On the back of its lead in AI memory chips, SK Hynix has passed Samsung Electronics in market value for the first time in 26 years.

Tencent has begun testing Xiaowei, a voice-and-text AI assistant built into WeChat, with a full public rollout targeted for the third quarter.

London’s Isometric has closed a $40M Series A led by AVP to push its AI certification platform across the wider industrial economy.

A Kapwing study of 10,742 TikTok videos found 59% of content shown to new accounts is AI-generated junk, three times the rate on YouTube Shorts.

Financial influencer Haley Sacks says millennials and Gen Z have abandoned traditional wealth-building for gambling and side hustles as housing costs soar.

Waymo's robotaxis are blocked from New York City by political opposition from the mayor, taxi lobby, and labor unions, despite operating in 10 other US cities.

Brazil's civil defense alert system was hacked overnight, sending fake extreme alerts with the word "misantropi4" to millions of phones across multiple states.

Signal president Meredith Whittaker warns that AI chatbots are not sentient and that agentic AI systems like Copilot constitute a backdoor to private data.

Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus is preparing a major shake-up of the design team that lost Ive, Hankey, Dye, and nearly every senior designer in a decade.

Amazon's security VP says human-in-the-loop AI governance fails because people normalize deviance. Google, Microsoft, and IBM are rethinking it too.

Claude Guillemot, who co-founded Ubisoft in 1986 and led gaming peripherals maker Guillemot Corp, has died in a Cessna 421 crash in western France.

CNET Labs testing found AirPods Pro 3 averaged 1.67% heart rate error vs a chest strap, second only to Apple Watch Series 11 at 0.98%.