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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple raises Mac, iPad, and other product prices by 15%-25%, saying it has “never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly”; iPhone is unchanged — Increases come a week after Tim Cook said higher memory costs made them ‘unavoidable’
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple says “the rapid expansion of AI data centers has created an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage”; the MacBook Neo rises from $599 to $699 — Apple Raises Prices on Some Products by $500 — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 17.88% Playback Rate
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| Kenneth Shepard / Kotaku: |
Microsoft says the price of Xbox consoles will increase on August 1 by $100 for 512GB models and $150 for 1TB models, the third price increase since 2025 — Microsoft is increasing the prices of Xbox Series consoles once more and introducing a ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ option
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| Ethan Gach / Kotaku: |
Sony's Bungie says it is laying off a “significant number of employees”, including “most of the Destiny team”; Bungie has an estimated headcount of 800 — The studio said the sci-fi MMO failed to meet expectations … The studio announced a “reduction in force” …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to skip higher-end M6 chips and launch its next Pro and Max chips in 2027 as part of the M7 lineup, to boost on-device AI capabilities — Apple Inc. is making one of the biggest-ever changes to its Mac silicon strategy, preparing to jump ahead to a new artificial …
More: Thurrott, Macworld, Appleosophy, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, and Digital Trends
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| Don Clark / New York Times: |
IBM details a 0.7nm chip manufacturing process that utilizes a “nanostack” 3D transistor architecture, which it says could continue chip innovation for 10 years — Industry leaders had worried that innovations in chip miniaturization were no longer possible.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Notion plans to shut down its Gmail client Notion Mail on September 22 and go “all in” on AI agents to run inboxes, saying 50%+ of users do not open the inbox — Last year, Notion expanded its productivity suite to include Notion Mail, an AI-powered email client.
More: TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Thurrott, and Notion
| Lydia DePillis / New York Times: |
OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, and others launch Raise Us, a new non-profit led by ex-Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to help US workers adapt to AI — OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft have signed on to an effort led by Gina Raimondo, a former commerce secretary.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google launches a Google Finance app for Android, with market data, financial news, and an AI-powered “Key Moments” feature, and plans an iOS version this year — Google on Thursday launched a dedicated mobile app for Google Finance that houses users' watchlists and provides real …
More: The Keyword, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, Benzinga, PYMNTS, Neowin, The Next Web, Blockonomi, and Android Authority
| Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba's Hong Kong stock closed down 4.43% after Anthropic accused Alibaba of “illicitly” accessing its AI models, down 36.24% YTD; Xiaomi and Baidu fell ~2% — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. shares slid to a 16-month low in Hong Kong after Anthropic PBC accused the Chinese technology giant of …
More: BBC and Nikkei Asia
| Tina Li / Wall Street Journal: |
Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers and seeking to build self-improving AI for open-source developers, raised a $200M seed at a $1B valuation — Mirendil raises $200 million from Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins to make AI that can do the job of an AI engineer| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning via gameplay footage, raised $320M led by Khosla at a $2.3B valuation, for $454M in total funding — As soon as I entered General Intuition's R&D floor at its New York office, the company's 31-year-old co-founder …
More: PitchBook, GamesBeat, RuntimeWire, and DutchNews.nl
| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: Google expands the scope of its months-old AI coding strike team to “midtraining” to try to catch up with Anthropic, after major executive departures — Google is reorganizing its recently launched strike team working on AI coding tools to try to catch up with Anthropic … | Wall Street Journal: |
TRM Labs: since 2019, Iran-linked crypto wallets, including those tied to Iran's central bank, have moved $3.84B+ in transactions through crypto exchange CoinEx — Iranian entities have moved more than $3.84 billion in transactions through the crypto exchange CoinEx, according to an analysis of public blockchain data
