Apple Turns Its AI to Accessibility, From Eye-Controlled Wheelchairs to Auto-Captions
Pat Dolan has lived with ALS for a decade. What he wants, he says, is the option to steer his power wheelchair himself — and Apple says that capability is…
Meta Moves 7,000 Employees Into AI Roles as It Cuts 8,000 Jobs
Inside Meta, the layoff day followed a familiar ritual: North American employees were asked to work from home while notifications went out. But this round came with a twist —…
Alibaba Ships Qwen 3.7 Preview as Researchers Allege Censorship in Earlier Model
The same morning Alibaba began previewing its newest flagship model, researchers said they had extracted evidence of political censorship from the weights of the one before it. The coincidence has…
Baidu’s AI Business Passes 40% of Revenue for the First Time
For the first time, more than four of every ten yuan Baidu takes in comes from AI. The company’s AI-powered business grew 49% from a year earlier to 13.6 billion…
FANUC Deepens Nvidia Ties in Race to Teach Robots New Skills
OSHINO, Japan — On a factory floor at the foot of Mount Fuji, a robot arm recently learned something new: how to pick oddly shaped parts out of a bin,…
Gates Foundation Sells Its Last Microsoft Shares, Filing Shows
SEATTLE — The final trade was small by the standards of the fortune it closed out. In the first quarter, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust sold its remaining…
OpenAI Quietly Bought Voice-Cloning Startup Weights.gg, People Familiar With the Matter Say
SAN FRANCISCO — Two years ago, OpenAI’s research team published a blog post describing something it would not let anyone use: a voice-replication system so realistic that the company decided…
Stellantis to Build Dongfeng Models at French Plant as Tariffs Reshape Auto Trade
PARIS — The factory in Rennes has survived crises before. Stellantis has repeatedly considered closing the La Janais plant, most recently in the years after the merger that created the…
NextEra in Talks to Buy Dominion Energy for About $66 Billion
NEW YORK — The two companies could not look more different on a map. NextEra Energy dominates the sun-soaked utility business of Florida, while Dominion Energy’s territory runs through the…
Eclipse Bets on Cerebras, Valuing the Wafer-Scale Chip Maker at $2.5 Billion
SAN FRANCISCO — The chip is the size of a dinner plate, and that is the point. While the rest of the industry slices silicon wafers into small rectangles, Cerebras…