An interview with Craig Federighi on iPadOS 26's multitasking UI, Stage Manager's interface limitations, and why the iPad's Mac-style multitasking took so long
Federighi talks to Ars about why the iPad's Mac-style multitasking took so long. — CUPERTINO, Calif.—When Apple Senior Vice President …
An Interpol-led law enforcement action in 26 countries disrupted infostealer operations, leading to takedowns of 20K+ malicious IPs and domains and 32 arrests
An international law enforcement action codenamed “Operation Secure” targeted infostealer malware infrastructure …
Apple unveils updates to help parents protect kids and teens online, such as easier Child Accounts setup, stronger defaults, and granular App Store age ratings
Apple today announced a sweeping set of updates aimed at helping parents protect kids and teens online, as part of its broader push …
Meta sues Joy Timeline, which makes nudify app CrushAI, in Hong Kong to prevent it from advertising on Meta apps; in January, 90% of its traffic came from Meta
As part of what it claims is a new crackdown, Meta is suing a nudify app and “strengthening” its enforcement.
A look at Apple's vision for Apple TV+ and its film business, as Tim Cook says the company's $200M+ bet on “F1 the Movie” is about more than selling iPhones
Apple CEO and Formula 1 superstar Lewis Hamilton join forces on ‘F1 the Movie’ to take the tech giant's film business to new heights
SAG-AFTRA ends the 320+ day video game performers strike after reaching a tentative new Interactive Media Agreement contract with the major video game companies
The union had taken a stand on artificial intelligence, among other concerns, as it looked to advocate for voice and performance capture workers.
Sources: Meta's Scale AI bet came from Mark Zuckerberg wanting new leadership for Meta's AI efforts, Meta executives' relationships with Alexandr Wang, and more
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has tried to fix a seemingly existential problem in recent months.
Arm CEO Rene Haas sides with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, saying US export controls on China threaten to slow overall tech advances and harm consumers and companies
“If you narrow access to to technology and you force other ecosystems to grow up, it's not good,” Haas said Thursday in an interview …
Sources: Meta has poached Jack Rae, a principal researcher at Google DeepMind, for its “superintelligence” team, and an ML lead from AI voice startup Sesame AI
Bloomberg :
Android 16 review: live update notifications and Advanced Protection are neat, but features like desktop mode and Material 3 Expressive are coming later in 2025
After months of speculation and beta testing, Google is rolling out Android 16 starting today.
Gemini and Glassnode research: centralized treasuries, including governments, ETFs, and public companies, hold and control 30.9% of bitcoin's circulating supply
Centralized treasuries, including governments, ETFs and public companies, now control approximately $668 billion of Bitcoin's circulating supply.
How Amsterdam's experiment to create a fair welfare AI model, which considered 15 characteristics to evaluate welfare applicants for potential fraud, failed
This story is a partnership between MIT Technology Review, Lighthouse Reports, and Trouw, and was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
A spam marketing operation exploited some domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR, and the US CDC to host AI slop articles redirecting users to an SEO spam site
Web domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR, and the U.S. government are hosting pages full of AI slop articles that redirect to a spam marketing site.
Google is working with the US National Hurricane Center to test an AI model that forecasts cyclones and launches Weather Lab to share its AI weather models
It's working with the US National Hurricane Center to test out its new AI-based tropical cyclone model.
The UK passes the Data (Use and Access) Bill, criticized by creatives, without an amendment to force companies to declare using copyrighted material to train AI
A bill which sparked an extraordinary stand-off between some of the UK's most high-profile artists - and their backers in the House of Lords - has finally been passed.
Databricks says it expects to generate $3.7B in annualized revenue by July, up 50% YoY; in Q1, it had nearly 50 of its 15,000+ customers spending $10M+ annually
Databricks, a data analytics software vendor, said on Wednesday that it expects to generate $3.7 billion in annualized revenue by July, with year-over-year growth of 50%.
Filing: Disney and NBCUniversal sue Midjourney in California, accusing it of direct and secondary copyright infringement; they say talks with Midjourney failed
www.reuters.com/business/med... Megan Farokhmanesh / @megannicolett : “bottomless pit of plagiarism” has a real ring to it www.wired.com/story/disney... Jason Read / @jasonread : Both Intellectual Pro...
Mattel partners with OpenAI to create AI-powered toys and games, with the first product expected in 2025, and integrates ChatGPT Enterprise in its business
Mattel (MAT.O) has teamed up with OpenAI to develop toys and games with artificial intelligence, and expects to launch …
Tesla sues ex-Optimus engineer Zhongjie Li, who worked at Tesla from 2022 to 2024, accusing him of stealing humanoid robot info and setting up a rival startup
Zhongjie “Jay” Li worked at Tesla between August 2022 and September 2024, according to a complaint filed in a San Francisco Federal Court late on Wednesday.
Sources and docs: Amazon has increased Prime Video's ad load to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from 2-3.5 minutes per hour when it introduced ads in January 2024
streaming just got a lot worse David Satin / The Streamable : Prime Video has doubled the number of ads it makes viewers watch Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget : Prime Video reportedly shows almost twic...
