The Guardian Europe
AI datacentres have eaten all the memory chips, so Apple is charging you £100 more for an iPhone and calling it a folding-phone launch. The era of cheap gadgets is over.
NPR Economy
Investors have borrowed a record $1.5 trillion to play the stock market - more than all credit card debt - and the Fed is watching from the sidelines, hoping the party doesn't end.
BBC Business
South Korean investors who rode the AI stock wave are now learning that what goes up can come down - sometimes with a margin call on its way.
MIT Technology Review
AI is unfixably hackable, geothermal plants can be revived, and South Korean chip workers are suddenly marriage material - all in a day's tech news.
BBC Business
Chinese memory chip maker CXMT debuts with a 470% surge, becoming mainland China's most valuable company despite global tech selloffs - because only 7% of shares are for sale and everyone loves a homegrown hero.
MIT Technology Review
Anthropic opens the black box of Claude's brain, OpenAI launches a super app that does your job, and pigeons continue to be the unsung heroes of machine learning.
Ars Technica
South Korea drops a cool trillion on chips and robots, hoping to double DRAM production and deploy humanoid workers by 2028 - workers are thrilled, as you might imagine.
The Verge
iFixit's teardown proves the Trump phone is just a rebadged HTC U24 Pro with some minor tweaks and a bigger battery.
The Verge
The global RAM shortage isn't going anywhere, with experts predicting we'll only meet 60% of demand by 2027, turning PC building into a luxury hobby for the foreseeable future.
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