On September 8, OpenAI announced that an unreleased AI model had solved the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem — one of seven Millennium Prize Problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000 as some of the most important unsolved questions in mathematics. Each carries a $1 million prize. Before yesterday, only one of the seven had…
Apple’s “Surprise and Shine” event just ended — and it delivered. New CEO John Ternus took the stage for his first product event as chief executive and unveiled the widest single-day lineup Apple has introduced in years: a foldable iPhone duo, two new flagship iPhones, a new Apple Watch, an Apple Watch Ultra, and AirPods…
Creative professionals have heard two contradictory messages about AI over the past three years. One says AI will replace designers, writers, photographers, and video editors within a decade. The other says AI is just another tool and skilled humans have nothing to worry about. Both are wrong in important ways. The reality is more nuanced…
Adobe announced on September 3 that Anil Chakravarthy will become its next president and CEO on December 1, 2026. He succeeds Shantanu Narayen, who led the company for 18 years and built it from a desktop software maker into one of the most important enterprise software platforms on earth. Narayen’s legacy is remarkable. Adobe’s market…
Tesla launched its Cybercab robotaxi in Austin, Texas yesterday evening. By this morning, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had opened a federal safety investigation into whether the vehicle was lawfully certified to be on public roads at all. Tesla stock fell 6% on Friday. It was not the launch Elon Musk had planned. What…
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra yesterday, calling it the world’s most intelligent AI system and declaring that artificial general intelligence has arrived. OpenAI president Greg Brockman ended a closed press briefing with a single sentence: “Welcome to the AGI era.” That is an extraordinary claim. The model behind it is genuinely impressive. Whether the claim holds…
Broadcom reported its fiscal third-quarter earnings yesterday — and the AI numbers are genuinely hard to absorb. AI semiconductor revenue reached $16.7 billion in the quarter, up 221% year over year and 54% from the previous quarter. Total consolidated revenue hit $29.6 billion, up 86%. Then came the guidance. Broadcom expects AI semiconductor revenue of…
Nvidia officially confirmed this morning that it has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion — making it the chipmaker’s second-largest acquisition in history, behind only the $20 billion purchase of Groq assets last December. Jensen Huang announced the deal in a blog post, and the SEC 8-K was filed yesterday. The headline number…
On August 26, Meta agreed to pay approximately $18 billion to settle a landmark federal case brought by 52 state attorneys general accusing it of deliberately designing Facebook and Instagram to addict children — and of lying to the public about what it knew. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers approved the settlement the same…
Uber is gone from Nigeria. Effective today, the company has shut down ride-hailing operations in a country it helped introduce to app-based transport back in 2014. Simultaneously, it has exited Uganda, the fourth African country it has left in under a year, following earlier withdrawals from Tanzania and South Africa’s smaller cities. Uber’s official statement…
The US Department of Defense today announced it has added OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok to GenAI.mil — a secure internal platform that gives military and civilian DoD personnel access to commercial AI tools on a non-classified network. With today’s expansion, the platform is now available to all 3 million DoD personnel, with 1.7 million…
Tim Cook’s tenure as Apple CEO is officially over. Effective today, September 1, 2026, John Ternus — Apple’s former senior vice president of hardware engineering — takes over as the company’s third chief executive. Cook moves into the newly created role of executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors. The transition was not a surprise….
Hugging Face — best known as the platform where developers go to find and share open-source AI models — just launched a robot. It’s called the Microduck, it costs $399, it’s shaped like a duck, and it is genuinely one of the more interesting consumer tech launches of the year. Pre-orders opened yesterday. First deliveries…