Powering next-gen services with AI in regulated industries
Businesses in highly-regulated industries like financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and health care are increasingly turning to AI-powered tools to streamline complex and sensitive tasks. Conversational AI-driven interfaces are helping hospitals to track the location and delivery of a patient’s time-sensitive cancer drugs. Generative AI chatbots are helping insurance customers answer questions and solve problems. And agentic…
The Download: IBM’s quantum computer, and cuts to military AI testing
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. IBM aims to build the world’s first large-scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2028 The news: IBM announced detailed plans today to build an error-corrected quantum computer with significantly more computational capability than existing…
Tebi, the new startup by Adyen’s departed cofounder, raises a fresh $30M from Alphabet’s CapitalG
Co-founded by Adyen’s former CTO, Tebi helps restaurants, bars and other hospitality businesses manage their operations with an all-in-one subscription-based platform that can handle payments, reservations, inventory, and more.
WWDC 2025: Everything that Apple ‘Sherlocked’ this time
Just like every year, Apple has once again built in some features into its operating systems that were previously available through third-party apps.
IBM aims to build the world’s first large-scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2028
IBM announced detailed plans today to build an error-corrected quantum computer with significantly more computational capability than existing machines by 2028. It hopes to make the computer available to users via the cloud by 2029. The proposed machine, named Starling, will consist of a network of modules, each of which contains a set of chips,…
The Pentagon is gutting the team that tests AI and weapons systems
The Trump administration’s chainsaw approach to federal spending lives on, even as Elon Musk turns on the president. On May 28, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced he’d be gutting a key office at the Department of Defense responsible for testing and evaluating the safety of weapons and AI systems. As part of a string…
Apple Kicked Off Its Worldwide Developers Conference Monday. Here’s What You Missed.
At Apple’s WWDC, the company announced that it is changing up the look of its products by adding a translucent design element called Liquid Glass.
These Are the 10 Most (and Least) Expensive States for Single People, According to a New Analysis
The report found that there are no U.S. states where a single person can live comfortably with a salary under $80,000.
Still no AI-powered, ‘more personalized’ Siri from Apple at WWDC 25
Apple announced a slew of updates at the Worldwide Developer Conference with one notable exception. It still hasn’t revealed its previously announced AI-powered Siri.
This College Student Wanted to Help People During the LA Wildfires. She Built a Practical App in Just 1 Month — and Won Apple’s Annual Competition.
Marina Lee, 21, received an urgent call from her grandmother that would inspire an ambitious coding project.