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tech
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16h ago
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Apple pushed emergency updates on Thursday, August 6, for macOS Tahoe, Sequoia, and Sonoma to fix a bug that let an attacker on the same network into Screen Sharing without a valid password. No known exploits yet, but update your Mac now anyway.
economy
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2d ago
3 min read
Adam Candeub, Trump's nominee to run the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, testified before the Senate Wednesday on whether he'd keep pressing the government's landmark cases against Google's search dominance and Apple's App Store rules. Candeub is a longtime Big Tech critic who wants Section 230 narrowed, which means confirmation could shift how hard Washington leans on the tech giants for years.
tech
7
2d ago
4 min read
Security researchers found that Apple's Private Relay, a paid privacy feature for iCloud+ subscribers, can be tricked into revealing a user's actual IP address through flaws in three WebKit features. The researchers built a public test site that confirms the leak, and TechCrunch verified it works. Apple has not fixed it or publicly responded as of this reporting.
tech
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3d ago
4 min read
Apple yanked Telegram from the App Store Monday night after finding child sexual abuse material, restoring it about 40 minutes later once Telegram removed the content and banned the user. Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says an extortionist planted the material using an AI-edited old message specifically to trigger the takedown, and Apple hasn't disputed or confirmed that claim.
tech
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3d ago
3 min read
A cyberattack on Indian Apple supplier Tata Electronics reportedly exposed parts lists and photos of unreleased iPhone 18 Pro models, and Chinese state media and repair shops are running with it as proof India can't be trusted with Apple's supply chain. The breach looks real but the panic is overblown: Chinese technicians told CNBC the leaked drawings are basically useless without the parts themselves.
tech
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3d ago
3 min read
Apple is asking a court for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI and expedited discovery, claiming its investigation has turned up 11 more former employees who may have witnessed or been involved in alleged trade secrets theft. OpenAI calls the request baseless and says it doesn't have or want Apple's confidential information. Nothing here is proven in court yet, this is a filing, not a verdict.
tech
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4d ago
4 min read
Apple filed a complaint in July with the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal over a second government order demanding backdoor access to encrypted iCloud backups, according to the Financial Times. This is round two: London backed off a broader 2025 demand after the Trump administration intervened, then quietly issued a narrower order targeting only British users in October.
tech
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5d ago
3 min read
The memory chip crunch that hit Apple's Mac mini and Mac Studio earlier this year has now reached the MacBook Air, Apple's highest-volume laptop, with delivery estimates slipping into late August and September. Apple already raised the MacBook Air's price by $200 in June, and it's now pushing shoppers toward the pricier MacBook Pro instead. This is a supply chain problem the company can't just discount its way out of.
tech
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5d ago
3 min read
Foldable phones spent seven years as a punchline, launching with screens that cracked, creased, and broke within days of release. Now the category has matured into something boring and reliable, which is exactly why Apple is reportedly getting ready to ship its first foldable iPhone.
tech
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Jul 31
3 min read
Apple is hoarding memory chips like never before, stockpiling $11.1 billion in inventory as a global RAM shortage squeezes its supply chain. Outgoing CEO Tim Cook called it a 'hundred-year flood' for memory pricing, and Apple already raised prices on Macs and iPads because of it.
finance
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Jul 30
4 min read
Apple posted strong fiscal Q3 2026 numbers, including 22% iPhone sales growth and 27% profit growth, but the stock still dropped 6% in after-hours trading because guidance for the next quarter came in soft. Blame a global memory and chip shortage Tim Cook calls a "hundred-year flood," plus currency headwinds. This is Cook's last earnings call before handing the reins to John Ternus on September 1.
tech
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Jul 30
4 min read
Apple reports fiscal third-quarter results Thursday afternoon in Tim Cook's last earnings call before John Ternus takes over as CEO September 1. The stock has led the Magnificent Seven in 2026, but memory-chip shortages, looming iPhone price hikes, and unresolved AI questions hang over the report.
finance
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Jul 30
4 min read
Qualcomm told investors Wednesday that its fourth-quarter profit will miss Wall Street estimates, and that revenue from Apple is drying up faster than the company predicted. Supply constraints and rising chip costs are squeezing margins, and Qualcomm is raising prices September 1 to compensate.
