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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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| 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.
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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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| 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 …
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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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| Om Malik / On my Om: |
Om Malik, a longtime technology writer, founder of Gigaom, and a partner at True Ventures, died on Wednesday at 59 — Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Sam Altman told staff the US government asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT 5.6 over security concerns, approving “access customer by customer” — For AI companies on the verge of releasing cutting edge new AI models, there's a new normal in the wake …
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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.
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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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 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.
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| Reuters: |
Apple says it removed VK's apps from the App Store to comply with sanctions; VK says they were removed without warning and it has never been under US sanctions — The Kremlin demanded an explanation from Apple (AAPL.O) on Thursday after several Russian mobile apps related …
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Chipmaker Onsemi agrees to buy Synaptics in a nearly $7B all-stock deal expected to close in the middle of 2027; ON drops 9%+ and SYNA jumps 11%+ after hours — ON Semiconductor has agreed to buy Synaptics in a nearly $7 billion all-stock deal to bolster its push into physical artificial intelligence technology.| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Patronus AI, which builds simulated digital environments for evaluating AI agents, raised a $50M Series B led by Greenfield, bringing its total funding to $70M — AI agents are becoming more sophisticated. They are evolving from answering questions to autonomously executing multi-step complex tasks.
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| 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.| 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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| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
NHTSA proposes eliminating the mandate for manual brake pedals in “vehicles designed to be driven exclusively by automated driving systems” — The Trump administration's Department of Transportation (DOT) has proposed new changes to federal vehicle regulations that would allow companies …
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| 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
| Olivier Acuna / CoinDesk: |
Story Protocol, a blockchain-based IP ownership network that raised $140M, rebrands as Data Foundation to build an on-chain registry for AI training data — Palo Alto-based blockchain startup Story Protocol is rebranding as DATA Foundation and shifting its focus entirely to AI training infrastructure …
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| 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.| Ann Gehan / The Information: |
Source: Google is asking publishers that test new AI features in Google News to grant it broad rights to their content, including to potentially train AI models — Google is tightening the screws on news publishers. — In recent months, the tech giant has been pitching publishers … | 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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
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| 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.| 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 … | 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
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| 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| 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.
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