Samsung Seeks 20% DRAM Price Increase for Third Straight Quarter
The buyers who assemble the world’s phones, PCs, and servers are being asked to pay more for memory again. Samsung Electronics is negotiating with customers to raise average prices for…
Microsoft Cuts 4,800 Jobs in AI-Driven Reorganization of Xbox and Sales
REDMOND, Wash. — The first wave of notices went out on Monday morning, and by noon the shape of Microsoft’s biggest reorganization this year was clear. The company is cutting…
Broadcom and Apple Extend Chip Pact to 2031, Adding Custom Silicon
CUPERTINO, Calif. — The handshake between two of Silicon Valley’s most secretive companies just got longer. Broadcom said Monday that it has renewed its chip supply agreement with Apple through…
Amazon Freezes New Registrations on Mechanical Turk, the Crowdsourcing Pioneer
SEATTLE — The marketplace where humans once performed tasks that computers could not is closing its doors to new customers. Amazon said it will no longer accept new registrations on…
Google’s Supply-Chain Emissions Jump 25% as AI Construction Accelerates
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The servers that run Google’s artificial-intelligence models are getting more efficient. The factories that build them, and the data centers that house them, are not. Google’s…
TSMC’s First Co-Packaged Optics May Skip Glass Substrates
HSINCHU, Taiwan — The glass substrate was supposed to be the ideal foundation for the next generation of chip packaging, and TSMC was supposed to be the company that made…
Anthropic’s Weekend: Pricing, Security and Trust
The post appeared in a developer forum late on a Friday night, and within hours it was making the rounds inside Anthropic’s internal channels. A user had benchmarked Claude Sonnet…
Codex Passes Five Million Weekly Users as OpenAI Turns to India
The number appeared without fanfare in an OpenAI post on a Sunday: five million. That is the weekly count of developers and non-developers now using Codex, the company’s coding agent,…
Midjourney Demands Studios Disclose Their AI Use
In a court filing that reframes a sprawling copyright battle, Midjourney is asking a judge to force Hollywood’s biggest studios to open their own books on artificial intelligence. The company…
Meta Tells Staff Its AI Agents Are Behind Target
In an internal meeting in the first week of July, Meta executives delivered a message to employees that the company’s public statements had only hinted at: development of AI agents…
