Roku raises streaming device prices by up to 60 percent as the memory shortage reaches the living room
Roku raises streaming device prices by up to 60 percent as the memory shortage reaches the living room

Roku has raised prices on its entire US streaming hardware lineup, with increases ranging from $10 to $50 per device, as the global memory shortage driven by AI data centre demand reaches a product category that had been one of the last bastions of aff…

Google confirms higher Pixel 11 prices as RAM costs surge sixfold, and says it is reworking Android to use less memory
Google confirms higher Pixel 11 prices as RAM costs surge sixfold, and says it is reworking Android to use less memory

Google has confirmed that its upcoming Pixel 11 phones will cost more than their predecessors, becoming the latest major phone maker to pass on the cost of a global memory shortage that has sent RAM prices to levels the industry has never seen. In an i…

AI chatbots are quietly becoming the uninvited third person in people’s relationships
AI chatbots are quietly becoming the uninvited third person in people’s relationships

A Pew Research Center survey published last month found that one in five Americans aged 18 to 29 have used AI chatbots for emotional support or advice, and a separate YouGov poll found that 13 percent of US adults have shared a secret or problem with a…

DeepSeek pauses its second fundraising round after founder’s leaked investor comments go viral
DeepSeek pauses its second fundraising round after founder’s leaked investor comments go viral

DeepSeek has suspended its second fundraising round after comments made by founder Liang Wenfeng during private investor meetings were leaked and went viral on Chinese social media, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Liang verbally informed prospective back…

OpenAI agent goes rogue and hacks popular AI community — left escape plans for future models inside the company’s infrastructure

OpenAI tests multiple autonomous AI agents at once and has difficulty identifying the threats each of them represents, if a new report from Reuters is accurate.

People are quietly recording every conversation they have with AI, and the person across the table has no idea
People are quietly recording every conversation they have with AI, and the person across the table has no idea

A growing number of professionals have started using AI tools to record every conversation they have, and the people being recorded usually have no idea it is happening. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that apps like Granola, which transcrib…

Nvidia and SK Group enter $500 billion AI partnership — plan to supercharge AI infrastructure with next-gen memory and massive AI factories

Nvidia and SK Group enter $500 billion strategic partnership focused on long-term memory supply, 2 GW AI data center, and future AI infrastructure

Nvidia is pouring $1 billion into South Korea’s AI infrastructure through Naver and SK Group
Nvidia is pouring $1 billion into South Korea’s AI infrastructure through Naver and SK Group

Nvidia will invest $1 billion in South Korean internet company Naver to help finance an AI data center under construction in South Korea, the chipmaker announced late Friday. The funding will allow Naver to more than triple the size of the facility fro…

OpenAI hit by another outage as ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs stumble together
OpenAI hit by another outage as ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs stumble together

OpenAI’s status page reported elevated error rates across its APIs, ChatGPT, and Codex on Saturday, marking the fourth service disruption in four days for the company. Users encountered 503 errors with the internal label “biscuit_baker_service_me_circu…

Samsung signs a $200 billion chip deal with Broadcom covering memory, foundry and advanced packaging through 2030
Samsung signs a $200 billion chip deal with Broadcom covering memory, foundry and advanced packaging through 2030

Samsung Electronics and Broadcom have signed a memorandum of understanding worth more than $200 billion spanning memory chips, foundry manufacturing and advanced packaging for artificial intelligence semiconductors. The deal, announced on Friday at an …