Something that appears to have started earlier than ever before, Apple is allegedly already test manufacturing of the next model of its basic smartphone, the iPhone 18. This news follows speculation from multiple sources, including legendary Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who said, “Apple is expected to begin trial production of the iPhone 18 series in January, which

For large retailers, the challenge with AI isn’t whether it can be useful, but how it fits into everyday work. A new three-year AI partnership by Tesco points to how one of the UK’s biggest supermarket groups is trying to achieve just that. Tesco plans to work with Mistral to develop AI tools that can

As businesses move from AI experimentation to real business impact, governed knowledge foundations are becoming the backbone of confidence, control, and productivity at scale iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work, today announced continued global momentum as organizations increasingly recognize that artificial intelligence (AI) delivers value only when built on governed, trustworthy information. As

StackGen Named a Cool Vendor for AI in IT Operations – we believe recognition of Stackgen’s Autonomous Infrastructure Platform highlights the AI-Driven transformation of infrastructure automation and developer experience. StackGen today announced it has been named a Cool Vendor in the 2025 Gartner Cool Vendor for AI in IT Operations.1 StackGen’s Autonomous Infrastructure Platform (AIP) enables

If you want to know what is actually happening in generative AI—not what vendors pretend in their press releases, but what developers are actually building—Datasette founder Simon Willison gets you pretty close to ground truth. As Willison has been cataloguing for years on his blog, we keep making the same key mistake building with AI

The most significant advances in artificial intelligence next year won’t come from building larger models but from making AI systems smarter, more collaborative, and more reliable. Breakthroughs in agent interoperability, self-verification, and memory will transform AI from isolated tools into integrated systems that can handle complex, multi-step workflows. Meanwhile, open-source foundation models will break the

The computer revolution has always been driven by the new and the next. The hype-mongers have trained us to assume that the latest iteration of ideas will be the next great leap forward. Some, though, are quietly stepping off the hype train. Whereas the steady stream of new programming languages once attracted all the attention,

In Oliver Sacks’ 1985 book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, the neurologist described the case of patient Jimmie G., who could recall the distant past but was unable to form new memories. Jimmie’s profound anterograde amnesia, outlined in an essay titled The Lost Mariner, meant his world had no continuity; just

For people living in the European Union, the price of their next car, home renovation, and even local produce may soon reflect a climate policy that many have never even heard of. This new regulation, which comes fully into force on New Year’s Day, does not just target heavy industry—it affects everyday goods which now

A software update knocked out Snowflake’s cloud data platform in 10 of its 23 global regions for 13 hours on December 16, leaving customers unable to execute queries or ingest data. Customers saw “SQL execution internal error” messages when trying to query their data warehouses, according to Snowflake’s incident report. The outage also disrupted Snowpipe