iPhone assembly into second place

Hon Hai, better known as Foxconn, did much better than expectations with its second quarter numbers.

Cosmos Reason makes robots think like humans

Nvidia has decided your next robot needs to think a little more like you, or at least the better bits of you, with the launch of its new inference visual language model “Cosmos Reason.”

Adds curvy new Odyssey G7 to its display arsenal

Samsung has decided gamers still aren’t clicking enough buttons per second, so it’s unveiled the Odyssey OLED G6, which it claims is the world’s first 500Hz OLED gaming monitor, alongside two new Odyssey G7 models.

Neural Super Sampling promises sharper mobile gaming without torching your battery

Graphics on your Android phone might finally stop looking like pixel soup, thanks to Arm’s latest Neural Super Sampling tech, shown off at SIGGRAPH 2025.

Claims Cupertino favours OpenAI

Elon Musk is threatening to sue the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple, accusing it of stacking the App Store rankings against his Grok chatbot.

AI upstart reckons it can do Google’s job better

Perplexity has lobbed a $34.5 billion offer to buy the Chrome browser, even though the AI firm is only worth about half that much.

Beijing pressures tech firms to explain why they’re not buying local silicon

The Middle Kingdom’s bureaucrats are making life more difficult for Nvidia by questioning Chinese tech giants about their reasons for ordering the US chipmaker’s H20 AI processors.

Everyone wants to build the first machine that does something useful

The long-held fantasy of quantum computing is now looking more like a knuckle-busting engineering war.

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan gets a warmer than expected reception from the White House

It looks like President Trump is no longer gunning for troubled Chipzilla chief executive Lip-Bu Tan’s head.

Ryzen 7 5700X3D shipments halted

AMD appears to have pulled the plug on its Ryzen 7 5700X3D, ending the run of X3D CPUs for the company’s long-lived AM4 platform.