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Apple Raises Mac, iPad Prices 15-25% on Memory Costs
Apple raised prices on Macs, iPads, and other products by 15-25%, citing unprecedented memory component cost increases, while leaving iPhone prices unchanged from the hikes.
Patronus AI raises $50M Series B to stress-test AI
Patronus AI raised a $50 million Series B led by Greenfield Partners as the startup's simulated 'digital worlds' for stress-testing AI agents see 15-fold revenue growth and near-universal adoption amo
Story Protocol Rebrands as DATA Foundation
Blockchain startup Story Protocol is rebranding as DATA Foundation and shifting its focus entirely to building an on-chain registry for AI training data, abandoning its original IP ownership thesis.
AI Data Centers Are Hiking Computer Prices Everywhere
Apple, Valve, and Microsoft/Xbox all announced hardware price hikes this week, with Apple blaming unprecedented component costs on the AI data center boom and Microsoft projecting another memory price
Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z for neocloud
Netris raised a $15M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz to expand its network configuration automation platform aimed at helping AI-focused neoclouds bring new data centers online faster amid the AI-
Anthropic’s Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT
Anthropic's Claude is rapidly winning over paying AI consumers, with credit card data showing revenue and customer growth of about 75% since January 2026, though ChatGPT still dominates the overall co
Apple Hikes Mac, iPad Prices 15-25% Amid Memory Crisis
Apple raised prices on Macs, iPads, and other hardware by 15%-25%, citing unprecedented memory chip costs that CEO Tim Cook had warned were 'unavoidable' just one week earlier, while keeping iPhone pr
Ex-Meta Llama Team's Besimple AI Hires Audio Data Lead
Besimple AI, a YC X25 startup founded by ex-Meta engineers who built the annotation platform behind Meta's Llama models, is hiring a Strategic Projects Lead to own end-to-end audio data projects for f
General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world
General Intuition, spun out of gamer-clip platform Medal, raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation to train AI agents on hundreds of millions of hours of gameplay footage with embedded button-p
Unconventional AI Targets 1,000x Power Cut for AI
Unconventional AI, led by ex-Databricks AI chief Naveen Rao, released Un-0 — an image generator matching diffusion-model quality on a software simulation of an oscillator-based architecture the compan
Apple Hikes Mac, iPad Prices 15-25% on Memory Crisis
Apple has hiked prices on MacBooks, iPads, Vision Pro, and other hardware by 15-25%, blaming an unprecedented memory component cost surge tied to AI-driven chip demand, while leaving iPhone prices unc
Anthropic poaches Orange's AI chief Jarrett
Anthropic has recruited Steve Jarrett, the Chief AI Officer of French telecom group Orange, to help localize its products for European and African markets.
Apple Hikes Mac, iPad Prices 15-25% on Chip Costs
Apple raised prices on Macs, iPads, and other hardware by 15-25% due to soaring memory chip costs, while leaving iPhone pricing unchanged.
Rippling Launches Data Cloud, Shifts AI Work to OpenAI
Rippling is launching Data Cloud to collapse the modern data stack into one system tied to HR data, with CEO Parker Conrad saying 560 companies are already generating $5–7 million monthly in new reven
From Fortnite to robots: General Intuition raises $2.3B on bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world
General Intuition raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation, betting that action-labeled video game footage from its sibling platform Medal can train a single AI model that operates in Fortnite,
Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z for AI data
Network automation startup Netris raised $15 million in Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz to help AI-focused "neocloud" operators cut deployment time by automating switch configuration and mul
Apple Raises Mac, iPad Prices 15-25% Over Memory Costs
Apple raised prices on Macs, iPads, and the Vision Pro by up to 25%, citing an unprecedented memory and storage cost crunch, while holding iPhone prices unchanged for now and hinting more increases co
secs-man: Tool-independent secrets backup using age
secs-man is an open-source secrets backup manager that encrypts files with the age library and is explicitly designed so that encrypted backups can be manually recovered with only a terminal, coreutil
AI agents go mainstream as Codex adoption hits 17%
OpenAI's Codex and competing AI agent tools are transitioning from novelty to mainstream workplace use, with organizational Codex adoption jumping from near zero to 17% in under a year, according to a
Steam Machine Sells Out in Japan Despite Woeful Pricing - TechPowerUp
Valve's Steam Machine launches June 29 at $1,049 and sold out in Japan despite pricing well above mainstream consoles, with reviewers praising its hardware while flagging the premium cost.
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