Intel has appointed a former Trump administration official to lead its government affairs team. The move comes just four months after the U.S. government took a 9.9% equity stake in the chipmaker using $8.9 billion in CHIPS Act funds.
According to a new report, a previously shelved Alien game is back in development. It’s now being handled by the studio behind Shadow of the Tomb Raider and could feature a fan-favorite character.
Looking back at 2025, Windows 11 didn’t get a flashy new version number. Instead, it received a steady stream of updates that collectively make the OS feel more mature, secure, and user-friendly. The changes range from a full-screen Xbox experience for handheld PCs to finally fixing dark mode flashe
Amazon used AI to create a recap for Fallout’s second season, and it was riddled with factual mistakes. The video has been pulled after fan backlash, highlighting a bigger problem with replacing human talent with cheap AI slop.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT now boasts 300 million weekly active users, but its path in 2025 is fraught with legal battles and internal shifts. CEO Sam Altman has declared a “code red” to refocus on the core chatbot amid rising competition. The company is also navigating serious lawsuits over mental health ris
A major investigation found Instacart has been running a massive pricing experiment on customers using AI. The same cart of groceries could cost up to $123 for one person and just $114 for another at the exact same store and time. This dynamic pricing, powered by an AI company Instacart bought in 20
Executives from IBM, SAS, Stability AI, and others shared exclusive 2026 predictions with TechRepublic. The consensus is that scale will force a reckoning, pushing companies toward specialized tools, greater observability, and a new era of cloud autonomy. The flashy AI demos will fade, replaced by a
Elon Musk’s xAI is suing Apple and OpenAI, but new court documents show the fight is really about super apps. The lawsuit uses Grok’s App Store ranking as a backdoor to challenge rules that Musk claims hold X back from becoming a Western super app like WeChat.
A startup called Starcloud has successfully run Google’s Gemma AI on an Nvidia GPU in space, even training a small model on Shakespeare’s works. It’s a first step toward a wildly ambitious vision of building enormous, solar-powered orbital data centers to solve Earth’s energy and land constraints.
Following EU action in June 2024, Apple opened iPhone NFC access to rivals in several regions by August 2024. Now, Switzerland’s COMCO has launched a preliminary investigation to see if the terms there are fair and comply with local antitrust law.
