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Facing a global memory shortage that has already forced price hikes, Apple is asking the White House to approve sourcing RAM from CXMT, a Chinese supplier on the Pentagon military blacklist.
SpaceX has filed for a million-satellite orbital data center constellation. SoftBank's CEO argues electricity is the wrong cost to optimize — hardware and chips dominate data center economics, and no satellite changes that.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick signed off on a named-entity authorization that restores Mythos 5 access for vetted US organizations — while Fable 5 remains blocked.
The startup, backed by Khosla Ventures and Jeff Bezos, uses Medal gameplay footage with explicit action labels to train a single AI model capable of controlling both virtual agents and real-world robots.
Samsung Group announced a 10-year, 1,000 trillion won ($648 billion) investment in semiconductors, AI data centers, batteries, and displays in South Korea — the biggest single corporate investment commitment the country has ever seen.
IBM unveiled the world's first sub-1-nanometer chip, packing 100 billion transistors into a fingernail-sized die using a stacked 3D design called nanostack — promising 50% more performance and 70% better efficiency than today's 2nm chips.
Sam Altman called any valuation below $1 trillion a 'nonstarter' when bankers presented him with options. SoftBank — which holds roughly $65 billion in OpenAI — saw its shares fall 13% on the news. The delay would push what was expected to be one of the largest IPOs in history into a second year of waiting.
SentinelOne researchers have identified Gaslight — a Rust-based macOS implant attributed to DPRK-linked actors that embeds 38 fabricated system messages designed to make AI-powered malware analyzers abort or refuse analysis. It steals browser data, Keychain credentials, and terminal history over an AES-GCM encrypted Telegram C2.
Nobel laureate John Jumper, AlphaFold's lead, is heading to Anthropic. Two more key Gemini contributors — Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel — are following. And Noam Shazeer, Google's longest-serving AI veteran, just announced he's joining OpenAI.
MacBook Air jumps from $1,099 to $1,299. The iPad Pro climbs $200. Apple CEO Tim Cook called the memory cost spike 'unavoidable' as HBM demand from AI data centers squeezes supply for consumer products. iPhones, Apple Watch, and AirPods are spared for now.
The Office of the National Cyber Director and the Office of Science and Technology Policy directed OpenAI to limit GPT-5.6 to a small group of vetted partners before any public rollout — a first for named US agencies directly shaping a frontier AI release.
In a Truth Social post, President Trump threatened to impose 100% tariffs on goods from any nation implementing digital services taxes targeting American tech companies — escalating a trade fight that already has the EU, UK, France, Italy, and Spain in his crosshairs, with a July 4 trade-deal deadline looming.