Don’t blame tariffs for an iPhone price hike – blame Apple for betting the farm on China
By now, you’ve heard the media’s Greek chorus: Newly levied tariffs on goods from China will, in all likelihood, cause iPhone prices to soar. Apple, the …
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Trump’s tariffs could force Apple to make major changes to iPhone production
United States President Donald J. Trump finally announced tariffs that will affect governments worldwide. China, Vietnam, and India are among the most affected countries. For …
Amazon just made a last-minute bid to buy TikTok ahead of US ban
According to The New York Times, Amazon made a last-minute offer to buy the popular video-sharing app TikTok on Wednesday. The bid comes just days …
Elon Musk sold his social network X to his artificial intelligence company xAI
Elon Musk’s attempts to buy OpenAI have been unsuccessful, but one of his companies made an equally surprising acquisition this week. Elon Musk revealed on …
Here’s why Apple TV+ losing $1 billion a year isn’t cause for concern
Before I begin this post about the latest news out of Apple TV+, I’d like to ask for a show of hands: Is there anyone …
Siri has a new boss: Apple’s Vision Pro chief
After publicly admitting that Apple Intelligence’s most important feature would be delayed indefinitely, Apple had to shake up Siri’s leadership. Now, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman reports …
Why is Google spending $32 billion to acquire Wiz?
Should regulators approve Google’s proposed $32 billion purchase of Wiz, a cloud security startup, it’ll become Google’s largest acquisition ever, dwarfing the $12.5 billion Google …
Companies like Southwest, Google, and Netflix share a motto: Change everything, and make it worse
What is it about success that makes the leaders of a company start to lose their minds? We see it time and again; the quest …
Google spent billions building AI just to make Search dumber than ever
Google used to be the kind of relentlessly ambitious tech giant that pursued moonshots reminiscent of science fiction — projects, for example, like the internet …
Apple and Indonesia end iPhone 16 ban with $1 billion local investment
Four months after Indonesia forbade iPhone 16 sales in the country, Apple and the government have reportedly agreed to end the ban. At that time, …
Apple announces $500B US investment with plans to add 20,000 jobs
Apple announced it will invest more than $500 billion in the US over the next four years, adding 20,000 new jobs in the process. The …
Elon Musk channels Office Space with email to federal workers (‘What would you say you do here?’)
This post has been updated with new information, below. Elon Musk, the head of President Trump’s aggressive government cost-cutting operation DOGE, is now demanding the …
Why it feels wrong to say flying is safer than driving – but the numbers don’t lie
With all the recent headlines about plane crashes, it’s understandable for a person to feel uneasy about flying. A plane landing upside down at the …
Wait, Netflix costs how much now? Streamer’s top tier nears a staggering $30/month
Netflix, simply by virtue of being the biggest streaming service out there, unsurprisingly comes in for the lion’s share of criticism. It’s thanks to everything …
TikTok returns to the Apple and Google app stores, and is now available to download again
Apple and Google have brought TikTok back to their respective app stores a little more than three weeks after removing it, following the implementation of …
Goodbye to the Gulf of Mexico: Both Google and Apple have now updated their Maps apps
(This post has been updated, below, to reflect that the name change is now live in both Google Maps and Apple Maps.) Among the flurry …
Elon Musk is now trying to buy OpenAI
In the midst of a long-running, highly publicized feud with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Elon Musk teamed up with a group of investors offering $97.4 …
Meta just hired a correspondent from The Daily Caller, founded by Tucker Carlson, for a policy role
Facebook’s parent company Meta is doubling down on its rightward shift, with a flurry of recent moves from the company reflecting a desire to be …
Why SoftBank’s massive investment in OpenAI is exciting for ChatGPT
When I saw OpenAI’s surprise Deep Research announcement on Sunday, I didn’t know what to make of it. This couldn’t be about the DeepSeek earthquake …
Early Apple Watch owners are eligible to get paid from a new lawsuit settlement
If you were an early Apple Watch owner, you might be able to get compensation from Apple thanks to a new lawsuit settlement. As reported …
CNN’s ratings have tanked, but it’s pressing forward with a standalone streaming service anyway
Among the rank-and-file inside CNN’s Hudson Yards headquarters, the mood these days is unsurprisingly grim. Ratings at the news network, for one thing, have slumped …
UK watchdog announces formal investigation into Apple and Google mobile monopolies
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has formally launched an antitrust investigation into Apple and Google’s strategic market status in the region due to their …
New $500 billion Stargate initiative is basically the Manhattan Project for AI
Box CEO Aaron Levie didn’t mince words following President Trump’s announcement today of the landmark $500 billion Stargate initiative — a collaborative effort between OpenAI, …
Humanoid robots will help build iPhones at Foxconn factories
To ramp up iPhone production at Foxconn factories, the manufacturer closed a deal to start using more humanoid robots. With the process of making iPhones …
‘They never sent me one of these for contributing to Democrats’: Senators grill tech CEOs for supporting Trump
In one of his final official acts as the nation’s chief executive, President Biden earlier this month awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to billionaire …
Mira Murati, a former high-ranking ChatGPT exec, has a mysterious AI project of her own
Mira Murati is a prominent AI engineer who worked on several of OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT, which started the AI revolution in late 2022. She …
Apple Card partnership could ditch Goldman for Barclays
The six-year-long Apple Card partnership between Goldman Sachs and Apple might end sooner than expected. Previous reports suggested that the private bank wasn’t happy with …
