Silicon photonics startup Ayar Labs announced $500 million in Series E funding on March 3, bringing total Ayar Labs photonics funding to $870 million and quadrupling the company’s valuation to $3.75 billion. The round, led by Neuberger Berman, includes participation from Nvidia, AMD, MediaTek, and other major investors betting that optical interconnects will solve AI’s…
Apple kicked off its 2026 product lineup with the Apple iPhone 17e launch on March 2, introducing a budget-friendly smartphone that packs flagship features at an aggressive $599 price point. With MagSafe wireless charging, doubled base storage to 256GB, and the same A19 processor found in premium iPhone 17 models, the iPhone 17e represents a…
Amazon announced at Mobile World Congress 2026 that its Amazon Spain data center investment will reach €33.7 billion ($39.8 billion) through 2035, marking the largest technology infrastructure commitment in Spanish history. The announcement adds €18 billion to the €15.7 billion Amazon already committed in 2024, effectively doubling its investment in cloud computing and AI infrastructure…
Apple is finally releasing the long-promised AI overhaul of Siri, powered by Google’s Gemini AI model, in iOS 26.4 this March. The Apple Siri Gemini AI upgrade represents a complete rebuild of the voice assistant, bringing on-screen awareness, personal context, and multi-step task execution that make Siri competitive with ChatGPT and Claude for the first…
Samsung Display has officially branded its latest display innovation as Samsung Penta Tandem OLED, marking a significant advancement in monitor and TV technology. The five-layer organic light-emitting structure delivers 30% better luminance efficiency and doubles the lifespan compared to previous OLED generations, addressing two of the technology’s biggest historical weaknesses. What Makes Samsung Penta Tandem…
Hours after President Trump banned Anthropic from federal use, OpenAI announced the OpenAI Pentagon deal to deploy its AI models across the Department of Defense’s classified networks. The rushed agreement sparked immediate backlash over surveillance safeguards and autonomous weapons restrictions, with CEO Sam Altman admitting the timing “looked opportunistic and sloppy.” The OpenAI Pentagon Deal…
The White House announced it will host leading data center and AI companies on March 4 for a critical meeting addressing one of the industry’s most pressing challenges: the massive electricity demands of AI infrastructure and who should pay for it. The administration is pushing a “Rate Payer Protection Pledge” designed to prevent households and…
Skintekie is transforming at-home skincare with advanced beauty technology that brings professional-grade treatments to your bathroom. Specializing in LED light therapy and IPL hair removal, Skintekie offers two flagship products: an FDA-cleared LED Face Mask and an ice-cooling IPL Hair Removal Device—both designed to deliver salon-quality results without expensive appointments. What Makes Skintekie Different Skintekie…
DeepSeek has upended AI industry conventions by denying Nvidia and AMD early access to its upcoming V4 flagship model while granting Huawei and Chinese chipmakers weeks to optimize their hardware. This unprecedented move signals China’s determination to build AI infrastructure independent of American technology. Breaking Industry Norms AI developers typically share pre-release versions of major…
Nvidia delivered a masterclass in exceeding expectations with its fiscal Q4 earnings, reporting record revenue of $68.1 billion and guiding to $78 billion for the next quarter—crushing Wall Street forecasts and silencing concerns about an AI spending bubble. CEO Jensen Huang declared that “the agentic AI inflection point has arrived,” positioning the company for continued…
WhatsApp is closing a major feature gap by bringing voice and video calling directly to its browser-based web interface. According to Android Headlines, WhatsApp Web is finally getting native calling support, eliminating the need for users to install separate desktop applications just to make calls. What’s New in WhatsApp Web The update introduces several key…
Nvidia is making a major return to consumer laptop processors with its N1 and N1X chips, developed in partnership with MediaTek. According to multiple reports, Dell and Lenovo are preparing to launch laptops powered by these ARM-based processors in the first half of this year, challenging both Intel and Apple’s dominance in the laptop market….