Apple rebuilt Siri on Google’s AI and Nvidia’s chips, then spent WWDC explaining why that doesn’t break its privacy promise
Apple rebuilt Siri on Google’s AI and Nvidia’s chips, then spent WWDC explaining why that doesn’t break its privacy promise

Apple’s most important AI announcement at WWDC 2026 was not a feature. It was an architecture. The rebuilt Siri runs on a custom 1.2-trillion-parameter model built on Google’s Gemini technology, hosted on Google Cloud servers powered by Nvidia Blackwel…

BYD says demand is double its capacity, but its sales data tells a different story
BYD says demand is double its capacity, but its sales data tells a different story

BYD’s executive vice president Stella Li told CNBC on Monday that China’s EV market will push to close to 80% penetration, a bullish forecast that contrasts sharply with rival Nio, whose chief executive William Li said last month that the industry’s “g…

Perplexity is sticking with a 2028 IPO while OpenAI and Anthropic race to list this year
Perplexity is sticking with a 2028 IPO while OpenAI and Anthropic race to list this year

Perplexity AI plans to go public in 2028, and CEO Aravind Srinivas told CNBC that timeline has not changed because OpenAI and Anthropic are now filing for IPOs. “Agnostic of these two companies, we were planning for something in 2028, so that still rem…

Jensen Huang won’t testify before the Senate on Nvidia’s China chip sales. He offered a tour of headquarters instead.
Jensen Huang won’t testify before the Senate on Nvidia’s China chip sales. He offered a tour of headquarters instead.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has declined an invitation from Senator Elizabeth Warren to testify before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday about the chipmaker’s sales to China and US export controls. Warren had asked Huang to appear under oath to disc…

OpenAI filed confidentially for an IPO. Anthropic filed last week. SpaceX lists on Thursday. The AI public market is about to get very crowded.
OpenAI filed confidentially for an IPO. Anthropic filed last week. SpaceX lists on Thursday. The AI public market is about to get very crowded.

OpenAI submitted confidential IPO paperwork to the SEC on Monday, the company confirmed. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are advising on a potential listing that could come as soon as the autumn, according to people familiar with the matter. The filin…

Lucid’s Gravity SUV gets hands-free highway driving in its latest over-the-air update
Lucid’s Gravity SUV gets hands-free highway driving in its latest over-the-air update

Lucid has begun rolling out UX 3.6, an over-the-air software update that adds hands-free highway driving to the Gravity SUV. The update is available now in the United States and Canada, but only for vehicles equipped with DreamDrive Pro 2, an optional …

A Florida startup is building a thorium fuel supply chain from scratch, starting with an Australian mine
A Florida startup is building a thorium fuel supply chain from scratch, starting with an Australian mine

Ampera, a Florida-based nuclear energy startup, announced on Monday that it has established an Australian subsidiary to secure thorium supply for its advanced reactor programme. The company formed Ampera Australia Pty Ltd in February 2026 to procure an…

Apple previews its biggest parental controls update in years, weeks before UK and US regulatory deadlines
Apple previews its biggest parental controls update in years, weeks before UK and US regulatory deadlines

Apple previewed a suite of new parental controls at WWDC 2026 on Monday, introducing tools that give parents more granular authority over what their children can see, who they can contact, and how long they can spend in apps. The updates, arriving this…

Cipher Digital raises $810 million in junk bonds to build another Amazon data centre in Texas
Cipher Digital raises $810 million in junk bonds to build another Amazon data centre in Texas

Cipher Digital is raising $810 million from a junk-bond sale to finance a data centre in West Texas that Amazon will lease for 15 years, according to Bloomberg. The deal, pitched at a yield of about 6.25 per cent, will fund the remaining construction c…

Pentagon adds Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and Unitree to its Chinese military companies list
Pentagon adds Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and Unitree to its Chinese military companies list

The Pentagon has added Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and robotics company Unitree to a list of entities it says support the Chinese military, the Department of Defense announced on Monday. The updated 1260H list now names 188 companies that the Pentagon identif…