By Hisan Kidwai The PS5 is a fantastic console, with some of the best performance and graphics. However, despite…
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By Siôn Geschwindt German biotech startup Ovo Labs has developed new technologies to “rejuvenate” human eggs during in vitro fertilisation (IVF), potentially boosting the chances of conception.  The first baby was born via IVF more than 40 years ago. Since then, the technology has helped millions of women get pregnant.  However, IVF can put significant emotional, psychological, and financial strain on patients. It is often unsuccessful on the first attempt. Some try multiple times without success, leaving many couples unable to have children at all.  Ovo Labs wants to improve the odds. Based on 20 years of fertility research, the startup has developed…This story continues at The Next Web

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By Nick Godt Cadillac releases teaser images of the 2026 Optiq-V, the brand’s second all-electric model.

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A broad coalition of AI experts, economists, legal scholars, and former OpenAI employees is urging state regulators to keep OpenAI’s nonprofit foundation in control of the company.

Their concern: that the company’s planned restructuring would abandon its legally mandated nonprofit purpose and place control of artificial general intelligence (AGI) in the hands of private investors.

“We write in opposition to OpenAI’s proposed restructuring that would transfer control of the development and deployment of artificial general intelligence (AGI) from a nonprofit charity to a for-profit enterprise.” the coalition wrote in an open letter addressed to the Attorneys General of California and Delaware, who together are the company’s primary regulators.

The letter’s signatories include Nobel laureates Daniel Kahneman and Joseph Stiglitz and AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio. They argue that the proposed restructuring would violate OpenAI’s Articles of Incorporation, which explicitly state the organization is “not organized for the private gain of any person.”

The coalition is urging California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings to exercise their oversight authority to prevent OpenAI’s proposed restructuring, which they argue would undermine the organization’s original charitable mission.

The coalition’s appeal is supported by a separate amicus curiae brief filed by twelve former OpenAI employees in an ongoing federal lawsuit. Together, the letter and brief present a rare, coordinated public challenge to the internal governance of one of the world’s leading AI companies.

A legally binding mission

OpenAI was created in 2015 as a nonprofit with a single, far-reaching goal: to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity. Its 2018 Charter outlines principles such as broadly distributed benefits, long-term safety, cooperative development, and technical leadership. These values were designed to steer OpenAI’s work even as it began raising external investment.

In 2019, OpenAI adopted a capped-profit model, establishing a limited partnership structure under full control of the nonprofit board. This arrangement, the letter notes, was meant to ensure that AGI development would always remain aligned with the public interest.

According to the open letter, the company is now seeking to restructure in a way that would eliminate this charitable governance by allowing private shareholders to assume control of AGI development and deployment.

The authors argued that this shift is inconsistent with OpenAI’s charitable purpose and violates both California and Delaware nonprofit law.

“As the primary regulators of OpenAI, you currently have the power to protect OpenAI’s charitable purpose on behalf of its beneficiaries, safeguarding the public interest at a potentially pivotal moment in the development of this technology,” the letter said. “Under OpenAI’s proposed restructuring, that would no longer be the case.”

Former employees validate governance concerns

The amicus brief, filed in April 2025, supports claims made in the open letter by offering firsthand accounts from within OpenAI’s leadership and research teams. The twelve former employees worked at the company from 2018 to 2024 and held roles ranging from research scientists to policy leads.

According to the brief, internal operations at OpenAI were built around the Charter. Employee performance reviews included assessments of how individuals advanced the mission, and senior leadership—including CEO Sam Altman—frequently referenced the Charter in strategic decisions.

But the brief also reveals a gradual shift in internal dynamics. The former employees claim that key governance principles began to erode as commercial interests grew, culminating in efforts to restructure in ways that would sever nonprofit control.

“Without control, the Nonprofit cannot credibly fulfill its Mission and Charter commitments, particularly those relating to broadly distributed benefits and long-term safety,” the brief stated.

Transparency and legal accountability urged

The coalition’s letter closed with a call for legal action. It urged the Attorneys General to demand full transparency about OpenAI’s current and proposed structures. If OpenAI is no longer operating in line with its nonprofit obligations, the authors argue, the state must act to preserve the public mission.

“You currently have the power to protect OpenAI’s charitable purpose on behalf of its beneficiaries, safeguarding the public interest at a potentially pivotal moment in the development of this technology,” the letter said.

