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Apple has launched the AirPods Max 2, a significant update to its premium over-ear headphones since the original model debuted in December 2020. The new headphones carry the same physical design as before but are built around Apple’s H2 chip, the same processor found in the AirPods Pro 2 and 3. The upgrade delivers stronger Active Noise Cancellation (ANC), improved audio quality, and a set of new software features. The H2 Chip Does the Heavy Lifting for AirPods Max 2 The original AirPods Max ran on Apple’s H1 chip. A minor hardware refresh in September 2024 added USB-C and new…

Big technology companies are turning to debt markets to sell their bonds to pay for the most expensive artificial intelligence (AI) projects they have initiated in the race to achieve AI supremacy. From cloud giants to chip-developing platforms, firms that once prided themselves on cash-rich balance sheets are now raising tens of billions of dollars in debt to finance data centers and build specialized AI chips. A Wave of AI-Linked Borrowing Over the past year, companies including Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Oracle have made capital spending plans that run into the hundreds of billions of dollars, much of it directed…

Evervault has closed a $25 million Series B round to expand the infrastructure it uses to encrypt sensitive data across digital systems, especially as artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve. The round was led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Next Play Ventures, and Operator Partners. The raise brings the Ireland-based startup’s total funding to $46 million since it was founded in 2019. What Evervault Does Evervault’s platform encrypts sensitive data at the exact moment it enters a system, then keeps it encrypted throughout every step of processing, sharing, and storage. The data never…

Can one AI system actually take over the messy, multi-step corporate work that usually demands a number of tools and several browser windows? That is the question Perplexity is aiming to answer with Perplexity Computer, a new agentic platform built to plan and execute end‑to‑end workflows rather than just answer prompts. What Perplexity Computer Actually Does Perplexity Computer is described by the company as “a system that creates and executes entire workflows, capable of running for hours or even months.” According to the company, instead of limiting users to a chat box, it lets them set a high‑level goal, then…

Anysphere’s Cursor AI, with its over 1 million daily users, marks an important example of how quickly AI-native tools are moving from side experiment to core part of the software development cycle. For a startup that launched its AI-powered assistant in 2023, reaching that scale in just a couple of years places Cursor among the fastest-growing products in the current AI development cycle. And Cursor’s massive user base is now translating into serious money for the company. Cursor’s annual recurring revenue (ARR) passed $500 million dollars by mid‑2025 and crossed $1 billion later that year, before recently topping $2 billion…

Financing is catching up with physics in the race to build the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI), and for the first time, some of the most ambitious projects are being quietly scaled back rather than expanded. From compute-heavy research teams to mega-data centers, the story across the industry is the same. The money, the power grid, and the hardware can no longer keep up with every big idea. The Stargate Expansion That Didn’t Happen Oracle and OpenAI have cancelled plans to expand their flagship Stargate data center project in Abilene, Texas, a project that was supposed to develop roughly…

Elon Musk’s social media platform X is racing to contain the backlash against its Grok chatbot as it opens an internal investigation just as regulators in the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK) consider measures that could severely restrict or even ban the AI system in their jurisdictions. This investigation puts X in the unusual position of probing its own flagship AI product while facing some of the toughest regulatory pressure in the world. Why Grok Is Under Internal Review The internal investigation follows widespread criticism that Grok’s image-generating tools on X were used to generate sexually explicit…

America’s race to build bigger and more powerful AI systems has now clashed with a basic limitation – the electric grid is suffering under the load of new data centers that consume as much power as a whole town, and it is affecting common citizens. In response, the White House has brokered a new agreement called the “Ratepayer Protection Pledge,” under which major tech companies will pay for the extra electricity generation and grid upgrades their AI data centers require, instead of passing those costs on to households and small businesses.  Why AI Is Creating an Energy Problem The deal…

After intense regulatory pressure, Meta has reversed a policy that had locked third-party AI chatbots out of WhatsApp and is now allowing rival AI providers to operate on the platform, but at a cost. The company recently announced it would open WhatsApp’s Business API to general-purpose AI chatbots in Europe and in Brazil for the next 12 months, charging those providers between €0.0490 and €0.1323 per non-template message, depending on the country. This move follows formal warnings from the European Commission, which had threatened to impose emergency competition measures against Meta if the policy remained in place. Meta Policy That…

OpenAI’s top hardware leader has resigned just days after the company struck a high‑stakes artificial intelligence (AI) deal with the U.S. Department of Defense, raising fresh questions about how its technology will be used in future physical devices and military systems. Caitlin Kalinowski, who led hardware and robotics at OpenAI, said she was leaving over concerns that the Pentagon agreement was reached too quickly and without enough safeguards around issues like surveillance and lethal autonomy. What Happened And Why It Matters Kalinowski announced her resignation on March 7, explaining in posts on X and LinkedIn that she could not support…