China’s Xiaomi will price SU7, its Tesla EV rival under $69,400: CEO

Xiaomi’s first EV, the SU7, is on display at a Xiaomi Automotive delivery center on March 25, 2024 in Hefei, Anhui Province of China. Chinese tech company Xiaomi’s first electric vehicle, the SU7, will be formally launched on March 28.  Ruan Xuefeng | Visual China Group | Getty Images Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun on Monday … Read more

EU launches probe into Meta, Apple and Alphabet under sweeping new tech law

Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for a Europe fit for the Digital Age (Competition), Margrethe Vestager, holds a press conference on “Apple on App Store rules for music streaming providers” in Brussels, Belgium on April 30, 2021. (Photo by Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Dursun Aydemir | Anadolu | Getty Images The European … Read more

Social media firms reject ‘shadow banning’ allegations on Palestinian content

Scott Olson | Getty Images Social media firms have responded to allegations of “shadow banning” their users for Palestinian-related content amid the conflict in Gaza, saying that the implication that Big Tech “deliberately and systemically suppress a particular voice” is false. They have been accused of blocking certain content or users from their online communities … Read more

Nominate a fintech or insurtech company

Online banking businessman using smartphone with Icon Fintech and Blockchain concept Sarinyapinngam | Istock | Getty Images For a second year, CNBC and independent research firm Statista are working together to identify the world’s top fintech companies, to be named in a published CNBC report this July. Nominations are now open for the top global … Read more

Smartphone makers Samsung, Google dream of an AI-driven supercycle   

Samsung Electronics’ flagship smartphones Galaxy S24 series are displayed during their unveiling ceremony in Seoul, South Korea, January 15, 2024.  Kim Hong-ji | Reuters BARCELONA – Smartphone makers are talking a big game about artificial intelligence this year.  And they’re so confident about features they’re cramming into their phones that they think it’ll drive a … Read more

Specs, price, availability and Ultra version

The Xiaomi 14 Ultra. Xiaomi BARCELONA — Xiaomi launched its flagship smartphone globally on Sunday as it looks to keep up its recovery momentum, while also debuting its electric vehicle for the first time in Europe. The Chinese electronics giant launched the Xiaomi 14 for global markets at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, after debuting … Read more

Google expects more advanced AI models to arrive on phones in 2025

Betul Abali | Anadolu | Getty Images Google is bullish on the prospect of its more advanced artificial intelligence models coming to smartphones in the next year.   The internet giant expects that its currently available Gemini large language model (LLM), which competes with Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s most powerful GPT-4 AI model, will begin to get embedded … Read more

China’s Lenovo shows off a laptop with a see-through screen

Lenovo’s concept laptop has a see-through screen. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC Chinese tech giant Lenovo showed off a prototype laptop on Monday that has a see-through screen, underscoring how the world’s largest PC maker is trying to innovate after a brutal couple of years for the market. The laptop is equipped with a trackpad which … Read more

How the Apple iPhone changed the world

When Apple announced the iPhone in 2007, Steve Jobs called it a “revolutionary product” in a handset category that he said needed to be reinvented.  Now, nearly two decades and 42 models later, the iPhone is one of the world’s most popular phones. Apple has sold over 2.3 billion units of the iPhone and has … Read more

Apple takes top spot in China’s smartphone market for the first time

Apple CEO Tim Cook holds up a new iPhone 15 Pro during an Apple event on Sept. 12, 2023, in Cupertino, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Apple for the first time became the largest smartphone vendor in China by shipments, new data for 2023 released on Thursday showed. The iPhone … Read more