Qualcomm warns of double-digit price increases after Sept. 1, hurting smartphone buyers
A customer letter says Qualcomm ran out of room to absorb supplier cost spikes and will raise prices.

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A customer letter says Qualcomm ran out of room to absorb supplier cost spikes and will raise prices.
The acquisition signals that conversational UX is becoming strategic infrastructure for AI coding agents, not a nice-to-have.
Executives get a clearer read on Meta’s push to innovate inside its core social network, not just ads.
Researchers modified Google’s AlphaFold to spot which parts of editing proteins cause wrong edits, then redesigned them.
Sony’s PlayStation Network is down in a way that can freeze accounts, halt multiplayer, and interrupt digital revenue.
The cost crunch is real, and Anthropic is trying to win it with a new “best performing” and “most cost-effective” Claude.
Supercooling extends organ storage beyond ice, edging closer to the “organ bank” doctors have wanted for years.
A new control lets enterprise teams dial model effort up or down, aiming to cut token-bill burn without losing power.
Opus 5 “comes close” to Fable 5 across many domains and improves complex coding, as US scrutiny and OpenAI security concerns keep tightening the AI screws.
What a lower-cost flagship could unlock for budgets, deployment speed, and competitive pressure in frontier AI.
Anthropic pitches stronger coding and more efficient reasoning for teams that care about cost per useful output.
Two ~400 kg spacecraft from Terran Orbital will test chaser-target ops in lunar orbit starting 2027.