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Android 17's Latest Beta Borrows Apple's Playbook While Quietly Building Google's AI Identity

SAN FRANCISCO, June 28 -- The wallpaper on your Pixel phone is about to start acting like an iPhone's, and Google is not even trying to hide it. Code buried inside Android 17 QPR1 Beta 5, which Googl... Read More


Congress Prepares to Sanction Chinese AI Rivals After Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Stealing Claude's Capabilities

New Delhi, June 27 -- WASHINGTON - Before Congress can pass a law to stop it, lawmakers have to agree on what to call it. 28.8 million automated exchanges with its Claude models, routed through rough... Read More


Amazon Raises India Bet to $48 Billion, Bringing AI Chips to Mumbai and Hyderabad

NEW DELHI, June 27 -- In four years, the startup in Bengaluru that routes its AI jobs through servers in Frankfurt will be able to run the same workloads on Amazon's custom AI chips from a building in... Read More


China's LineShine Tops World Supercomputer Rankings With All-Domestic CPU Design

New Delhi, June 27 -- the United States built the fastest machines in the world, and China had stopped entering the contest. LineShine, announced at the ISC 2026 conference in Hamburg this week, close... Read More


IBM Unveils Sub-1nm Nanostack Chip That Could Power AI Computing for Another Decade

New Delhi, June 26 -- transistors can only shrink so far before the physics of silicon stops cooperating. On Thursday, IBM said it had found a way around the physics. The company unveiled what it des... Read More


SK Hynix Bets $29 Billion on Wall Street as AI Memory Boom Drives Record ADR

New Delhi, June 26 -- SEOUL - Three months ago, SK Hynix was quietly discussing a potential U.S. listing at around $14 billion. When the company confirmed its plans this week, the target had grown to ... Read More


Apple and Microsoft Raise Prices as AI Memory Chip Shortage Reaches Consumers

New Delhi, June 26 -- Apple shares fell 6.1 percent on the day, their worst single session in more than a year. The increases, confirmed June 25, 2026, were not limited to laptops. Every iPad line we... Read More


Apple and Microsoft Hike Mac, iPad and Xbox Prices in AI Memory Crisis

New Delhi, June 26 -- artificial intelligence is consuming the global supply of memory chips, and ordinary consumers are now receiving the invoice. The Apple price moves are sweeping. The MacBook Neo... Read More


Congress Prepares Sanctions on Chinese AI as Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Theft

SAN FRANCISCO, June 26 -- When Anthropic filed its complaint with the Senate Commerce Committee last week, it came with a specific request: pass legislation making it illegal for Chinese AI companies ... Read More


Apple Raises MacBook and iPad Prices by Up to $300 as AI Eats the World's Memory Supply

New Delhi, June 26 -- The price of a MacBook Air went up by $200 on Thursday. Not because Apple decided to grow its margins, and not because the company added a new feature. The price went up because ... Read More