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The tech giant's total cuts will add up to about 15,000 employees this year, despite revenue surging

Laptop Mag, a tech publication that began in 1991 as a print magazine, is shutting down after nearly 35 years. The Verge reports: Laptop Mag has evolved many times over the years. It started as a print publication in 1991, when Bedford Communications launched the Laptop Buyers Guide and Handbook. L...

Cloudflare is launching a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between publishers and AI companies.

Brazil has tried fining Apple over the App Store before and backed down, but its technology council is now urging it since other nations are.

Some people believe chatbots like ChatGPT can provide an affordable alternative to in-person psychedelic-assisted therapy. Many experts say it’s a bad idea.

Every new domain customer that signs up with Cloudflare to manage their website traffic will now be asked if they want to allow AI crawlers or to block them ...

A new market intelligence report lists the eight reasons people opt to upgrade Mac or PC, divided into three categories....

Republicans are rewriting an infrastructure bill grant program to redirect billions of dollars to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite broadband service. The claim is that this is necessary because…

Apple has accused a former senior Vision Pro engineer of stealing thousands of documents containing plans for unreleased features, and...

The US Senate has dropped a 10-year moratorium on states regulating AI systems during a debate over Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”

The Senate has voted to drop a provision from President Trump’s signature tax and spending bill that would have blocked states from regulating AI, ending a controversial measure that several Silicon Valley leaders had been pushing for. The provision was initially designed to prevent states from regulating AI for the next decade. Several Republicans opposed the plan, including Josh Hawley of

watchOS 26 adds a new ‘hints’ feature to your watch face, solving a key problem with the Apple Watch’s Smart Stack.

In recent weeks, Meta Platforms has probably generated more buzz from hiring two executives and 14 artificial intelligence researchers—mostly from OpenAI—than from its prior AI efforts altogether. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday officially announced 11 of those researcher hires as part of a ...

Meta’s agressively renewed push into AI is throwing the entire market off-balance, and Apple is particularly exposed.

Google just pulled its note-taking app Keep from Apple Watch, extending a long and storied history of Google killing off products.

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Microsoft's new AI diagnostic system achieved 80% accuracy in diagnosing patients compared to 20% for human doctors, while reducing costs by 20%, according to company research published Monday. The MAI Diagnostic Orchestrator queries multiple leading AI models including OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini...

In the first major update since it was acquired by Apple, the Pixelmator Pro image editor for Mac has added features for pros with more RAW support, plus Image Playground from Apple Intelligence.

Apple is now on its second round of betas for its current-gen testing track, with new builds of iOS 18.6, iPadOS 18.6, macOS 15.6, watchOS 11.6, tvOS 18.6, and visionOS 2.6 now available for testing.

The Swiss company is suing Apple on behalf of "millions" of developers around the world. Here are the details.

Netflix and NASA announced a new partnership that will bring live space programming to the streamer later this summer.

Apple Inc. is considering using artificial intelligence technology from Anthropic PBC or OpenAI to power a new version of Siri, sidelining its own in-house models in a potentially blockbuster move aimed at turning around its flailing AI effort.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company’s new “Meta Superintelligence Labs” group to staff. Former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang will lead it.

Starting this summer, NASA Plus’ content like rocket launches and spacewalks will be available on Netflix for free.

11.9 Light-years from home.6th grade science teacher.1 chance to save us all.Watch the trailer for #ProjectHailMary – based on Andy Weir's New York Times bes...

The US Justice Department revealed the identity theft number along with one arrest and a crackdown on “laptop farms” that allegedly facilitate North Korean tech worker impersonators across the US.

Cruz bill could take 6 GHz spectrum away from Wi-Fi, give it to mobile carriers.

A senior researcher's exit and a near-mutiny among Apple Intelligence engineers expose Apple's struggle to stay competitive in the AI arms race.

Context Engineering is the new skill in AI. It is about providing the right information and tools, in the right format, at the right time.

Brazil’s Supreme Court agreed on Thursday on details of a decision to hold social media companies liable for what their users post, clearing the way for it go into effect within weeks. The conclusion on what is illegal will be made by judges case by case. The 8-3 vote in Brazil’s top court also orders tech giants like Google, Meta and TikTok to actively monitor content that involves hate speech, racism and incitation to violence and act to remove it. The case has stirred the relationship between the South American nation and members of the U.S. administration.