In a move that could reshape the global semiconductor landscape, Intel and Apple have reached a preliminary agreement for Intel to manufacture custom chips for Apple devices. The news, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, sent Intel shares soaring nearly 15% to record highs as investors cheered the return of a partnership that ended six years ago. The deal marks a significant shift in Apple’s supply chain strategy, ending its exclusive reliance on Taiwan Semiconductor M

Cloudflare has announced the first mass layoff in its 16-year history, cutting approximately 1,100 employees, or 20% of its global workforce. The announcement, made last week, coincided with a record-breaking first-quarter earnings report, making Cloudflare the most prominent tech company to explicitly attribute a massive workforce reduction to AI automation rather than macroeconomic headwinds. The math of the "agentic AI" era In a detailed memo to staff, CEO Matthew Prince a

WatchGuard Technologies has unveiled Rai, a new agentic AI digital workforce designed specifically for managed service providers (MSPs) looking to automate threat detection and response operations. The company introduced Rai during its EMEA Impact 2026 Partner Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, positioning the platform as a major shift from traditional “assistive AI” tools toward autonomous cybersecurity operations. What Rai does According to WatchGuard, Rai functions as an al

7. AI Meta unveils "Hatch": The agentic AI assistant built for everyday life Meta has officially entered the race for "agentic" artificial intelligence, unveiling a sophisticated new digital assistant codenamed Hatch. Powered by the company’s latest multimodal reasoning model, Muse Spark, the assistant is designed to go beyond simple chat by autonomously performing complex, multi-step tasks across Meta's ecosystem of apps and hardware. The announcement, which came during a Ma

In a surprising alliance between two of the industry's most influential players, Anthropic and SpaceX have signed a landmark agreement giving the AI lab access to Colossus 1, currently one of the world's most powerful AI supercomputers. Editorial credit: gguy / Shutterstock The deal, announced last week, marks a pragmatic shift in the AI landscape. Despite a history of public tension between Elon Musk and Anthropic leadership, the partnership provides Anthropic with the massi