must pay to Meta.

Some military leaders are turning to AI chatbots for help with decision-making, seeing this tech as a way to get the advantage.