With AGI development accelerating, the outcome of this governance battle may shape not just OpenAI’s future but the trajectory of AI oversight worldwide. At stake is the principle that technologies capable of reshaping economies, labor, and societies should remain accountable to the public—and not be controlled solely by shareholder interests.

Whether legal authorities respond to the coalition’s plea could mark a turning point in how the world manages the power and responsibility of frontier AI development.

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Apple has been hammered with a huge €500 million ($570 million) fine by Europe’s antitrust authorities, who have demanded changes in Apple’s business practices that will deliver little significant benefit to consumers.

Europe says Apple breached its anti-steering obligation under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and is forcing changes in the company’s business practices, as well as fines.

Apple will appeal

In a statement, Apple told Computerworld: 

“Today’s announcements are yet another example of the European Commission unfairly targeting Apple in a series of decisions that are bad for the privacy and security of our users, bad for products, and force us to give away our technology for free. We have spent hundreds of thousands of engineering hours and made dozens of changes to comply with this law, none of which our users have asked for. Despite countless meetings, the Commission continues to move the goal posts every step of the way. We will appeal and continue engaging with the Commission in service of our European customers.”

Europe’s approach has been uniquely Apple-centric, making demands of the company that are not equally made against its competitors. As part of today’s judgment, Apple is also being forced to open up to third-party app store sales, and to permit developers to let customers know of alternative offers outside Apple’s App Store, steer them to those offers and allow them to make purchases.

What Europe wants

Apple had attempted to craft an approach to these demands that tried to balance platform security and the costs of building the platforms against what Europe wanted. Under those terms, developers had been asked to agree to certain terms, including payment of a Core Technology Fee.

The Commission has rejected Apple’s approach, insisting instead that:

Apple must change the business terms through which it enables external app store sales.

The Apple Core Technology fee may need to be abolished.

Apple must make it easier to set up third-party stores.

It must make it easy for consumers to install apps from third-party stores. (I fear this also means it cannot warn customers of the risks of using external stores.)

Apple must bring itself into compliance with these demands within 60 days or risk periodic penalty payments.

It is to be noted that Meta was also fined today.

All it really means

In theory, these changes mean apps will be sold through multiple competing stores. That won’t be how things shape up, of course. Some stores will turn out to be malware-infested money traps; others will sell illegal or immoral content; others will show themselves over time to lack standards of customer, privacy, or security support; other developers will use the system to fragment the user experience. 

Over time we will see stores fail, fall foul to fraud, or go out of business, leaving no clear path for customer compensation or app longevity. Ultimately there will be one or two surviving stores, as well as Apple, and all three will be owned by corporations, rather than by any up-and-coming European tech firm.

That latter isn’t going to happen, and if it does, will only be in specific domains. Through these inevitable evolutions, it will be Apple Support that customers first call for help when things do go wrong, even if responsibility rests with the third-party store. Perhaps this is an improvement, but I don’t see it.

This fragmentation will also expose European customers to security and privacy attacks, as some of these stores will not hold the same degree of respect for privacy as Apple.

Rewarding good behavior?

There is a little good news for Apple in Europe’s judgement, which says the company worked ‘constructively’ with EU regulators on the overall antitrust inquiry. Another strand to this had been an investigation into how Apple enabled user choice on its platforms. Europe has closed that strand of the case, saying Apple has acted to regain compliance. Those actions include giving users in the EU choices of alternative apps and an easy interface through which to make such changes.

One thing that isn’t clear is the extent to which Europe is demanding that Apple makes all its new features available to third-party competitors from day one.

Ostensibly to ensure competition, Apple had complained that this restriction forced the company to develop for its competitors for free, and that the cost of delivering this would require it to develop for multiple operating systems before launch, slowing innovation and costing a lot of cash. Apple already has 500 developers working on EU compliance, which means Europe becomes an increasingly expensive place to do business.

Politically driven nonsense

One more thing to highlight is the extent to which Apple has become a punching bag for increasing tension between Europe and the US following the imposition of trade tariffs. In the prelude to today’s announcement, some industry watchers had reported that Europe intended to demand a lower fine from the companies it was about to punish. In the case of Apple, that fine still came down to more than half a billion dollars.

