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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
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Apple stock closed down 6.15% on Thursday after the company raised some product prices, its worst fall since April 2025  —  Apple on Thursday announced price hikes on MacBooks and iPads, its first formal move to pass higher memory and storage costs on to consumers after CEO Tim Cook said increases had become unavoidable.
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” …
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg:
Alibaba's stock closed down 4.43% in Hong Kong on Thursday after Anthropic accused the company of “illicitly” accessing its AI models; Xiaomi and Baidu fell ~3%  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. shares slid to a 16-month low in Hong Kong after Anthropic PBC accused the Chinese technology giant of …
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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
New York Times:
Sources: OpenAI leans toward holding off its IPO until 2027 after warnings that Sam Altman's desired $1T valuation may not be met in current market conditions  —  The A.I. company's advisers are pushing its chief executive, Sam Altman, to move slowly after SpaceX's stock has been volatile …
Alan Neuhauser / Axios:
Source: Muon Space, which operates satellite networks for climate and national security monitoring, is raising $250M; it has raised ~$181M since its 2021 launch  —  Muon Space, which builds and operates satellite networks, is raising $250 million, Axios Pro has learned.
James Attwood / Bloomberg:
The US awards $250M in CHIPS funds to a startup co-founded by billionaire mining magnate Robert Friedland to develop silicon-carbide chips and pulsed-power tech  —  I-Pulse Inc. will receive $250 million in US funding for semiconductor and pulsed-power development as the venture co-founded …
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.
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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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump names Danielle Thumann, an adviser to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, to serve as an FCC commissioner; if confirmed, she'd bring the Republican majority to 3-1

Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Scripps' CEO says the company is adopting a streaming news model enabled by AI, including cutting 12% of staff, and praises the FCC's lift of the ownership cap

Bloomberg:
Sources: Paramount has offered three-year agreements to AMC and Regal to release 30 movies a year exclusively in cinemas for at least 45 days if it acquires WBD

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Jeff Kauflin / Forbes:
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