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Another round of price increases for consumer electronics is underway, driven by the AI industry’s insatiable demand for memory chips that is diverting supply away from phones, computers and gaming consoles. Apple raised Mac and iPad prices by up to US$300 (approximately £240) in June, citing memory costs. Xbox followed with increases of up to […]

Another round of price increases for consumer electronics is underway, driven by the AI industry’s insatiable demand for memory chips that is diverting supply away from phones, computers and gaming consoles. Apple raised Mac and iPad prices by up to US$300 (approximately £240) in June, citing memory costs. Xbox followed with increases of up to […]

The US Department of Energy has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) to permanently roll back energy-efficiency standards for a wide range of household appliances and equipment, Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced on July 2. The proposed rule targets efficiency standards enacted under the Biden administration, which the Trump administration has labeled the “Green […]

Google has detailed Android Halo, a persistent communication layer in the phone’s status bar that lets AI agents interact with users without forcing them to switch apps. The feature was explained in a Google for Developers YouTube presentation by Sameer Samat, president of Android. Halo provides a dedicated location on the status bar where the […]

Attackers have been caught exploiting a critical vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite just six weeks after Oracle released a patch — and before any public proof-of-concept exploit code was available. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-46817 and carrying a CVSS score of 9.8 (critical), resides in the Oracle Payments File Transmission component of Oracle E-Business Suite. […]

Micron Technology and Anthropic have signed a strategic agreement covering memory and storage architecture design, long-term supply commitments, a strategic investment, and enterprise deployment of Claude across Micron’s operations. The agreement, announced June 22 and detailed further in early July, is structured around four pillars. First, the two companies will collaborate on memory and storage […]

Meta has introduced a subscription requirement for expanded access to advanced features on its smart glasses, marking the latest step in a broader industry push toward recurring revenue from hardware devices. The company now notes in its help pages that users will need the Meta One Premium Plan to unlock “expanded access” to some features […]

Google’s annual electricity consumption rose by 37 percent in 2025, the largest single-year increase in the company’s history, driven by an AI infrastructure buildout that the company itself acknowledges is “accelerating faster than the grid is decarbonizing.” The figures come from Google’s 2026 Environmental Report, published June 30. Google’s data centers consumed 42 million megawatt-hours […]

Palantir chief executive Alex Karp launched a blistering attack on frontier AI labs during a CNBC Squawk Box appearance on July 1, accusing OpenAI and Anthropic of extracting value from enterprise customers through token-based pricing while delivering little return. “I am paying for tokens that create no value. These people are stealing the weights and […]

Anthropic has begun developing its own proprietary AI chip and held exploratory talks with Samsung Electronics as a potential manufacturing partner, according to three people with direct knowledge of the discussions. The project remains at an early conceptual stage. Anthropic is still determining what the chip should do, how powerful it should be, how it […]