Here’s some news you don’t see every day: On Thursday, Apple’s online store was down briefly Thursday morning, before coming back online with updated prices for Mac computers, up by 15% to 20%, and iPads, up 15% to 25%, per . What’s clearly missing from the lineup of price hikes is the iPhone, Apple’s most successful and profitable product. Why the price hike? The company is citing skyrocketing global AI-driven . The move comes a week after outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook Wall Street Journal that... Read more ›
The Trump administration has imposed tariffs on semiconductor imports on national security grounds under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act. These tariffs would raise ICT prices and thereby lower ICT consumption and capital stocks, which would reduce economic growth and lower Americans’ living standards. Read more ›
UK-based Blue Lake VC has secured a cornerstone commitment from the British Business Bank, the UK’s largest institutional investor in venture capital. Ukrainians David Gilgur and Lyubov Guk, founding... Read more ›
The Maextro S800 Grand Design starts at 1.388 million yuan ($204,400), taking aim at Mercedes-Benz Maybach. For details, please visit <a href=" Read more ›
A one-on-one meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and U Read more ›
AGI Governance Fellowship Tuesday, September 8-Friday, September 25 Hopkins Bloomberg Center555 Pennsylvania Ave NWWashington, D.C. 20002 Humanity is developing AI systems that instantiate a growing range of human cognitive capabilities, at human-level or greater. These powerful AI systems will challenge the foundations of governance and human collective life. We must not only adapt our existing […] Read more ›
In Sheep’s Clothing and Be With Records present a rare Los Angeles appearance by the elusive Stockport guitarist, with support from Cate Kennan and selections from Rob Butler, Josh da Costa and the ISC team. For the past dozen years, the British reissue label Be With Records has mined a particularly rich vein of groove-based R&B, Balearic, soul, jazz, and overlooked left-field classics, building one of the most trusted catalogs in contemporary record collecting. ... Read more ›
European regulators say Amazon’s and Microsoft’s cloud businesses should fall under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The European Commission said in a Wednesday (June 24) press release that it had informed both tech giants of its preliminary finding that they should be considered “gatekeepers” under the DMA for their cloud computing services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. “In […] The post appeared first on <a href=" Read more ›
What it takes to ship a generative AI product – from inference economics and safety guardrails to the question vibe coding can’t answer. Read more ›
Spacex Starship 40 rolled out to Massey’s on June 23–24. It successfully completed an engine igniter test on June 24. Today, SpaceX has been doing multiple propellant loading cycles as part of the static fire campaign. There was an earlier attempt (or series of attempts) today that ended with detanking. Observers noted what looked like ... Read more Read more ›
The Apple Wiki is for all things related to Apple, Inc., including Mac OS X, iPod, iPhone, iPad, iWork, iLife and more. Read more ›
The digital euro would offer citizens and businesses a private, secure and innovative way to pay, while reducing reliance on non-EU providers. Read more ›
Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter. The issue of AI in cybersecurity is often portrayed as a binary choice: either a force multiplier for our adversaries, or a tool bringing professional obsolescence. The reality is more nuanced. While AI certainly brings some advantage to attackers, it also offers advantages to the defender, notably in how we manage, index, and derive value from threat intelligence. Currently, our industry excels in the use and dissemination of indicators of com... Read more ›
<img src=" debate over AI governance is stuck in a false choice between over-regulation and no regulation. There is a middle way: A pragmatic, evidence-based approach that reco… Read more ›
There's a commercial logic that cuts against the idea that ASML would risk its export license to arm a Chinese customer. Read more ›
PitchBook's midyear data shows an increasingly skewed VC ecosystem. Read more ›
A systematic approach to AGI and safety Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis emphasizes that the industry is approaching the threshold of Artificial General Intelligence, describing the current era as the foothills of the singularity. He advocates for a systematic, international approach to AI safety to address emerging risks in cybersecurity, biology, and nuclear spheres. To ensure frontier systems remain robust and operate within sufficient guardrails, he suggests the creation of a global sta... Read more ›
first impression: much better quality and accuracy than Qwen3.6-27B when handling long-term agent tasks. Huge Thanks to Qwen Team ! Local Agent Model No.1 Read more ›
China's latest white paper on global governance shows its commitment to multilateralism and to building a more just, equitable and inclusive global governance system, experts say. Read more ›
Two leading German newspapers have deleted articles created with the use of artificial intelligence. Many fear an increasing reliance on AI will damage the credibility of German media outlets. Read more ›