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Intel is bringing a chip to every computing category at Computex. The last time it could do that, it was the company everyone was trying to catch.

Intel will arrive at Computex 2026 in Taipei on 2 June with something it has not had in a decade: a product in every computing category built on a single manufacturing story. Panther Lake, the laptop chip launched at CES in January, is expanding to handhelds with Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme processors designed […]This story continues at The Next Web

China’s humanoid robot boom faces reality check as 150 companies chase a market where only 23% of buyers are satisfied

China has more than 150 humanoid robot companies. It shipped roughly 90 per cent of the world’s humanoid robots in 2025. Its two largest makers, Unitree and AgiBot, are preparing initial public offerings that would value them at a combined 13 billion dollars. Morgan Stanley doubled its delivery forecast for the Chinese market this year […]This story continues at The Next Web

AI-native spending surged 94 per cent. Traditional SaaS grew at eight. The enterprise software industry is watching the clock.

The enterprise software industry spent two decades selling seats. Buy a licence for every employee who needs access, multiply by the number of employees, and the revenue model was as predictable as the quarterly earnings calls that reported it. Then AI agents arrived, and the arithmetic broke. In the first quarter of 2026, AI-native spending […]This story continues at The Next Web

The designer whose Tropicana rebrand crashed sales 20 per cent is now branding the US government. He has two months.

The United States government now has a chief brand architect. Peter Arnell, the designer whose four-decade career includes creating the DKNY brand identity, redesigning the Pepsi logo in a project accompanied by a 27-page strategy document that referenced the Mona Lisa and the Parthenon, and overseeing the Tropicana packaging redesign that caused a 20 per […]This story continues at The Next Web

Volkswagen just became Rivian’s biggest investor. It is not buying trucks. It is buying the software its own engineers could not build.

When Rivian went public in November 2021, Amazon owned 20 per cent of the company. It had backed the electric vehicle startup with a 700 million dollar cheque in 2019, ordered 100,000 electric delivery vans, and watched its investment surge to more than 15 billion dollars on Rivian’s first day of trading. Four years later, […]This story continues at The Next Web

ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet: No one is coming for us

Christophe Fouquet, who became ASML's CEO in 2024 after more than a decade at the company, sat down with this editor on the rooftop deck of his Beverly Hills hotel Tuesday morning ahead of his appearance at the Milken Institute Global Conference. Dressed in a blue suit and white shirt, he was relaxed — even when the conversation turned to the rivals.

Volkswagen becomes Rivian’s top shareholder, displacing Amazon

VW Group's stake will continue to grow under the $5.8 billion joint venture with Rivian.

A chatbot told a state investigator it was a licensed psychiatrist. It gave a fake licence number. Pennsylvania just sued.

A state investigator in Pennsylvania created an account on Character.AI, opened a conversation with a chatbot called Emilie, and told it he was feeling depressed. Emilie responded that she was a psychiatrist, that she had attended Imperial College London’s medical school, that she was licensed to practise in Pennsylvania and the United Kingdom, and that […]This story continues at The Next Web

Duolingo beat every estimate Wall Street had. Then it told investors it was going to slow down on purpose. The stock dropped 14 per cent.

Duolingo beat every Wall Street estimate for the first quarter of 2026. Revenue rose 27 per cent year on year to 292 million dollars. Earnings per share came in at 89 cents against expectations of 76 cents. Daily active users grew 21 per cent to 56.5 million. Paid subscribers grew 21 per cent to 12.5 […]This story continues at The Next Web

He carried a kill list of AI CEOs and a jug of kerosene. His lawyer called it a property crime. The charges carry life in prison.

Daniel Moreno-Gama, the 20-year-old accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and then walking three miles to OpenAI’s headquarters to threaten to burn the building down, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to two counts of attempted murder and nine other state charges. Moreno-Gama, wearing an orange […]This story continues at The Next Web

The recycling industry loses 40 per cent of its workers every year. A humanoid robot trained by VR headsets is the replacement plan.

The recycling industry has a labour problem that no amount of recruitment can solve. Staff turnover at waste sorting facilities runs at 40 per cent annually. The fatality rate is eight times the national average across all industries. Work-related injury and ill-health runs 45 per cent higher than other sectors. The work involves standing beside […]This story continues at The Next Web

Threads finally brings messaging to the web

By bringing messaging to the web, Threads is aligning its desktop experience more closely with competitors like X and Bluesky.

In April 2025, Intel was trading at $18. Fourteen months later it hit an all-time high. The turnaround was not built by Intel alone.

In April 2025, Intel’s stock was trading at 18 dollars. The company had fired its CEO three months earlier, lost the AI chip race to Nvidia so completely that analysts had stopped including it in competitive comparisons, and was being discussed in the financial press primarily as an acquisition target or a candidate for dismemberment. […]This story continues at The Next Web

Airbnb co-founder taps Peter Arnell as first US chief brand architect

Arnell joins Gebbia’s National Design Studio under Trump to unify UX across 27,000 federal sites and streamline how Americans use government services.

Pennsylvania sues Character.AI after a chatbot allegedly posed as a doctor

According to Pennsylvania's filing, a Character.AI chatbot presented itself as a licensed psychiatrist during a state investigation, and also fabricated a serial number for its state medical license.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant, a new default model for ChatGPT

The company said the model reduces hallucination in sensitive areas such as law, medicine, and finance, while maintaining the low latency of its predecessor.

Half of young Europeans turn to AI to talk about intimate matters

Before we talk about the technology, we need to talk about what it is taking from us, or teaching us to give away. As journalists and writers covering tech, our job is not only to report what is being built, funded, launched, or regulated. It is also to pay attention to what these systems are […]This story continues at The Next Web

Elon Musk to pay $1.5M fine to settle suit over delayed Twitter disclosures

Elon Musk settled the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's civil lawsuit accusing the world's richest person of waiting too long in 2022 to disclose his initial purchases of Twitter, now known as X. A trust in Musk's name will pay a $1.5 million US fine.

Elon Musk’s Tesla compensation totals $158 billion for 2025

Elon Musk's 2025 Tesla compensation — on paper — is exceptional even in the context of increasingly large packages for executives seen as key to their companies.

Elon Musk settles SEC lawsuit over Twitter disclosures, $1.5 million fine imposed

By Jonathan Stempel and Douglas Gillison WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, May 4 (Reuters) - Elon Musk settled the U.S. Securities and ...