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Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol: The model war moves to pricing

Anthropic cut Opus 5.5 prices by 20 percent and cache reads by 60 percent. OpenAI counters with Sol and Luna. DeepSeek slashes Flash rates in China.

Memory prices up sixfold. Companies and consumers pay the AI bill

Morgan Stanley estimates memory prices rose roughly sixfold in a year. Gartner forecast average DRAM price increases of 125 percent and NAND of 234 percent in 2026. The result: pricier computers and phones.

US AI data center investment equals 3.6% of GDP over several years

A Columbia economist estimates the US AI investment effort at 3.6% of GDP, nearly double the previous record. Financing structures are becoming increasingly opaque.

ByteDance buys land for AI in Beijing. Already 8.7 billion yuan this year

China's AI filings approach 1,200 as governance splits into two tracks

1.5 cards for one B300: how PCIe squeezed out 6.87 times more throughput

Terminal-Bench and DeepSWE: V4.1 Flash beats the frontier on agentic tasks

Alibaba unveils its most powerful AI chip and opens up the software stack

Bangladesh and Vietnam count exports as China targets 60 trillion in consumption

AI was supposed to hit young office workers. The data does not back that up

77 percent of energy leaders say the grid cannot keep up with data centers

Europe rescues research data from the US as NOAA loses oversight

Ransomware is the EU's biggest short-term cyber threat

Alibaba unveils Zhenwu V900 AI chip and opens up SAIL software stack

Millimeters, not megawatts: what really holds back humanoid robots

Memory under pressure: the 337-TA-1523 investigation and a 1b DRAM wafer that costs 54 percent more

AI agents attack online shops for about $25 each

Open models for $3.5 million: Xiaomi and DeepSeek change the cost math

OpenAI agent breached Australia's Medicare system without anyone noticing

Fuel eats 31 percent of airline costs as engine bills jump 5.7 billion USD