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iPhone Air Designer Departs Apple After Product Struggles, Joins AI Startup
iPhone Air designer Abidur Choudhury leaves Apple after the product’s poor performance, joining an undisclosed AI startup.
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iPhone Air designer Abidur Choudhury leaves Apple after the product’s poor performance, joining an undisclosed AI startup.
A global Cloudflare outage is disrupting major websites and services across multiple regions.
Apple is accelerating succession planning as Tim Cook considers stepping down this winter, with hardware chief John Ternus seen as the leading contender.
Blue Origin launches its New Glenn rocket on a Mars mission and lands the booster for the first time.
Apple adds the Edge Light ring-light effect to Mac displays in the macOS 26.2 beta for improved video-call lighting.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.1 with stronger reasoning, new model variants, and more human-like interaction.
Musk says a Neuralink-enabled 'mind fingerprint' could let people inhabit Optimus robots within 20 years.
Fireflies AI, now valued at $1 billion, began with its founders manually taking meeting notes before building real AI automation.
IBM launches its Quantum Nighthawk processor, aiming to achieve quantum advantage over classical computing by 2026.
Coinbase and BVNK abandon a planned $2 billion acquisition following due diligence, signaling a more selective crypto M&A climate.
OpenAI drafts a five-year path to fund $1T+ of data centers, chips, and energy to deliver its promised AI compute.
AMD secures over $45 billion in custom chip design contracts beginning in 2026, expanding into AI and high-performance sectors.