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Apple to Source Billions of US-Made Chips in Supply Chain Shift
Apple to source more than 19 billion chips from the US this year. Company CEO Tim Cook affirmed expectations that Apple will in future make the vast majority of its US-bound iPhones in India — reducing output from China as the Donald Trump administration threatens to slap punitive tariffs on its Asian rival.
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Nintendo Switch 2 and Sony PS5 Likely to Get Price Hikes Due to Tariffs
Nintendo and Sony Group are likely to raise prices on their game consoles in response to US tariffs. American consumers would pay as as much as 30% more for a Switch 2 or PlayStation 5 under the base-case scenario, which would imply pricing close to $590 (roughly Rs. 50,765) for the soon-to-be-released Nintendo flagship machine or Sony’s PS5 Astr...
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Nintendo’s Pivotal Switch 2 Launch Boosted by Trump Tariff Pause
The 90-day reprieve on heightened tariffs for most US trading partners gives Nintendo a chance to ramp up shipments of its upcoming Switch 2 console to a market that accounts for more than a third of its sales.
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iPhone Loses Global Market Share With Apple Intelligence Features Absent in China
Apple is seeing losses owing to the absence of Apple Intelligence in China -- its largest market outside the US. Apple's suite of AI enhancements rolling out in stages following the launch of the iPhone 16 in September. Those AI additions are not yet available in any form in China.
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iPhone 16 Sales Soar 20 Percent in China Debut as Demand Returns
Apple’s newest iPhones in China are up 20 percent in their first three weeks compared with 2023’s model. As pointed out by Counterpoint Research, Consumers continue to shift to the pricier models, and sales of the top-end Pro and Pro Max models gained 44 percent compared with last year’s equivalents.
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Microsoft Outage: From ATMs to Flights, Epic IT Crash Leaves Trail of Chaos
CrowdStrike's botched software update will go down as the most spectacular IT failure the world has ever seen, after it crashed countless Microsoft Windows computer systems globally on Friday as for several hours, bankers, doctors, and emergency responders found themselves locked out of programs critical to keeping their operations afloat. Both Mic...
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Elon Musk’s AI Startup xAI Raises $6 Billion in Bid to Challenge OpenAI
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has raised $6 billion (roughly Rs. 49,857 crore) to accelerate its challenge to his former allies at OpenAI.
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Apple Overtakes Samsung As World's Top Phone Maker In 2023
Apple Inc.'s iPhone dethroned Samsung Electronics Co. devices to become the best-selling smartphone series over the course of 2023, the first time South Korea's largest company has lost the top spot since 2010.
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Microsoft Adds AI Copilot Key in First Change to PC Keyboard in Decades
Microsoft is adding a button to the Windows keyboard to activate its AI Copilot service, with the first devices to sport the new key available this month. Microsoft’s hardware partners will show off Windows 11 computers with the Copilot button over the coming days at the CES technology conference and, over time, it will become a required feature.
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Nearly All of OpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit and Join Microsoft After Sam Altman’s Ouster
Nearly all of OpenAI’s employees have threatened to quit and follow ousted leader Sam Altman to work at the company’s biggest investor, Microsoft Corp., unless the current board resigns, leaving the future of the high-profile artificial intelligence startup increasingly uncertain.
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Elon Musk Debuts 'Rebellious' Grok AI Bot To Challenge ChatGPT
Elon Musk revealed his own artificial intelligence bot to challenge ChatGPT, claiming the prototype is already superior to ChatGPT 3.5 across several benchmarks.
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Google to Launch New Image Search Features to Reduce Misinformation, Flag AI-Generated Images
Google is adding two new features to its image search to reduce the spread of misinformation, especially now that artificial intelligence tools have made the creation of photorealistic fakes trivial.
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Samsung Considers Replacing Google With Microsoft's Bing as Devices' Default Search Service: Report
Samsung is considering switching Google with Microsoft's Bing as the default search engine on the company's smartphones, as per a New York Times report. Bing has been updated in recent months with support for OpenAI-backed AI technology that allows for ChatGPT-like results in a conversational format.
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Elon Musk Dodges Questions, Fires Zingers In Live Twitter Ramble
Mr Musk, speaking in a rambling Twitter Spaces interview with the BBC that played out before millions of listeners, reaffirmed Twitter is operating at about breakeven and could become cash-flow positive as soon as this quarter.
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Twitter Blue Rolls Out Globally, Legacy Verified Marks to Be Removed From April 1
Twitter will remove its "legacy" verified marks on user accounts from the platform by next week, the company announced via a post on Twitter. Under Elon Musk, Twitter has made the blue verification mark a major feature of its Twitter Blue subscription offering. Users who pay for Twitter Blue will get higher priority in replies and searches, helping...
