<p>LoveFrom, the creative firm founded by former Apple chief designer Jony Ive, played a role in the development of Rivian’s first electric bike, according to multiple sources who spoke to TechCrunch. </p>

<p>Peloton is exploring ways to expand its customer base by making its products available in gyms, and launching a peer-to-peer marketplace for used equipment.</p>

<p>Amazon wants this group to develop an agentic AI framework to be used to give its warehouse robots more skills. </p>

<p>Angelo Sotira started the online digital art platform DeviantArt when he was just a teenager, growing a formative community for millions of artists in the 2000s. Twenty-five years later, Sotira wants to change digital art again, but with a focus on the way it&#8217;s displayed. On Thursday, Sotira revealed his new venture, Layer, a screen [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Brium is a startup that builds machine learning applications to enable AI inference, the process a trained AI model uses to draw conclusions from new data, across a variety of different hardware options.</p>

<p>Speedata, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing an analytics processing unit (APU) designed to accelerate big data analytic and AI workloads, has raised a $44 million Series B funding round, bringing its total capital raised to $114 million. The Series B round was led by its existing investors, including Walden Catalyst Ventures, 83North, Koch Disruptive Technologies, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Siemens EDA, Cadence, and Synopsys have received notices from the U.S. Commerce Department about new export controls on chip design software to China. </p>

<p>On Thursday, Anduril and Meta announced news that feels like a fairy tale ending for Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey. The two companies are working together to build extended reality (XR) devices for the U.S. military, Anduril announced in a blog post. “I am glad to be working with Meta once again,” Luckey is quoted as [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nvidia and AMD will soon begin selling new GPUs made for AI workloads in China to comply with US chip export restrictions. </p>

<p>Over three and a half years after family locator app Life360 acquired lost item tracker Tile for $205 million, the two services are finally fully integrated. On Wednesday, Life360 announced that the item-finding capabilities of Tile, a competitor to Apple&#8217;s AirTag and other Bluetooth-based trackers, are now available from inside its main app. The update [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple&#8217;s Self Service Repair program is expanding to the iPad, the tech giant announced on Wednesday. The program will give iPad owners the tools they need to repair their devices at home. They can get access to repair manuals, genuine Apple parts, Apple Diagnostics troubleshooting sessions, tools, and rental toolkits. Starting Thursday, users who have [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Just a few weeks after the U.S. and China made significant steps to de-escalate the growing trade war between the two countries, tensions are flaring again — this time over semiconductors. China&#8217;s Commerce Ministry in Beijing released a statement on Wednesday that threatened legal action against anyone who enforces U.S. export restrictions on Huawei&#8217;s AI chips, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google announced at Google I/O 2025 that it is rebranding Project Starline, its corporate-focused teleconferencing platform that uses 3D imaging, and recommitting to shipping it this year. Starline, now called Google Beam, will come to &#8220;early customers&#8221; like Deloitte, Salesforce, Citadel, NEC, and Duolingo later in 2025 via Google&#8217;s previously announced partnership with HP, Google [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google is taking on Meta&#8217;s Ray-Ban Meta glasses by announcing new partnerships at Google I/O 2025 with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker to create smart glasses based on Android XR. Google launched the Android XR platform with Qualcomm and Samsung last year. While it didn&#8217;t talk about specific devices then, the latest announcement indicates the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Foxconn, a key manufacturer for Apple, has received an approval from India&#8217;s cabinet to build a new 37 billion Indian rupees ($435 million) semiconductor plant in a joint venture with the country&#8217;s IT giant HCL Group. The deal is the latest move to reduce Apple’s reliance on China and produce more components in India. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Microsoft is hosting its annual Build developer conference next week from May 19 to 22. The event is guaranteed to include announcements regarding new AI integrations, services, and apps, including for Windows. At last year&#8217;s Build, Microsoft announced an integration of Copilot into Microsoft Teams, Copilot+ AI-powered PCs, Windows Volumetric Apps for Meta Quest headsets, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple is planning to increase the prices of its iPhone lineup set to launch this autumn, though it is trying not to make it seem as if the hikes are connected to the U.S. tariffs on imports from China, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing anonymous sources. The company is considering instead linking the price [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Whoop has backed down, somewhat, from the controversial upgrade plans around its Whoop 5.0 fitness tracker. When the company first announced Whoop 5.0 this week, it said members who wanted the new device could either extend their subscriptions by 12 months or pay a one-time upgrade fee of $49 ($79 for the model with EKG [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For years, weekend bike rides have been sacred escapes for me. Every pedal stroke helps melt away the stressors that piled up throughout the week, and I&#8217;ve collected a few gadgets that make these rides better. However, I&#8217;ve learned the hard way that bringing along too much gear takes away from the ride itself, forcing [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple is reportedly developing new chips to drive smart glasses similar to Meta&#8217;s Ray-Ban Meta as well as more powerful Macs and AI servers. Bloomberg&#8217;s Mark Gurman notes that one of the chips is inspired by the Apple Watch&#8217;s low-power processors. Apple aims to put these chips into mass production with TSMC by the end [&hellip;]</p>