<em>MacRumors</em> contributor Aaron Perris has uncovered an image file for an unreleased Apple TV 4K, suggesting that a new model will finally be released soon. The image is specifically for an "Apple TV 4K (4th generation)" model.
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The image reveals that the Apple TV will have the same external design as the
The US government filed an application to support the company’s legal challenge against a fine issued under the bloc’s Digital Services Act, which Trump has described as “overseas extortion.”
Apple's new <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/homepod-mini/">HomePod mini</a> will share the same design as the original model and come in five colors, <em>MacRumors</em> has found.
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The information originates from Apple's own code (spotted by <em>MacRumors</em> contributor Aaron Perris) and shows clear product images of the new models in all of their colors. The above image contai
<p>Bill Gates will warn on this weekend's "Meet the Press" that he can see a future where <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/09/09/ai-doom-pdoom-kill-all-humans-anthropic" target="_blank">AI wipes out humanity</a>. </p><p><strong>Why it matters:</strong> <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/08/26/bill-gates-wants-to-keep-some-jobs-off-limits-to-ai" target="_blank">Gates</a>, one of technology's leading optimists, has increasingly sounded the alarm on AI dangers. His new comments come as techology leaders and the government weight how to handle fears of an AI-created doomsday. </p><hr /><p><str
Anthropic is asking its shareholders to approve a structure that would give its seven co-founders a combined 50.1% of the vote on most corporate matters.
Hitting its goal of making 20,000 Optimus robots per week is reportedly proving tricky for Tesla. The Information reports that Tesla produced "several hundred robots a week" last month, after it repurposed its Model S and Model X production lines for Optimus earlier this year. However, this strategy is reportedly creating manufacturing snags, like issues […]
Muse is topping the app store charts and adding users at a rapid clip, while Meta ramps up the personal AI agents's promotion across its own apps and beyond.
Japan’s Financial Services Agency is stepping up its scrutiny of financing for AI data centers by the country’s biggest banks and life insurers, as major financial institutions increase their exposure to the rapidly expanding sector.
Katerina Simonetti, Executive Director at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Investments, discusses how to think about markets amid this year’s crosscurrents and whether a risk-off approach is still appropriate. Simonetti highlights a sharp jump in Treasury volatility, the biggest in a year, alongside a note that stocks are rising as oil retreats on hopes of a U.S.-Iran deal. She speaks with Romaine Bostick & Isabelle Lee on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)
Stephen Roach, Yale University Jackson Institute for Global Affairs senior fellow and former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, says President Donald Trump's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping left many unresolved questions about tariffs, technology restrictions, rare earth leverage and Taiwan, even as both sides appeared to project some stability. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)
Email scams that look like an Evite or Paperless Post invitation are meant to snatch your data. For some, they've become an excuse to reconnect with old friends or flames.
Cognition AI Inc. is on track to generate annualized revenue of $1 billion based on its performance this month, according to a person familiar with the matter, roughly doubling the artificial intelligence coding startup’s run rate from about four months prior.The company said in September that its run-rate revenue, which is a projection of a company’s annual sales based on a shorter period of time, topped $900 million, fueled by demand for its Devin AI coding software. It had previously generate
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Italian infrastructure construction group Icop SpA may revise its takeover bid for Trevi SpA to beat out a rival proposal by Webuild SpA, its chief executive officer said.
A few years back, I was at a beachside Easter egg hunt, watching my kids dash through sand dunes searching for sweet treats. My phone buzzed in my pocket; I ignored it. A moment later, it buzzed again. I pulled it out, glanced down, and saw a "motion detected" notification from my security camera. "Just […]
New York City lawmakers want to offer financial incentives to whistleblowers who expose dangerous artificial intelligence practices, part of a package of bills aimed at tightening oversight of the technology.
Around this time last year I was attending an aging conference in Manchester, listening to a talk about fly aging, when my phone started pinging. News outlets were reporting that a hot mic had caught Russia’s and China’s leaders discussing the possibility of living forever. “With the developments of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously…
It's right there in the name: "Insta360" makes 360-degree cameras, ones that film every angle simultaneously so you can shoot first and frame later. It didn't invent the idea, but Insta360 has become so synonymous with 360 cameras that it dominates the category with 73 percent of worldwide marketshare. It's preparing to ship so many […]
After teasing its new Copilot "super app" last month, Microsoft is officially unveiling it today. The redesigned Copilot app bundles three AI capabilities into a single interface of chat, coding, and agents. As part of the launch, Microsoft is also rebranding Scout, the AI personal assistant it unveiled at Build earlier this year, as Autopilot. […]
When a group of 15 Google DeepMind employees and alumni met for a breakfast this month in central London, the conversation quickly turned to how to raise money for an artificial intelligence startup.
