Apple’s Watch shake-up is a subtraction. There is no cheap one this year.
Amazon’s new Texas data centre could become America’s biggest single polluter. It will not touch the grid.
Myspace wants to sell you a feed without an algorithm. Brussels is about to make that mandatory anyway.
OpenAI just bought a slide deck startup. It is assembling an office suite one acqui-hire at a time.
Armenia just opened the region’s biggest AI factory. It exists because Washington signed a licence.
Microsoft brings its fourth Indian cloud region online in Hyderabad, the first delivery against a $17.5 billion commitment
Grok’s image tools get a professional upgrade with templates, precise editing, and an Arena number two ranking
You can’t regulate your way to AI sovereignty
Cerebras CEO says it’s “mind-boggling” that people think working 38 hours a week leads to greatness
Three labs, three breaches, one vendor. The AI hacking story was never about the models.
Europe’s defense industry may be facing a Kodak moment
Moore Threads plans a Hong Kong listing after its shares surged 420% since its Shanghai debut
Flock pitched turning 350,000 Uber and Lyft drivers into a roaming surveillance network
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