Apple Hikes MacBook Prices Up To $300 As AI-Driven Memory Chip Costs Surge 98%
Apple hikes MacBook prices by up to $300 as AI-driven demand sends Dynamic RAM costs surging 98%, with analysts warning iPhone price increases are coming next.
Apple hikes MacBook prices by up to $300 as AI-driven demand sends Dynamic RAM costs surging 98%, with analysts warning iPhone price increases are coming next.
Microsoft supercharges Excel Copilot with finance-grade AI tools, including customizable workflow skills for DCF modeling and variance analysis, live market data connectors from FactSet, S&P Global, and PitchBook, and full audit transparency through a new 'Plan with Copilot' feature that previews changes before execution.
Anthropic accuses Chinese tech giant Alibaba of orchestrating a massive scheme using thousands of fake accounts to illegally access its Claude AI model, targeting advanced capabilities like software engineering and agentic reasoning, calling it the largest known attempt by a Chinese company to exploit a top US AI lab.
A new bipartisan nonprofit, RAISE US, launches with $500 million from OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, and others to retrain workers displaced by AI, with ambitious plans to raise $1 billion — though its own leaders warn it may not be enough.
General Intuition secures $320M at a $2.3B valuation, backed by Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt, to train a groundbreaking AI model on millions of hours of gamer footage — powering video games, simulations, and real-world robots, while giving gamers a way to earn income through its new Nerve platform.
Google is losing top AI researchers to rivals Anthropic and OpenAI in an equity-driven talent war, with Gemini contributors Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, legendary researcher Noam Shazeer, and Nobel Prize-winner John Jumper all departing as pre-IPO equity packages lure elite talent away.
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of orchestrating the largest known AI distillation attack in history, using 28.8 million exchanges across 25,000 fraudulent accounts to illicitly steal its AI capabilities, and is now urging the U.S. Senate to take coordinated action against the threat.
A new GitHub repository called 'obsidian-skills' is taking the AI world by storm, teaching agents like Claude Code and Codex to interact with Obsidian vaults using Markdown, JSON Canvas, and CLI tools — and it has already amassed over 38,000 stars and 2,700 forks.
Orca launches a free, open-source AI Development Environment that lets developers run multiple coding agents like Claude Code and Codex simultaneously across desktop and mobile devices, all tracked in one unified interface under the MIT License.
AI agent adoption among US workers has surged to 68% as companies prepare to invest an average of $269 million in the next 12 months, though fears over job security and skills gaps fuel resistance amid rising AI-related layoffs and shrinking entry-level hiring.