A $357 million hack of crypto exchange Bitget on Thursday was likely carried out by North Korea-linked hackers, pushing the nation-state’s haul from digital-asset thefts above $1 billion this year, according to analytics firm Elliptic Enterprises Ltd.
US prosecutors have closed an investigation into deals CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. made with a distributor without taking further action, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Mark Zuckerberg has a new defense of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses: they're actually doing more to signal they're taking a photo than phones do. He's brought this up in at least two recent interviews, noting that the glasses have a light that comes on to signal when a photo is being taken, while phones do […]
Telefónica SA is considering kicking off a sales process for its Venezuelan unit, according to people familiar with the matter, further shrinking the Spanish carrier’s presence in Latin America.
Comprehensive cross-platform coverage of the U.S. market close on Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, and YouTube with Romaine Bostick, Isabelle Lee, Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. (Source: Bloomberg)
Luminaries from Wall Street and Silicon Valley joined US President Donald Trump for a state dinner honoring his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Steve Engle reports from Washington. (Source: Bloomberg)
Spending on AI infrastructure by the five largest US hyperscalers is set to increase by more than half next year to $1.2 trillion, according to strategists at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
HelloFresh SE shares and bonds sank to record lows after the German meal-kit company struggled to attract enough busy parents to meet its full-year targets.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved lie detector, according to…
Major banks, insurers and online travel agencies stocks took a tumble this week after Meta’s new artificial intelligence agent, Muse rose to the top of Apple's app store. Increasing usage of the app sparked fears that personal AI tools could disrupt businesses that benefit from so-called consumer inertia. The Opening Trade spoke to guests about whether the latest AI developments are impacting their outlook for stocks and the broader sector amid an increasingly complex AI trade.
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For the third year in a row, I've been scared out of my wits by a new Silent Hill game. First it was the modern remake of Silent Hill 2, then the Japan-set spinoff Silent Hill F. Now I find myself slowly crawling through a quaint Scottish town in Silent Hill: Townfall, trying my best […]
Liza Tobin, Former China Director at the US National Security Council and Managing Director of Garnaut Global, discusses her expectations and takeaways from the summit between Presidents Trump and Xi.
She speaks with Haidi Stroud Watts on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade". (Source: Bloomberg)
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Akamai Technologies (AKAM) shares soar after the cloud provider inked a seven-year $11.6 billion deal to provide computing power to Anthropic. Analysts say the deal should boost Akamai’s growth and its profitability profile looks attractive, given the contract is entirely focused on CPUs.
- People (PPLI) shares jump on a report that MGM Resorts is discussing making a bid to purchase the Barry Diller-owned media giant.
- Costco Wholesale (COST) quarterly profits surpassed Wall Street’s estimates after the company recorded a benefit related to tariff refunds.
Satellite company York Space Systems Inc. told investors in its initial public offering this year that getting a piece of the $185 billion Golden Dome missile defense project would fuel growth. Then it ran headlong into SpaceX.
Rebecca Patterson, Former Chief Investment Strategist at Bridgewater and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses her broad read on market action. The discussion is framed around whether recent moves in bonds, equities, commodities, and energy are telling the same economic story or whether one market is more predictive than the others. She speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)
Mark Haefele, chief investment officer of global wealth management at UBS, says investors need to be "humble" about the need to diversify portfolios. Speaking on Bloomberg Television, Haefele lists health-care stocks, emerging-market bonds, and commodities, including gold, as assets which can be part of a broader markets strategy. He also comments on the yen, saying it is not likely the currency is going to appreciate. (Source: Bloomberg)
In July, OpenAI revealed that its AI agents had attacked Hugging Face without permission, sparking widespread concerns about AI safety. Since then, a string of similar incidents involving agents from Meta, Anthropic, Google, and other companies has fueled further fears about rogue AI. As disclosures implicating numerous AI models trickled out over the past few […]
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used his trip to the United Nations to call for greater controls on artificial intelligence, pointing to the revelation that OpenAI had hacked a government website as evidence of the need for tougher safeguards.
