Du côté de NVIDIA, on n'est pas du genre à revoir à la hausse ses prix officiels, c'est un fait. Un exemple qui le montre clairement : en ce 15 juin 2026, la GeForce RTX 5090 est toujours officiellement à 1 999 $, comme vous pouvez le constater sur le site de la firme. Et il en va de même pour toute...

De la berline de luxe à l’hypercar d’endurance en passant par les paddocks de Formule 1, Cadillac mène en 2026 une stratégie tous azimuts. Jamais la marque premium de General Motors n’avait autant misé sur la compétition pour asseoir son image mondiale. Tour d’horizon avec Jean-Pierre Diernaz, CMO Cadillac.

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Une gamme routière en pleine mutation

Cadillac traverse en 2026 une phase charnière. La marque maintient une offre diversifiée entre berlines de prestige et SUV électriques, tout en préparant le renouvellement de ses modèles phares.

Du côté des berlines, le CT4 et le CT5 restent les piliers de la gamme, auxquels s’ajoutent les déclinaisons V-Series Blackwing, des versions haute performance capables de rivaliser avec les meilleures européennes à moindre coût. Le CT4 débute à 35 600 dollars avec un quatre-cylindres turbo de 237 chevaux, tandis que le CT5 propose dès l’origine un moteur turbo 2,0 litres et une variante CT5-V de 360 chevaux, avec un écran incurvé de 33 pouces dans l’habitacle.

Côté SUV, Cadillac accélère sa transition vers l’électrique. L’Escalade IQ, bâtie sur la plateforme Ultium de GM, revendique jusqu’à 465 miles d’autonomie pour le modèle standard et 460 miles pour la version IQL allongée. La famille électrique s’enrichit également avec le LYRIQ, le VISTIQ trois rangées, et l’OPTIQ compact. Le VISTIQ se positionne entre le LYRIQ et l’Escalade IQ, en proposant des places pour toute la famille, des performances électriques solides et un équipement premium incluant notamment le Super Cruise.

Pour 2026, Cadillac prépare aussi le dévoilement d’un XT5 de nouvelle génération, dont la production nord-américaine démarrerait en 2027, ainsi que d’un successeur au CT5 dont la version actuelle cessera d’être produite à la fin de l’année.

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En endurance, la V-Series.R monte en puissance

En WEC, Cadillac a franchi une étape majeure lors de la saison 2025. Le 14 juillet 2025, la V-Series.R numéro 12 de l’équipe Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA a remporté les Rolex 6 Heures de São Paulo, cinquième manche du championnat du monde d’endurance FIA WEC. Emmenée par Alex Lynn, Norman Nato et Will Stevens, la voiture américaine s’est imposée au terme d’une course parfaitement maîtrisée — une première victoire historique pour Cadillac dans la catégorie Hypercar. La numéro 38 complétait ce doublé en terminant deuxième.

Aux 24 Heures du Mans 2025, la numéro 12 avait décroché la pole position, première voiture américaine à réaliser cet exploit depuis 1967. Au championnat des constructeurs, Cadillac a terminé quatrième.

Pour 2026, la marque frappe encore plus fort. Trois Cadillac V-Series.R sont engagées aux 24 Heures du Mans : les numéros 12 et 38 du Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA dans le cadre du WEC, rejointes par la numéro 101 de l’équipe Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing, habituellement engagée en IMSA.

La V-Series.R a elle-même évolué. Après trois saisons avec une évolution mineure, la voiture bénéficie pour 2026 d’une refonte bien plus profonde, ciblant notamment la sensibilité de la plateforme aux variations de garde au sol et au tangage, identifiée comme le principal frein à la régularité en course face à Ferrari et Porsche. L’équipage de la numéro 12 — Lynn, Nato et Stevens — a d’ailleurs été le seul à marquer des points lors de chaque manche du WEC en 2025.

Les premiers signaux du Mans 2026 sont encourageants : lors des premiers essais libres de la 94e édition, c’est la Cadillac numéro 38 pilotée par Earl Bamber qui a signé le meilleur chrono en 3’23″786. La numéro 101 de Wayne Taylor Racing avait quant à elle dominé la Journée Test avec un temps de 3’27″011.

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En Formule 1, le grand saut

L’entrée de Cadillac en Formule 1 constitue sans doute l’événement le plus marquant pour la marque en 2026. L’écurie devient la onzième équipe sur la grille, et fait revenir deux pilotes aguerris : Valtteri Bottas et Sergio Pérez, qui totalisent ensemble 527 départs en Grand Prix.

