Apple's Price Hikes Aren't Just an AI Problem

Commentary: The boom in artificial intelligence is causing a memory chip shortage. Apple decided to make us pay for it.

Apple's Price Hikes Aren't Just an AI Problem

Commentary: The boom in artificial intelligence is causing a memory chip shortage. Apple decided to make us pay for it.

Links 6/28/2026

Our strategic daily links: Surfing inside a wave, teens in Waymos, European heat wave, Venezuela earthquake, robot soccer, Mideast horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, hapless Democrats, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, …

SCOTUS’s immigration decisions prove cruelty is still the point

The Supreme Court's latest rulings signal that compassionate conservatism is officially dead

Slate is betting Americans want less car for less money

Slate unveiled the starting price for its tiny, electric pickup truck this week. It's betting that today's overly techy cars created a white space.

Slate is betting Americans want less car for less money

Slate unveiled the starting price for its tiny, electric pickup truck this week. It's betting that today's overly techy cars created a white space.

The retired college professor fighting a $313 trespassing ticket in Wisconsin thinks he’s part of a national struggle

Paul Florsheim just wanted to walk his beach. The retired professor thinks his $313 trespassing ticket is like the fight against Elon Musk.

How to watch Citizen Vigilante online from anywhere – UK, US, Germany

Here's how to watch Citizen Vigilante online from anywhere in the world as the Armie Hammer/Uwe Boll movie hits No.2 on the US streaming charts.

Quote of the day by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel: 'I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible' — a foundational thesis of the new tech elite

Technology has marched forward over the last couple of decades at the same time as basic freedoms and rights have been eroded

Elon Musk Made Armie Hammer’s German-Banned ‘Citizen Vigilante’ Briefly Available To Stream On X

As Armie Hammer makes his onscreen comeback, Citizen Vigilante teamed up with the perfect platform for a streaming debut… no, not The Daily Wire. On Thursday, X owner Elon Musk uploaded the full Uwe Boll-helmed action flick to the platform formerly known as T…

Links 6/27/2026

Our catty daily links: Paradise revisited, US and Iran strikes, Venezuela quake aftermath, stablecoin crash, UK food worries, tokenpocalypse,France seizes Russian tanker, US Bahrain base destruction, John Bolton guilty, US bases + critical minerals?

4 iconic American CEOs are on the way out. Meet the nuts-and-bolts leaders taking their place.

Warren Buffett, Tim Cook, Bob Iger, and Doug McMillon are making way for nuts-and-bolts leaders, but success will require more than an eye for detail.

How Much Tax Would Elon Musk Pay If This US Bill Passes?

South Korea wants to tax unrealized gains. Here is what Elon Musk would owe, and save, if America did the same.

Luca Guadagnino Gives Hope For ‘Artificial’ Release, Worries AI Is “Completely Changing” The World: “More Than Just Disturbing”

As Artificial remains in distribution limbo, Luca Guadagnino appears hopeful for the film’s release, but not so much for the state of the world living with AI. Prefacing that he “can’t say much because we are right in the middle of this situation,” the Oscar …

Xprize Founder Insists All the New Tech That’s Surveilling Humans Makes Us ‘Behave Better’

Who's actually being monitored in a "trillion sensor world"?

Elon Musk agrees with Tim Cook: The memory shortage is unprecedented

Elon Musk said soaring memory costs are the "biggest price jump in anything I've ever seen" and that the solution is "MUCH higher production."

Forget Apple. Amazon just made AI a lot more expensive.

Amazon Web Services is hiking AI cloud prices 20%. The company had already raised prices 15% in January.

A Writer Learns How to Read Again

Rewiring your attention in the age of the feed

Musk Boosts Controversial Film Which Sees Vigilante Target Immigrant Criminals

The film, directed by Uwe Boll—known for critically panned movie adaptations of video games—has been banned in Germany for depicting violence against immigrants.

We're on the cusp of a Larry Bird-Magic Johnson type showdown in the public markets

BI reports on the FOMO among some Blue Origin workers watching their SpaceX rivals' net worths skyrocket while theirs stay firmly grounded.

