Adobe has agreed to acquire Topaz Labs, the company behind widely used image and video enhancement tools, and plans to fold those capabilities into Adobe’s creative ecosystem. The announcement signals a clear strategic direction for Adobe: rather than treating “enhancement”…
SoftBank’s latest strategic manoeuvres are once again being framed in the market with a phrase that has become both shorthand and a mild rebuke: “SoftBank doing SoftBank things.” It’s a line that captures the company’s tendency to move quickly, pivot…
Companies are no longer asking whether artificial intelligence can deliver value. Most executives have moved past that question. The real debate has shifted to something far less glamorous: why so many organisations still struggle to turn AI pilots into repeatable,…
Anthropic’s latest hire is being framed as a small staffing move with outsized implications: the company has brought in an economist whose work, according to reporting, touches on “human survival” under conditions where advanced AI systems become more capable. The…
Amazon’s latest move in India is being framed as a straightforward infrastructure expansion, but the real story is about how quickly the economics of AI are reshaping where cloud giants decide to place their next generation of compute. With a…
Ford’s recent push to celebrate a top spot in JD Power’s initial quality ranking among mainstream automakers comes with an unusual level of candor about how it got there—and what nearly derailed parts of its progress. Behind the scenes, the…
AI compute is back in the spotlight, and not in the usual way. For years, the story of artificial intelligence has been told through a familiar lens: more data, more parameters, more training runs, more GPUs. The result was undeniable—systems…
Meta is bringing back Facebook Creator Studio, but it’s not returning in the form creators remember. The original Creator Studio—built as a page-management hub—was shuttered in 2023. Now Meta has “reimagined” the concept and relaunched it as a standalone AI…
Asia’s tech week has been dominated by a familiar question—who will win the next wave of computing and automation?—but the more interesting answer is less about brand names and more about deployment reality. Across semiconductors, robotics, and sensing, the region’s…
Anthropic has accused Alibaba of obtaining “illicit” access to Claude, alleging that the Chinese ecommerce giant used fake accounts to probe the chatbot’s capabilities in ways that went beyond normal, authorized use. The dispute, which Anthropic frames as an attempt…
Micron’s latest results landed like a jolt in a market that has grown used to hype but still craves proof. The US memory chipmaker reported a 15-fold surge in profits, and—just as importantly—paired the jump with guidance that suggests the…
Meta is moving faster than many observers expected toward a future in which large language models play a central role in deciding what appears on its platforms and what gets blocked. The shift, reported as an acceleration of plans to…