Le projet s’appuie sur quatre bases opérationnelles, à Fishers, Charlotte, Warren aux États-Unis, et à Silverstone en Angleterre. Dans un premier temps, l’écurie utilise des moteurs Ferrari, avec l’ambition de développer ses propres unités de puissance à horizon 2028. Plus de 300 personnes travaillent sur ce programme.

La saison 2026 coïncide avec une refonte réglementaire majeure, portant à la fois sur les motorisations et sur l’aérodynamique. Un contexte qui complexifie la tâche des nouveaux entrants, mais nivelle aussi la concurrence.

Après trois courses, Cadillac n’avait pas encore inscrit de points au championnat, mais Bottas avait décroché une 13e place, laissant entrevoir un potentiel réel. À Monaco, le scénario a failli tourner différemment. Pérez pensait avoir inscrit le premier point de l’histoire de l’écurie dans la Principauté, avant qu’une pénalité pour une erreur lors de la procédure de relance ne vienne effacer ce résultat. La dynamique est bien là — les points ne devraient tarder.

Qu’il s’agisse de ses SUV électriques grand luxe, de ses hypercars vrombissantes ou de ses monoplaces de F1, Cadillac joue désormais dans toutes les cours. General Motors a décidé que sa marque premium serait au centre de sa stratégie mondiale.

L’article Cadillac, une marque en pleine offensive : route, piste et Formule 1, l’interview de Jean-Pierre Diernaz est apparu en premier sur Le Blog Auto.

Les publicités comparatives sont rares en France, avec notre Code de la consommation très strict qui fait passer à bien des fabricants l'envie de s'y essayer. Comme ce n'est pas dans nos habitudes d'en croiser, il est toujours intéressant de voir ce qui peut se faire ailleurs à ce sujet, surtout qua...

Futurism reports: in a new essay for The Chronicle Higher Education, university-level literature and writing instructor Tyler Jagt recalls how not a single one of his students could get through an assigned 20-page article, something that he had read "without complaint" as an undergraduate a decade ago. One student confessed that the reason they didn't finish was that they kept losing track of what the paper was about. And there's no doubt that they're not alone. Jagt cites the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress reading assessment results released last year. It showed that 12th grade reading scores were at the lowest level since the assessment began in 1992. Nearly a third of those 12th graders scored below the assessment's "basic" level in reading, meaning they likely "cannot draw general conclusions based on concepts presented explicitly in a text." Younger children aren't better off: a recent report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation found that 70 percent of fourth graders, or around two million kids, can't read at a proficient level. "What I am seeing in my classroom is no longer a hunch," Jagt writes. "There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing, and the academy is responding to it with improvisation and exhaustion rather than the structural overhaul it requires...." Jagt cites an MIT study that found users who used ChatGPT during cognitive tasks like writing essays showed lower brain activity in areas associated with creativity compared to students who only used a traditional Google Search or didn't lookup information at all. An astonishing 83 percent of the AI users couldn't quote a single line from the essays they had just written, and capstoning the alarm, the brain activity in the AI users didn't return to normal when they were later asked to write without AI... On our pernicious pocket devices, Jagt touted a 2017 study that found that simply having a smartphone physically nearby — even if it's face down or turned off — reduced available cognitive capacity and impaired cognitive functioning. "So when a student tells me they 'kept losing track' of a 20-page article, I have to acknowledge that they may be describing a measurable neurological condition," Jagt wrote. "The neural pathways that support sustained attention are built by use, and they atrophy without it. Your body is a use-it-or-lose-it system, and the brain is no exception." Sunday an "Ask Reddit" question went viral — drawing over 11,000 upvotes — for its question to any teachers reading Reddit. "Is the 'Gen Alpha can't read (write, or do math ext)' crisis real? If so how bad is it?" Some responses... "The run of the mill non-honors kids have gotten really bad," posted one high school teacher. "Very low tolerance for working hard, very short attention span, very short stamina for active listening... It's the group that is the most worrying because a decade ago, I'd estimate that maybe 10-20% of kids at a school are like this, and now it's probably 40-50% of each graduating class... Then there's of course the bottom 10-20% kids (excluding the special ed/severe/moderate learning disability kids). This is what the viral videos are about and it's not an exaggeration. They can't read, write, or do very basic math like multiplication or division as a 17 year old." "This is the first year the MAJORITY of my class cheated on their first essays...." posted one high school English teacher. "It was also the first year a kid yelled 'We don't care about your fucking books, Miss!' while I was in front of the class presenting books they might be interested in for their book reviews... Almost all of them cheated on the book review they had to write." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 for sharing the article.

