Apple is undergoing a rare shake-up of its executive ranks, aiming to get its artificial intelligence efforts back on track after months of delays and stumbles. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has lost confidence in the ability of AI head John Giannandrea to execute on product development, so he’s moving Read more…
The credit-card market has quietly split in two: one offering generous benefits to wealthy Americans, the other offering expensive debt to the poor. Credit-card balances have reached an all-time high of $1.2 trillion, with serious delinquency rates climbing to their highest point since the Great Recession. “Transactors” pay off balances Read more…
During the company’s GTC 2025 keynote today, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced Isaac GR00T N1 — the company’s first open-source, pre-trained yet customizable foundation model designed to accelerate the development and capabilities of humanoid robots. “The age of generalist robotics is here,” said Huang. “With Nvidia Isaac GR00T Read more…
Nature: A Microsoft researcher presented results behind the company’s controversial claim last month to have created the first ‘topological’ qubits — a long-sought goal of quantum computing. In front of a packed room at a meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), Chetan Nayak, a theoretical physicist leading Microsoft’s quantum Read more…
More than 80 signatories representing about 100 European tech organizations have urged EU leaders to take “radical action” to reduce reliance on foreign digital infrastructure, according to a letter sent to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The coalition, including Airbus, Proton, and OVHCloud, warns Europe “will lose out Read more…
Harvard University on Monday announced that tuition will be free for students from families with annual incomes of $200,000 or less starting in the 2025-26 academic year. From a report: “Putting Harvard within financial reach for more individuals widens the array of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives that all of our Read more…