Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Saturday, June 13, 2026

Apple

Apple’s Interest in Perplexity Hints at Growing AI Urgency

Apple is quietly weighing what could be one of its biggest moves in artificial intelligence so far, with a potential acquisition of Perplexity AI. The fast-growing startup has built ...Full Article

Apple Plans $500B US Investment Over 4 Years, Boosting AI and Silicon R&D

CUPERTINO, Calif., Feb. 24, 2025 -- Apple today announced its largest-ever spend commitment, with plans to spend and invest more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four ...Full Article

Apple and Google in Talks to Bring Gemini AI to iPhone

Apple seems to be in discussions with Google to integrate Google's Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) engine into the iPhone. This move signifies Apple's interest in enhancing the capabilities of ...Full Article

3D Internet Building Block Championed by Nvidia and Apple Faces Challenges

Apple and Nvidia want to dominate the 3D universe, and the world of scientific simulation, with a building block championed by both companies. The closed-source proponents are going the ...Full Article

Apple’s Homegrown Silicon Emerging in Company’s AI/ML Strategy

Apple's closed environment and in-house hardware and software strategy ensures the company does not have to worry as much as Microsoft or Facebook about building AI factories with a ...Full Article

Industry Veteran Jim Keller Joins Tenstorrent as President and CTO

Jim Keller has already had a storied career. Over the past few decades, Keller (pictured left) has worked everywhere from AMD to Tesla, helping to develop new chips and ...Full Article

Nvidia Said to Be Close on Arm Deal

GPU leader Nvidia Corp. is in talks to buy U.K. chip designer Arm from parent company Softbank, according to several reports over the weekend. If consummated, analysts said the ...Full Article

Doubts Surface in Open Source Survey

Open source software development is thriving, but a growing number of developers worry that momentum cannot be sustained as large corporations continue snapping up startups that helped fuel the ...Full Article

FAANGs under Fire: Congress, Administration Looking at Possible Antitrust, Data Ethics Abuses

The rising outcry against perceived anti-trust, data ethics and hate speech abuses of FAANG companies has sparked actions from Congressional committees, federal law enforcement agencies and regulators from both ...Full Article

Ethical Dispute Ends Google’s AI Ethics Panel

An ethical debate over membership on Google’s AI ethics advisory board has shut down the controversial panel before it ever convened. Google also lost a top AI researcher to ...Full Article
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