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Apple is taking the UK government to court over demands to access encrypted user data, and the stakes couldn't be higher. The case cuts to the heart of a long-running tension between government surveillance powers and the privacy protections that hundreds of millions of people rely on every day.
Shifting to the enterprise world, a growing number of companies racing to deploy artificial intelligence are running headfirst into a problem they created decades ago. Legacy systems were never built for the kind of real-time data access and interoperability that AI actually needs to function, and that gap is proving to be a far bigger obstacle than the AI technology itself.
And in the chip industry, MediaTek is making a serious move into AI datacenter silicon, lining up five billion dollars in financing to compete in a market it expects to be worth up to eighty billion dollars next year. The Taiwanese chipmaker is best known for smartphone processors, but it is clearly betting its next chapter looks very different.
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