Michael Dell is absolutely crushing it this year

Michael Dell has overtaken Warren Buffett, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Ellison on the rich list by tapping into the AI boom.

This Week in AI: Who Controls the Loop?

This week host and Turing Post founder Ksenia Se threaded the latest news into a single argument: AI is moving out of conversation and into the operational loops where real work happens. From SpaceX’s $60 billion acquisition in the developer tools market to t…

'Elon always has some sort of trick up his sleeve': Retail traders who bought SpaceX tell us how they're handling the volatility

SpaceX bulls who got in on the IPO say they're bullish on its long-term trajectory, and have faith in Elon Musk's ability to make a profit.

Dr. Nicole Saphier: “DOGE is Probably One of the Greatest Things to Happen in U.S. History.”

I see no reason trust doctors who refuse to correct their errors. The post Dr. Nicole Saphier: “DOGE is Probably One of the Greatest Things to Happen in U.S. History.” first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

OpenAI Considers Delaying IPO To 2027 After SpaceX's Rocky Debut, Report Says

The trillion-dollar public debut had initially been planned for late 2026.

Europeans Are Buying Teslas Again, Surrendering the Easiest Front in the War on American Big Tech

Tesla is hiring new workers and ramping up production at its German factory to meet demand.

SpaceX Could Acquire T-Mobile As It Expands Into Wireless, Analyst Says

T-Mobile would be the “clear choice” for Elon Musk’s rocket maker’s expansion into wireless, one analyst said.

Trump Admin Wants to Make Brake Pedals Optional in Autonomous Vehicles

Huge news for Tesla's Cybercab.

China's answer to Claude's Fable 5 comes top of the HTML web design contest as the CEO tells Elon Musk GLM will reach Mythos-class before Q1 2027

Cheap GLM-5.2 model disrupts pricing norms while outperforming expensive rivals in web design benchmark performance race

SpaceX Starship Could Spark Explosion In Space Tourism, Scholar Says

The SpaceX Starship, the most powerful and advanced super-capsule ever designed on this planet, could spark an explosion in space tourism and supercharge Space Race II.

Mark Cuban Says The Real Issue Isn’t Elon Musk Becoming A Trillionaire While Others Can’t Pay Bills — CEOs Should ‘Give Stock To Everybody’

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire when SpaceX went public last week. However, Cost Plus Drugs co-founder and billionaire entrepreneu...

The Licensing Revolution: Windows Edition

Windows illustrates the growing reach of the surveillance and assertion of centralized software tools over supposedly personal devices.

What Would Elon Musk Say About The Surface Transportation Bill?

Legislation that's inimical to our wellbeing, all because one industry has better lobbyists.

Are We Really Living in a Simulation?

Heed the words of credible individuals who are experts in relevant fields, not speculative opinions because they’re popular.

Anthropic claims that China's Alibaba illicitly 'distilled' its models from April to June 2026 — says effort involved 25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million exchanges on Claude

AI tech giant Alibaba, often considered as the Amazon of China, is being accused by Anthropic for using Claude to train its AI models. The American AI startup claimed that it traced over 25,000 accounts to operators that were affiliated with Alibaba and Aliba…

Why 'Big Short' investor Michael Burry has a Lululemon shopping bag framed on his wall

Michael Burry of "The Big Short" fame said he framed a Lululemon bag with an "Atlas Shrugged" quote on it because he likes to "poke bears."

The Download: Europe’s heat wave hits the grid, and IBM’s chip targets Moore’s Law

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Europe’s extreme heat is shutting down power plants Europe is in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave, and the grid …

The American mind cannot comprehend Europe's AC aversion

Europe's record-breaking June heatwave has once again raised questions about low levels of air conditioning adoption in the continent.

It Might Have Been Your Favorite Childhood Hangout. It’s Doing Something Much Different to Survive Now.

In the face of a financial quagmire, why not throw up a few glow sticks?

Class Warfare: 44 Times Rich People Got Publicly Shamed Online

The billionaire population not only surged during the pandemic with the record total of super rich reaching an unprecedented 2,755, their fortunes also boomed. The numbers reached highs that were previously deemed impossible to achieve in a single lifetime.

