Apple raised prices across Macs, iPads, HomePods, Apple TV and the Vision Pro, blaming an extraordinary surge in memory and storage chip costs; iPhone, Watch and AirPods were spared for now. Some Macs jumped hundreds of dollars overnight.
A FIRE essay argues the wave of age-verification and online-ID mandates sweeping the US, UK and EU normalizes showing government papers to reach ordinary websites — and quietly builds the plumbing for far broader tracking.
DeepSeek, which had run entirely on founder Liang Wenfeng's personal wealth and never taken outside money, closed a $7.4B round at a $50B+ valuation — its first — after Anthropic's Mythos reset expectations about the capital needed to stay at the AI frontier.
IBM says it has demonstrated a sub-1nm 'nanostack' transistor process that stacks devices vertically, a path to keep wringing performance and efficiency gains as conventional planar scaling runs out of room.