More: TRM Insights, Decrypt, crypto.news, Cryip, CoinDesk, The Crypto Times, Cryptonews, NewsBTC, The Block, and crypto.news
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Facebook brings back Facebook Creator Studio as a stand-alone app with a built-in AI chatbot to help creators grow their audiences through personalized guidance — Facebook announced on Wednesday that it's reimagining its Creator Studio tool as a standalone AI companion app designed … | Milana Vinn / Reuters: |
Sources: Bumble explores a sale amid slowing growth in the online dating sector; its shares fell 48% over the past 12 months, giving it a market cap of $388M — Dating app Bumble (BMBL.O) is exploring a sale amid slowing growth in the online dating sector, according to three people familiar with the matter.| Madison Mills / Axios: |
Memo: Meta Superintelligence Labs is hiring three founders and other team members behind AI security startup Virtue AI; two founders report to Nat Friedman — Meta Superintelligence Labs is hiring three founders and other team members behind AI security startup Virtue AI, Axios has learned.| Jacob Reid / Bloomberg: |
Exponential View: global AI sales, excluding China, hit $25B in Q1, exceeding an estimated $21B in data center and chip depreciation costs; margins remain thin — Revenue from artificial intelligence has reached a tipping point, showing that the hundreds of billions of dollars tech companies …
More: Exponential View, Techstrong.ai, and Exponential View
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Preliminary findings: the EU says Azure and AWS are “the largest and second largest” cloud services in the EU, as the bloc weighs up tougher DMA oversight — Microsoft Corp.'s Azure and Amazon Web Services face tough European Union guardrails after regulators said they should be targeted by the bloc's Digital Markets Act.
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| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Nebulock, which helps security teams proactively find and remediate threats across a company's security stack, raised a $25M Series A led by FirstMark — Contextual security startup Nebulock raised a $25 million Series A led by FirstMark, founder and CEO Damien Lewke tells Axios Pro exclusively.| Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: |
Netris, which helps neoclouds automate network configuration to bring their data centers online faster, raised a $15M Series A from a16z — The AI boom has encouraged everyone and their uncle to launch a data center business. But spinning up a data center isn't easy.
More: The Next Web and Forbes
| Financial Times: |
How risk modelers like Fathom and Verisk are using AI and diffusion models to bypass the limits of physics-based “cat” models to predict natural disasters — Catastrophe scientists are pushing past the limits of physics-based models, improving how insurers calculate risk| Gianluca Lo Nostro / Reuters: |
Anthropic hires French telecom group Orange's Chief AI Officer Steve Jarrett to help Anthropic “better understand and adapt” its products to Europe and Africa — The artificial intelligence head of French telecoms group Orange (ORAN.PA) has left the company to join U.S. AI startup Anthropic, he said on Thursday.
More: The Next Web and TelecomTV
| Financial Times: |
As China's working-age population shrinks, consensus is growing that China must embed embodied AI robots into as many tasks as possible, as soon as possible — The country's workforce is set to fall to 300mn by the end of the century. Beijing wants humanoids to narrow the labour gap.| Will Canny / CoinDesk: |
Sources: Kraken is in talks to acquire a 15% stake in DeFi protocol Aave at a $385M valuation, investing 35,000 ETH in return for 250,000 AAVE tokens — Crypto exchange Kraken, part of Payward Inc., is in talks to acquire a 15% stake in decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Aave at a $385 million valuation … | Jeff Kauflin / Forbes: |
Australian payments startup Airwallex raised $320M led by Lee Fixel's Addition at an $11B valuation, and is incubating blockchain payments startup Metal — Amid allegations of sharing customer data with China, Australian payments startup Airwallex, now valued at $11 billion, is gunning for Stripe and Ramp.| Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal: |
Scaled Cognition, a reliability-focused lab that develops the Agentic Pretrained Transformer model, raised a $100M Series A led by Khosla at a $750M valuation — AI models can be ‘like schizophrenic geniuses,’ says CEO who raised $100 million in round led by Khosla Ventures| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft quietly extends the Extended Security Updates program for Windows 10 consumers by a year, letting eligible users get updates through October 12, 2027 — Windows 10's ESU program has been quietly extended by an extra year, now ending on October 12, 2027 instead of October 2026.
More: BleepingComputer, Thurrott, PCMag, XDA Developers, Windows, Neowin, and Windows Latest
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