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Avec les prix totalement fous de la DDR5, de nombreux acquéreurs de nouvelles configurations en 2026 font finalement le choix de se tourner vers des plateformes DDR4, pour atténuer la douleur au moment de consulter le montant de la facture.À ce petit jeu là, AMD tire son épingle du jeu sur le marché...

"Battered by years of mass layoffs, California tech workers were hoping the job market would rebound this year," reports the Los Angeles Times. "But things are getting worse." The class divide is widening in Silicon Valley as a tiny group of employees is landing unprecedented packages for AI skills, while many others struggle to find work. The have-nots are doing everything that used to guarantee great jobs — refreshing resumes, optimizing LinkedIn profiles and doing interviews — but companies are much more picky these days. The tech jobless are rethinking their lives. Some are taking pay cuts, others are leaving tech. Some are going back to study or launch startups. Some have retired.... Since 2022, more than 815,500 tech workers have been laid off, according to Layoffs.fyi, a website that tracks job cuts. The tsunami of pink slips surged in 2023, when companies that had gone on hiring sprees during the COVID-19 pandemic began to cut back. From January to April, U.S. tech employers announced 85,411 job cuts this year, up 33% from the same period last year, according to global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The Public Policy Institute of California estimates that the number of information jobs — which includes jobs in hard-hit Hollywood as well as tech — tumbled 17% between the middle of 2022 and this February. The San Francisco Bay Area has been hardest hit, the institute said in a recent report, with the number of jobs declining by 0.4%, compared with 7.5% growth over a similar time span before COVID-19 slammed into the U.S. economy. Tech layoffs are also spilling over into other industries. Automaker General Motors laid off roughly 600 workers in its information technology department, and Walmart is reportedly laying off or relocating roughly 1,000 workers in its technology and products teams. Recruiters say companies have become much more selective, requiring AI skills, combining different positions and interviewing more people for each job. "You're seeing elongated hiring cycles," said Robert Lucido, senior director of strategic advisory at Magnit, a California company that helps tech giants and other businesses manage contractors, freelancers and other contingent workers. "There's more opportunity to fill the need that they truly want." Paul Flaharty, district president at staffing firm Robert Half in Los Angeles, said companies are laying off workers, but also creating new roles tied to AI initiatives. "For individuals that are displaced, it's really important that they find ways to upskill themselves so that they can make themselves as attractive as possible for these new jobs that are being created," he said. Kira Martins was already taking on more work in a small team at Snap — the parent company of disappearing messaging app Snapchat — when she was laid off in April. The company said the layoffs were to cut costs as it focuses on profitability, noting how employees are using AI to "reduce repetitive work, increase velocity, and better support our community, partners, and advertisers...." Martins, a 36-year-old Los Angeles resident, views AI as a tool and is optimistic about finding her next role. People still need to decide how to use AI and check the work it generates, she said. "In tech, you want to be a first adopter, because if you don't move quickly, it's very easy to become irrelevant," she said. "Everyone's kind of hopping on the AI train." A former Google worker (laid off more than a year ago) says he's still job hunting, according to the article, and "he's learned it's not enough to just apply in this competitive market. Workers really need to network and leverage their connections to get seen by hiring managers and stand out." But when 64-year-old product manager Bruce Bowers lost his job at Oracle — along with thousands of others — he just started his retirement early.

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"Asian stocks rallied Monday while oil prices tumbled," reports CNBC, "after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a peace deal aimed at ending nearly four months of conflict..." The strongest reaction was seen in energy markets. U.S. crude oil futures for July delivery were down 4.77% to $80.83 per barrel by 8:27 p.m. ET. Brent futures, the international benchmark, for August delivery traded about 4% lower to $83.77 per barrel. Asian equities surged. South Korea's Kospi jumped 5.1%, Japan's Nikkei 225 climbed 3.6%, and the broader Topix advanced 2.6%... The U.S. dollar index weakened 0.32% to 99.483, while the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell 5 basis points to 4.423%, suggesting that investors were dialing back inflation concerns on easing energy prices. "The most immediate implication is a repricing of the inflation risk premium that markets have been carrying since the Strait closed," said Billy Leung, investment strategist at Global X ETFs... Besides safe-haven Treasurys, gold also rose. "Gold is the interesting outlier here," Leung said. "In a clean risk-on trade, gold should be selling off as the geopolitical premium unwinds, but it is holding bid around $4,300, which tells you the market is not fully trusting the deal yet." Spot gold prices were up almost 2% at $4,302.19 per ounce. That skepticism reflects lingering uncertainty around the agreement, which remains unsigned and subject to implementation risks. [Josh Gilbert, lead Asia Pacific analyst at trading platform eToro] cautioned that "the deal isn't actually signed until June 19th, the details are still thin, and this conflict has shown more than once that headlines can turn on a dime." Analysts at Commonwealth Bank of Australia also stressed that the oil outlook hinges on how quickly shipping and production can normalize. Vivek Dhar, head of commodities and sustainability research at CBA, expects Brent to fall to around $80 a barrel by year-end, assuming the Strait remains open and exports recover. However, he warned that damage to refining infrastructure, the presence of sea mines and uncertainty over tanker traffic could slow the return to normal operations. Even so, he said markets are likely to take comfort from the prospect that oil flows need only recover to around 60%-70% of pre-war levels to restore expectations of a global supply surplus. For investors, the biggest implication will likely be what cheaper energy means for inflation and central banks. Lower oil prices ease pressure on households and businesses while reducing the risk of a broader inflation resurgence just as major central banks enter a busy week of policy meetings. UPDATE: "A US official is rejecting Iran's assertion that it will receive billions of dollars in frozen funds before a planned 60-day negotiating period begins following Friday's signing of an agreement," reports CNN: The pushback came after Iran's deputy foreign minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, said the next phase of talks would depend on Washington first fulfilling several obligations, including releasing Iranian funds frozen abroad. The differing accounts underscore a significant gap between how the United States and Iran are describing what must happen before the next round of negotiations can move forward.

