Author: Alijah Raechel Nuestro

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Nokia unveils GPU-powered radio platform: NVIDIA deal targets 5G-Advanced

Nokia and NVIDIA are rolling out a new radio access network platform built by combining Nokia’s anyRAN software with NVIDIA Aerial on GPUs. Pilot deployments are slated for late 2026, with the idea being more programmable 5G-Advanced networks now and, further out, future 6G systems.

Nokia says it’s the first commercial platform of its kind. The company’s pitch is that radio sites stop being just hardware for moving mobile traffic and start working as infrastructure that can also take on heavier software workloads. For Nokia, it’s also a visible step in the company’s telecom comeback.

In Nokia’s early tests, spectral efficiency improved by more than 20%. The target, the company says, is 50% by 2027 and more than 100% by 2028. If those numbers hold, operators could double capacity on the same spectrum without having to swap out nearly as much hardware. Nokia says the platform will be sold as a software subscription, and operators will be able to deploy it in a few different ways: as a GPU plug-in card, as a standalone radio node, or in the cloud. Nokia also says the partnership includes a $1 billion investment from NVIDIA, while T-Mobile US, Elisa, SoftBank, and Indosat are already involved in tests or demos.

If you work in carrier infrastructure, this is the part of the announcement to watch closely. Ericsson is sticking with existing baseband silicon rather than GPUs, and there are still open questions about cost, performance, and ROI outside dense urban areas. This isn’t something end users will be downloading themselves. According to Nokia, pilot deployments are set for late 2026, with broader operator availability coming in 2027.

White House prepares new data-center energy pledge: utilities, not tech, are the focus

The White House is putting together a new energy pledge for data centers, this time aimed at making sure new projects can actually get reliable power. The emphasis appears to be on utilities, not the tech companies building the facilities.

Even when developers already have land, financing, and customers lined up, a project can still bog down if utilities and grid operators can’t hook up power quickly enough. Those same utilities and grid operators are being pushed to add electricity, transmission, and interconnection capacity, while also keeping costs from rising and avoiding strain on the grid.

What the White House has in mind would likely press for faster planning, more grid upgrades, and new generation. That’s a notable shift after months spent highlighting jobs and investment, and then running into a simpler fact: promises from developers don’t count for much if the power isn’t there when it’s needed.

And the issue isn’t only how much power exists. It’s also when it shows up, where it has to go, and how messy the grid itself can be, with delays tied to studies, transformers, and approvals, plus clean-energy targets and local opposition. The federal government can’t simply tell utilities to speed up, but it can lean on commitments, coordination, and permitting to back gas, nuclear, geothermal, solar, and batteries.

If you watch either consumers or the industry, this move from talking about demand to dealing with delivery is something to pay attention to. Build too much and rates could climb. Move too slowly and those projects may land somewhere else.

More details from the White House should be coming soon.

Microsoft Teams rolls out Workspace Check-in: office location sharing arrives

Microsoft is starting to roll out Workspace Check-in for Teams in June 2026. When Teams connects to your company’s Wi‑Fi, it can automatically share your office location. That means people won’t have to mark themselves as in the office by hand every time: Teams can update your status with a specific building, so coworkers can see who’s in and where. It builds on the app’s existing manual check-in tools, and with 52% of U.S. remote-capable employees still working in hybrid setups in early 2026, that could take some of the friction out of meetings.

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Microsoft is framing Workspace Check-in as a coordination feature, not a monitoring one. It’s off by default, admins have to turn it on, and each employee can choose to opt in or out. Microsoft also says the location data is cleared at the end of the workday, rather than stored as a running historical record.

If you’re in Teams all day for hybrid work, this is probably an update you’ll want. Still, the pushback is easy to understand. More than 73% of employers already monitor remote or hybrid workers in some way, so for plenty of people, Workspace Check-in may feel less like convenience and more like surveillance, or another way to push return-to-office expectations when something labeled “optional” doesn’t really feel optional.

Workspace Check-in is available in Microsoft Teams as the rollout starts now, following reported delays that go back to late 2025 and very little mention in Microsoft’s June 2026 feature roundup.

iPhone fireworks photos: how to get better shots this summer

Apple has steadily improved the iPhone camera over the last few generations. The newer low-light tools make summer fireworks much easier to capture, and the phone already in your pocket has become the default camera for this kind of shot. That tracks with industry estimates, too: smartphones now take more than 92% of all photos.

