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Google Wallet home keys are rolling out in Google Home Public Preview, enabling NFC door unlocking and hands-free access with compatible Aliro hardware.
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 Sol on June 26 in limited preview, restricted to roughly 20 companies approved by the Trump White House. It is the second consecutive frontier AI launch gated by government,
Anthropic's Senate letter accuses Alibaba of running 28.8 million fraudulent exchanges against Claude to extract the AI's software-engineering capabilities. As Congress moves to sanction Chinese AI firms, the legal concept of a
China's LineShine became the world's fastest supercomputer at ISC 2026, posting 2.198 exaflops with an entirely domestic CPU design containing no American components — the first machine to clear two exaflops in
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño on June 24, the company’s first custom AI inference chip, built on TSMC’s 3nm process and targeting 50% lower cost per token than Nvidia GPUs. The chip
SK Hynix confirmed plans to raise up to $29.65 billion through a Nasdaq ADR listing with trading set for July 10 — an offering that would eclipse both Saudi Aramco's 2019 IPO
Apple raised prices on MacBooks and iPads on June 25, 2026, citing an 80-to-90-percent DRAM surge driven by AI demand. Microsoft followed with Xbox hikes as memory manufacturers redirect capacity to high-bandwidth
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño on Tuesday, the company's first custom inference chip, built in nine months on TSMC 3nm with AI-assisted design. The chip targets 50% cheaper inference than Nvidia GPUs
Anthropic told the Senate Commerce Committee that Alibaba ran a systematic years-long campaign to train Qwen models using Claude's API outputs, a practice the company calls theft that no federal court has
Four senior Google researchers, including Nobel laureate John Jumper, defected to Anthropic in one week as Alphabet shed $270 billion in market value and quietly delayed Gemini 3.5 to July. The exits
Apple raised prices across its Mac and iPad lineup on Thursday, blaming AI data center demand for a global memory shortage that Tim Cook called a 'hundred-year flood.' The MacBook Air now
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