SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won acknowledged that memory chip prices are 'abnormally high' and that the industry must increase supply. Additionally, SK is considering building a plant in the United States to expand production and ease inflationary pressure on PCs and smartphones.
Sales of Chinese-made vehicles in the UK rose from 384 units in 2015 to 285,000 in 2025, according to Mobility Global. BYD doubled its sales in the first half of 2026. The key reason: the tariff loophole left by Brexit and British trade policy.
Apple has raised prices for Apple Music and Apple One in the US, UK, and Australia, citing rising licensing costs. It's the first increase since October 2022 and reflects a broader trend in streaming services. Users face paying more or losing access to their music libraries.
CISA and agencies from five countries warn that the Russian FSB is compromising misconfigured routers worldwide, using them as residential proxies to launch cyber operations. The attack exploits insecure versions of the SNMP protocol, a vulnerability affecting millions of forgotten devices.
Apple and the U.S. Department of Justice have begun preliminary talks to resolve the 2024 antitrust lawsuit accusing the company of monopolistic practices with the iPhone. While no deal is guaranteed, negotiations could lead to significant changes in the App Store, payment services, and messaging.
CISA has added two critical flaws in FortiSandbox to its catalog of exploited vulnerabilities, urging immediate patching. The vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-39808 and CVE-2026-25089, allow unauthenticated remote code execution. Exploitation attempts have been observed, although one exploit appears to be poorly implemented.
The European Commission has issued two decisions requiring Google to share its search data with competitors and give full access to third-party AI assistants on Android. Google criticizes the move over privacy and security risks, while the EU seeks to foster competition under the Digital Markets Act.
TSMC announced an additional $100 billion investment in Arizona to build at least four 2nm chip fabs and advanced packaging plants. The move responds to US customer demand and geopolitical pressures, raising the company's total US investment to $265 billion.
Airbus has announced the migration of 70 critical applications from AWS to Scaleway, a French cloud provider, as part of its digital sovereignty strategy. The decision reflects growing concern in Europe over the extraterritoriality of US laws like the Cloud Act and marks a milestone in the movement toward independent digital infrastructure.
AWS, Google, and Microsoft are investing billions in Forward Deployed Engineering programs. They send engineers to work inside companies at no apparent cost, but the model hides a strategic risk: tying companies to a single cloud ecosystem.
Microsoft is instructing its sales force to disparage OpenAI and Anthropic models, according to TechCrunch. The move reflects growing rivalry in the enterprise AI market, where the company seeks to boost its own internal models over those of its former partners.
ASML, the Dutch lithography manufacturer, is considering raising the prices of its EUV Low-NA (NXE) machines by up to 20%, according to industry sources. TSMC, its largest customer, is strongly opposed, but ASML's 'value-based pricing' strategy and technical monopoly give it room to implement the increases, which could cost chipmakers billions.