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Customs and Border Protection released more documents last week that show which AI-powered tools that agency has been using to identify people of interest.

The U.S.-China tariff battle is heating up again, with China stopping exports of rare earth minerals and magnets. This will badly hit the manufacture of the iPhone and other Apple products outside of China.

Storage gradually becomes less valuable as apps and software on devices seem to get bigger. To combat this, Google now...

President Trump was today asked about his tariff policy and Apple specifically, and he cited speaking to CEO Tim Cook and helping him out.

As Apple expands its advertising business, the company has renamed its former "Apple Search Ads" to "Apple Ads," reflecting the expansion of ad placement.

Neptune is one of the newest short-form video apps on the block seeking to compete with major players like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.  Neptune, a short-form video apps seeking to compete with TikTok, is preparing to launch the app on the App Store next week.

FTC’s “entire” monopoly case rests on decade-old emails, Meta argued.

Meta said the company plans to start using data collected from its users in the European Union to train its AI systems. Engadget reports: Starting this week, the tech giant will begin notifying Europeans through email and its family of apps of the fact, with the message set to include an explanatio...

Apple is planning to improve its AI model without training it on user data. It plans to compare synthetic data to real-world samples, preventing it from viewing data from individual users.

Several crosswalk buttons in Palo Alto and nearby cities were hacked over the weekend to play deepfake-style satirical audio clips mimicking Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Authorities have disabled the altered systems, but the identity of the prankster remains unknown. SFGATE reports: Videos of the...

Intel is selling off its majority share in chip-maker Altera as part of its new CEO's first steps toward stabilizing the company.

OpenAI’s brand new “GPT-4.1” has a funky name but reasonable performance for the price.

On Monday, Apple shared its plans to allow users to opt into on-device Apple Intelligence training using Differential Privacy techniques that are incredibly similar to its failed CSAM detection system.

OpenAI on Monday announced a new family of artificial intelligence models, GPT-4.1, specially trained for software developers, according to a blog post. The new models perform better than OpenAI’s GPT-4o, which was first released in May 2024, on coding, academic knowledge and following instructions accurately, the company said. GPT-4o is the main model powering ChatGPT and is the most popular

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization said Monday that it had struck a deal with Palantir to buy artificial intelligence software that will improve the organization’s ability to process intelligence for military operations. Palantir stock rose 4.6% after the announcement Monday, compared with less than 1% for the Nasdaq Composite index. Contracts with public sector clients like military

Exclusive: Gaming platform accused of ‘troubling disconnect between child-friendly appearance and reality’

The president has suggested that he will move forward with a national security investigation this week that is likely to result in tariffs on chips.

Apple just achieved a big iPhone sales record for the first time ever, winning the global smartphone market in Q1 per Counterpoint.

It’s also building supercomputer production plants in Texas.

In Harlan Ellison's disturbing short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream," a sentient superintelligence named AM has taken over the earth's resources...

The fabled Apple Glass continues to be in development, with augmented reality glasses still a top priority for CEO Tim Cook to produce.

The government plans to call Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg to the witness stand. The trial is expected to run nearly two months in a federal courtroom in Washington.

Apple has some significant changes in mind for both future versions of the Apple Watch, and the software for existing recent models.

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), sparked a weekend’s worth of debate around intellectual property, patents, and

Some senators are expected to hold a press event before April 11 about a bill to start a timer on reforming or replacing Section 230, according to reports.

Independent developers are keeping the command prompt alive on PCs new and old.

According to Mark Gurman in the Power On newsletter, a cheaper Vision Pro is in the works, along with one that would plug into a Mac.