finance
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Jul 29
3 min read
Apple touched a $5 trillion market cap intraday on Tuesday, becoming only the second public company after Nvidia to hit the mark. The stock's 24-25% run this year is being driven largely by investors rewarding Apple for spending far less on AI data centers than Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta.
tech
5
Jul 28
4 min read
Apple's new "Apple Upgrade" program lets customers lease iPhones, iPads, Macs and Apple Watches instead of buying them outright, financed through Klarna. It arrives weeks after Apple raised Mac and iPad prices over memory shortages, and it's hard not to notice the timing.
tech
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Jul 26
3 min read
Apple TV+ premiered a teaser for its adaptation of William Gibson's 1984 cyberpunk novel Neuromancer at San Diego Comic-Con, confirming a January 22, 2027 premiere date. Callum Turner and Briana Middleton lead a cast stacked with Mark Strong, Peter Sarsgaard and Clémence Poésy, and Gibson himself says he's satisfied with how it turned out.
tech
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Jul 26
3 min read
A Stanford University School of Medicine study found smartwatches, including the Apple Watch, wildly miscalculate calories burned, with error rates ranging from 27% to 93%. Heart rate tracking works fine. Calorie math is still guesswork dressed up as data.
tech
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Jul 26
3 min read
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple is in late-stage testing on new Apple Watch models with upgraded processors and health tracking, but no design overhaul. That's reportedly coming in a year or two, along with Apple's still-unfinished blood sugar sensor.
tech
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Jul 26
4 min read
A Media Research Center study says Apple News and Google News featured zero negatively framed headlines about Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in their top morning feeds since February 10, despite 104 critical stories circulating from right-leaning outlets. Apple and Google haven't responded publicly, and the study's own methodology gaps mean the claim is measured, not proven, to be deliberate suppression.
tech
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Jul 26
2 min read
Apple's smart glasses, once scheduled to debut this year, have slipped to a WWDC 2027 reveal and late-2027 release, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The holdup: Apple's teams are reportedly stuck on how much camera the glasses should even have, weighing versions with no camera at all against models that record but can't save photos or video.
tech
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Jul 24
3 min read
A connectivity failure in Amazon Web Services' US-West-2 region in Oregon started around 6:40 a.m. ET Friday and disrupted PlayStation Network, DoorDash, Reddit, Hulu and Apple Pay for hours. It's another reminder that huge swaths of the internet run through Amazon's servers, and when Amazon sneezes, everybody catches a cold.
tech
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Jul 23
3 min read
Code buried in the iOS 27 beta describes a 'Restricted Mode' that could cut a financed iPhone down to almost nothing but the Phone app and Settings if you fall behind on payments, according to 9to5Mac. It lines up with a Bloomberg report that Apple is building a Klarna-backed leasing program called 'Apple Upgrade.' Nothing is official yet, but the plumbing is already in the beta.
tech
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Jul 22
3 min read
Apple is set to roll out "Apple Upgrade," a Klarna-financed leasing program that turns device purchases into 24-to-36-month subscriptions, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. It lands right as memory chip shortages push hardware prices up, which tells you exactly why Apple wants you paying monthly instead of staring at a sticker price.
tech
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Jul 17
3 min read
Apple has made multiple settlement offers to the Justice Department this year to end the 2024 monopoly lawsuit over its iPhone ecosystem, according to Bloomberg. No deal is final and no trial date is set, but Apple has already gutted much of the government's case by changing the exact behaviors regulators complained about.
tech
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Jul 17
4 min read
Since filing suit against OpenAI on July 10 over alleged trade-secret theft, Apple has widened the fight by sending legal preservation letters to about 40 former employees, roughly 10% of the 400 ex-Apple staff now at the ChatGPT maker. The letters demand document retention and meetings with Apple's lawyers, signaling Apple thinks the alleged theft goes well beyond the two individuals named in the original complaint.
