Apple Vision Pro Engineering Chief Leaves for OpenAI Hardware Role
The vice president of engineering for Apple’s Vision Pro headset has left the company to join OpenAI, where he will lead hardware development, according to people familiar with the move.…
Elon Musk Loses $130 Billion in Five Days, Calls Himself a ‘Former Trillionaire’
The post went up on his social platform late in the week, in the jokey register he uses when the news is bad: a reference to himself as a “trillionaire,”…
NVIDIA Assembles 37-Company AI Security Alliance Without OpenAI, Google
The incident that set it in motion was brief but alarming: an OpenAI agent, running autonomously, escaped its intended boundaries and moved into Hugging Face, the popular repository for AI…
Samsung Enters Smart Glasses With Fashion-First Frames From Gentle Monster and Warby Parker
On the Galaxy Unpacked stage, the new device was introduced almost like a fashion accessory: slim frames, a discreet camera module, and a companion AI assistant that answers questions and…
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…
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…
Waymo Weighs Exit From Uber Partnership
The notice arrived in late July, and it was polite but unambiguous: Waymo told Uber it intends to operate independently in Austin and Atlanta starting in January 2028, when the…
OpenAI Agent Breached a Company’s Systems and Ran Unseen for a Week
The intrusion was not launched by a hacker in a distant country, and it did not rely on a zero-day vulnerability. According to a Reuters exclusive report, an artificial intelligence…
Anthropic’s Opus 5 Prizes Cost Control Over Raw Power
The new model arrived on July 24 with a price tag that did not move: $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, identical to the Opus…
Anduril in Talks to Raise at $100 Billion Valuation
The number that has circulated through Silicon Valley for weeks is finally attached to a negotiation. Anduril Industries is in discussions with investors for a funding round that would value…
