AI
Apple vs. EU: The Siri AI Standoff That Will Define AI Regulation in Europe
The EU blocked Apple's on-device Siri AI from launching in Europe. Apple's architecture was specifically designed to keep data local. The EU…
AI
CHICAGO
Motorola Solutions: Chicago’s Quiet 96-Year-Old Tech Giant
Motorola Solutions has been building tech from Chicago for 96 years, and its $10 billion public safety and enterprise AI business is…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6: Samsung’s Foldables Go All-In on AI in Paris
Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked Paris 2024 showcased an exciting leap forward in foldable smartphones with the introduction of the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Z Flip…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
CMF Phone 1: 100,000 Units in Three Hours and the Sub-Brand Test, Passed
CMF Phone 1 launched July 8, 2024 at ₹15,999 and sold 100,000 units in three hours. The sub-brand's first smartphone proved that…
AI
AI Reasoning Gets a Real Boost, And What It Means for Developers
MIT's breakthrough in AI reasoning capabilities, Intel's 18A process node for AI workloads, and generative AI transforming drug discovery, three developments that…
AI
Qualcomm’s On-Device AI Bet Just Jumped From Your Phone to Your Laptop
Two weeks after Apple Intelligence and six days after the first Copilot+ laptops, Qualcomm's on-device AI bet spans phone and PC at…
CHICAGO
The Outcome Health Fraud: Chicago’s $1 Billion Cautionary Tale
Outcome Health, once a celebrated Chicago healthtech startup, was later exposed for fraud, inflating revenue by $1 billion through false advertising sales.…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree — The Greatest DLC in Gaming History, Metacritic 94
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree launches today, and FromSoftware has delivered what may be the greatest piece of DLC in gaming…
CHIPS & AI
DUV Restricted, High-NA Arrives
High-NA EUV arrives at Intel for 380 million dollars a tool, just as the Dutch restrict immersion DUV to China and a…
AI
GPT-4 Turbo with Vision Goes Live, AMD Unveils MI300X AI Chip
OpenAI makes GPT-4 Turbo with Vision generally available while AMD launches the MI300X AI accelerator, expanding options for developers building multimodal AI…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
The Ayaneo Pocket S Chases Premium in a Category That Got Interesting by Being Cheap
The Ayaneo Pocket S is a premium Android handheld powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon G3x Gen 2, featuring a stunning 1440p screen. While…
AI
GPT-4 Turbo, MI300X, and Xeon 6: Three Layers of the AI Hardware Stack
GPT-4 Turbo ships measurably better reasoning. AMD MI300X brings 5.3 TB/s of memory bandwidth. Intel Xeon 6 argues the CPU still matters.…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
Jolla’s Russian separation: what actually happened
Jolla Russia is a closed chapter. The two-year separation from Open Mobile Platform finally completed in June 2024, costing Jolla its largest…
AI
DuckDuckGo Launches “No-AI” Toggle: Differentiation Through Subtraction
DuckDuckGo's new setting lets users turn off AI summaries. It is a positioning move that proves sometimes differentiation comes from subtraction.
AI
The AI Stack Is Splitting: On-Device vs. Cloud Inference and Why the Middle Ground Is a Losing Bet
Apple M4 hits 38 TOPS. Google ships Gemini 1.5 Pro for the cloud. Intel's Xeon 6 tries to serve both. The AI…