The automaker has taken the covers off its Cayenne Electric and Cayenne Turbo Electric, the most powerful production Porsches ever. But it won't confirm a key AI feature of its first fully electric SUV. In the first nine months of 2025, Porsche's operating profit plummeted by 99 percent compared to the same stint the year before. Profit has tanked for the auto brand with a track record of making billions. The reasons for Porsche's misfortune are no secret.

Porsche's much-anticipated 2026 EV has charging tech akin to a giant Qi puck. But what happens when Mittens or Fido gets in the way of 11 kilowatts invisibly flying through the air? Yes, it's still a prototype, but Porsche is finally letting people experience what it's next electric car will be like when it hits production next year. We got a briefing on the underpinnings of the new architecture for the Cayenne Electric, peeked at the very fancy finalized interior, and experienced a few hot laps being driven by one of Porsche's professional drivers. However, the highlight was, oddly, none the above, it was getting to try out the Cayenne Electric's party trick and experience exactly how Porsche's wireless charging system works for the EV, and how ridiculously similar the process is to plonking your phone down on a Qi charging puck .

The Cybertruck answers a question no one in the auto industry even thought to ask: what if there was a truck that a Chechen warlord couldn't possibly pass up – a bulletproof, bioweapons-resistant, road rage-inducing street tank that's illegal to drive in most of the world? Few had seen anything quite like the Cybertruck when it was unveiled in 2019. Wrapped in an "ultra-hard, 30X, cold-rolled stainless steel exoskeleton", the Cybertruck was touted as the ultimate doomsday chariot – a virtually indestructible, obtuse-angled, electrically powered behemoth that can repel handgun fire and outrun a Porsche while towing a Porsche, with enough juice leftover to power your house in the event of a blackout. At the launch, Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, said the truck could tackle any terrain on Earth and possibly also on Mars – and all for the low, low base price of 40,000. "Sometimes you get these late-civilization vibes [that the] apocalypse could come along at any moment," Musk said.

The Rimac Group describes Verne--its new autonomous ride-hailing service--as its "next impossible thing." First, founder Mate Rimac established his eponymous electric hypercar company in Croatia, a country with no history of carmaking. Porsche, Hyundai and Softbank all took stakes. Rimac Technology now supplies electric drivetrains to Porsche, BMW and Aston Martin, among many others, and it is developing advanced energy storage tech, too. And now there's Verne, Mate's autonomous ride-hailing service launched today in Zagreb, the Croatian capital.

German auto manufacturer Porsche announced its second-ever model of an all-electric vehicle. The new EV Macan comes in two forms--the Macan 4 and the slightly beefier Macan Turbo. Both of these all-electric SUVs have high-performance 100-kilowatt-hour batteries. These are also the first Porsches to use an 800-volt architecture, which allows the cars to charge from 10 to 80 percent in 21 minutes at a 270-kilowatt DC fast charger. The cars will be just as quick on the road: The Macan 4 puts out the equivalent of 402 horsepower, and the Turbo model puts out 630 hp. Zero to 60 times are 4.9 seconds for the Macan 4 and 3.1 seconds for the Turbo.

Porsche, iTUBS and comNET are working on an ongoing research project to develop the first AI-supported IT monitoring tool that can automatically detect complex error cases. The development of this tool will enable Porsche to monitor and respond effectively to alerts across all its IT systems and services. Robust, powerful and healthy IT systems play an increasingly important role in today's digital age. If IT systems are not functioning as they should, it can have a devastating impact on a company and seriously disrupt business operations. IT monitoring -- collecting measurement data and monitoring the IT environment -- is an effective way to improve the health and resilience of IT systems.

Wendy Gonzalez is the CEO of Sama, the provider of accurate data for ambitious AI. Autonomous cars are as intrinsic to visions of the future as holograms and space travel. Since the birth of science fiction, the automobile has been seen as the final frontier of technological innovation. However, when we look around at our cities today, cars can often seem stuck in the past. The reality is that the vision for the automotive industry has far exceeded the pace of its progress.

Industry 4.0 has taken manufacturing to the next level, handing processes over to technology, smart machines, and artificial intelligence (AI). These transformations often happen in isolation, creating siloed environments that miss the bigger purpose of digitalization. But when a company connects data among people, programs, and processes, the sum creates a digital factory. A digital factory represents far more than the physical process of making things: It's a concept in which the factory itself figures into the equation. The goal of a digital factory is to optimize manufacturing processes and the environment that houses them. Despite the acceleration of digital transformation, the World Economic Forum found that 62% (PDF, p. 10) of manufacturing companies have digitized only one product line, which means they've gained a fraction of the data that's possible with Industry 4.0.

I bet most of us have heard about "GPUs". There have been sayings that GPU is the best investment you can do for gaming. But the technology that once fancies the Gaming Industry, is now a core element of various other realms including Artificial Intelligence, Video Rendering, Healthcare. The electronic giants once used to focus solely on the gaming industry to design their GPUs, but as the corpus of AI is expanding, the demand and specialization of GPUs are increasing exponentially. The increasing attention on Deep Learning has enabled manufacturers to also focus on software rather than just hardware.

A global survey of more than 3,000 managers, as well as interviews with executives and scholars, has reported that a majority of companies are developing artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities but have yet to gain significant financial benefits from their efforts. The survey, published in the Expanding AI's impact with organisational learning study from Boston Consulting Group in partnership with MIT Sloan Management Review, found that just one in 10 companies generates significant financial benefits from AI. The study notes that the adoption of AI across industries is increasing, and more companies perceive that AI drives both strategic opportunity and risk. The researchers found that 57% of companies report having AI pilots or have deployed AI. This is a significant increase from 2018, when 44% of companies said they were piloting or deploying AI.