• July 6, 2026
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Microsoft Cuts 4,800 Jobs in AI-Driven Reorganization of Xbox and Sales

REDMOND, Wash. — The first wave of notices went out on Monday morning, and by noon the shape of Microsoft’s biggest reorganization this year was clear. The company is cutting…

  • July 6, 2026
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Samsung Seeks 20% DRAM Price Increase for Third Straight Quarter

The buyers who assemble the world’s phones, PCs, and servers are being asked to pay more for memory again. Samsung Electronics is negotiating with customers to raise average prices for…

  • July 6, 2026
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Anthropic Sets Sights on Australia With 1.4 Gigawatt Compute Plan

SYDNEY — The artificial-intelligence company that trained Claude is going to need a lot more electricity, and it has decided part of it will come from Australia. Anthropic is planning…

  • July 6, 2026
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Blackstone-Backed QTS Abandons Virginia Mega Campus as Data Center Push Hits Resistance

The world’s largest planned data-center campus will not be built. QTS Realty Trust, the data-center operator controlled by Blackstone, said on July 2 that it had terminated its project in…

  • July 6, 2026
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Intel Raises Prices on Consumer and Server Processors

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The list prices are moving up again. Intel has raised recommended retail prices on part of its processor lineup, touching both the Core Ultra 200S Plus…

  • July 6, 2026
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SK Hynix Heads for Record $29 Billion Nasdaq Listing

SEOUL — The money managers who back the world’s largest memory-chip maker are getting ready to buy a piece of it in dollars. SK Hynix will list American depositary receipts…

  • July 6, 2026
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Thales Strikes €3.9 Billion Deal for Exail, Outbidding Safran

PARIS — The Gorgé family has run Exail Technologies for decades, first as a maker of maritime robotics and navigation gear, and more recently as the parent of two French…

  • July 6, 2026
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AWS Lifts Trainium3 Server Shipment Targets, Betting on Custom Silicon

The message moving through Amazon’s AI hardware supply chain this quarter is simple: hurry up. AWS has told the manufacturers that assemble its AI servers that it is raising third-quarter…

  • July 6, 2026
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Samsung Poised to Post Record Profit as Memory Boom Hits Full Stride

SEOUL — When Samsung Electronics publishes preliminary second-quarter results on Tuesday, the numbers are expected to look like nothing the company has reported before. Analysts polled by the London Stock…

  • July 6, 2026
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Micron Begins $9.3 Billion Hiroshima Fab Build for AI Memory

HIROSHIMA — The ground-breaking ceremony on July 4 drew a modest crowd: local officials, plant managers, and a delegation from Micron Technology’s headquarters in Boise, Idaho. Behind the podium, construction…