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Apple introduces the new MacBook Air with M5

CUPERTINO, Calif., March 03, 2026--Apple® today announced the new MacBook Air® with M5, bringing exceptional performance and expanded AI capabilities to the world’s most popular laptop. M5 features a faster CPU and next-generation GPU with a Neural Accelerator in each core, enabling MacBook Air to power through a variety of workflows, from creative projects to complex AI tasks. MacBook Air now comes standard with double the starting storage at 512GB with faster SSD technology, and is configurabl

Alphabet’s Cloud And AI Buildout Puts Long Term Investment Case In Focus

Alphabet (NasdaqGS:GOOGL) is expanding Google Cloud infrastructure and AI partnerships, including talks with Apple to host parts of the next-generation Siri assistant powered by Google's Gemini AI. Google Cloud plans to include Rakuten's Cloud-Native Storage as a standard component in its storage portfolio. Alphabet is accelerating construction of renewable-powered data centers using iron-air battery backup and has signed new energy agreements while addressing community concerns around data...

Apple, Google wallets get personal

Beyond payments, the digital wallet is a platform for commerce with software startup Badge trying to help brands expand their wallet presence.

Apple introduces MacBook Pro with all-new M5 Pro and M5 Max, delivering breakthrough pro performance and next-level on-device AI

CUPERTINO, Calif., March 03, 2026--Apple® today announced the latest 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro® with the all-new M5 Pro and M5 Max, bringing game-changing performance and AI capabilities to the world’s best pro laptop. With M5 Pro and M5 Max, MacBook Pro features a new CPU with the world’s fastest CPU core,1 a next-generation GPU with a Neural Accelerator in each core, and higher unified memory bandwidth, altogether delivering up to 4x AI performance compared to the previous generation, and up

Apple debuts M5 Pro and M5 Max to supercharge the most demanding pro workflows

CUPERTINO, Calif., March 03, 2026--Apple® today announced M5 Pro and M5 Max, the world’s most advanced chips for pro laptops, powering the new MacBook Pro®. The chips are built using a new Apple-designed Fusion Architecture. This innovative design combines two dies into a single system on a chip (SoC), which includes a powerful CPU, scalable GPU, Media Engine, unified memory controller, Neural Engine, and Thunderbolt 5 capabilities. M5 Pro and M5 Max feature a new 18-core CPU architecture. It in