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Apple to Source Billions of US-Made Chips in Supply Chain Shift
Apple to source more than 19 billion chips from the US this year. Company CEO Tim Cook affirmed expectations that Apple will in future make the vast majority of its US-bound iPhones in India — reducing output from China as the Donald Trump administration threatens to slap punitive tariffs on its Asian rival.
-
Nintendo Switch 2 and Sony PS5 Likely to Get Price Hikes Due to Tariffs
Nintendo and Sony Group are likely to raise prices on their game consoles in response to US tariffs. American consumers would pay as as much as 30% more for a Switch 2 or PlayStation 5 under the base-case scenario, which would imply pricing close to $590 (roughly Rs. 50,765) for the soon-to-be-released Nintendo flagship machine or Sony’s PS5 Astr...
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Nintendo’s Pivotal Switch 2 Launch Boosted by Trump Tariff Pause
The 90-day reprieve on heightened tariffs for most US trading partners gives Nintendo a chance to ramp up shipments of its upcoming Switch 2 console to a market that accounts for more than a third of its sales.
-
iPhone Loses Global Market Share With Apple Intelligence Features Absent in China
Apple is seeing losses owing to the absence of Apple Intelligence in China -- its largest market outside the US. Apple's suite of AI enhancements rolling out in stages following the launch of the iPhone 16 in September. Those AI additions are not yet available in any form in China.
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iPhone 16 Sales Soar 20 Percent in China Debut as Demand Returns
Apple’s newest iPhones in China are up 20 percent in their first three weeks compared with 2023’s model. As pointed out by Counterpoint Research, Consumers continue to shift to the pricier models, and sales of the top-end Pro and Pro Max models gained 44 percent compared with last year’s equivalents.
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Microsoft Outage: From ATMs to Flights, Epic IT Crash Leaves Trail of Chaos
CrowdStrike's botched software update will go down as the most spectacular IT failure the world has ever seen, after it crashed countless Microsoft Windows computer systems globally on Friday as for several hours, bankers, doctors, and emergency responders found themselves locked out of programs critical to keeping their operations afloat. Both Mic...
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Elon Musk’s AI Startup xAI Raises $6 Billion in Bid to Challenge OpenAI
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has raised $6 billion (roughly Rs. 49,857 crore) to accelerate its challenge to his former allies at OpenAI.
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Apple Overtakes Samsung As World's Top Phone Maker In 2023
Apple Inc.'s iPhone dethroned Samsung Electronics Co. devices to become the best-selling smartphone series over the course of 2023, the first time South Korea's largest company has lost the top spot since 2010.
-
Microsoft Adds AI Copilot Key in First Change to PC Keyboard in Decades
Microsoft is adding a button to the Windows keyboard to activate its AI Copilot service, with the first devices to sport the new key available this month. Microsoft’s hardware partners will show off Windows 11 computers with the Copilot button over the coming days at the CES technology conference and, over time, it will become a required feature.
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Nearly All of OpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit and Join Microsoft After Sam Altman’s Ouster
Nearly all of OpenAI’s employees have threatened to quit and follow ousted leader Sam Altman to work at the company’s biggest investor, Microsoft Corp., unless the current board resigns, leaving the future of the high-profile artificial intelligence startup increasingly uncertain.
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Elon Musk Debuts 'Rebellious' Grok AI Bot To Challenge ChatGPT
Elon Musk revealed his own artificial intelligence bot to challenge ChatGPT, claiming the prototype is already superior to ChatGPT 3.5 across several benchmarks.
-
Google to Launch New Image Search Features to Reduce Misinformation, Flag AI-Generated Images
Google is adding two new features to its image search to reduce the spread of misinformation, especially now that artificial intelligence tools have made the creation of photorealistic fakes trivial.
-
Samsung Considers Replacing Google With Microsoft's Bing as Devices' Default Search Service: Report
Samsung is considering switching Google with Microsoft's Bing as the default search engine on the company's smartphones, as per a New York Times report. Bing has been updated in recent months with support for OpenAI-backed AI technology that allows for ChatGPT-like results in a conversational format.
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Elon Musk Dodges Questions, Fires Zingers In Live Twitter Ramble
Mr Musk, speaking in a rambling Twitter Spaces interview with the BBC that played out before millions of listeners, reaffirmed Twitter is operating at about breakeven and could become cash-flow positive as soon as this quarter.
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Twitter Blue Rolls Out Globally, Legacy Verified Marks to Be Removed From April 1
Twitter will remove its "legacy" verified marks on user accounts from the platform by next week, the company announced via a post on Twitter. Under Elon Musk, Twitter has made the blue verification mark a major feature of its Twitter Blue subscription offering. Users who pay for Twitter Blue will get higher priority in replies and searches, helping...
