As Tim Cook steps down, Apple hit record sales — but a chip shortage looms

by News Feed Editor | Apr 30, 2026 | Technology

Apple reported a record quarter on Thursday. Yet outgoing CEO Tim Cook warned of some gathering storm clouds in the form of memory chip supply issues that could impact business in the near future. “Today Apple is proud to report our best March quarter ever, with...

Sri Lanka discloses another missing payment, days after hackers stole $2.5M from its finance ministry

by News Feed Editor | Apr 29, 2026 | Technology

Sri Lanka said on Tuesday that a payment of about $625,000 (about 199.7 million Sri Lankan rupees) to the U.S. Postal Service has been missing for several weeks, after U.S. officials reported that the payment had failed to arrive, reports local media. Authorities...

How to build custom reasoning agents with a fraction of the compute

by News Feed Editor | Apr 28, 2026 | Technology

Training AI reasoning models demands resources that most enterprise teams do not have. Engineering teams are often forced to choose between distilling knowledge from large, expensive models or relying on reinforcement learning techniques that provide sparse...

Snapchat brings AI-powered conversational advertising to its app

by News Feed Editor | Apr 28, 2026 | Technology

Snapchat announced on Tuesday that it’s rolling out “AI Sponsored Snaps,” which will allow users to interact directly with brands’ AI agents. Sponsored Snaps are the ads placed directly into the app’s main Chat tab. Until now, users couldn’t interact with these ads,...

Investors back Skye’s AI home screen app for iPhone ahead of launch

by News Feed Editor | Apr 27, 2026 | Technology

Skye, an iPhone app still in private testing, wants to change how people interact with AI on their smartphones. And even before it’s launched, it’s already attracted interest online and from investors and “tens of thousands” of users, according to its creator — a sign...