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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) finds itself at the centre of a perfect storm: unprecedented AI chip demand that it cannot fully satisfy, escalating trade tensions that threaten its business model, and geopolitical risks that expose the fragility of global semiconductor supply chains.Speaking at TSMC’s annual shareholders meeting in Hsinchu on Tuesday, CEO C.C. Wei delivered a confident outlook for the semiconductor giant, stating that “our revenue and profit this year will set new historical highs.” The bullish projection comes as the company grapples with the indirect effects of US tariffs while simultaneously struggling to meet unprecedented demand for AI applications.Tariff impact remains…

After a number of complaints about the Photos app redesign in iOS 18, Apple is tweaking the look and feel of the app in its new OS release, now branded as iOS 26. The change was briefly mentioned Monday during the keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 25); Apple noted it was bringing back a tabbed interface to Photos, though it won’t look the same as before. “Many of you missed using tabs in the Photos app,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering — which is as close as Apple will ever get to admitting…

Reddit is taking Anthropic to court, accusing the artificial intelligence company of pulling user content from the platform without permission and using it to train its Claude AI models. The lawsuit, filed in a California state court, claims Anthropic made more than 100,000 unauthorised requests to Reddit’s servers, even after publicly stating that it had stopped.The case is built around Reddit’s claim that Anthropic ignored both technical restrictions and its terms of service. According to the complaint, Anthropic bypassed protections like the site’s robots.txt file, which is supposed to prevent automated scraping. Reddit also accuses Anthropic of violating user privacy…

At Monday’s WWDC conference, Apple announced the new macOS Tahoe, which comes with a series of updates related to Apple Intelligence, continuity features with the iPhone, and Spotlight search. Apple’s new “Liquid Glass” design is coming to macOS Tahoe, making for a sleek, customizable look — yes, at long last, you can make your folder icons pink (or whatever other color you want). Like iOS 26, the macOS Tahoe design refresh has a more reflective, transparent style, like real glass. But behind the shiny update are other upgrades that leverage Apple Intelligence to improve the user experience. Image Credits:Apple macOS…

At this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 25), Apple announced a slew of updates to its operating systems, services, and software, including a new look it dubbed “Liquid Glass” and a rebranded naming convention. Apple was notably quiet on one highly anticipated product: a more personalized, AI-powered Siri, which it first introduced at last year’s conference.Apple’s SVP of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, only gave the Siri update a brief mention during the keynote address, saying, “As we’ve shared, we’re continuing our work to deliver the features that make Siri even more personal. This work needed more time to reach our…

It was an unusual question coming from a police officer. Heather Brady was napping at home in San Francisco on a Sunday afternoon when the officer knocked on her door to ask: Had she applied to Arizona Western College?She had not, and as the officer suspected, somebody else had applied to Arizona community colleges in her name to scam the government into paying out financial aid money.When she checked her student loan servicer account, Brady saw the scammers hadn’t stopped there. A loan for over $9,000 had been paid out in her name — but to another person — for…

Qualcomm has agreed to acquire Alphawave Semi, a U.K.-based semiconductor company focused on high-speed data center connectivity, for around $2.4 billion. According to Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon, the deal will help Qualcomm grow its data center business. “The combined teams share the goal of building advanced technology solutions and enabling next-level connected computing performance across a wide array of high-growth areas, including data center infrastructure,” Amon said in a press release. Qualcomm’s acquisition of Alphawave, which makes a range of wired connectivity and compute technologies, comes a few months after the bigger chip company bought the generative AI division of…

A security researcher has discovered a bug that could be exploited to reveal the private recovery phone number of almost any Google account without alerting its owner, potentially exposing users to privacy and security risks.  Google confirmed to TechCrunch that it fixed the bug after the researcher alerted the company in April.  The independent researcher, who goes by the handle brutecat and blogged their findings, told TechCrunch that they could obtain the recovery phone number of a Google account by exploiting a bug in the company’s account recovery feature. The exploit relied on an “attack chain” of several individual processes…

As cable television continues to experience stagnation, with the trend of cord-cutting growing stronger each year, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is adapting to the evolving media landscape by separating its streaming and cable operations. This landmark decision aims to maximize the potential of both businesses, according to WBD. The company announced Monday its plan to split into two publicly traded entities: The Streaming & Studios division, which will include Warner Bros. Television, Motion Picture Group, DC Studios, HBO, and HBO Max; and Global Networks, featuring CNN, TNT Sports in the U.S., Discovery, and Bleacher Report. Notably, Discovery+ will not be included…

Claude’s blog is no more. A week after TechCrunch profiled Anthropic’s experiment to task the company’s Claude AI models with writing blog posts, Anthropic wound down the blog and redirected the address to its homepage. Sometime over the weekend, the Claude Explains blog disappeared — along with its initial few posts. A source familiar tells TechCrunch the blog was a “pilot” meant to help Anthropic’s team combine customer requests for explainer-type “tips and tricks” content with marketing goals. Claude Explains, which had a dedicated page on Anthropic’s website and was edited for accuracy by humans, was populated by posts on…