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Business news related to the technology industry, including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, plus consumer electronics, start-ups, cryptocurrency, media, advertising, streaming, venture capital, antitrust and regulation.
  1. Micron finished the week in the red despite a blockbuster earnings report. But falling oil prices was good news for the fight against inflation.
  2. The Google parent's homegrown silicon is a big advantage in the AI compute race.
  3. While Apple and Microsoft raise prices on key devices to help cover the soaring costs of memory, smaller consumer electronics companies are in dire straits.
  4. GE Vernova turbines are powering Elon Musk's xAI Colossus 1 data center and Microsoft just bought seven to power its data center in Texas.
  5. Anthropic disabled access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to comply with a government export control directive citing "national security authorities."
  6. Zhipu's GLM 5.2 shows the AI fight is shifting to who delivers the most intelligence per dollar, making open source suddenly a real contender.
  7. Oracle's surging spending, negative free cash flow and $130 billion debt pile are weighing on the stock.
  8. Meta has to justify its AI spending to unlock the struggling stock.
  9. OpenAI said it previewed the new models' capabilities with the government ahead of the launch.
  10. "This TARIFF will supersede Trade Deals made with the Country, whether implemented, signed, or not," President Donald Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.