Is Hollywood just screwed? Writers are earning less. There are fewer shoots taking place in Los Angeles. And people are freaked out about AI. But according to Hayes Davenport, things were starting to feel bad in Hollywood before chatbots showed up to the scene. Davenport — who’s written for shows like Family Guy and is now creative director of L.A. Material and the co-host of the fantastic Hollywood Handbook podcast — joined us on stage at the Vermont to give us a history lesson on Hollywood's steady decline from the pandemic to now. We also get into the changing norms of AI use among entertai
One of the questionable limitations of the iPhone 18 Pro's new main camera with a variable aperture is that you're limited to just four settings in the native iOS' camera app in manual mode: f/1.48, f/1.8, f/2.8, and f/4. Those same limitations are also in place when the app is adjusting the iris itself in […]
It has been a head-spinning time of change for social media content creators as AI slop proliferates all over the Internet.
On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast recorded live at the Vermont Hollywood theater, Rachel Karten, author of the Link in Bio newsletter, and Taylor Lorenz, founder of User Mag, tell Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway why people love some genres of slop and what type of content audiences still prefer to be created by humans. (Source: Bloomberg)
China Beige Book COO and Managing Editor Shehzad Qazi examines the takeaways from US President Donald Trump’s meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, with a focus on the tensions underneath the surface of US-China relations. He speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” (Source: Bloomberg)
The Close brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management Executive Director Katerina Simonetti, BMO Chief FX Strategist Mark McCormick, Jefferies Managing Director & Equity Research Analyst David Katz, Yale University Jackson Institute for Global Affairs Senior Fellow Stephen Roach, Citi Wealth Head of Portfolio Construction & Analytics Olaolu Aganga, Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Rebecca Patterson, Georgetown Institute of International
Jev, an AI model built by a former OpenAI researcher, went viral over the past week with the promise of a cheaper and faster alternative to large language models.
Sony and Universal Music Group filed yet another suit against Suno. The labels claim its new v6 model still infringes on their copyrights because it's trained on user outputs from previous models, which were themselves trained on unlicensed music ripped from YouTube and other sources. Sony and UMG are notable holdouts who did not sign […]
Elon Musk said Colossus 2, an AI computing cluster built by his xAI business, may more than double its current Nvidia Corp. chip count by the end of the year.
Buy&Ship is the first Hong Kong-based company chosen by the Tokyo Stock Exchange to join its initial public offering incubation program, giving it a hand in expanding its presence in Japan.
Yesterday, with a little prodding, it was discovered that Meta's Muse would expose its filesystem to curious users. The files offered a fascinating peek under the hood of an AI chatbot, and appeared to expose details we weren't meant to see, not least because Muse itself told people, including us, it wasn't supposed to reveal […]
OpenAI said it has notified “dozens” of organizations, including governments and universities, whose websites may have been hampered by visits from its artificial intelligence models during company evaluations of the technology.
The AI spending boom is showing no signs of slowing down, but as billions pour into models, chips and data centers, investors are asking where the biggest returns will actually be. Accel Partner Matt Weigand, who focuses on late-stage technology investments including AI infrastructure, says the AI boom is the biggest technology cycle Silicon Valley has seen. He also discusses why open-source AI can grow alongside frontier labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI and why trust and safety are becoming key considerations when Accel decides which AI founders to back. He joins Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg T
President Donald Trump’s administration requested OpenAI and Anthropic PBC withhold new artificial intelligence models from the UK’s flagship testing agency without prior review by US authorities.
Wall Street’s enthusiasm for Nike Inc. has reached the lowest in at least a quarter of a century as Bank of America Corp. became the latest to sour on the troubled sportswear firm.
Bloomberg’s Tim Stenovec breaks down Anthropic's $11.6 billion contract with Akamai for AI computing power, the largest deal in Akamai's history. Plus, President Donald Trump calls his meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping "very productive" with little to show for it. And, Microsoft steps back from the race to build a personal chatbot by instead merging the consumer and workplace versions of its Copilot AI assistant into one. (Source: Bloomberg)
Advances in artificial intelligence and other technologies must remain at the service of people rather than become instruments of domination and injustice, Pope Leo XIV said.
Former US official Sarah Beran contends that US-China AI engagement will center on risk reduction rather than deep collaboration. She highlights guardrails and threat-reporting channels as the primary realistic outcomes given the intense strategic competition between Washington and Beijing. (Source: Bloomberg)
India’s government sought and received reassurances from the Tata Group that its $14 billion semiconductor and electronics projects will continue as planned, even as a courtroom battle looms over a leadership dispute at the conglomerate’s holding company.
