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Big Tech strategy, semiconductor supply chains and the money behind the technology industry, reported by The Silicon Ledger.
Sony Japan has adopted a new customer harassment policy to address escalating complaints following its announcement to eliminate physical PlayStation discs by January 2028, threatening service suspension and legal action while maintaining its controversial decision.
The Japanese technology firm has quietly ended its quantum computing hardware program after determining that commercialization timelines and development costs made the business case untenable, though it will continue exploring practical quantum applications.
Retailers are offering limited bargains on DDR5 and DDR4 memory even as the industry braces for further price increases. The window to find value in RAM is narrowing rapidly.
Despite charging 2.5 times more per token than GPT-5.6 Sol, OpenAI argues that Astra can deliver better results at lower overall cost by requiring fewer tokens to complete tasks.
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, bringing a major open-model platform under the world's dominant AI chipmaker. CEO Jensen Huang has pledged the platform will remain open and hardware-agnostic.
The password manager's three-year commitment to DHH's foundation has triggered employee pushback and customer defections, compounding frustration over recent price increases.
Anthropic's decision to maintain Cursor as a trusted partner after SpaceX's acquisition contrasts sharply with its previous cutoffs of Windsurf and xAI, raising questions about the role of Anthropic's $1.25 billion monthly compute deal with SpaceX.
Memory prices remain elevated due to AI datacenter competition, but bundled offerings with motherboards and CPUs can help builders save on their next system upgrade.
