Fiona Jackson

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Technology Reporter, UK and EMEA at TechRepublic

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EU Plan Helps Startups 'Unlock Growth Drivers' to Scale Faster & Go Global

1 week ago | techrepublic.com | Fiona Jackson

Image: Uliana/Adobe Stock The EU has introduced a new strategy aimed at strengthening its startup ecosystem and improving its global competitiveness in innovation. One initiative it has committed to is creating a public-private fund for deep tech scale-up companies.
iOS 26 Might Be Next Release, as Apple Shifts to Year-Based Naming

1 week ago | techrepublic.com | Fiona Jackson

Image: Teena Maddox/TechRepublic Apple may soon switch to naming its operating systems by year, meaning that iOS 26 could be launched next, instead of the widely reported iOS 19. The move is reportedly intended to align all of its platforms, as new versions of iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS would also adopt the same naming structure.
Apple Faces New Penalties as EU Publishes Full Antitrust Decision

1 week ago | techrepublic.com | Fiona Jackson

Image: Guillaume Périgois/Unsplash Even 30 days after being hit with a €500 million fine, Apple is still not in compliance with the EU’s antitrust rules. The European Commission has confirmed this with the publication of its full decision, revealing its intention to “impose periodic penalty payments” on Cupertino until satisfied.
Trump Turns on Tim Cook Amid iPhone Manufacturing Dispute

1 week ago | techrepublic.com | Fiona Jackson

Image: The White House/Flickr US President Donald Trump’s fondness for Tim Cook is souring. He took several jabs at Apple’s chief executive during his recent tour of the Middle East, likely stemming from his resistance to shifting iPhone production out of China. When Trump announced sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs on all countries with which the US runs a trade deficit, his goal was to push companies like Apple to shift their manufacturing to American soil.
Trump Turns on Tim Cook Amid iPhone Manufacturing Dispute

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Fiona Jackson

1 hour agoApple is planning a huge shakeup to its naming scheme for software updates. Bloomberg reports that this year’s iOS update won’t be called iOS 19 after all. Instead, Apple is planning to call it “iOS 26” as part of a new year-based naming strategy. Here’s exactly what that means for all of Apple’s …
Trump Postpones 50% Tariff on Imports From EU, Which is Fast-Tracking the Process

1 week ago | techrepublic.com | Fiona Jackson

We may earn from vendors via affiliate links or sponsorships. This might affect product placement on our site, but not the content of our reviews. See our Terms of Use for details. Trump said it was a “privilege” to grant the extension after a phone call with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Open Source AI: Cost-Effective and Widely Used, Says Meta-Backed Report

2 weeks ago | techrepublic.com | Fiona Jackson

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg. Image: Meta A Meta-commissioned study has found that open source artificial intelligence is cost-effective and widely adopted by businesses. Since the release of Llama 2 in mid-2023, Mark Zuckerberg’s company has publicly released its proprietary AI models as open source — by its own criteria — and is intent on highlighting that fact.
What's Next For These Negotiations?

2 weeks ago | techrepublic.com | Fiona Jackson

The EU’s proposal outlines mutual investment and procurement plans in artificial intelligence, digital connectivity, and other sectors. Image: axelbueckert/Envato Elements The European Union is trying to settle the tit-for-tat tariff war between it and the US.
NVIDIA CEO Huang Backs AI Diffusion Rule Repeal, Calls It 'A Failure'

2 weeks ago | techrepublic.com | Fiona Jackson

Image: Sundry Photography/Adobe Stock NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has praised US President Donald Trump for scrapping a regulation limiting the number of advanced artificial intelligence chips it could sell to certain countries. He described the AI diffusion rule as a “failure” at a press conference at Taiwan’s Computex tech expo, according to Reuters.
Microsoft Adds Musk’s Grok Models to Azure AI Foundry, Risks OpenAI’s Disapproval

2 weeks ago | techrepublic.com | Fiona Jackson

Image: SXSW/Screenshot Elon Musk’s Grok chatbots are now available in Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry. This means that developers can now build, test, and deploy applications powered by Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini within the AI development platform. Microsoft will run the Grok models on its Azure cloud infrastructure and will bill customers for their usage, with pricing starting at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens.