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Apple Seeks Pentagon Waiver to Buy Memory Chips From Blacklisted Chinese Manufacturer

The Cupertino giant is navigating Washington corridors to secure CXMT as a supplier amid a deepening memory shortage that has already forced price increases across its hardware lineup.

By Arjun S. Mehta·Jun 27, 2026·5 min read
AI

IBM's 0.7-Nanometer Chip Signals the Next Inflection Point in Semiconductor Physics

The company's nanostack architecture packs 100 billion transistors onto a fingernail-sized die, but Asia's fab timelines suggest commerciali

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 6m
Policy

Forensics Hardware Outlives Its Sanctions

Russian authorities extracted messaging data from a jailed activist's iPhone months after Cellebrite canceled its contract - a case study in

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
Products

Sony's 67-Megapixel A7R VI Proves You Can Have Speed and Resolution

The full-frame mirrorless flagship shoots 30 fps bursts and delivers dual-gain processing, but its video codec choices and $4,500 price tag

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 9m
Policy

Italy Opens Probe Into Auto-Renewal Price Bumps Tied to Microsoft 365 AI Tools

Watchdog zeroes in on whether customers received clear notice before being shifted to costlier subscriptions bundled with Copilot and Design

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 6m
Products

Apple Pushes Through Sweeping Hardware Price Increases Amid Memory Supply Crunch

MacBooks, iPads, and accessories see hikes ranging from $50 to $1,300 as Tim Cook's warning on component costs materializes into sticker sho

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
AI

Telcos Chase the Agent Economy With Token Metering and Noise-Free Calls

ZTE's AIR Core prototype shows how carriers plan to sell AI traffic as a service, moving beyond bandwidth into computing, identity, and real

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
Policy

One in Four Major Apps Still Block Users from Passkeys

A new public database exposes which platforms continue to rely on passwords despite industry consensus that passkeys offer superior phishing

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
Startups

Geely's Zeekr Bets on Malaysia Manufacturing to Escape China's EV Slowdown

The premium electric brand will produce SUVs at Proton's facility by mid-2027, doubling overseas sales as domestic momentum falters and oil-

Wei Zhang ·   · 8m
AI

Enterprise Token Budgets Hit Reality as Firms Rein in Casual AI Use

Consulting giants and multinationals are quietly pulling back on unlimited inference access after discovering that low-value tasks can burn

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
AI

Why OpenAI Built Its Own Inference Chip in Nine Months

Jalapeño, co-designed with Broadcom, represents a strategic pivot toward vertical integration in AI infrastructure - and a quiet admission t

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Startups

Micron's Market Cap Climbs to $1.2 Trillion as Memory Shortage Deepens

The Idaho-based chipmaker posted a 28-fold profit surge while Apple warns customers to brace for higher device prices

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Policy

Alibaba Takes Pentagon to Court Over Military Contractor Label

The e-commerce and cloud giant argues its placement on the 1260H blacklist violates due process and free speech, blocking business ties and

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Policy

YouTube Settles Youth Harm Case as Thousands of Similar Claims Loom

A confidential agreement with a minor plaintiff points to the platform's mounting exposure across US jurisdictions, where more than 5,900 ca

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
AI

Meta Stands Alone Among Frontier Labs as Pre-Release Review Talks Stall

While OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI and Microsoft have begun submitting unreleased models to the Commerce Department's new review unit, the

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Products

The Economics Behind Thunderbolt Cable Pricing

Active retimer chips, certification overhead, and a niche market combine to push premium cable costs far above commodity USB-C - but the per

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 7m
Products

Anthropic Rolls Out Persistent Channel Assistant to Challenge Slackbot

Claude Tag introduces shared-memory AI that learns team workflows, proactively surfaces updates, and operates across organizational boundari

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
AI

A Decades-Old Proxy Flaw and the AI Agent That Spotted It

Squidbleed, a 29-year-old memory leak in widely deployed caching software, went unnoticed through three decades of enterprise use - until a

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
Startups

Seer Robotics Targets Hong Kong Listing After Fourteen-Month IPO Marathon

The Shanghai-based autonomous mobile robot maker is pricing shares at HKD 101.60, valuing the specialist technology firm at USD 1.4 billion

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
AI

The American Datacenter Boom Keeps Hitting the Same Four Walls

Developers have announced 160 GW of new capacity by 2032, but half of what's due next year hasn't broken ground - and the math may not even

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
Startups

Go's Post-IPO Playbook: Robotaxis and Consolidation as Japan's Driver Pool Shrinks

The ride-hailing operator just raised ¥88.6 billion in Tokyo's largest 2026 listing - and most of that capital is earmarked for an existenti

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
Startups

Heavy Trucking May Finally Crack the EV Equation With Battery Swap Hubs

Octopus Energy and CATL are betting swap infrastructure can sidestep the weight penalty that has kept long-haul trucks tethered to diesel -

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
AI

Agentic AI Meets Supercomputing: Nvidia Rolls Out New Stack for Science

Los Alamos labs will debut autonomous agent-driven clusters as GPU maker unveils Vera Rubin platform, three software tools, and a pitch to t

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
Products

Prescription Smart Glasses Hit a $700 Reality Check

Meta's Optics line trades sunglasses convenience for all-day wearability, but custom lenses and premium fit push the bill past what most peo

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
Policy

Satellite Operators Float Lunar Scrapyards as Cislunar Traffic Swells

With a Falcon 9 stage set to impact the Moon in August and decades of orbital debris experience in hand, industry leaders are sketching out

Marcus Halloran ·   · 8m