Xiaomi’s Cheaper YU7 Takes Aim at Tesla’s Model Y
Lei Jun was unusually direct for a launch event. The Xiaomi founder and chief executive acknowledged on stage Thursday evening that his company’s YU7 electric SUV had not been cheap…
NetEase’s Games Business Keeps Delivering
The number that stood out in NetEase’s first-quarter report wasn’t the headline revenue. It was where the money came from. The Chinese internet company said Thursday that net revenue rose…
DeepSeek Makes Its Price Cut Permanent
For developers who track every fraction of a yuan per million tokens, the notice landed like a rate cut from a central bank. DeepSeek announced this week that the promotional…
Nvidia’s Huang Puts a $4 Trillion Price Tag on AI’s Future
John Steinbach opened his January electricity bill and did a double take: $281, against roughly $100 the month before. The retired Virginia homeowner has lived in the same house for…
Tesla’s Robots Take a Turn on the Assembly Line
The task was unglamorous: carry a part, seat a screw, route a wiring harness. The setting was not. For the first time, Tesla has put its Optimus humanoid robots to…
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…
Jury Rejects Musk’s OpenAI Lawsuit, Citing Statute of Limitations
Nine jurors filed back into a federal courtroom in Oakland, Calif., on Monday afternoon after roughly two hours of deliberation. Their verdict, read in open court, ended two years of…
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…
Kindle Owners Jailbreak Retired Devices After Amazon Cuts Support
The e-reader still works. The screen is fine, the battery lasts for weeks. But Amazon has ended support for the model, and with it went store access, cloud syncing, and…
AI Labs Sign Up Buyout Firms as Sales Channel
In a 72-hour stretch this week, the three largest AI companies effectively signed up some of Wall Street’s biggest buyout firms as distribution partners. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all moved…
