Technology Correspondent
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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.
Broadcom is discussing a vast debt package for AI infrastructure as Anthropic and other customers race to secure custom chips and data-centre capacity.
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 is committing about R$2.3bn to AI compute in Rio and Rio Grande do Norte, deliberately sourcing technology across Chinese and US ecosystems.
Unpublished San Jose State research suggests the Santa Cruz Mountains San Andreas segment slips faster than estimates, without predicting a specific quake.
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.
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.
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.
The tile product has been pulled from Tesla's website and from installer supply, with the company concluding it was not financially viable.
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.
The state transportation authority voted unanimously for three commercial permits, weeks after capping Tesla's Las Vegas fleet at ten vehicles.
The warrant vests against purchasing milestones running to fiscal 2033 and could be worth around $120 billion in chip orders to Marvell.
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.
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.
Four attorneys general are leading a case built on infinite scroll, the like button and recommendation algorithms, with Mark Zuckerberg expected to testify.
The approval hearing has moved to 9 September after the cabin crew union sought restrictions on the sale of employee emails and chat logs.
A court-supervised auction has sent a defunct airline's emails, chats and source code to Google for $10 million.
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.
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.
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.
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'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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Dutch intelligence says Russia-linked hackers hijacked internet-connected cameras to watch military shipments bound for Ukraine, part of a wider European campaign.
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.
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 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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