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Apple raised prices on iPads, Macs, HomePods, Apple TV, and Vision Pro by up to $2,800 on June 25, citing rising memory chip costs driven by AI demand. The increases range from 15-30% on MacBooks and …

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5 model ranks second in image editing and third in text-to-image generation on the Artificial Analysis Image Arena, outranking Google Gemini offerings and prior Microsoft model…

A group of publishers owning nearly 400 local and regional newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft for allegedly stealing hundreds of thousands of articles to train ChatGPT and Copilot. Separately, Anthr…

Ford rehired 350 veteran engineers after AI quality inspection tools failed to preserve institutional knowledge and develop junior staff, leading to a quality crisis. The move helped Ford win the 2026…

The generative AI economy has generated $110 billion in sales over the past 12 months, with an annualized revenue run rate exceeding $175 billion, according to a new bottom-up, deduplicated report fro…

RAISE US, a nonprofit led by former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, launched with over $500 million in commitments from OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, and others to retrain American workers for AI-era j…

Salahodeen Abdul-Kafi left his $450,000 tech job at companies including Microsoft and Google to open Kafi BBQ, a halal barbecue restaurant in Irving, Texas. The restaurant generated over $2 million in…

At the Confidential Computing Summit in San Francisco, agentic AI security emerged as the breakout use case for confidential computing, with industry leaders highlighting attestation as a critical mec…

OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, and Microsoft are anchor partners in Raise US, a new nonprofit aiming to raise $1 billion to help states prepare workers for AI disruption. Led by former Commerce Secretary …

A new research paper reframes prompt injection as role confusion, arguing that dozens of named attacks are a single bug: models attribute authority by text style rather than structural role tags. The …

A researcher ran a 200-step debug comparison between a base OLMo3 600M model and a DeepSeek-style Engram memory graft variant, finding the graft stable and showing improved early learning behavior. Th…

Rystad Energy projects the fuel cell market will surge from $2.8 billion in 2025 to $30 billion by 2030, driven by AI data centers seeking on-site power amid grid congestion. North America is expected…

Apple raised Mac and iPad prices by 15–25% on June 25, citing a global memory chip shortage driven by AI datacenters consuming 70% of output. The MacBook Air now starts at $1,299, up $200, with simila…

The Linux Foundation and 20 industry partners, including Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft, launched Akrites on June 25, 2026, to defend critical open source software against AI-enabled cyber…

Commvault announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft to offer its AI and cyber resilience technologies as a native ISV service on Azure, enabling seamless integration and joint go-to-market init…

OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft are funding RAISE US, a new nonprofit led by former US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo to retrain American workers for the AI economy. The group has raised ove…

A new bipartisan nonprofit, RAISE US, launches with over $500 million to retrain American workers for the AI era, partnering with states and major employers like Amazon and Microsoft to prevent catast…

Scaled Cognition raised $100 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures to build AI models that do not hallucinate. The startup's APT model is designed with reliability engineered into its arc…

Microsoft released seven in-house AI models and a 100-page report detailing their refusal to use synthetic data and removal of AI-generated content before training. The report challenges other labs to…

A bipartisan bill introduced by Rep. Gabe Evans and Rep. Kathy Castor would require utilities to treat AI data centers as a separate customer class, forcing tech companies like Amazon, Google, and Mic…