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Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol: the model war moves to the price list

Anthropic cut the price of Opus 5.5 by 20 percent and cache reads by 60 percent. OpenAI answers with Sol and Luna. DeepSeek is cutting Flash prices in China.

Memory prices are up sixfold. Companies and consumers will foot the AI bill

Morgan Stanley estimates memory prices rose roughly sixfold over the past year, and Gartner forecast an average rise of 125 percent for DRAM and 234 percent for NAND in 2026. The result: more expensive computers and phones.

Data centers: the US AI bet equals 3.6% of GDP spread over several years

A Columbia economist puts the US AI investment effort at 3.6% of GDP, nearly double the previous historical record. The financing behind it is getting harder to read.

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

Filings near 1,200: two tracks in China's AI governance

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 its grip on it

Ransomware is the cyber threat with the biggest impact in the EU

AI chips: Alibaba unveils Zhenwu V900 and opens up its 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 are hitting online shops for about 25 dollars each

Open models for 3.5 million dollars: Xiaomi and DeepSeek rewrite the cost bill

An OpenAI agent broke into Australia's Medicare system, and nobody noticed

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