Samsung may be bracing for first-ever annual loss in smartphone business

Samsung reached a $1 trillion market valuation on Wednesday after shares surged more than 10%, making it only the second Asian company to cross the threshold after TSMC. The milestone follows a first-quarter earnings report showing profits eight times higher than a year earlier, driven overwhelmingly by AI-related chip demand. At the centre of the […]

QVAC MedPsy squeezes clinical AI onto a smartphone, beating Google's MedGemma-27B on real-world scenarios while using three times fewer compute resources.

Samsung crossed the $1 trillion valuation mark after shares surged on AI-driven chip demand, making it only the second Asian company after TSMC to hit the milestone.

Bargains are disappearing and the cost of gadgets such as MacBooks and PS5s is rising as AI competes for memory chips The end of the cheap laptop, the bargain phone and affordable games consoles may be on the horizon. Not because new models are more hi-tech, but because the cost of computer components has shot up. Recently, the biggest manufacturers of laptops and phones, including Microsoft, Samsung and Dell, started putting up prices and pulling cheaper models – which is going to make finding budget phones and laptops under £400 much harder. Continue reading...

Most of us work with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other Microsoft 365 apps primarily on a computer, via the desktop or web apps. While you’re on the go, the mobile versions of these apps are handy for reviewing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, or other Office files, and you can use them to do minor editing. But the mobile apps also have specific functions designed for your smartphone’s smaller screen and touch interface that can help you do more in-depth work. In this guide, we’ll explain what these mobile-first features are and how to use them. Note: This guide refers to the individual Word, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, and PowerPoint mobile apps for Android and iOS. There’s also a general Microsoft 365 app (which Microsoft confusingly renamed “Microsoft 365 Copilot”) for both platforms that includes versions of Excel, PowerPoint, and Word built into it. But some of the features covered in this guide are not available in these apps within the M365 Copilot app, so we prefer to use t

Smartphone maker increased revenue nearly 17% as iPhone sales rise by a fifth

The AI boom is worsening a global memory chip shortage, which Samsung predicts will continue into 2027 Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported record quarterly profit driven by a 49-fold jump in chip income, saying it expects a severe supply shortage to deepen next year as clients spend on AI, driving up prices of its memory chips. A boom in the construction of AI datacentres has spurred Samsung and chipmaking peers to allocate production capacity to advanced chips that Nvidia uses in its so-called AI accelerators. Even so, chipmakers are struggling to meet demand while the move also squeezes the supply of conventional chips. Continue reading...

South Korean AI startup Searchdoc has secured approximately $2.1 million in early-stage funding, combining a seed round with support from the Korea Credit Guarantee Fund’s Innovative Startup Growth Support Program. Founded in March 2025 by engineers from AWS, Naver, and Samsung, the company has developed AI capable of analyzing large-scale industrial documents and technical drawings […]