Chip Makers Push Through Another Round of Price Increases
Procurement managers across Asia opened revised price lists on July 1 to find increases from nearly twenty suppliers of analog and power semiconductors, the latest in a series of staggered…
Grok 4.5 Begins Internal Testing at SpaceX and Tesla
On a Saturday evening in late June, engineers at SpaceX and Tesla began receiving access to a new artificial-intelligence model, an early signal of the release cadence xAI has promised…
Memory Makers Face Class Action Over DRAM Supply
A technology reseller in Sacramento who buys server memory by the pallet watched his cost per gigabyte climb for six straight weeks this spring. Distributors returned the same answer to…
News Publishers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over Copyright in AI Training
A group of news publishers has filed suit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the companies used published content without authorization to train their AI models, according to MediaPost. The…
Tesla Begins Pushing FSD v14 Lite to Older Hardware
Tesla has started pushing FSD v14 Lite to vehicles equipped with HW3, the older Autopilot computer that powers millions of cars on the road, according to Tesla Oracle. The release…
AI Infrastructure Spending Accelerates, and Investors Ask When Profits Arrive
The money keeps flowing. BlackRock, Google, Microsoft and a handful of other giants are pouring trillions of dollars into AI infrastructure — data centers, chips, power, networks — according to…
SpaceX Shares Slide as Nasdaq-100 Entry Nears
SpaceX shares fell again this week, extending a slide from their post-IPO highs and breaching a key support level, according to Barron’s. The decline has erased a substantial portion of…
Newsom and Anthropic Sign Deal to Expand Claude’s Use in California Government
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Anthropic have signed an agreement to expand the use of the company’s Claude AI assistant across state government agencies, according to Politico. The deal is…
Qualcomm Plans New Phone Chip Architecture Built for On-Device AI
Qualcomm is designing a new architecture for its smartphone processors, one built specifically for on-device AI inference, according to a Semafor exclusive report. The move would mark the most significant…
Italy Opens Antitrust Probe Into Microsoft 365 Auto-Upgrades
Italy’s competition authority has opened an investigation into Microsoft over the automatic upgrade of Microsoft 365 users to pricier AI-enabled subscription tiers, according to Reuters. The probe focuses on whether…

Samsung Weighs More India Capacity as Export Subsidies Grow
Apple Files for iPhone Duo as Its First Foldable Sells
Etsy Moves Against AI-Generated Recipes and Patterns
Canva Trains Its Own Image Model, Aimed at Layouts Rather Than Photographs
Arc’s Shutdown Date Turns a Browser Into a Migration Project
Rivian Buys a Small British Team to Build the Roads Its Cars Never Drive
Microsoft Closes The Garage, Leaving Its Global Hackathon in Limbo
Nscale Is Sued in Norway Over a Dismissal
Apple’s Ad Business Gets a Lift From Formula 1
OpenAI Signs a Security Pact With Poland’s NASK



