When iOS 27 is released later this year, iPhone users will reportedly have a lot of choice when it comes to which AI models they want to use on-device. A new report from Bloomberg says that Apple plans to give users their pick of a number of third-party large language…

Companies working on batteries, semiconductors, and medical devices generate vast amounts of data — and much of it ends up scattered across spreadsheets and legacy systems, making it hard to use to improve products or understand failures. San Francisco-based startup Altara, which just secured $7 million in seed funding, says…

As Bumble gets ready for a big overhaul meant to win back Gen Z users (who are pretty over dating apps right now), its latest earnings still reports that paying users are declining. In the first quarter of 2026, total paying users fell 21.1% to 3.2 million, down from 4…

Nuro has been granted a permit to begin driverless testing of Lucid Gravity SUVs equipped with its autonomous tech on California public roads — vehicles that will eventually be used in Uber’s premium robotaxi service. But the Silicon Valley-based startup, backed by Nvidia and Uber, says it isn’t quite ready…

One of my all-time favorite rants is David Lynch’s 2008 complaint about people watching movies on smartphones. “Now if you’re playing the movie on a telephone, you will never in a trillion years experience the film,” he said in the DVD extras for Inland Empire. He later changed his mind,…

By OpenAI COO’s own admission last February, ‘we have not yet really seen AI penetrate enterprise business processes.’ But for enterprise software giant SAP, whose stock has dropped significantly in 2026 in part from the ‘SaaSpocalypse’, the issue is still front and center. On Monday, the European heavyweight announced its…

A few short weeks ago, I was reminiscing about the days of Windows Media Center — a simpler time in tech in which Microsoft and its PC hardware partners attempted to bring the couch and remote control experience to the Windows platform proper. Microsoft went all-in on Windows Media Center…

Lucid Motors said Tuesday that it’s no longer sure how many EVs it will build or sell this year, as it navigates a transition to a new CEO and a companywide cost-cutting push. The company said in February that it planned to build between 25,000 and 27,000 vehicles this year.…

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie may have been panned by critics with a poor 42% Rotten rating from Rotten Tomatoes, but that doesn’t mean the film hasn’t been a crazy success at the box office. The movie was the first film of the year to reach a billion dollars at…

In a blog post that lays out a vision for crypto’s future, ranging from a “new financial system” to warnings about “opaque” AI, a16z crypto announced a new $2.2 billion fund. This is the VC firm’s fifth fund and brings the total raised to date to $9.8 billion, it says.…