finance
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Jul 17
4 min read
Apple's stock, up 22% this year, briefly pushed its market value above Nvidia's on Friday before the two swapped places again. The swing shows Wall Street rewarding Apple's low-capex AI bet while chip stocks get hit in a broader semiconductor selloff.
tech
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Jul 17
3 min read
City Attorney David Chiu sent cease-and-desist letters demanding Apple and Google remove 13 apps that generate AI nonconsensual nude images, saying the companies have made millions off them. Both companies say they already ban this content and pull violating apps when found, so the fight now is over whether their enforcement is fast enough.
tech
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Jul 16
4 min read
Brussels handed down two Digital Markets Act rulings on Thursday: Google gets a full year to open Android to competing AI assistants, while Apple can't launch its new Siri AI in Europe until it does the same for its ecosystem. Same law, wildly different outcomes, because Google played the regulatory game smarter and earlier.
tech
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Jul 16
3 min read
Security researchers at Germany's CISPA Helmholtz Center found six vulnerabilities across Apple AirDrop, Samsung Quick Share and Google Quick Share for Windows, affecting protocols used on more than five billion devices. One flaw in Google's Windows implementation could potentially allow remote code execution. No evidence has emerged that any of these flaws have been exploited in the wild.
tech
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Jul 15
3 min read
China's internet regulator cleared Apple Intelligence for the Chinese market on July 15, ending a delay that stretched back to Apple's original 2024 announcement. Alibaba's Qwen model and a Baidu-built visual search feature will run the Chinese version of Siri, and Alibaba's U.S.-listed shares jumped on the news.
tech
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Jul 14
4 min read
Apple is evaluating technology from Caltech spinout PrismML that squeezes a 27-billion-parameter AI model down to under 4 GB so it can run on an iPhone, according to CNBC. Same week, KeyBanc cut Apple to Underweight with a $250 price target, citing memory chip cost pressure and slowing spending data. Two very different stories about where Apple stands right now.
tech
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Jul 14
3 min read
Apple's revamped "Siri AI" is now available as a public beta in iOS 27, giving iPhone owners their first real hands-on with the assistant Apple showcased at WWDC in June. It works better than the old Siri. It's also arrived after being described as Apple's "long-promised" upgrade — and that gap between promise and delivery is the part worth remembering.
economy
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Jul 14
3 min read
ChangXin Memory Technologies has gotten good enough that Apple reportedly considered using its chips, and that's exactly the problem for Washington. The Pentagon has blacklisted CXMT over alleged military ties, South Korean prosecutors are chasing Samsung leak suspects, and CXMT's rise happens to be colliding with SK Hynix's brutal week on Wall Street and in Seoul.
tech
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Jul 13
3 min read
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple is developing updated USB-C and Pencil Pro models for the first half of 2027, and EU battery regulations could finally force Apple to make them repairable. It's a small story with a bigger point: government rules, not corporate goodwill, keep pushing Apple toward less wasteful design.
economy
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Jul 12
3 min read
Since community backlash against AI data centers spread nationwide, the tactics driving it trace back to a small Irish town that beat Apple in 2018. Athenry, Ireland residents used planning appeals and court challenges to kill a $1 billion Apple data center, and that same legal-pressure playbook is now showing up from Virginia to Georgia.
tech
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Jul 12
3 min read
Apple's decade-long attempt to build a self-driving car never produced a vehicle, but the on-device AI processing it demanded became the Neural Engine now inside every iPhone and Mac. Apple is reportedly skipping upgraded M6 chip variants to fast-track the M7, including an Ultra version aimed at powering a new AI server product.
tech
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Jul 12
4 min read
Apple used its June 8 developer keynote to unveil a redesigned Screen Time, new website-permission tools, and stricter content filters coming with iOS 27 this fall. Child-safety advocates call it progress but say Apple is still dodging the harder fight over CSAM detection on iCloud, and outlets like The Verge note most of these tools are repackaged, not new.
tech
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Jul 11
3 min read
A coalition of record labels and artists is pressing streaming platforms to flag AI-generated tracks so listeners know what they're hearing, according to the Wall Street Journal. Right now labeling is purely voluntary, and fake AI "artists" have already cracked the iTunes charts. The push raises a fair question: where do you draw the line between a legitimate music-production tool and a fabricated performer?
