AI Demand Pushes Some Memory Costs Toward a 400 Percent Rise
The compute boom sold as abundance is showing up first as a hardware tax: memory scarcity has already lifted laptop, tablet and console prices before any promised productivity arrives.
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New York Prepares a Statewide Data-Center Permitting Pause
New York's year-long pause on large data centers turns AI's next build-out into a fight over whose electricity bills and reservoirs the servers draw down, before a single covered-project rule exists.
SoftBank's Son Says AI Needs Five Trillion Dollars a Year
Son put a $5 trillion-a-year price tag on AI and dismissed bubble fears as foolish, but attached no model, financing plan or return threshold to numbers his own funds are betting on.
EU Panel Shifts Child-Safety Duty From Parents to Platforms
A July 13 EU panel would bar under-13s from social platforms until providers prove safety by design, but no law, Commission proposal, or member-state vote yet exists to force the shift.
Australia Promises Faster AI Approvals and a Coordinating Office
Investors hear a green light on faster datacentre approvals; Australian writers and climate groups hear a speech that names a new office but sets no copyright terms, energy standards or deadlines.
More Than 200 Researchers Sign an AI Jobs Warning
A four-sentence letter from 200-plus economists names incentives, guardrails and institutions to steer AI away from mass job loss, but attaches no bill, regulator or deadline to any of them.
EU Develops Anonymous Age Proof for Social Access
Brussels is building an app to prove a user's age without revealing who they are, but false positives, appeals and platform integration are unresolved before any age gate goes live.
Jury Convicts Sadeghi on Three Export Counts
A Boston jury convicted a former Analog Devices engineer on three export counts, but the judge barred any claim that his parts reached the drone that killed three US troops in Jordan.