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Two of Apple’s biggest Chinese suppliers are racing to Hong Kong in the same week. Luxshare wants about $3bn, Lingyi just banked $1.1bn. Both are using the cash to pivot from smartphone parts to AI hardware and humanoid robots. The companies that build your AirPods are quietly raising
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OpenAI just showed off Jalapeño, its first home-grown AI chip, built with Broadcom. It is designed for inference, not training. And it is the clearest sign yet that the company most dependent on Nvidia wants a way out. OpenAI has a chip now. On Wednesday it unveiled Jalapeño, the first
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Cerebras nearly doubled its revenue and guided 2026 sales above Wall Street’s estimates. Its stock still fell about 10%. The reason was a margin squeeze, caused not by a shortage of chips but by a shortage of buildings. Cerebras just learned the price of going public into a mania.
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A supercomputer in Shenzhen just topped the world rankings for the first time since 2017. The headline is the speed. The real story is the silicon: it runs without a single chip from Nvidia, AMD or Intel. China has taken back the supercomputing crown. On Tuesday, organisers declared a machine
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I’m under no illusions that John Ternus’ Apple will be the exactly same as it has been under Tim Cook. Initially though, there will be few, if any, changes. Ternus is not an outsider with wild anti-Apple ideas intended to wake a sleeping giant. He's been here
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The battle for AI hardware is heating up, and Qualcomm just launched a direct assault on NVIDIA's dominance. The company has reached a deal to acquire Modular Inc., an AI software infrastructure startup, in an all-stock transaction that is reported to come in at roughly $3.9 billion.
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A new cyberattack campaign has been discovered targeting Ukraine’s drone sector, including military units, supply chains, and volunteer groups. Security researchers at Synaptic Systems recently analysed the activity and named the new group behind it GhostShell and the tracking label MB-0009. Reportedly, it has been active since at least
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Anthropic has unveiled a new AI agent called Claude Tag, which can join Slack as a team member to learn a company's workflows and context over time. Teams can assign tasks to the agent, ask it questions, or request analysis based on ongoing discussions. Anything in an assigned
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It’s the second leverless controller the company has released. Last year, 8BitDo shipped its first leverless arcade controller for all the joystick-shunning fighting game enthusiasts, and also the more casual players who might be interested in trying the all-button approach. Be under no illusion about who the new Arcade
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Zoox, the autonomous vehicle company owned by Amazon, unveiled a new look for its boxy, bidirectional robotaxi, calling it the “next evolution” of the vehicle intended for mass production. The company is currently operating a free robotaxi service in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Austin, and Miami while it waits for
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Andrew Liszewski is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. 8BitDo announced a new version of its all-button Arcade Controller that debuted a little over a year ago. The new
