Apple Retakes Global Value Crown From NVIDIA, Adds Device Rental Plan
The title of world’s most valuable company changed hands on July 28 without a product launch, an earnings report or a single keynote. Apple’s market capitalization moved past NVIDIA’s during…
AI Tools Drive Software Vulnerability Disclosures to Record Levels
Oracle’s July security update fixed 1,449 vulnerabilities. A year earlier, the same quarterly update addressed 309. Microsoft disclosed 642 vulnerabilities in July, nearly five times the total for the same…
Hugging Face Demands $100 Million in Compute From OpenAI After Agent Breach
The chief executive of Hugging Face spent the weekend with engineers pulling logs from an intrusion that most of the AI industry had hoped to treat as an internal testing…
SpaceX Stock Has Fallen 51% From Its Post-IPO Peak. Not Even Starship Helped
The launch went almost perfectly. Starship’s thirteenth test flight executed its profile with what observers called a near-flawless performance — booster recovery, stage separation, all the drama that usually moves…
Amazon and Microsoft’s $400 Billion AI Bet Tests Investor Patience
The cover line in Fortune put it bluntly: two companies, one question. Amazon and Microsoft have committed more than $400 billion in combined capital spending to AI infrastructure, the magazine’s…
Big Tech’s Earnings Week Arrives With AI Spending Under Scrutiny
The calendar does the talking this week. Apple reports its fiscal third quarter on July 30; Microsoft follows the same day with its fiscal fourth quarter; Meta and Amazon report…
Xbox Live Goes Dark, and Even Single-Player Games Stop Working
The error message appeared on millions of screens on July 27: a failed sign-in, a license check that would not complete, a game that refused to launch. Xbox Live, Microsoft’s…
Circle Buys IBM’s Blockchain Patents, Becomes Top Patent Holder in the Field
The transaction was announced without a price. Circle, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, said it has acquired IBM’s blockchain patent portfolio — nearly 1,000 patents — making it the…
ASML and US Chip Stocks Slip on Report of China’s Homegrown DUV Tools
The report, carried by TechPowerUp and Investing.com, described small-batch production of a Chinese immersion DUV lithography machine — the equipment used to print circuits at the 28-nanometer node and above,…
Google Confirms Pixel 11 Price Rises as Memory Shortage Bites
The confirmation came without a number. Google said this month that its upcoming Pixel 11 series will carry higher prices because of the global shortage of DRAM and NAND flash…
