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Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 returned to general availability after a Commerce Department ban lift, but users report widespread performance issues stemming from overly aggressive safety guardrails that frequently route tasks to the less capable Opus 4.8 model.
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Guggenheim upgraded Salesforce and ServiceNow to buy on Wednesday, arguing AI will pressure but not kill the platforms, sending shares up more than 5% and 6%, respectively, in midday trading.
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A ransomware group called World Leaks has posted stolen Tata Electronics files on the dark web, exposing supplier maps, component details, and drop-test photos tied to Apple's unreleased iPhone 18 Pro models.
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The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday that President Trump cannot fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook for now, rejecting the administration's bid to stay a lower court order while her lawsuit challenging her dismissal proceeds.
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Suno has launched Spark, an incubator program offering grants and mentorship to unsigned artists, but contractual terms requiring broad licensing rights, a class action waiver, and a non-disparagement clause have drawn sharp criticism from the musician community.
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China's LineShine supercomputer at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen has topped the TOP500 rankings, becoming the first system to surpass 2,000 exaflops and displacing the U.S.-built El Capitan — despite American export restrictions on advanced chips.
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GE Vernova's Greenville, South Carolina, gas turbine factory is running at full capacity through 2029 as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle race to secure reliable power for AI data centers, with turbine prices up 300% in three years.
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Oracle shares fell 19% this week — the steepest weekly decline since the dot-com bust in August 2001 — as investors raised alarms over the company's $130 billion debt load and its aggressive AI infrastructure buildout.
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Polish authorities, with FBI and HSI support, arrested four members of a cybercrime ring accused of SIM-swapping attacks that hijacked cryptocurrency exchange accounts and laundered an estimated $5 million or more through accounts across multiple countries.
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Notion is shutting down Notion Mail on September 22, saying more than half of its users already manage email through AI agents without opening the inbox — a move that also closes the chapter on the Skiff email infrastructure Notion acquired in 2024.
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Microsoft will raise Xbox Series S and Series X console prices by $100 to $150 starting August 1, blaming memory and storage costs that have more than doubled as AI chipmakers compete for limited supply.
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Apple raised prices on MacBook and iPad models Thursday, citing a surge in memory and storage costs driven by AI data center demand, while warning that further increases are likely ahead.
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SK Hynix shares surged 11% on Thursday after the South Korean chipmaker filed plans to raise as much as $29.4 billion through a Nasdaq ADR listing, with trading expected to begin July 10.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at the company's annual stockholder meeting that smuggled-chip AI data centers are a "dead end," while reaffirming that national security takes precedence over commercial opportunity in restricted markets like China.
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Oracle cut 21,000 jobs — nearly 13% of its workforce — over the past year, citing AI deployment, while spending $1.8 billion on restructuring costs as it races to build out AI infrastructure.
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Amazon's four-day Prime Day sale begins June 23, with Emarketer projecting U.S. sales of $15.6 billion — a 7.1% year-over-year gain — as inflation shifts shoppers' focus from electronics to groceries and everyday essentials.
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The FTC sued Meta in 2020, alleging the company unlawfully cemented monopoly power through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. But in November, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled against the agency, concluding that Meta competes in a broader market that includes platforms such as TikTok and YouTube.
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Gross domestic product rose at an annualized rate of 4.3% from July through September, well above the 3.2% increase economists had forecast, the Commerce Department said in its initial estimate of third-quarter growth.
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