Perhaps that is seen as small change in Europe, which has given itself the right to demand up to 10% of a company’s global revenue for offenses against the DMA, but it is unlikely to placate the US administration, which has already warned it will act against nations that act against US tech firms.

Apple, which is already being punished by the deteriorating relationship between China and the US, may yet end up seeing further challenges if a tit-for-tat trade war between the US and the EU breaks out.

At what point do Europe’s own consumers become casualties of increasing the cost of doing business there?

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By Nick Godt Tesla says that production of an affordable EV remains on track for June.

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By Siôn Geschwindt UK startup Aquark Technologies has used Boaty McBoatface — the internet’s best-loved submarine — to test its quantum sensing technology underwater for the first time. The NATO-backed company put its so-called “cold atom” system inside the autonomous submarine. Boaty McBoatface then descended to the bottom of a giant indoor tank at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Southampton. The idea was to test how Aquark’s quantum tech — which must be completely isolated from external disturbances to function — would fare in the temperatures and pressures of an underwater environment.  Boaty Mcboatface with its quantum payload being lowered into the…This story continues at The Next Web

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By Deepti Pathak If you’re new to Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) and you’re looking to figure out the ranking and…
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By Siôn Geschwindt Europe can dramatically cut its dependence on imported fossil fuels by adopting electricity-based technologies, according to a new report. Electric vehicles, heat pumps, and renewables could cut global reliance on imported fossil fuels by 70% when used to replaced them in transport, heating, and power, according to energy think tank Ember. They would also save importers an estimated $1.3 trillion (€1.14 trillion) globally each year, Ember found. The think tank refers to this trio of technologies as “electrotech.” Cutting reliance on US, Russian fossil fuels Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 exposed one of Europe’s greatest vulnerabilities — its reliance…This story continues at The Next Web

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One of the biggest problems with today’s AI models is that they tend to simply make up answers when they don’t know what’s going on, something called hallucinations.

You would think that the number of hallucinations would decrease over time, but according to internal tests from Open AI, the opposite is true. The o3 and o4-mini reasoning AI models produce more hallucinations than their predecessors o1, o1-mini, and o3-mini, Techcrunch reports.

In one of the tests, the o3 model hallucinated in 33% of responses, compared to 16% for the o1 and 14.8% for the 03-mini.

Open AI has no idea why this is the case, but the company’s developers are looking into it and hopefully it will get better in the long run.

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The United Arab Emirates is planning to use AI to review and adjust existing legislation as well as write entirely new laws, reports the Financial Times. The Middle Eastern country is the first in the world to do so. Other countries are currently using AI to streamline various types of work, but not to create entirely new laws.

The UAE plans, for example, to use AI to see how laws affect the country’s population and economy by creating a database of laws with public sector data. The expectation is that AI will make local laws 70% faster and ensure they can be updated regularly. It is currently unknown what kind of AI system the country’s authorities will use.

“This new legislative system, powered by artificial intelligence, will change the way we create laws and make the process faster and more accurate,” said Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Emir of Dubai and Prime Minister and Vice President of the United Arab Emirates, according to the country’s state media.

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By Siôn Geschwindt Highly dependent on imported fossil fuels and renewable energy technologies from foreign powers such as the US, China, and Russia, Europe’s energy security is in a precarious state. One potential fix? Harnessing nuclear fusion — the same atom-colliding reaction that powers the Sun and stars. While not yet proven commercially, fusion energy could provide Europe with a vital source of safe, locally produced, always-on clean power. Another plus is that future fusion power plants will likely run on abundant fuels like deuterium and tritium, which aren’t confined to specific geographies. Francesco Sciortino, co-founder and CEO of German startup Proxima Fusion,…This story continues at The Next WebOr just read more coverage about: Security

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By Nick Godt Slate Auto is teasing a $25,000 EV set to be unveiled on April 24.

