The Two Prices
On May 24, DeepSeek made permanent a 75% cut to its flagship model's price. The same corpus carried the other half of the trade: DRAM up nearly 400% since September, NAND up 600%. One boom is deflating the price of intelligence and inflating the price of the matter it runs on. The two numbers are the same number, read from opposite ends.
A deep dive into Apple Watch and Health efforts; sources: iOS 27 to get a revamped AirPods control panel and default support for AirPlay rivals like Google Cast
Also: iOS 27 AirPods, Genmoji and AirPlay details. — Now over a decade old, the Apple Watch is in need of a shake-up as the health and fitness wearables market pivots.
Sources: the ECB warned EU finance ministers that proposals to issue more euro stablecoins could reduce bank lending and make controlling interest rates harder
The European Central Bank warned European Union finance ministers on Friday that proposals to issue more euro stablecoins …
DeepSeek says it will lower V4 Pro API prices by 75% to $0.435/1M input and $0.87/1M output tokens, making permanent the discount prices set to expire on May 31
DeepSeek said it will make permanent a steep discount on its flagship V4-Pro model, maintaining prices for developers at a quarter of their original level.
A look at a copy of the AI EO that President Trump was expected to sign on May 21; the unsigned EO emphasized that government AI reviews would be voluntary
The draft also includes language aimed at bad actors. It directs the attorney general to enforce the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and …
Rising DRAM prices are driving “forced premiumization” in the smartphone market in India and Africa, as consumers in the sub-$200 segment risk being priced out
The global memory crunch and the great repricing of consumer electronics — One of the most remarkable things …
How Anthropic's ongoing discussions with the Vatican about ethics and AI led to Christopher Olah being invited to Pope Leo's unveiling of an encyclical on AI
(RNS) — Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical on AI is set to be released Monday (May 27), with Chris Olah, a co-founder of Anthropic, at his side.
Salesforce's promotional videos showcased Agentforce mock-ups and features that are not widely available, as CEO Marc Benioff defends forward-looking marketing
Patients at the University of Chicago Medicine featured in a promotional video seamlessly refill prescriptions …
Sources: Uber weighs a higher bid after it approached a major Delivery Hero shareholder with a €38-per-share bid, valuing the group at €11.5B+, but was rebuffed
San Francisco based-group approached major shareholder in German food group — Uber's board met on Saturday …
Hands-on with a pre-release build of Google Docs Live, an AI-powered voice tool for drafting documents, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers
An exclusive look at Docs Live, Google's new speech-powered AI project manager and writing partner — Microsoft Word brought word processing to the masses.
Delivery Hero says it received a takeover offer from Uber for €33 per share, a discount of 1.76% from Delivery Hero's close on Friday
German food delivery service Delivery Hero (DHER.DE) confirmed it had received a takeover offer from rival Uber (UBER.N) valuing the company at 33 euros …
Moment, which develops AI tools for automating fixed-income and equities trading tech, raised a $78M Series C led by Index Ventures, with a16z participating
Moment, the financial-technology company founded by a cohort of former Citadel Securities quantitative traders and researchers …
Sources: Princeton Digital Group to sell its Chinese data center assets for as much as $1B, as global buyout firms retreat from China's data center market
Princeton Digital Group's sale process caps foreign retreat from the country's sensitive digital infrastructure.
Crypto companies prepare for the threat that quantum computers could hack core industry security, including breaking the critical code underpinning Bitcoin
Threat to code that underpins bitcoin has moved ‘from theoretical to credible’, industry figures warn
Q&A with Sundar Pichai on Google Search's future, Google's place in the AI race, public skepticism of AI, TPUs, being “behind the frontier” in coding, more
After a busy Google I/O, the company's chief executive sits down with the hosts of “Hard Fork” …
The ECB summons Eurozone banks to a meeting on Tuesday to discuss risks posed by the latest AI models and hopes US banks with Mythos access will share lessons
Supervisor to stress seriousness of risks to financial system at hastily arranged meeting — The European Central Bank …
How the AI boom is transforming global M&A, now dominated by the AI-driven race to control the world's energy, fiber networks, and computing capacity
Deals hit record highs, unloved companies turn sexy and PE finds a new gold mine. Up until this week, NextEra Energy …
For publishers, pirated audiobooks made with AI on YouTube are a growing issue: removal is cumbersome, and some are hiring tech companies to take them down
Illegal, synthetically narrated copies of “The Hunger Games,” hit self-help books and everything in between are increasingly common on the platform.
A look at the scourge of smartphone thefts in London, as victims describe receiving texts threatening them into unlinking Apple IDs from stolen iPhones
Tens of thousands of smartphones were reported stolen in the British capital in recent years. For some victims, losing their phone was only the beginning.
Tether buys out SoftBank's ~26% stake in bitcoin treasury company Twenty One Capital, taking Tether's stake to ~71%; SoftBank's stake was worth ~$679M
Tether has bought out SoftBank Group Inc.'s ownership in the digital-asset treasury company Twenty One Capital Inc., adding to its control …
Jensen Huang urged Super Micro to tighten up compliance after Taiwan detained three people for allegedly trying to export servers with Nvidia chips to China
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says AI won't replace builders or sellers, but it will affect middle managers, operations jobs, and other “measuring” positions
A profile of TP-Link, whose share of the US consumer router market grew from 10% to 60%+ between 2019 and 2025, as it seeks to rebut national security concerns
Dell says it has 5,000 clients for its AI Factory, a product line of servers with Nvidia chips, software, and services, including 1,000 new clients last quarter
Dell Technologies Inc. said it added 1,000 customers for a key AI product line in the past quarter as the company tries …