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New memory and bitmap thresholds with a February 2027 compliance deadline, plus Zero Tap Sign-In restoration by April 2027 (TechCrunch). LPDDR5X went from about $2.80 a gigabyte in 2025 to roughly $12 now, consumer DRAM contract prices rose as much as 89% in one quarter, and J.P. Morgan projects DRAM up over 400% from early 2024 through end of 2026. Some brands are shipping 3GB instead of 6GB in entry-level phones. This is the first hard dated compliance deadline that AI infrastructure demand has imposed on ordinary mobile developers.
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TechCrunch reports growth from 750M in February to near a billion, roughly 250M added in five months. Distribution beats benchmark parity. Google ships the model into Android, Search and Workspace surfaces no independent lab can reach.
Trump's State of the Union announced tech companies must "build, bring, or buy" their own power for AI data centers. Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, xAI, and Oracle will sign March 4. US data center energy demand expected to triple by 2028. Critics call it unenforceab...
The single biggest AI story this week resolved with maximum drama. After Anthropic refused the February 27 deadline ("We cannot in good conscience accede"), three things happened in rapid succession: The Ban: Trump ordered all federal agencies to cease using Anthropic products...
Five months ago, Anthropic was running at $9B annualized. Today it's $30B. CNBC named them #1 on the 2026 Disruptor 50, above OpenAI for the first time. The numbers from Daniela Amodei's interview are hard to process. $1B run rate in December 2024. $9B end of 2025. $14B Februa...
The compute starts serving Anthropic traffic in late 2027 (TechCrunch). It's the largest in a run of deals over eight months: $10B with Volta in August, $5B with AMD in July, a reported $1.25B monthly from SpaceX in May, 5 additional gigawatts from Amazon in April. The lead ti...
Publishers can embed a button on their own sites marking them as a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, including inside AI Mode and AI Overviews. Google says people are twice as likely to click through to a preferred source when one is available, and tha...
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