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Apple Raises iPad and MacBook Prices, Blaming AI Boom for Surging Chip Costs

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Apple has raised prices across its iPad and MacBook lines, blaming the rising cost of advanced semiconductors driven by the artificial intelligence boom. The increases, which took effect this week across Apple’s online store and retail channels, mark the company’s most aggressive price adjustment on consumer hardware in several years and underscore how the AI-driven […]

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Bitcoin Slides to Multi-Year Low Below $59,000 as Fed Inflation Data Rattles Crypto Markets

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Bitcoin has slid to a multi-year low, breaking below the $59,000 mark in early Asian trading as hotter-than-expected US inflation data rekindled fears that the Federal Reserve will hold interest rates higher for longer than cryptocurrency investors had been pricing in. The move extends one of the steepest stretches of selling the digital asset has

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Trump Administration Asks OpenAI to Delay GPT-5.6 Launch Pending Federal Review

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The Trump administration has formally asked OpenAI to delay the public release of its newest flagship model, GPT-5.6, according to multiple reports from Washington. The request, confirmed by officials familiar with the conversations, marks the most direct intervention by a sitting US government into a frontier artificial intelligence launch and signals a sharp escalation in

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IBM Unveils World’s First Sub-1 Nanometer Chip, Redefining Semiconductor Roadmap

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IBM Unveils World’s First Sub-1 Nanometer Chip, Redefining Semiconductor Roadmap IBM has announced what it calls the world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology, a breakthrough that pushes semiconductor manufacturing into territory previously thought to be years away and could reshape the competitive dynamics of the global chip industry. The announcement, made from IBM’s research lab

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Bitcoin’s Woes Set to Deepen as $10 Billion Options Expiry Looms

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Bitcoin’s Woes Set to Deepen as $10 Billion Options Expiry Looms Bitcoin’s slide below the psychologically important $60,000 mark is on track to face another significant test this week as roughly $10 billion in options contracts expire on Friday, in an event that analysts say could either cap the recent selloff or accelerate it depending

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Google Pushes Gemini 3.5 Pro Launch to July Citing Quality Concerns

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Google Pushes Gemini 3.5 Pro Launch to July Citing Quality Concerns Google has delayed the launch of its next-generation frontier AI model, Gemini 3.5 Pro, pushing the release from June to July 2026 as the company makes final adjustments to what it calls a strategically critical product. The postponement, first reported by Business Insider and

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Europe Unveils 35 New NVIDIA AI Supercomputers in Largest Continental AI Buildout

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NVIDIA and a coalition of European research institutions announced the deployment of 35 new AI supercomputers across the continent, the largest coordinated AI infrastructure buildout ever undertaken outside the United States and China. The announcement positions Europe as a credible third pole in the global AI compute race and signals a significant shift in how

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Bitcoin Drops Below $60,000 for First Time Since October 2024 as Risk Sentiment Sours

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Bitcoin tumbled below the psychologically important $60,000 threshold on Wednesday, reaching its weakest level since October 2024 and extending a multi-week slide that has wiped roughly 18 percent from the cryptocurrency’s all-time high. The move marks the longest sustained downturn since the 2022 bear market and has triggered a wave of forced selling among leveraged

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Why Big AI Labs Are Hiring Philosophers: The New Race for Alignment Talent

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The artificial intelligence industry’s most consequential hiring spree is happening not in engineering departments but in philosophy programs. Across Silicon Valley, frontier AI labs including OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind have been recruiting academic philosophers at unprecedented rates, signaling that the next phase of AI development may hinge as much on ethical reasoning as on raw

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OpenAI’s First Custom AI Chip ‘Jalapeño’ Puts Nvidia on Notice in the AI Hardware Race

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OpenAI has built its first custom AI training chip, codenamed Jalapeño, and the move puts the company on a collision course with Nvidia, the dominant supplier of the silicon that has powered the generative AI boom. The development, reported by the Times of India on June 24, marks the moment OpenAI joins a small but

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