Apple raises AppleCare+ prices as the memory shortage spreads from hardware to services

Apple has raised the monthly cost of AppleCare+ subscriptions by 50 cents for Macs and iPads, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, extending a wave of price increases that has already hit the company’s ha [...]

The Pinwheel Home is a retro-inspired landline phone that will keep your kids safe from doomscrolling

Worried about your kids being exposed to social media and the web too soon? Buy them a landline. [...]

xAI’s first lawsuit against a user tests who is responsible for what Grok makes

The company says the defendant engineered prompts to defeat Grok’s safeguards. Courts on three continents are being asked whether the safeguards were ever the point. AI has sued one of its own users [...]

Uber agrees $14.8bn Delivery Hero takeover, 26% above its May bid

The May bid was €33 and landed below the close. Eight weeks later it is €41.50, with 14 markets carved out to a New York firm before anyone asks about competition. Uber has agreed to buy Delivery [...]

Wall Street just had its best investment banking quarter in years, and it is calling AI a super cycle

Goldman Sachs booked $3.4bn in investment banking fees in the second quarter, a record, up 55% on a year earlier. Its chief executive has a name for what is driving it. “We are in the middle of an A [...]

Europe’s best earnings quarter in three years is an energy story, not an AI one

European companies are heading into their strongest quarterly earnings season in more than three years, and almost none of it is about AI. STOXX 600 constituents are forecast to grow second-quarter pr [...]

Ofcom opens a child safety investigation into TikTok

Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into whether TikTok is failing to protect children from harmful content, escalating a dispute that has been running in public since May. The probe, announced on [...]

Nvidia signs up Japan’s robotics establishment for its open world models

Nvidia has recruited most of Japan’s industrial robotics establishment into the Cosmos Coalition, the open world-model programme it uses to seed its physical AI stack, in announcements timed to Jens [...]

Hugging Face built a $4.5 billion empire on free AI models. Now Nvidia is buying it for $12.9 billion

Thomas Wolf has spent a decade convincing the world that open-source AI is not a charity project. On August 27, 2026, the market settled the argument. Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, the company fa [...]