Arjun Nair
Technology Correspondent
37 articles · Writes about Technology
Arjun Nair reports on technology, startups and the digital world for The NE Times — covering everything from semiconductors and AI to payments, data rules and the gadgets readers actually use.
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Broadcom Is Lining Up as Much as $100 Billion for AI Chips. Who Carries the Risk?
Broadcom is discussing a vast debt package for AI infrastructure as Anthropic and other customers race to secure custom chips and data-centre capacity.
Did a Humanoid Robot Really Beat Usain Bolt? Lightning's 9.32 Seconds Needs Context
Honor's Lightning robot ran a 9.32-second 100m test before Beijing's robot games, a machine benchmark that does not replace Usain Bolt's athletics record.
Brazil Splits a R$2.3 Billion AI Compute Push Across Chinese and US Technology
Brazil is committing about R$2.3bn to AI compute in Rio and Rio Grande do Norte, deliberately sourcing technology across Chinese and US ecosystems.
San Andreas Fault May Be Slipping Faster Than Assumed, but the New Finding Is Not an Earthquake Countdown
Unpublished San Jose State research suggests the Santa Cruz Mountains San Andreas segment slips faster than estimates, without predicting a specific quake.
ChatGPT Can Now Read and Send Apple Messages on Macs – but the Permission Model Is the Real Story
OpenAI’s Apple Messages plugin can read, draft and send Mac messages, putting Full Disk Access and send approvals at the centre of its privacy model.
Nvidia Pays Poolside $6 Billion to License Its Model Factory and Hire 109 Engineers
The third such deal in eight months hands Nvidia a rival's core technology and staff without a purchase, and without the antitrust review a takeover draws.
Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Will Name Public Backlash Against AI as a Risk Factor
Polling now puts opposition to AI data centres at 75 per cent, and the filing is expected to tell investors that hostility could slow the company's growth.
Tesla Quietly Discontinues the Solar Roof, a Decade After Elon Musk Unveiled It
The tile product has been pulled from Tesla's website and from installer supply, with the company concluding it was not financially viable.
Walmart Will Accept Apple Pay and Google Pay From 24 August, Ending a Decade of Resistance
Tap to Pay reaches every US Walmart and Sam's Club by the end of 2026, retiring one of the last major holdouts against contactless wallets.
Nevada Clears Tesla, Waymo and Uber to Put Up to 8,000 Robotaxis on Clark County Roads
The state transportation authority voted unanimously for three commercial permits, weeks after capping Tesla's Las Vegas fleet at ten vehicles.
Marvell Hands Google an Option on $12.2 Billion of Its Own Shares in an Expanded Custom-Chip Deal
The warrant vests against purchasing milestones running to fiscal 2033 and could be worth around $120 billion in chip orders to Marvell.
Apple Is Negotiating Nine-Figure News Deals to Feed Its Gemini-Powered Siri
The company has proposed paying publishers each time their reporting is used, a departure from the fixed licence fees that have defined AI content deals.
NBA 2K HQ Launches as 2K's New Companion App, Retiring MyNBA2K and Opening the MyPLAYER Builder Early
The free app arrives five days before NBA 2K27's early access, letting players build and upload their MyPLAYER from a phone for the first time.
Meta Goes on Trial in Oakland Over Claims It Designed Facebook and Instagram to Hook Children
Four attorneys general are leading a case built on infinite scroll, the like button and recommendation algorithms, with Mark Zuckerberg expected to testify.
A Bankruptcy Court Delays Google's $10 Million Purchase of Spirit Airlines Data After the Flight Attendants Object
The approval hearing has moved to 9 September after the cabin crew union sought restrictions on the sale of employee emails and chat logs.
Google Pays $10 Million for Spirit Airlines' Corporate Data to Train Its AI Models
A court-supervised auction has sent a defunct airline's emails, chats and source code to Google for $10 million.
Anthropic Signs a $9.1 Billion Compute Deal, Forms a Data-Centre Venture and Courts IPO Investors
The Claude maker locked in 191 megawatts of Texas computing capacity for 20 years, launched the Theseus infrastructure venture with Macquarie and GIC, and is meeting investors ahead of a possible autumn listing.
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6-Cyber and Puts Its Daybreak Security Models on Amazon Bedrock
The company released a cybersecurity-focused model and made its Daybreak Blue and Red variants available through AWS, splitting authorised defence work from vulnerability research as AI enters the security trenches.
Google Unveils the Pixel 11 Lineup, Pixel Watch 5 and a Surprise Pixel Tag in New York
The Made by Google event introduced four Pixel 11 phones with a slimmer camera bar and a new HiLight notification LED, alongside the Pixel Watch 5 and a tracker called Pixel Tag, with Trevor Noah hosting the show.
Phoebe Gates's Shopping App Phia Faces Deepening 'Cookie Stuffing' Scandal After Bloomberg Report
Bloomberg reporting alleges the AI shopping startup's founders knew for months that Phia claimed affiliate credit for sales it did not drive, contradicting earlier statements that called the behaviour a bug discovered within 24 hours.
Intel Posts Fastest Revenue Growth in 15 Years, Yet Reports an $11bn Loss
Intel's Q2 revenue rose 25% to $16.1bn on booming data-centre demand, but a $12.5bn charge tied to its CHIPS Act deal drove an $11bn GAAP loss.
Ernst & Young Discloses Breach After Hackers Raid a Third-Party Support System
EY has begun notifying clients that attackers accessed a third-party IT support platform for two weeks and downloaded documents holding tax and financial data.
Alphabet Beats on Revenue but Shares Slip as AI Capex Guidance Climbs to $205bn
Alphabet grew revenue 24% to $119.8bn and cloud sales 82% in Q2, yet shares fell after it raised 2026 capital spending guidance to as much as $205bn.
TSMC posts fifth straight record profit and pledges another $100 billion for Arizona
The world's largest chipmaker beat forecasts with a 77% profit surge, booked its first 2nm revenue and raised its 2026 outlook as AI orders keep flooding in.
Starship Flight 13 set to deploy the first Starlink V3 satellites in orbit-critical test
SpaceX targets 16 July for Starship's thirteenth test flight, the first to carry real Starlink V3 satellites and a fresh trial of booster recovery over the Gulf.
NASA astronaut Anil Menon reaches the ISS aboard Soyuz as US-Russia seat swaps endure
Soyuz MS-29 carried NASA's Anil Menon and cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina from Baikonur to the ISS in just over three hours on 14 July.
Russian hackers turned ordinary security cameras into spies on NATO supply routes
Dutch intelligence says Russia-linked hackers hijacked internet-connected cameras to watch military shipments bound for Ukraine, part of a wider European campaign.
ASML beats forecasts and lifts 2026 outlook as AI keeps chip equipment orders rolling
The Dutch lithography giant posted €9.3bn in sales and €2.9bn profit, raised full-year guidance sharply and will expand EUV capacity 30% to feed the AI boom.
Apple Intelligence cleared for China launch as regulator approves Alibaba-powered AI
China's cyberspace regulator has registered Apple's generative AI service, ending a 22-month wait and clearing iPhone AI features built on Alibaba's Qwen models.
Samsung Unpacked July 22: Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, Flip 8 Expected
Samsung has set Galaxy Unpacked for 22 July in London, with the Z Fold 8, a new Fold 8 Ultra and Flip 8 expected. Leaks point to a 200MP camera and $2,099 pricing.
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