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June 25, 2026, 1:55 PM
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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’
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
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
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” …
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.
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 …
Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg:
Sources: in a letter to US officials, Anthropic accused Alibaba of adversarial distillation, using Claude 28.8M times from April to June via almost 25K accounts
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.
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.
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 …
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
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 …
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.
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 …

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