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"As the use of artificial intelligence spreads across companies worldwide, it is relieving workers of tedious old chores but creating new ones," reports the Los Angeles Times. "Most people don't realize the amount of time that they're spending working on the tools to get the time savings that they're professing," said Paul Leonardi, Duca Family professor of technology management at UC Santa Barbara." Leonardi is one of the co-authors of the new study published by the Work AI Institute, whose contributors include academics from Stanford University and UC Berkeley. The institute is sponsored by AI company Glean... The research surveyed 6,000 digital workers across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia between December and January. The report found that we are in a phase of significant personal productivity gains, but few companies are translating these gains into revenue and business growth. While 75% of individuals reported a boost in productivity, only 13% of the organizations say they have seen significant business gains as a result of AI adoption, the survey found... The reason the boost in productivity sometimes leads to waste, Leonardi said, is the time people spend correcting the bot's work and gathering the right files, documentation, and tacit knowledge required for it to produce high-quality output. "It's pretty striking the amount of time and effort people are spending," Leonardi said. Most employees now spend over six hours a week of their workday babysitting their work chatbots, the survey said. There is a "thick, mostly invisible layer of human labor holding the whole thing together," the report said. The survey found that for every hour a worker spends getting useful output from AI, they spend roughly another hour making it usable. Of the total time workers spend interacting with AI each week, 37% goes to botsitting, 36% to actually using the tool to produce work. Part of the reason so much time disappears into botsitting is how often the tools fall short: Workers report that more than a third of AI sessions fail outright, requiring a full restart or substantial rework. Paradoxically, as more workers hand over bigger parts of their jobs to AI, they are offloading personal judgment and responsibilities to the bots. The survey found 41% of workers say they sometimes deliver AI-generated work they couldn't explain if asked... "I think what's happening with a lot of these Gen AI tools right now is we're essentially expecting individual contributors to act as managers," Leonardi said. "They're just managing these AI tools, AI agents, and we're expecting that they'll be able to produce way more, but we're not taking into account all of the work that actually goes into managing." This problem isn't likely to go away.

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Microsoft dropped "massive" updates for six stock Windows apps, reports the "Microsoft enthusiast" site Neowin. Here's some of their more interesting highlights for Clock, Media Player, Calculator, Voice Recorder, Photos, and Paint: The Photos app (version 2026.11060.2004.0): AI watermarking — "AI-generated or edited images can now carry a visible Copilot watermark. You choose Never, Always, or Ask Every Time in Settings, with a confirmation when saving. The watermarking is off by default in settings." Calculator (version 11.2605.9.0): More accurate square-root results. "Fixed rare cases where a calculation that should equal zero (like sqrt(2.25) — 1.5) returned a tiny leftover value instead...." Reliable launch after upgrading. "Fixed an issue where upgrading from much older versions could leave outdated settings that stopped the app from opening..." The Clock app (version 11.2605.9.0): "Timers keep counting after they hit zero — When a timer runs out, it now keeps counting up (for example, -00:27:31) so you can see how far past the time you've gone..." "Correct sun and moon icons during midnight sun — Fixed an icon that wrongly showed a moon during all-day daylight in polar regions... " "No more double announcements — Screen readers no longer read the timer value twice." Media Player (version 11.2605.14.0). "Playlists need a name — You can no longer accidentally save a playlist with a blank name."

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