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Technology



Grok downloads fall as rivals widen artificial intelligence lead

Grok, the chatbot developed by xAI, recorded a sharp decline in global adoption during 2026 as competition in the generative artificial intelligence market intensified. Monthly downloads dropped to around 8.3 million in April, down from more than 20 million in January, representing a fall of nearly 60......

Google warns of growing use of artificial intelligence in cyberattacks

Google has warned that cybercriminal groups are increasingly using artificial intelligence to improve hacking operations, marking a significant evolution in global cybersecurity threats. According to researchers from Google’s Threat Intelligence Group, hackers recently used AI tools to identify......

Huawei unveils world's thinnest flagship tablet at global launch event in Bangkok

Huawei held its "Now Is Your Spark" global product launch event in Bangkok, Thailand, on May 7, unveiling a range of new consumer devices headlined by its thinnest flagship tablet, a battery-focused smartphone, and several connected devices designed to deepen its ecosystem. The centerpiece......

Figure AI robots tidy a bedroom together using vision alone, with no human input

Two F.03 humanoid robots from Figure AI, driven by the company's Helix-02 neural network, autonomously restored order to an entire bedroom in under two minutes — coordinating exclusively through visual cues, without any human intervention or explicit communication between the machines. The......

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......

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