Apple’s most important AI announcement at WWDC 2026 was not a feature. It was an architecture. The rebuilt Siri runs on a custom 1.2-trillion-parameter model built on Google’s Gemini technology, hosted on Google Cloud servers powered by Nvidia Blackwell B200 GPUs. For the company that made privacy its premium product, outsourcing AI inference to its largest competitor’s cloud […]

BYD’s executive vice president Stella Li told CNBC on Monday that China’s EV market will push to close to 80% penetration, a bullish forecast that contrasts sharply with rival Nio, whose chief executive William Li said last month that the industry’s “golden era” was over. The prediction arrives on the same day the Pentagon added […]

Perplexity AI plans to go public in 2028, and CEO Aravind Srinivas told CNBC that timeline has not changed because OpenAI and Anthropic are now filing for IPOs. “Agnostic of these two companies, we were planning for something in 2028, so that still remains the case,” Srinivas said. The statement positions Perplexity as the deliberate […]

Fujikura, the Tokyo-based fibre-optic cable manufacturer, is raising prices on the cables that connect servers inside AI data centres. CEO Naoki Okada told Bloomberg the company is on track to beat its own forecast thanks to sustained demand from nearly every major US hyperscaler. “We supply a valuable product,” Okada said. “We will raise prices a […]

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has declined an invitation from Senator Elizabeth Warren to testify before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday about the chipmaker’s sales to China and US export controls. Warren had asked Huang to appear under oath to discuss how Nvidia’s AI chips reach Chinese buyers and whether they end up in military applications. Huang […]

Apple did not announce a foldable iPhone at WWDC 2026. But the first developer beta of iOS 27 is full of evidence that one is coming, and soon. Software researcher M1Astra discovered code strings inside the beta that reference folding hardware directly. One mechanism is labelled “foldState.” Others include “mechanicalAngleDegrees” and “angleDegrees,” suggesting the operating system can […]

OpenAI submitted confidential IPO paperwork to the SEC on Monday, the company confirmed. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are advising on a potential listing that could come as soon as the autumn, according to people familiar with the matter. The filing makes OpenAI the third major AI-adjacent company to move towards public markets in a single […]

Lucid has begun rolling out UX 3.6, an over-the-air software update that adds hands-free highway driving to the Gravity SUV. The update is available now in the United States and Canada, but only for vehicles equipped with DreamDrive Pro 2, an optional hardware package that is not standard on all Gravity trims. Hands-Free Drive Assist takes […]

Ampera, a Florida-based nuclear energy startup, announced on Monday that it has established an Australian subsidiary to secure thorium supply for its advanced reactor programme. The company formed Ampera Australia Pty Ltd in February 2026 to procure and import thorium to the United States. The move is part of a strategy to vertically integrate the […]

Apple previewed a suite of new parental controls at WWDC 2026 on Monday, introducing tools that give parents more granular authority over what their children can see, who they can contact, and how long they can spend in apps. The updates, arriving this autumn with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, land on the […]