Tesla sued over fatal Texas crash the driver says happened on Autopilot

A wrongful-death suit filed days after a Model 3 ploughed into a Katy home leans on the same argument that produced last year’s $243m Florida verdict. The family of a 76-year-old woman killed when a Tesla crashed through the wall of her home near Houston has …

‘Networking becomes the make-or-break factor’: Orbital data centers reintroduce a challenge we’ve now fixed on land

Space-bound data centers promise solar energy and scale as AI demands soar, but latency re-emerges as a major issue.

Spacex Got the Worst Possible Environmental Grade Right Before Its IPO, Putting It in the Same Tier MSCI Gave Putin’s Russia After It Invaded Ukraine

Elon Musk’s response to SpaceX getting the lowest possible ESG rating: “Unfortunately, electric rockets are impossible.” The grade came down one day before SpaceX’s IPO, courtesy of MSCI, the global index provider whose Environmental, Social, and Governance s…

Elon Musk Threatens To Sue Rep. Khanna For… Citing The Lancet About How DOGE Cuts Will Likely Lead To Millions Of Deaths

We’ve been pointing out for years that the supposedly “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk is one of the most aggressive abusers of state power to create chilling effects against his critics. So it should come as little surprise to anyone paying attention, that…

Family sues Tesla for wrongful death in Autopilot crash in Texas, US

Lawsuit claims Tesla's Autopilot shortcomings led to fatal crash; family seeks $1m in damages and punitive measures.

CEO of $8 billion Flexport blasts remote work as ‘white-collar fraud’ and a ‘total fantasy’ for highly paid employees

“The idea that I could do any work at my house is like a total fantasy,” said CEO Ryan Petersen.

Love Musk Or Not On July 6, You Will Own SpaceX Stock

Whether you admire him or cannot stand him, Elon Musk is about to show up in your retirement account.

Bob Iger's Disney Wanted Apple, Twitter, and 007

In an exit interview with The Financial Times (paywalled), former Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company seriously considered buying Twitter, explored a potential merger with Apple, and pursued the James Bond franchise during his tenure. The Verge reports: Acco…

Elon Musk loses trillionaire status as global tech rout hits SpaceX

Elon Musk lost his trillionaire status on Tuesday after a brutal global tech rout erased billions from his wealth.

Grok’s Traffic Is Mostly Driven By Adult Content, Report Says

xAI is falling behind its competitors—and reportedly relying heavily on sexualized content.

Tom the Dancing Bug: Elon Musk and His DOGE Pals, in "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"

Tom the Dancing Bug: Elon Musk and His DOGE Pals, in "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" -> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this hostile Trumpverse! JOIN US IN THE INNER HIVE, and be…

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Admitted That Price Controls, a Foundation of Communist Economics, Broke His Country’s Economy

Speaking at a Communist Party Central Committee plenary in Havana on June 17, Díaz-Canel said price caps “failed to contain inflation,” made products disappear into illegal markets, drove prices higher, gutted tax revenue, and created “an impossible race betw…

BYD's Stella Li tells BI she wants to put humanoid robots in every car showroom

BYD executive vice president Stella Li said building humanoid robots for the home and service industry will be a "huge" market for the company.

BYD's Stella Li tells BI she wants to put humanoid robots in every car showroom

BYD executive vice president Stella Li said building humanoid robots for the home and service industry will be a "huge" market for the company.

Elon Musk loses trillionaire status as SpaceX stock falls

A broad market selloff pushed Musk's net worth below $1 trillion, to $957 billion, according to Bloomberg

How Trillionaires Are Really Made

Some may argue that the world’s first trillionaire is a story of technological triumph and a win for American capitalism. But markets have not bet on cutting-edge technology or a company too big to fail, but rather on the idea of a mega-monopolist with wealth…

Links 6/24/2026

Our rip-roaring daily links: Kombucha tea tricks, Putin ditches negotiation, biodiversity + permafrost worries, Burham-Starmer dustup, Tucker+MTG ditch Team R, tech stock wobbles, Hormuz sailors, data center hate, depopulating US cities, heat freakout

