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US President Donald Trump holds an iPhone after it rang while he was speaking on the day he signs an executive order at the White House in Washington May 23, 2025. — Reuters pic

Donald dials in: Trump Organisation’s new mobile network targets MAGA market

Nvidia components are displayed at the GTC Paris NVIDIA stand at the VivaTech technology startups and innovation fair at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, in Paris on June 12, 2025. — AFP

High costs, weak cloud: Can Europe catch up in the AI arms race sparked by Nvidia?

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said that a prototype Ive shared with him ‘is the coolest piece of technology that the world will have ever seen.’ — Reuters pic

OpenAI and Apple design legend Jony Ive are building the iPhone of the AI age

An attendee uses a virtual reality (VR) headset in a stand, at the VivaTech technology startups and innovation fair at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, in Paris June 12, 2025. — AFP pic

AI won’t kill all jobs but it’s hiring faster than you think

Google is beefing up online search with generative artificial intelligence, embracing AI despite fears for its ad-based business model. — Reuters pic

Google rolls out spoken AI summaries in search with new Audio Overviews feature

Google yesterday reiterated its opposition to verifying the age of a device’s user through the app stores built into operating systems, calling a proposal from Facebook and Instagram parent Meta ‘ineffective’. — Reuters pic

Google rejects Meta’s app store age verification plan, citing child safety and privacy concerns

CEO of Instacart Fidji Simo arrives at the 11th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony 2025 held at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California April 5, 2025. — AFP pic

From fishing family to Big Tech: French CEO Fidji Simo joins OpenAI as second-in-command

Visitors browse through the stands at the 9th edition of the VivaTech technology startups and innovation fair at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, in Paris June 11, 2025. — AFP pic

AI, robots and smart shoes: The most eye-catching innovations at Paris’s Vivatech 2025

Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, arrives for a meeting with international investors in IA at the Elysee Palace as part of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit in Paris February 10, 2025. — Reuters pic

‘Our path forward is limitless’: Meta makes bold move with major Scale AI investment, CEO joins tech giant

Disney and Universal are taking AI firm Midjourney to court, accusing it of generating unauthorised images of iconic characters like Yoda, Elsa and Shrek. — Reuters pic

Disney and Universal slam AI firm Midjourney as ‘bottomless pit of plagiarism’ in lawsuit

Today, Apple appeared to have removed the game from the Hong Kong version of the App Store. It was not available on Hong Kong’s Google Play yesterday.

Hong Kong police help indie game ‘Reversed Front: Bonfire’ go viral — by banning it

French music video director, graphic designer and singer-songwriter Woodkid poses during a photo session in Paris on June 3, 2025. — AFP pic

Woodkid bends sound like origami for Hideo Kojima’s ‘Death Stranding 2’

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino. — Reuters pic

Here is everything Apple announced at its annual developer conference

A customers purchases Nintendo Switch 2 at an electronics retailer in Tokyo June 5, 2025. — AFP pic

Nintendo says sold record 3.5 million Switch 2 consoles in first four days

Mistral’s new AI model Magistral is designed to ‘think things through’, offering traceable reasoning for complex tasks in law, finance and healthcare. — Reuters pic

France’s Mistral unveils ‘thinking’ AI model aimed at complex reasoning

Washington last month unveiled fresh guidelines warning firms that using Chinese-made high-tech AI semiconductors, specifically Huawei’s Ascend chips, would put them at risk of violating US export controls. — Reuters pic

Huawei founder admits chips still trail US by ‘one generation’