economy
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Jul 11
4 min read
Console makers and streaming giants raised prices in May and June 2026 as AI-driven memory chip shortages pushed up component costs. PNC Financial Services data shows Gen Z and Millennial consumers cut home entertainment spending roughly 4% in June compared to a year earlier.
finance
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Jul 11
4 min read
Apple closed at a record high, making it the only member of the so-called Magnificent Seven to trade near all-time highs in 2026. While Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta, and Tesla all sit well below their peaks, Apple's roughly 16.5% year-to-date gain leads the group. Wall Street is rewarding Apple's low-cost AI strategy at the exact moment it's questioning whether the others overspent.
tech
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Jul 11
4 min read
Apple filed suit in federal court in Northern California on Friday, accusing OpenAI, io Products, and two named former Apple employees of systematically stealing confidential hardware information to accelerate OpenAI's push into consumer devices. OpenAI's hardware chief Tang Tan, a 24-year Apple veteran, allegedly directed job candidates to smuggle actual Apple parts into interviews. OpenAI denies any interest in competitors' trade secrets.
tech
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Jul 8
4 min read
The European Court of Justice has rejected Apple's challenge to its classification as a 'gatekeeper' under the EU's Digital Markets Act, meaning Apple must keep all five of its app stores open to rival services. Apple has not said whether it will appeal, but two more EU legal battles are still pending.
tech
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Jul 8
4 min read
Apple announced a $30 billion-plus commitment to Broadcom for U.S.-made chips on Wednesday, its largest domestic manufacturing pledge to date. At the same time, the company is quietly testing DRAM chips from Chinese state-controlled ChangXin Memory Technologies for China-market devices and lobbying Washington for broader clearance to use them. The two moves together illustrate exactly how tangled Apple's geopolitical position has become.
economy
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Jul 8
3 min read
Even Realities CEO Will Wang closed a $150 million funding round at a $1 billion valuation, backed by Meituan and Tencent. Wang, who worked at Apple from 2016 to 2018 on the Apple Watch and iPhone, argues Shenzhen's engineering depth and supply chain density give Chinese hardware startups a structural advantage that Silicon Valley no longer offers.
tech
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Jul 8
4 min read
Apple has begun evaluating DRAM chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies, a Chinese company with 36% state ownership, for devices sold inside China. At the same time, Apple is lobbying the U.S. government to allow wider use of CXMT products. This puts Apple squarely in the middle of Washington's effort to slow China's tech rise — and raises a hard question about where American corporate interests end and national security concerns begin.
tech
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Jul 5
4 min read
Apple announced a genuinely improved Siri at WWDC 2026, but the upgrade is gated to Apple Intelligence-compatible hardware, leaving hundreds of millions of older iPhones behind. The new assistant will ship as an opt-in beta with iOS 27 this fall. After two years of underwhelming Apple Intelligence features, this one at least shows real promise.
tech
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Jul 4
4 min read
A buried iOS accessibility tool called Assistive Access can transform an iPhone into a stripped-down device with only parent-approved apps, no web browser, but full GPS navigation. Apple designed it for users with cognitive disabilities and barely advertises it for any other purpose. Parents hunting for a cheap dumb-phone solution have been paying third parties for something iOS already does for free.
tech
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Jul 4
3 min read
A security flaw in Apple's Hide My Email privacy feature has allowed real email addresses to be traced back through their anonymized aliases for at least a year, according to researcher Tyler Murphy. Murphy reported the issue last summer, Apple claimed it was addressed by March 2026, but Murphy's continued testing showed it remained exploitable. Apple has not publicly commented.
economy
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Jul 2
4 min read
Apple has so far shielded U.S. consumers from most tariff-related price increases by stockpiling inventory and shifting production to India and Vietnam. A separate, supply-driven RAM shortage has already forced price hikes across its Mac and iPad lineup. Now a 36 percent tariff on Thai imports, scheduled to take effect August 1, threatens the Mac and Apple Watch directly.