10 Wednesday AM Reads

My mid-week morning train WFH reads: •  I want to be in the same business as Leopold “Lumpy” Aschenbrenner: A skeptical look at the AI-fund gold rush and the boy-genius mystique funding it. The title alone earns the click.  (Old Rope Research) • A smaller Fed…

Bob Iger’s Disney wanted Apple, Twitter, and 007

Bob Iger's tenure as CEO of Disney came to an end a few months ago, after two decades of leading the entertainment giant through some of its most pivotal transformations and acquisitions. Iger, in an exit interview with The Financial Times, has now confirmed …

Reid Hoffman says SpaceX ‘isn’t an AI company,’ xAI is ‘a complete train wreck’—and there’s room for both OpenAI and Anthropic

The LinkedIn cofounder and investor in both Anthropic and OpenAI offers his most pointed public assessment yet of Elon Musk’s AI ambitions.

Flexport CEO reignites debate over remote work after likening it to 'white-collar fraud'

Ryan Petersen, the CEO at Flexport, said he believes that working from home introduces too many distractions and can hurt workplace culture.

Tesla cofounder JB Straubel’s first pitch to Elon Musk failed. Then he turned his ‘hobby’ into a $1.3 trillion success

Elon Musk loses his trillionaire status as SpaceX stock comes back to Earth

After SpaceX's IPO, Elon Musk's net worth reached new heights, but a tech stock sell-off has has pulled him back to billionaire status.

A Program to Expand Rural Internet Access Now Looks Like a Slush Fund for Tech Billionaires

Connecting Musk and Bezos with more cash.

'Time to sue this liar': Elon Musk bristles at Democrat's accusations of DOGE child deaths

Tech trillionaire Elon Musk threatened to file a lawsuit against Rep. Ro Khanna of California after the Democrat accused him of "possibly" causing millions of child deaths: "Time to sue this liar."Musk helmed the Department of Government Efficiency and presid…

One of Wikipedia’s Cofounders Banned From the Site Over Influence Campaigns

The longtime critic of the online encyclopedia is accused of trying to use his online followers to influence an internal Wikipedia debate.

Neil Young Quietly Released a Blazing, Hour-Long Concert Film For Free

Corduroy Plants, directed by Daryl Hannah, documents Young's 2025 tour with the Chrome Hearts, and features classics like "Ohio," "Like a Hurricane" and "Cortez The Killer"

Tesla claims driver ‘manually overrode self-driving’ in deadly Texas crash

Tesla is pushing back on claims that its Full Self-Driving (FSD) system caused a fatal Texas crash, where a speeding Model 3 barreled into a home, killing a 76-year-old woman inside. In a reply on X, Tesla AI head Ashok Elluswamy says the driver "manually ove…

These Are the Headlines That Elon Musk Says Don’t Exist

The trillionaire insists that no one has died from the destruction of USAID.

Melania Trump Wanted to Ban Elon Musk from Sleeping at the White House

Any guesses on why Melania dislikes him so much?

Ariane 6 Sets New Record for Europe with More Powerful Boosters

On 17 June at 09:21 local time (13:21 BST, 14:21 CEST) Ariane 6 flight VA269 soared to orbit from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. 36 satellites for Amazon’s Leo constellation were placed into their orbit just over an hour after liftoff – the eighth succe…

SoftBank CEO questions Elon Musk's vision of AI data centers in space: 'What's the point?'

Top SoftBank boss Masayoshi Son challenged the economic case for putting AI data centers in space, an idea championed by Elon Musk.

Trump Just Said The United States Is Experiencing "The Opposite Of A Depression," And Boy Do Economists Have THOUGHTS

"It looks great for Elon Musk right now, but if you’re a young person trying to buy a house, it looks pretty tough."View Entire Post ›

SpaceX shares drop below debut price before jumping amid $600bn sell-off

SpaceX shares dip below debut price, erasing $600bn in value before recovering 2.4 percent amid tech market turbulence.

Softbank CEO Shoots Down Musk’s Plan for Orbital Data Centers as SpaceX Stock Falls Back to Earth

Masayoshi Son says the AI race will be decided on Earth.

