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Apple has revealed its newest iPhone lineup, including the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and its debut foldable model, the iPhone Duo. Pre-order windows and shipping timelines have been laid out for customers eager to secure the new devices before general availability.
A coalition of European founders and VCs published an open letter urging EU lawmakers to preserve key features of the proposed 'EU Inc' company statute, which would allow startups to incorporate once and operate across the bloc. They warn that national lobbies, including Germany's notary association, are pushing changes that could weaken the framework before final negotiations conclude.
RayNeo has released a lineup of augmented reality eyewear spanning personal theater-style displays and lightweight glasses with near-invisible screens. Rather than a single flagship product, the company is targeting different use cases with separate hardware designs, betting that practical applications will drive adoption faster than a one-size-fits-all approach.
Chinese high-purity quartz maker Jiangsu Pacific Quartz, which already supplies furnace tubes and wafer boats to Lam Research and Tokyo Electron, has had its quartz components certified by a Chinese DRAM producer believed to be CXMT for 300mm wafer production. The materials meet the 4N5–5N purity level needed for semiconductor process equipment, giving China a more domestic supply chain for chipmaking consumables.
Four California consumers filed a class-action lawsuit against Sony Interactive Entertainment in federal court, claiming the PlayStation Store misleads shoppers by using ownership terms like 'Buy Now' and 'Confirm Purchase' for digital games that are actually only licensed, revocable access. They say the license disclaimer appears in small, unhighlighted text that fails to meet California's disclosure requirements for digital goods. Sony has since asked the court to force individual arbitration or dismiss the case, arguing no reasonable consumer would think they truly own a digital game.
Trump Mobile has increased the price of its T1 handset from $499 to $749, a $250 jump that moves the device out of the mid-range category. The phone, marketed with an 'American-made' identity, now costs roughly the same as established flagship smartphones from major manufacturers.
A Big Story investigation from MIT Technology Review, done with Type Investigations, examines how pastor Eli Regalado and his wife launched INDXcoin after claiming divine instruction, raising over $3 million from more than 500 people before the project collapsed within a year with investors losing everything. Separately, the nonprofit Reflective has published a detailed plan outlining the experiments and infrastructure needed to better understand solar geoengineering before any real-world deployment decisions are made.
A new analysis argues that large language models have driven the cost of producing average-quality writing, code and analysis down to nearly zero. What once required specialized skills, time and organizational infrastructure can now be generated instantly by anyone with access to an LLM, making merely competent output an abundant commodity rather than a differentiator.
Despite widespread adoption of brand purpose statements and manifestos, consumer trust in brands remains weak and loyalty is eroding. Data shows consumers are switching brands at record rates, suggesting stated purpose alone isn't influencing their decisions. Instead, what builds trust is consistency between a brand's actions and what consumers actually experience.
The piece marks the 250th anniversary of both the United States' founding and Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, arguing the two milestones are historically linked. It contends that American capitalism and the business community have long shaped the nation's legal and justice systems, not just its economy.
Ajinomoto build-up film, the insulating material used in nearly every high-end CPU, GPU, and AI accelerator package, is supplied almost entirely by one Japanese company that controls over 95% of the global market. As AI data centers scale into the gigawatt era with millions of accelerators needed, this narrow supply chain of substrate makers and a single film source is becoming a critical constraint on chip production.
Employers and educators are increasingly pointing to anthropology and other humanities disciplines as valuable preparation for an AI-driven workplace. The emphasis is shifting toward understanding human behavior, culture, and context—skills that complement rather than compete with technical AI capabilities.