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By Thomas Macaulay Europe’s housing crisis is deepening. High building costs, tight regulations, and labour shortages have choked the supply of affordable homes. As cities swell with new arrivals and construction workers retire en masse, the gap between supply and demand is only widening. Endless solutions have been proposed. Mass housing projects, revamping the planning system, modular buildings, pre-fabricated materials, rent controls, and restrictions on corporate acquisitions of homes have all been explored with mixed success. But the shortage of affordable housing has only grown. Dutch startup Monumental has pitched another fix: automation. The company is developing a suite of autonomous, electric robots…This story continues at The Next Web

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By Deepti Pathak Exoskeletons, like the Iron Man suit, have long been a fantasy for many—and for good reason….
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By Siôn Geschwindt IBM and the European Space Agency (ESA) today launched TerraMind, a new open-source AI model with an “intuitive” understanding of Earth. According to the research team, the system is the best-performing AI model for Earth observation. In an ESA-led evaluation, TerraMind beat 12 leading AI models on the PANGAEA benchmark — a community standard for Earth observation. The model excelled at various real-world tasks, including land cover classification, change detection, and multi-sensor analysis. On average, it outperformed other models by 8% or more. “To me, what sets TerraMind apart is its ability to go beyond simply processing earth observations with…This story continues at The Next Web

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By Nadeem Sarwar In 2024, Hollywood was roiled by protests led by the SAG-AFTRA union, fighting for fair rights over their physical and voice identities in the age of AI. A deal was inked late last year to ensure that artists are fairly compensated, but the underlying current was obvious.  AI in films is here to stay.  If […]

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Changes to Intel’s executive management team by its new CEO, after just over a month on the job, is proof of the sense of urgency in the company to act quickly to compete with rivals Nvidia, AMD, and TSMC, an industry analyst said Monday.

Mario Morales, group vice president, enabling technologies and semiconductors at IDC, was responding to a recent Reuters report in which, according to a memo it quoted from by new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, “networking chip chief” Sachin Katti has been promoted to the role of “chief technology officer and artificial intelligence chief.”

In the memo, Tan stated that the company’s data center and AI chip group, and its personal computer chip group, would report to him directly, not as before to Michelle Johnson Holthaus, who will take on new responsibilities.

Reuters reported that Tan wrote, “I want to roll up my sleeves with the engineering and product teams so I can learn what’s needed to strengthen our solutions. As Michelle and I drive this work, we plan to evolve and expand her role, with more details to come in the future.”

Morales said the appointment of Katti, who previously was vice president and general manager of the Network and Edge Group (NEX) at Intel, is a good move, because “it tells us that that Intel needs to really rebalance and focus on AI, because that’s where we’re seeing the most rapid growth for the semiconductor market as a whole. That’s probably the area that has the biggest gap in terms of Intel versus its competition.”

Scott Bickley, advisory fellow at Info-Tech Research Group,added, “Intel is facing a monumental uphill battle. After completely opting out of the mobile and AI chip design innovation waves, they are now faced with a slumping x86 legacy CPU business coupled with their high-risk strategy to move to a sub-2nm design produced in their fabs.”

He pointed out that this “includes new process technologies such as Gate All Around [GAA] processing and backside power delivery that have yet to be proven at scale. It would be somewhat of a miracle to expect Intel to leapfrog both Nvidia and their fab partner, TSMC, in the AI space. Even if these new chips are successful in terms of design and performance, they may be a product in search of a market.”

It is possible, said Bickley, that “Intel could seek to be the fab of choice for the hyperscalers if they can bend the cost-for-performance curve, but that is a longshot and likely to only garner a fraction of this market. Intel’s best hope is a paradigm shift to whatever is post-AI chip architecture … they are not in an enviable position.”

Morales added that giving more power to Intel engineers is important, since the company has “lost its way,” and the move should help the organization start making the changes that it needs to make.

Now, he said, there is a need for Intel to act more quickly, adding that when Tan spoke at the recent Intel Vision conference in Las Vegas, he presented with a “humbleness and integrity that I think resonated with a lot of partners and developers there, but you can see that he needs to make these moves very quickly. He is basically a month into the role and already making management changes, and I think you are going to see more announcements later this week when they announce their earnings.”

Morales said he would be not surprised to see more employee attrition, because when it comes to revenue per employee, “it is not as good as the competition.”

Alvin Nguyen, senior analyst at Forrester, said that while having a dedicated person in charge of AI development is a “good move,” the proof will come in what Katti is able to deliver as the new CTO.

While the fab partnership with TSMC is a “nice cash infusion” for Intel, he said, it is still unclear what Intel will get out of the arrangement, and investors are “not going to be happy until those details come out.”

