Ford announced two new chargers that will let its upcoming Fathom electric pickup power a home or feed the grid, at about half the cost of its current equivalents. The Fathom starts at $28,350 and can deliver more than 10 kW, enough to stand in for a small standby generator.
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Apple announced a new 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M6 chip, which has a 12-core CPU and a 12-core GPU Apple says delivers up to 30% faster graphics and 25% faster AI workloads than M5. The laptop adds Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 and is rated for up to 24 hours of battery life.
Apple unveiled a new iMac with the M6 chip in seven colors, promising up to 5x faster on-device AI than M4 and up to 18x the performance of the most popular Intel iMac. It adds Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, optional 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet and storage up to twice as fast.
NVIDIA and Meta will expand their partnership on Meta's Muse family of AI models, and Meta plans to deploy more NVIDIA Vera Rubin systems and Vera CPUs. NVIDIA also said it will invest $3 billion in Meta's equity offering, and the companies are considering work on agent security and monitoring tools.
Rohit Patel, a former director at Meta Superintelligence Labs, is leaving Meta after eight years to launch Ndoc, an AI-native startup pitched as a replacement for Microsoft Office and Google Workspace, TechCrunch reports. He is the latest in a string of high-profile departures from Meta.
