ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet on his company’s monopoly: no one is coming for us Every time you use AI, you are, in some small way, depending on a 42-year-old, 44,000-person Dutch company that spends €4.5 billion each year to advance its technology. ASML, headquartered in the Netherlands, makes the machines that make the chips that make AI possible. More specifically, it makes the only machines...

Apeiron Labs gets $29M to flood the oceans with autonomous underwater robots Most of what we know about the ocean just skims the surface, literally. We’ve gathered a large quantity of data on the oceans from satellites, but most of that is based on the top layer of water. Below that, the picture gets murkier. Buoys, ships, and some autonomous rovers have recently added some detail, but it’s...

We're Hooked on Satellites. It Could Blow Up in Our Faces Tharon Green/CNET/Getty Images With 15,000 satellites crowding the sky and hundreds of thousands more planned, we may soon have a cataclysmic mess overhead. Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, broadband, and moving. Prior to joining CNET, Joe led MyMove's...

Motorola's $1,500 Razr Ultra Looks Swanky in Alcantara1 of 12Celso Bulgatti/CNETThe 2026 Motorola Razr Ultra is the best-looking phone I've seen this year. My review loaner was in Pantone orient blue, which looks purple a lot of the time. 2 of 12Celso Bulgatti/CNETThe new Ultra keeps that amazing 4-inch cover display, which is still outstanding to use and offers the best experience on any...

Forget the Specs. Which MacBook Neo Color Is Best? CNET Weighs In Apple's MacBook Neo comes in four shades, and our CNET crew throws shade on all of them. Adrian is a deals writer on the Commerce team at CNET. With a love of books, entertainment, travel, tabletop games and, yes, even fandom, they can often be found at concerts, RenFest, Dragon Con or at home binge-watching...