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Apple’s planned foldable iPhone could pair a pocketable 5.5-inch outer screen with a wider 7.8-inch display.

OpenAI has been losing key executives over the recent months, placing product strategy under Greg Brockman while leaving several leadership handoffs unresolved.

The FCC considers to stop future imports, advertising, sales, leases, shipments, and distribution of foreign-produced drones

The Ultra2 uses the same Snapdragon processor as the $379.99 Galaxy Watch9, so its premium is concentrated in battery capacity, storage, size, and rugged specifications.

Apple Upgrade offers Klarna-backed U.S. device leases from $11.99 monthly, but ownership requires a later payment, while eligibility and exit fees add costs.

Microsoft adds TPM-backed checks to Windows activation servers, with August readiness alerts preceding later enforcement and non-KMS bypasses unaffected.

Nvidia is reportedly weighing a $250 billion guarantee for OpenAI's proposed Ohio campus lease; terms remain unsettled and could shift credit risk to Nvidia.

Apple's OpenAI lawsuit leaves former design chief Jony Ive unnamed while targeting alleged recruiting and confidential-data conduct by other former Apple employees.

Apple has sent preservation letters to around 40 former employees at OpenAI, expanding a contested trade-secret case and its potential evidence pool.

ASML sees room to raise some prices for its EUV lithography machines while TSMC as its largest customer resists.

OpenAI disputes Apple's pending trade-secret claims over confidential hardware files and recruitment, while Apple seeks damages and restrictions on their use.

OpenAI may be developing a portable, screenless ChatGPT speaker with sensors and mechanical movement, but its design and 2027 release remain unconfirmed.

Rambus has introduced a DDR5 9600 server memory chipset reaching 9,600 MT/s, targeting AI and high-performance computing bandwidth constraints in data centers.

Elon Musk denies an alleged SpaceX AI device prototype as analysts question whether xAI, his AI company, and Starlink could support new consumer hardware.

Meta One Premium ties expanded Conversation Focus use on AI smart glasses to monthly caps, making local audio help a paid hardware-access issue for owners.

U.S. budget PCs are being squeezed by higher memory costs as data shows sub-$500 sales falling and average prices climbing into 2027.

Microsoft extends Windows 10 security updates through October 2027, giving eligible PCs another life extension.

OpenAI Codex local SQLite logs have pushed SSD writes toward 640 TB a year for one user, threatening drive lifespan and data loss.

SambaNova is weighing a $10B AI chip funding round at about a $10 billion valuation.

Reflection AI reportedly gets SpaceX Colossus 2 access for Nvidia GB300 AI chips, with a compute deal worth up to $6.3 billion if it runs through 2029.

Meta's $299 AI smart glasses launch adds Adventurer, Fury, and Kylie styles, testing lower-cost wearable AI as privacy and competition shape retail demand.

AMD says it will reinstate Memory Guard/TSME for certain non-PRO Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs through July BIOS updates after firmware removed the BIOS option.

Midjourney Medical is pitching an ultrasound AI body scanner, but diagnosis will remain tied to testing and regulatory clearance.

Nvidia's $25 billion bond sale has drawn about $85 billion in orders, testing credit-market appetite for corporate debt tied to the AI infrastructure boom.

Microsoft is testing Phi Silica local AI models on Nvidia RTX GPUs for Windows PCs, widening options while keeping support experimental and developer-gated.

Apple brings visionOS 27 to Vision Pro with Siri AI, Visual Intelligence, spatial panoramas, and 3D workflows as adoption questions remain.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has called the recent tech stock sell-off last Friday a buying opportunity as artificial intelligence infrastructure demand and memory supply test Nvidia's valuation.

AMD has moved to 44.97% Windows CPU share in Valve's May 2026 Steam Hardware Survey, narrowing Intel's lead.

UN researchers estimate AI data centers could use water equal to 1.3 billion people's annual needs by 2030 as electricity and land pressures grow.

Notebook shipments fell 33% in April as higher PC prices and memory shortages slow restocking, leaving school and enterprise orders as the next market test.