24 hours ago
Apple Opens Talks With Intel and Samsung to Break Its Decade-Long TSMC Dependency
Key Takeaways Apple executives have visited Samsung’s advanced chip facility under development in Taylor, Texas, and held preliminary talks with Intel about its foundry services. No orders have been placed with either company, and Apple has not made any final decisions on manufacturing partners. Current chip supply constraints, driven by…
2 days ago
Sony’s $7.85 Million PlayStation Store Settlement Is Real and Here’s Exactly Who Gets Paid
Key Takeaways Sony’s $7.85 million settlement covers US PlayStation Network users who purchased specific digital titles between April 1, 2019, and December 31, 2023. Credits will be deposited automatically into active PSN accounts; no claim filing is needed for most eligible users. More than 4.4 million PSN accounts are estimated…
4 days ago
Top Tech Stories of 16th Week [2026]
Week sixteen of 2026 showed legal clashes, agentic risk, and rising capital in AI, with major shifts unfolding across courtrooms, data centers, and the Pentagon. Elon Musk’s admission on xAI training Grok on OpenAI models, Anthropic’s $900 billion valuation talks, and Google’s Pentagon deal together show AI competition, law, and…
4 days ago
Meta Acquires Assured Robot Intelligence to Build Humanoid Robots That Learn From Human Behaviour
Key Takeaways Meta acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a San Diego and New York-based startup developing learning-based AI foundation models for humanoid robots, for an undisclosed sum. ARI co-founders Lerrel Pinto and Xiaolong Wang, formerly of NYU, UC San Diego, and Nvidia, join Meta Superintelligence Labs alongside the full ARI team.…
5 days ago
Musk Admits That xAI Trained Grok on OpenAI Models, Then Called It Standard Practice
Key Takeaways Musk confirmed under cross-examination that xAI used OpenAI models “partly” to train Grok, calling it standard industry practice to “use other AIs to validate your AI.” The admission came during cross-examination by OpenAI’s lead attorney William Savitt at the federal courthouse in Oakland on April 30, 2026. Musk…
