Apple's new wireless chips give it even more control of the iPhone

Apple introduced two new wireless chips in the iPhone Air, a preview of a world where all the key components of the company's products are custom-designed. The C1X and N1 chips enable wireless fe [...]

The Most 'Awe Dropping' Part of Apple's iPhone 17 Event? AI Barely Came Up

Commentary: The iPhone 16 sales pitch was all about Apple Intelligence. For the iPhone 17, it seems Apple has learned from its mistakes. [...]

Apple acquiesced to my Apple Watch SE 3 demands (mostly)

Earlier this year, I typed up an open letter to Apple, giving the company my unsolicited (but completely free of charge!) suggestions on what it could do to improve its entry-level smartwatch, the App [...]

Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an 'Illusion'

Mustafa Suleyman says that designing AI systems to exceed human intelligence—and to mimic behavior that suggests consciousness—would be “dangerous and misguided.” [...]

Apple is slowly morphing AirPods into an always-on wearable

The AirPods Pro 3 Apple introduced at the iPhone 17 event yesterday have better active noise cancellation and foam-filled ear tips, but their most important new feature is a subtle one: Apple came up [...]

5 new AI-powered features that flew under the radar at Apple's launch event

While Apple Intelligence updates weren't the focus of the event, Apple still had new AI tricks up its sleeve. [...]

Intuit will show off how it rebuilt its AI infrastructure to support fast and complex tasks at VB Transform 2026

Customer expectations have shifted from simple, fast conversational interactions to complex agentic AI-powered tasks that legacy IT architectures simply can’t handle. To address this, Intuit made t [...]

Researchers say they trained a foundation model from scratch for about $1,500

Training a foundation LLM from scratch costs millions and requires internet-scale data — which is why most enterprises don't bother. Sapient thinks it has a cheaper path.To overcome this brute- [...]

Miami startup Subquadratic claims 1,000x AI efficiency gain with SubQ model; researchers demand independent proof.

A little-known Miami-based startup called Subquadratic emerged from stealth on Tuesday with a sweeping claim: that it has built the first large language model to fully escape the mathematical constrai [...]