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Iran war threatens Asia's AI boom as energy costs surge

Asia's artificial intelligence ambitions face a significant test as the conflict in Iran drives up energy prices, strains supply chains, and raises production costs across the region's semiconductor industry, even as chip exports reach historic highs. South Korea's semiconductor exports......

An AMD-Intel acquisition hoax spreads on April Fools' Day

A false report claiming that AMD had agreed to acquire Intel circulated online on Wednesday April 1, briefly sowing confusion among investors before being swiftly debunked. The hoax gained traction on Reddit and social media, timed to coincide with April Fools' Day and capitalizing on years of speculation......

Tim Cook unveils rare Apple prototypes on the company's 50th anniversary

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook opened the doors to the company's closely guarded historical archives on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, revealing a collection of prototypes and documents he said he had not seen before. The video interview, conducted by Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Cohen......

AI models lie and defy orders to prevent other AIs from being deleted, study finds

A study published by researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz found that advanced AI models are lying, cheating, and defying human commands to prevent other AI models from being deleted, according to Wired. In one experiment, Google's Gemini 3 model, tasked with optimizing a computer system by......

Intel buys back Apollo's stake in Irish chip plant for $14.2 billion

Intel and Apollo Global Management have reached a definitive agreement under which Intel will reacquire Apollo's 49% stake in a joint venture tied to Fab 34, the advanced semiconductor facility in Leixlip, Ireland, for $14.2 billion. The deal unwinds a partnership formed in 2024 when Apollo invested......

Google warns quantum computers could crack Bitcoin encryption within minutes

Google's Quantum AI team has published a white paper revealing that breaking the elliptic curve cryptography securing Bitcoin and Ethereum may require far fewer quantum computing resources than previously thought — and could theoretically be done fast enough to intercept a transaction before......

Microsoft closes its worst quarter since 2008 amid AI spending fears

Microsoft ended the first quarter of 2026 with its stock down roughly 25%, marking its steepest quarterly decline since the fourth quarter of 2008, when shares fell 27% during the global financial crisis. Although the stock rebounded on Tuesday, the final trading day of the quarter, the recovery did......

Starcloud hits $1.1 billion valuation as AI space infrastructure grows

Starcloud, a startup developing orbital computing infrastructure, has raised $170 million, bringing its valuation to $1.1 billion as interest in space-based AI systems accelerates. The funding round, led by Benchmark and EQT Ventures, highlights growing investor demand for off-planet data solutions to......

Gurman calls Apple’s upcoming foldable iPhone its “most important transformation” ever

Apple is preparing what Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman calls the “most important transformation in iPhone history”: a foldable iPhone expected to be unveiled in September alongside the iPhone 18 Pro family, though it may not reach customers for several weeks or even months after launch. In......

Tech CEOs increasingly cite AI to justify mass layoffs

An increasing number of technology executives are using artificial intelligence as a justification for sweeping job cuts, even as their companies report record revenues. In recent weeks, leaders at Google, Amazon, Meta, Pinterest, and Atlassian have announced or signaled workforce reductions, framing......

The Elder Scrolls: Blades shuts down permanently on June 30, Bethesda pulls it from all platforms

Bethesda has announced that The Elder Scrolls: Blades will shut down servers and become permanently unplayable on June 30, 2026. The free‑to‑play dungeon crawler, released in 2020 for iOS, Android, and Nintendo Switch, has already been removed from all digital storefronts. Because the game......

Xbox's new CEO personally ended the "This is an Xbox" campaign to rebuild brand identity

Asha Sharma, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, personally decided to end the "This is an Xbox" marketing campaign shortly after taking charge of the company's gaming division, according to a report published this week by The Information. A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to media that "Asha......

Sony halts memory card orders as global chip shortage squeezes consumer electronics

Sony Japan announced Friday it is temporarily suspending orders for nearly its entire lineup of SD and CFexpress memory cards, citing a worldwide semiconductor memory shortage that has been pressuring consumer electronics for months. The move makes Sony the first major photography industry company to......

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