tech
6
Jun 30
3 min read
The Supreme Court has agreed to take up Apple's appeal of a contempt ruling in its years-long antitrust fight with Epic Games. The justices will weigh whether Apple violated a 2021 order requiring it to let developers link to outside payment options. A decision is expected by June 2027.
tech
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Jun 30
4 min read
Apple shipped iOS 26.5.2, iPadOS 26.5.2, and macOS Tahoe 26.5.2 on Monday, patching 25-plus security vulnerabilities ahead of schedule. The company told Reuters it is restructuring its update cycle because AI tools are compressing the time between vulnerability discovery and active exploitation. None of the patched bugs have been exploited in the wild, but they are now public knowledge.
tech
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Jun 30
4 min read
The ransomware group World Leaks has published more than 200,000 files stolen from Apple's Indian manufacturing partner Tata Electronics, including component-to-supplier maps for the unreleased iPhone 18 Pro and footage of the device undergoing internal drop testing. The leak exposes exactly what Apple works hardest to hide: who makes which parts, and where the supply chain has single points of failure. Apple says it is investigating and working with Tata on long-term security measures, but neither company has responded to specific press queries about the contents.
tech
6
Jun 30
4 min read
Luxshare Precision Industry, the Shenzhen-listed Chinese manufacturer that assembles iPhones and AirPods, is raising up to HK$24.27 billion ($3.1 billion) through a secondary listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The deal would top Victory Giant Technology's April listing to become Hong Kong's biggest IPO of the year. Shares are set to begin trading July 9.
tech
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Jun 28
3 min read
The Verge's Version History podcast is out with an episode covering the founding of Nest, tracing how Apple veteran Tony Fadell turned frustration with a clunky thermostat into one of the fastest-rising consumer hardware companies of the 2010s. The product had real wins and real misses. The bigger idea, though, largely held up.
tech
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Jun 28
4 min read
AI data center demand has created a global memory chip shortage that is now hitting consumer wallets directly, with Apple raising tablet and laptop prices nearly 20%, Microsoft hiking Xbox console prices for the third time in just over a year, and Nintendo announcing Switch 2 price increases. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded by calling for the government to break up Apple, while outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook says the cost pressure is simply unsustainable.
tech
5
Jun 28
4 min read
Squeezed by record memory prices that already forced historic price hikes on MacBooks and iPads, Apple has been quietly petitioning federal agencies for weeks to let it buy chips from CXMT, a Chinese company the Pentagon lists as tied to the People's Liberation Army. The ask is technically legal but politically radioactive, and a key Republican congressional chairman is already calling it a grave mistake.
tech
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Jun 27
3 min read
Paul Meade, the Apple VP who ran hardware engineering for the Vision Pro and Apple's smart glasses program, is departing next week to stand up OpenAI's in-house hardware division. The move follows reporting that Apple SVP John Ternus is set to become CEO on September 1, which Bloomberg says triggered Meade's exit.
tech
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Jun 27
3 min read
Apple removed two major Russian apps from its App Store in June 2026, including state-linked messaging app Max and social network VKontakte. The Kremlin is demanding an explanation and nudging citizens toward Android. Russia leads the world in app removal requests to Apple, with 1,213 demands logged in 2025 alone.
economy
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Jun 26
4 min read
Since core PCE hit 3.4% in May, the Fed's internal debate has shifted from 'when do we cut?' to 'do we need to hike?' Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said Friday he now expects one rate increase this year, while the Trump White House has quietly dropped its pressure campaign on Chairman Kevin Warsh. A separate inflation driver is emerging that has nothing to do with the Iran conflict: the AI infrastructure boom is pushing memory and component costs into territory Apple CEO Tim Cook called unlike anything he has seen in over 40 years.
economy
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Jun 26
4 min read
Since early 2026, an AI-driven memory chip shortage has pushed Apple to hike MacBook and iPad prices by up to $300, and Microsoft to raise Xbox console prices by up to $150 starting August 1. Gartner projects PC prices will climb 17% and smartphone prices 13% versus 2025 levels, with no relief expected before late 2027. The squeeze is structural, not cyclical, and ordinary consumers are only beginning to feel it.
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