SpaceX Shares Fall Below $150 Debut Price For First Time

A losing streak for Elon Musk’s rocket maker cut its market value by nearly $1 trillion.

Elon Musk has broken the rich list

Trillionaire Elon Musk is worth more than the next four richest people combined, and lost a sum more than Warren Buffett's net worth in a single day.

The Download: the future of chipmaking and Anthropic’s government clash

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking It’s a bit of a schlep to get to the top of ASML’s newest mach…

Lord, Protect My Family from "Autopilot" Teslas Slamming Into Our Homes

The driver of the speeding Tesla that killed a Texas grandmother told investigators he was using the car's self-driving feature.

Bernie Sanders Says AI Companies Have “A Gun At Our Heads” and Wants to Answer It by Handing Every American a $1,000 Yearly Check

Bernie Sanders introduced legislation Thursday that would give the government a 50% ownership stake in any AI company with more than $200 million in annual sales. The American AI Sovereign Wealth F…

Chronicle of a Disaster Foretold

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s “Regime Change” is packed with news about the Trump White House that will stay news, David Remnick writes.

After a decade, Brexit’s cost to Britain is not only economic

Hateful discourse in politics and society has become a regular feature since the UK voted to abandon the EU.

John C. Reilly rejects Elon Musk's warning about empathy: 'Empathy is a superpower'

The Oscar-nominated actor pushed back on Elon Musk's warnings about the "empathy trap," saying empathy is a "superpower."

US watchdog opens probe after Tesla crashes into Texas home, killing woman

Road safety regulator investigates crash involving a Model 3 that had been reportedly operating in self-driving mode.

Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband

At 9PM ET on the night of May 28th, a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket sat on the launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The craft was in the middle of a hot-fire test awaiting the arrival of Amazon Leo satellites, the first of 24 batches to be shut…

What Would Jesus Do? Invest in Palantir, Apparently

But SpaceX would not be considered "biblically responsible investing."

Elon Musk and NASA’s Chief Are Dreaming of Antimatter Propulsion

Here's what it would take to make this theoretical concept a reality and unlock the galaxy.

Mark Cuban doubles down on the stock market and Elon Musk

SpaceX went public on June 12, raising $75 billion in the largest IPO in U.S. history and pushing Elon Musk's net worth past $1 trillion. The achievement set...

Elon Musk’s Net Worth Drops $350 Billion In Massive SpaceX Selloff—But He’s Still A Trillionaire

A selloff for Musk’s rocket maker wiped out roughly $900 billion in market value.

AI startup Reflection signs computing power deal with SpaceX

Reflection AI said on Monday it has signed a deal with SpaceX that will ‌grant the startup access to additional computing capacity at ‌the Elon Musk-led comp...

Elon Musk to get a billion shares of SpaceX if he can settle a million humans on Mars

Meet the 2 men putting New York’s $300 billion pension fund in play for the first time in 20 years

Two insurgent Democrats say the most powerful financial office in New York has been mismanaging your money — and not to vote for the other guy.

What We Know About The Future Of Amazon’s Dropped Sam Altman Film Biopic

The Oscar-winning director of "Call My. by Your Name" and "Challengers" made the troubled film starring Andrew Garfield.

SpaceX Earns Lowest Corporate Responsibility Rating—Here’s What That Means

Elon Musk has claimed the ratings are “weaponized by phony social justice warriors.”

Chaos Took Over Father’s Day 2026, 11 Celebrity Posts That Missed The Mark

Father's Day is all about emotional tributes and heartfelt messages celebrating the dads who helped shape lives. But sometimes, things don't go according to plan, especially when it comes to celebrities.

The Fastest-Growing Energy Source Under The Sun

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at an audacious plan for floating, ocean-powered data centers and GM’s pursuit of cheaper battery technologies.

AI doomerism is misplaced. Here’s what it will take to pop the bubble

Cory Doctorow argues AI dominance is not inevitable. How we fight back matters

As new tech shines, market takes rest on old cushions: Devina Mehra

Forget the hype around tech giants like Mag 7 and MANGOS. Current market data reveals a shift, with US small-cap and old-economy stocks like transportation surging. While semiconductors are booming due to AI investments, history warns of their cyclical nature…