According to Nguyen, the longer this takes, the less latitude the new CEO will be given. “The problem is that they are nowhere near the top of their game in terms of products or fab technology,” he said. “They are behind Nvidia, they are behind AMD in terms of AI, in terms of data center CPUs and in some cases the workplace CPU markets.”

He said that the move by Tan to streamline the organization “gives him the ability to see more of what is going on, but the question at this point is, is he overwhelming himself, or does it give him the ability to provide better guidance?”

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Apple executives will certainly be hoping that raw materials and components intended for use in the iPhone 17 will remain available despite the politically driven trade war with China. They can see that while what they promise will be exciting for Apple’s customers, getting the components together and manufacturing the devices is more challenging than ever.

There’s a lot at stake. This is, after all, allegedly set to be the biggest iPhone upgrade in years.

What to expect from the iPhone 17 range

The devices are expected to host a faster A19 Pro 3nm processor and significant camera improvements. Those include a 48MP camera to replace the current 12MP rear camera unit sitting on a larger camera island, as well as a 24MP front-facing camera. With the exception of the new, thin, iPhone 17 Air model, the new iPhones may be slightly thicker than today, thanks to a much larger-capacity battery that supports reverse wireless charging. 

You’ll see Apple’s C-series 5G modems begin to proliferate across the iPhone range, potentially with a C2 variant with slightly wider 5G band support. Software improvements will include iOS 19, which is also being billed as a huge change in the system and the introduction (we hope) of contextually aware Apple Intelligence. 

Roll it all together and you have the biggest iPhone redesign for years, including the introduction of iPhone Air, all supported by new modems and Apple AI. With new folding iPhones anticipated for release in the next year or so, the stage is set for a new generation of iPhone sales, with new designs and reinvigorated operating systems all supported by an AI that means you can get more done with the computer in your pocket.

Trouble at the mill

Except for one thing: component supply. Now, it’s easy to mistake the iPhone as comprising solely the components inside those devices, but that’s to miss the parts included elsewhere in the ecosystem. That includes incredibly expensive and hard to get tools for component manufacture (including processor manufacturing) and also includes the components and rare earth materials used across the supporting ecosystem — all those Apple Intelligence servers need components too.

The problem here is that trade agreements continue to unravel worldwide as political will coalesces to express itself as a self-harming rejection of aspects of globalism. That unravelling has a multitude of faces, from limited exports of rare earth materials to tariffs on components that can only be made in one part of the world.

While many of these challenges can be solved by sourcing elsewhere or throwing money at the problem, their impact will be to build in additional frustration and delay inside the Apple component supply chain. We know this is already impacting the company as it has reportedly flown iPhones into the US in huge quantities to slip past the tariffs. 

Complex components

Apple won’t be able to just do the same thing with the iPhone 17 series. In part that’s because they aren’t being manufactured in quantity quite yet, though I imagine production will begin in June and also think we’ll see more models than ever before flying to the US from India.

But it’s not just about US tariffs, it’s also about international response to those tariffs. Open up an iPhone and you’ll find raw materials and components that come from all around the world, and many of those nations — including China — seem a little upset at how they feel they have been treated recently. They are articulating this in their own ways: China’s move to limit exports of rare earths will have a particular impact on smartphone manufacturing, though China is not the only nation to respond to these taxes.

That’s likely to make life quite difficult for a company that likes to create new hardware using cutting-edge material science and advanced manufacturing processes. Even if iPhone components ship in quantity, items used in the manufacture of those parts may be limited in some way. I’ve even seen one fairly weak claim that suggests the company is already experiencing problems as a result of WTW1 (World Trade War 1). 

Along with manufacturing bottlenecks, the new post-globalist tradeoff era will be defined by price.

When it comes to iPhones, Apple may be able to swallow some of the additional costs on the strength of the money it is saving on licensing fees to Qualcomm for the 5G modems it has used until now. Those savings may enable Apple to mitigate some of the cost but won’t mitigate all of it. In practice, while I think Apple will maintain good prices on some models, others — principally the iPhone 17 Air — seem likely to come in at reassuringly expensive prices, with Apple management sensibly thinking its highest-end customers are the least price sensitive and will buy the best all the same.

While the iPhone 17 will no doubt be the best iPhone yet and the new design will no doubt impress, it hits a market in turmoil and to some extent existentially articulates the challenges of a politically fragmented world. 

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