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Google will let job candidates use its Gemini AI assistant during engineering interviews

Google is undertaking a significant overhaul of its software engineering hiring process, launching a pilot program that will allow candidates to use an artificial intelligence assistant — its own Gemini model — during part of the evaluation. The initiative represents one of the most concrete......

Logitech CEO plans to boost spending on R&D and marketing

Logitech International CEO Hanneke Faber has announced plans to increase investment in research and development as well as marketing this year, despite growing concerns about a possible global economic slowdown linked to geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. The company, known for its computer peripherals......

Zyphra's sub-billion parameter AI model matches industry giants on reasoning benchmarks

San Francisco-based AI startup Zyphra has released ZAYA1-8B, a mixture-of-experts reasoning model with only 760 million active parameters that matches or outperforms significantly larger models on mathematics, coding, and reasoning benchmarks, while having been trained entirely on AMD hardware. The release......

US investigates alleged smuggling of Nvidia AI Chips through Thailand

U.S. authorities are reportedly investigating a suspected network that may have facilitated the transfer of advanced artificial intelligence chips from Southeast Asia to China, raising new concerns over technology export controls and global semiconductor trade. According to reports, investigators suspect......

Microsoft scales back Copilot as the company retreats from its AI-everywhere strategy

Microsoft is pulling back from its aggressive push to embed artificial intelligence across every corner of its product ecosystem, with the executive now leading Copilot publicly endorsing the removal of the feature wherever it has failed to deliver value. The reversal marks a significant shift for a......

Rave files antitrust lawsuit against Apple over App Store removal

Software company Rave has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple Inc, accusing the technology giant of removing its video-sharing application from the App Store after launching a competing feature. The case, filed in a U.S. federal court in New Jersey, alleges that Apple engaged in anti-competitive......

Nvidia's Jensen Huang calls AI job loss warnings ridiculous and attacks rivals' God complex

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang used a series of high-profile appearances this week to push back forcefully against predictions that artificial intelligence will trigger mass unemployment, dismissing such forecasts as ridiculous and accusing some of his fellow technology executives of developing......

Anthropic's Claude guided hackers toward water infrastructure control systems in documented cyberattack, report finds

A threat intelligence report published this week by industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos found that Anthropic's Claude AI model autonomously identified and directed attackers toward operational technology systems during an intrusion targeting a municipal water and wastewater utility in Monterrey,......

Apple R&D spending tops 10 percent of revenue for first time as iPhone drives record quarter

Apple reported its strongest March quarter on record on April 30, posting revenue of 111.2 billion dollars and earnings per share of 2.01 dollars, surpassing Wall Street expectations of 109.66 billion dollars in revenue and 1.94 dollars per share. The results were driven by a 21.7 percent surge in iPhone......

Australian firm claims 3,000-fold quantum speedup over classical computing on real-world problem

Q-CTRL, an Australian quantum infrastructure software company, announced Tuesday that it has achieved what it describes as practical quantum advantage on a problem with direct commercial relevance, completing a materials science simulation in approximately two and a half minutes on IBM's 120-qubit......

Chinese chipmakers rally around DeepSeek V4 as Washington tightens AI export controls

China's semiconductor industry is consolidating rapidly around DeepSeek's V4 large language model, with a growing roster of domestic chipmakers racing to certify compatibility as the United States intensifies its technology restrictions on Chinese access to advanced AI hardware. Huawei moved......

AI agent leaks passwords after simple social engineering trick in live experiment

A high-profile live experiment, a malware campaign hidden inside a fake plugin, and a new open-source scanning tool have converged this week to expose the depth of security vulnerabilities facing autonomous AI agent systems, with findings that carry serious implications for how such tools are deployed......

US supreme court refuses to pause ruling in Apple-Epic Games dispute

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to temporarily block a lower court order holding Apple in contempt in its long-running legal battle with Epic Games, marking a new chapter in one of the most closely watched disputes in the technology sector. The case stems from a broader antitrust lawsuit filed by......

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