Apple iPhone 17Getty ImagesJune 30 update: this post, first released on June 29, was updated to reflect Apple’s confirmation that this update was issued early as a response to hackers. Apple’s latest iPhone software has just been released, almost a month after iOS 26.5.1, which was exclusively for iPhone 17 series handsets and iPhone Air.…
China’s Zhipu AI says its newest model can find software security bugs as well as Anthropic’s most tightly restricted system. The claim landed this week with no benchmark paper behind it, just a viral post. That hasn’t stopped it from rattling a market already nervous about what’s propping up …
Base44, the vibe coding platform that Wix acquired for $80 million just one year ago — when the company was barely six months old and had a team of eight — has started rolling out its own AI model to support its users in creating apps with natural language. The move comes as the discussion…
Nearly every vehicle on the market today is offered with some type of cloud-based subscription services.©2026 Michael Harley/Schnell Auto, Inc.Your next car may send you a monthly billing reminder—nagging you for a dozen other fees you didn’t know you’d signed up for. The industry’s quiet pivot toward subscriptions and software‑locked features is changing what it…
Microsoft’s internal AI transformation offers a valuable lesson for every organization: adding AI tools is only the beginning.Adobe StockThe biggest mistake leaders can make with AI is to treat it like another software rollout. That was one of the clearest messages from Bosch Connected World 2026 in Berlin, where Katy George, Corporate Vice President of…
In Brief Posted: 1:55 PM PDT · June 29, 2026 Image Credits:Brian Ach / Getty Images for TechCrunch Chamath Palihapitiya, best known for his venture capital firm Social Capital and the All-In podcast, announced Monday that the AI coding startup he founded raised a sizable Series A. The company, 8090 Labs, closed a $135 million…
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Krish Ramineni is CEO & Co-founder at Fireflies.ai, an AI teammate for meetings used by people at 75% of Fortune 500 companies. gettyA decade ago, starting a software company was expensive. You needed engineers, cloud hosting, infrastructure, design and months of development just to ship something mediocre. Most founders never even got past the prototype…
Ben Blanquera – VP – AI and Sustainability, Rackspace Technology. gettyIn my role as vice-president of sustainability and AI at Rackspace Technology, I’m seeing organizations invest in enterprise artificial intelligence, expecting massive productivity gains, particularly in business process returns. But as companies rush deployments, they often encounter significant roadblocks unrelated to coding or data as…