Fireworks are tricky because you’re balancing bright explosions against a black sky. On iPhone, tap to focus, then pull the exposure down so the highlights don’t blow out. You can also switch to Burst Mode and keep the flash off. If HDR is getting too aggressive, turn it off and you’ll usually get a more natural-looking image.

Live Photos give you another option after the fact. You can go back, choose the best frame later, or apply the long-exposure effect. And if you want sharper stills and cleaner video, a tripod, a clamp, or even a convenient ledge helps a lot. Composition matters, too. A skyline, a landmark, trees, even a few silhouettes in the foreground can give the shot some atmosphere. The same idea works well for quieter, greener drone light shows.

If you shoot fireworks on an iPhone, these tips are genuinely useful, and in my experience a small tripod is the one accessory most worth buying if you plan to shoot more than one show. You don’t need expensive gear. You need a steady phone, controlled exposure, and a good sense of composition.

You can do most of this with the built-in Camera app on iPhone, or you can grab Slow Shutter Cam, Spectre Camera, Adobe Lightroom for Mobile, VSCO, and Snapseed from the Apple App Store if you want more control over long exposures and editing.

Google tests Android app-by-app backups in beta: turn apps off individually

Google seems to be trying out per-app cloud backup controls in an Android beta in mid-2026. If it ships, Android users would be able to turn cloud backups on or off for individual apps, rather than relying on the current device-wide switch that covers everything or nothing.

That would be the biggest change to Android backups since Auto Backup for Apps arrived in Android 6.0. Right now, Android usually saves app data quietly to a private folder in Google Drive. When you move to a new phone, the app itself may come back, but not always all of its data. Apple’s iCloud backups are a lot more upfront about how that process works.

Per-app toggles would give people a way to leave out apps that are data-heavy, easy to regenerate, or just too sensitive to back up. Android backup data still doesn’t count against your Google Drive quota, but there’s still a 25 MB cap per app. And while Android 9 and newer can end-to-end encrypt backups using your screen lock, older Android setups may still mean Google holds the keys.

If privacy matters to you, or you’re trying to save storage, or you just want phone restores to go more smoothly, this one is worth keeping an eye on. Reports have also mentioned Downloads-folder backups, which makes it more interesting.

The feature first showed up in late 2025, and by mid-2026 it’s reaching at least some Android beta users. What isn’t clear yet is how broad the rollout is, how much storage or bandwidth people would actually save, or how developers will deal with restores when certain apps are excluded, especially in places where mobile data is expensive.

Google DeepMind signs A24 deal: a reported $75 million studio bet

According to The Wall Street Journal, Google DeepMind has entered a long-term partnership with A24 to build filmmaking tools. Google is also investing about $75 million in the studio. The Journal said it marks Alphabet’s first direct investment in a film studio.

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Google DeepMind and A24 are presenting the software as artist-first, built to support creative work rather than take it over. The idea is to help writers, directors, editors, and other filmmakers move faster while still staying in control. The timing matters. After the 2023 writers’ and actors’ strikes, studios and tech companies are still under pressure over credit, pay, and job security.

A24 filmmakers also won’t be stuck reacting to finished products after the fact. They’ll test Google DeepMind’s tools themselves and help shape them, which creates a much tighter feedback loop than a typical vendor relationship.

One of the first use cases is storyboarding through A24 Labs, the studio’s tech team of roughly 20 people. That’s a sensible place to begin, and a lot less controversial than AI scriptwriting or digitally recreating actors.

The Wall Street Journal also reports that the partnership is non-exclusive, and it doesn’t give Google access to A24’s film and TV catalog for model training. That steers clear of one of the industry’s biggest copyright flashpoints.

For anyone who follows studio tech, this deal is worth watching. A24 may be small, but its influence runs bigger than its size would suggest, and if these tools take hold there, other studios may start treating them more seriously too.

The earliest signs will probably show up inside A24’s own production workflow, not as a consumer-facing product.

Perplexity launches Brain: a working-memory upgrade for Computer

Perplexity has opened up Brain, a new working-memory system for its Computer agent, in research preview starting today.