Stripe agrees to acquire Privy, which helps companies build crypto wallets into their user experiences; Privy was last valued at $230M in March 2025
Where Bridge powers stablecoin rails, Privy solves crypto's biggest UX problem: wallets. …
Brazil's Supreme Court rules that social media companies are accountable for some types of user content seen as illegal, a decision that could result in fines
Brazil's Supreme Court formed a majority on Wednesday to hold social media companies accountable for some types of content published …
Spain-based Multiverse Computing, which uses quantum-inspired AI model compression tech to shrink LLMs by up to 95%, raised a €189M Series B and has 100 clients
Spanish startup Multiverse Computing on Thursday said it has raised an enormous Series B round of €189 million …
The Wikimedia Foundation pauses an experiment that showed Wikipedia users AI-generated summaries at the top of some articles, following an editor backlash
Say No ‘Need To One-Up’ With Google David Uzondu / Neowin : Wikipedia suffers backlash from human editors over AI summaries, prompting feature pause Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku : Wikipedia Won't Add AI-Gene...
Landbase, whose GPT-4o-based AI tool automates outreach marketing, raised a $30M Series A co-led by Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures and Picus Capital
When Daniel Saks was working as a co-CEO of the previous startup he co-founded, AppDirect, billionaire Michael Dell sent him a LinkedIn message asking for a meeting.
Visa: stablecoin transaction volumes hit $752B in May, up from $409B in May 2024, and wallets that regularly send and receive payments hit a record 46M average
Financial Times :
TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, half run by national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI. — Summary4
Sources: OpenAI talked to Saudi Arabia's PIF, India-based Reliance, and the UAE's MGX about investing in the next installment of its $40B round led by SoftBank
OpenAI has talked to Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries and existing shareholder …
Pittsburgh-based Gecko Robotics, which makes robots that inspect infrastructure, raised a $125M Series D at a $1.25B valuation, up from $633M in December 2023
Gecko Robotics announced on Thursday that it raised $125 million in a Series D funding round, raising the AI and robotics company's valuation to $1.25 billion.
Oracle reports Q4 revenue up 11% YoY to $15.9B, vs. $15.59B est., cloud revenue up 27% YoY, signals strong cloud infrastructure revenue growth; ORCL jumps 6%+
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Nominal, which makes industrial design software for space, energy, and defense tech, raised $75M led by Sequoia Capital, after raising $27.5M in April 2024
Nominal wants to make it easier for companies in defense, energy and manufacturing to develop new products.
Nvidia plans to build its first industrial AI cloud platform in Germany for European manufacturers, combining AI with robotics to assist carmakers like BMW
but warns Europe risks falling behind Mercury News : Nvidia CEO sees tenfold boost to Europe's AI computing power Mona Guichard / Tech Xplore : Nvidia marks Paris tech fair with Europe AI push Taipei ...
The US prosecution of quant trader Richard Ho could define how quant algorithms can become stolen property and have a major impact on Wall Street's talent war
The prosecution of a trader could define how a quant algorithm can become stolen property and have a huge impact on Wall Street's talent war. X: @alephblog X: David Merkel / @alephblog : A quant firm ...
TSMC opens a joint research lab with the University of Tokyo, the company's first with a university outside Taiwan, expanding a relationship that began in 2019
Nikkei Asia :
A profile of Airwallex co-founder Jack Zhang, who turned down Stripe's $1.2B offer seven years ago; the fintech is now valued at $6.2B and plans an IPO in 2026
Emily Mason / Bloomberg : X: @awxjack . LinkedIn: Bloomberg News and Ravi Adusumilli X: Jack Zhang / @awxjack : 7 years ago, my co-founders and I walked away from an 1.2B acquisition offer from @st...
Meta adds AI video editing tools to the Edits app and Meta AI, letting users edit up to 10 seconds of a video with 50+ preset prompts, free for a “limited time”
Emma Roth / The Verge :
Meter, which sells and maintains packages of custom data center networking equipment, raised $170M led by General Catalyst at a $1B+ valuation
The company has collected $170 million in new capital as it seeks to help connect data centers and other businesses in the age of artificial intelligence.
Chime priced its US IPO at $27 per share, above the expected range, raising ~$700M and another $165M from shares sold by investors, valuing it at $11.6B
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC :
How an AI assistant developed by Brazilian nonprofit NoHarm is helping pharmacists in remote Amazon clinics process prescriptions more quickly and catch errors
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Sources: CoreWeave will provide computing capacity to Google as part of Google's cloud deal with OpenAI; Google will also supply its own compute to OpenAI
Tel Aviv-based Tastewise, which uses gen AI to automate sales and marketing for food and beverage companies, raised a $50M Series B led by Telus Global Ventures
Ryan Barwick / Axios :
Fermàt, which uses AI to analyze e-commerce store performance and audience behavior for personalized campaigns, raised a $45M Series B led by VMG Partners
Chris Metinko / Axios :
London-based Definely, whose AI tools help law firms draft and review legal contracts, raised a $30M Series B led by Revaia, with Clio and others participating
Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu :
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
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Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.