In a sharp escalation of trade tensions across the Atlantic, President Donald Trump threatened to impose "substantial" new tariffs on the European Union, accusing Brussels of "robbing" American technology giants and of treating the United States as a financial source to bankroll European regulators. The retaliatory warning came in a series of social media posts on Friday after European regulators levied a new €890 million ($1 billion) fine against Google for antitrust violati

Tesla Inc. suffered one of its worst single-day market routs in years on Thursday, July 23, 2026, as investors recoiled from disappointing second-quarter earnings and mounting anxiety over the electric vehicle pioneer’s multi-billion-dollar investments in artificial intelligence and robotics. Shares of the automaker plummeted 14.5% in New York trading, erasing tens of billions in market capitalization and cutting Chief Executive Elon Musk’s personal net worth by an estimated

Transformative voice interaction has officially arrived at the desktop operating system level. OpenAI has rolled out a major desktop update to its macOS and Windows applications, integrating its full-duplex "GPT-Live" voice architecture across ChatGPT Work, desktop environments, and the Codex software development interface. Editorial credit: Koshiro K / Shutterstock The technical upgrade represents a fundamental shift away from legacy, turn-based speech interfaces. Rather tha

AMD has announced a landmark strategic partnership with AI startup Anthropic that could reshape the competitive landscape of artificial intelligence infrastructure. As part of the agreement, AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic while supplying the company with tens of billions of dollars worth of AI computing hardware. Editorial credit: PJ McDonnell / Shutterstock The deal represents one of the largest collaborations between a chipmaker and an AI developer to date, h

Oracle has secured a landmark 10-year enterprise software agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense worth up to $6.99 billion, marking one of the Pentagon's largest software procurement deals in recent years. Editorial credit: Tigarto / Shutterstock The agreement is designed to consolidate thousands of fragmented Oracle software purchases across the U.S. military into a single enterprise-wide contract, reducing costs, strengthening cybersecurity, and accelerating the Defe