Brain goes further than just remembering your preferences. Perplexity says it learns from actions, results, mistakes, corrections, files, and past sessions. From there, it organizes that history into a traceable context graph and turns it into a language-model-powered wiki it can reuse for future tasks.

Perplexity also says Brain processes that history overnight. That gives Computer a way to improve from one session to the next, rather than relying only on a live context window. In Perplexity’s internal tests, that produced a 25% boost in answer accuracy on repeated tasks, a 16% improvement in recall, and a 13% drop in costs for work that depends on historical context.

If your work depends on repeatable, trust-sensitive workflows, Brain seems worth trying. Every memory item can be traced back to its source, which should make auditing and debugging easier.

There are still a few caveats. The benchmarks are internal, questions around data governance and deletion still don’t have clear answers, and overnight updates aren’t the same as real-time adaptation.

It’s also arriving at a moment when OpenAI, Google, Mem0, Zep, and Letta are all rolling out similar memory features. Brain is available now in research preview if you’re subscribed to Perplexity Max or Enterprise Max.

Microsoft now faces shareholder lawsuit: Azure slowdown and AI costs

Microsoft Corp. is facing a securities class action after shareholders sued on June 12, saying the company misled investors about slowing growth at Azure, Microsoft’s cloud business, and about what its artificial-intelligence buildout was really costing.

The complaint, filed June 12, covers investors who owned Microsoft shares between May 1, 2025, and January 28, 2026.

If you own Microsoft shares, this is a case to watch

The suit says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, CFO Amy Hood, and other executives played down softness in Azure even as the company poured money into chips, servers, and data centers to back Copilot and its other AI products. Later, when Microsoft disclosed $37.5 billion in capital expenditures, far above the $34.3 billion analysts had expected, and also reported Azure growth easing to 39% from 40%, with guidance of 37% to 38%, the stock fell 10% on January 29. That erased $357 billion in market value, according to the complaint.

The plaintiffs also say Microsoft leaned on “capacity constraints” to explain what happened after disclosing, too late in their view, that CPUs and GPUs had been redirected from Azure to research and development, according to the complaint.

They say this was happening even as Microsoft committed A$25 billion in Australia, took on $250 billion in Azure commitments tied to OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, and kept pushing ahead with its own in-house models.

If you own Microsoft shares, this is a case to watch. Microsoft says the claims have no merit and that it plans to fight them. These suits are often easier to file than to win, but this one could still shape how much big tech companies have to disclose about spending, risk, and the returns they expect.

You can follow the filing in federal court in Washington.

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ChatGPT passes 1 billion monthly users: Claude leads in revenue per user

ChatGPT crossed 1 billion monthly active users in May 2026, Sensor Tower says, making OpenAI’s chatbot app the fastest app ever to hit that mark.

Sensor Tower’s latest data on mobile chatbot apps points to two things at once. ChatGPT still has the biggest reach by far. Claude, though, is doing a better job turning users into paying subscribers.

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In the US mobile market, Claude brought in $2.76 in revenue per user, compared with $1.74 for ChatGPT, per Sensor Tower. That’s a big jump from September 2025, when Claude was still under $0.50. About 13% of Claude users now subscribe, while ChatGPT sits closer to 8% across iOS and mobile, Sensor Tower says.

ChatGPT’s share of the market also slipped below 50% in March 2026 and was down to 46.4% by late May, according to Sensor Tower. Two years earlier, it was at 81%. Over that same stretch, Google’s Gemini reached 27.7%, and Claude climbed to 10.3%, Sensor Tower says.

Claude’s $20 starting price seems to help, per Sensor Tower, while cheaper ChatGPT and Gemini plans pull their average revenue down. Sensor Tower also says OpenAI’s US Department of Defense deal lined up with a rise in ChatGPT uninstalls. Claude, meanwhile, picked up share after Anthropic passed on a similar deal.

ChatGPT still has the edge on retention, at 86% versus 73.7% for Claude, according to Sensor Tower. Consumer spending is also on track to hit $4.25 billion in H1 2026, up from $1.83 billion a year earlier, Sensor Tower says. That’s happening as OpenAI weighs price cuts, Google drops Gemini to $5, and Apple gets ready for bigger on-device Siri upgrades.

If you follow AI apps, keep an eye on this one. ChatGPT is ahead on scale, but Claude is showing that a smaller user base can bring in more money.

You can download ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini on iOS and Android.