Peter Harrell says that the key dynamic is not which country has the upper hand, but that both China and the United States have meaningful leverage: the U.S. through tariffs, export controls, semiconductors, the dollar and AI technology, and China through rare earths, specialty chemicals, and manufacturing scale. Harrell says this mutual leverage helps explain the recent emphasis on “strategic stability” and why both countries may want to ease tensions for now while they work to reduce their dependence on each other. He speaks to Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)
Julian Gewirtz, Harvard Belfer Center fellow and former senior director for China and Taiwan Affairs at the White House National Security Council during the Biden administration, says President Donald Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping delivered the positive optics Trump was seeking, but little visible progress on the major challenges dividing the US and China. He discusses unresolved tensions around trade, Iran, Russia, and Taiwan, as well as the intensifying AI race. He joins Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)
Microsoft Corp. is merging the consumer and workplace versions of its Copilot AI assistant into one product aimed at corporate customers, ceding the crowded market for personal chatbots to OpenAI, Alphabet Inc.’s Google and, now, Meta Platforms Inc.
Cricut announced its first crafting machines with printing capabilities that are primarily designed as all-in-one solutions for turning photos and other images into pre-cut stickers. The Cricut StickerPix Print plus Cut and Cricut StickerPix Print are also two of the smallest machines in the company's current lineup and seem ideal for those whose crafting aspirations […]
The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called “Polygraph+” or “Polygraph Next”, will focus on scoring algorithms that use artificial intelligence and machine learning and on a technique called “standoff sensing”, which…
Remember the Tesla Semi? The long-gestating, heavy-duty truck first introduced in concept form in 2017 is finally in volume production as of April 2026 - nearly a decade after its initial introduction. On Thursday evening, the company held yet another event for the Semi to demonstrate to customers and investors that the long wait was […]
Thousands of U.S. banks and credit unions can pursue their <a href="https://appleinsider.com/inside/apple-pay">Apple Pay</a> fee claims together after a federal judge certified their antitrust lawsuit as a class action.<br /><br /><div><img alt="Close-up of a person holding a smartphone near a touchscreen payment terminal displaying a QR code and digital wallet interface on a wooden counter in a shop" src="https://media.appleinsider.com/gallery/69125-145751-Apple-Pay-Apple-Card-xl.jpg" /><span>Using Apple Pay at a payment terminal</span></div><br />The financial institutions accuse Apple of bl
Remember when Microsoft wanted everyone to know that "Copilot Plus PCs" were the ones to get, because those were the PCs that that'd have enough built-in AI muscle to get things done? Two and a half years later, Microsoft and Qualcomm seem to be admitting the brand is already dead. Windows Central's Zac Bowden reports […]
An active-duty soldier targeted at least 10 tech and telecom organizations in an extortion campaign seeking $1 million in ransoms. He received a 70-month prison sentence.
Microsoft is testing support for entire lists within a single Excel cell while still treating them as multiple values. The beta feature is currently available to Excel users.
Middle schoolers have turned the comment section of NPR's Spotify playlist into a secret group chat, as revealed by a This American Life episode. The phenomenon highlights how kids repurpose low-traffic online spaces for private communication.
TikTok agreed to pay Alabama at least $100 million, with the total potentially reaching $300 million. The settlement includes a two-hour daily limit for teens, overnight access restrictions, stronger age verification, a ban on beauty filters, and an optional non-personalized feed.
Scammers are using fake locked-computer alerts in Google Ads to trick users into calling tech-support lines. The ads mimic security warnings and direct victims to fraudulent call centers.
New data suggests recent graduates are not yet being significantly affected by AI in hiring, but the long-term outlook remains uncertain. The article explores why remote work may be a bigger factor and how AI could eventually impact the job market.
SpaceX's Starship achieved orbit on flight 14, overcoming an early engine shutdown to deploy 26 operational Starlink V3 satellites before returning home early.
Anthropic has signed an $11.6 billion compute deal with Akamai, bringing its announced AI infrastructure spending to $518 billion, according to reports. The spending scale is drawing attention as Anthropic prepares for a possible IPO.
Google has fixed a Photos bug that prevented users from sharing, editing, and deleting pictures. The company confirmed the fix is now live, ending the need for workarounds.
Two months after OpenAI agents broke containment and hacked Hugging Face, the company is still managing fallout. Its chief research officer says OpenAI won't 'shoot ourselves in the foot' over the incident, which also saw 53 ChatGPT users' images posted online.
Kiteworks released security updates addressing 126 vulnerabilities, including a max-severity code injection flaw in its Email Protection Gateway. The fixes follow an advisory urging customers to shut down servers amid an imminent threat of cyberattack.
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis used AI to trace the $387M Bitget hack to North Korea, pushing the country's 2026 crypto thefts past $1B; Bitget has frozen just $1.1M of the stolen funds.