United States eases curbs on Anthropic Mythos 5

 

Washington — The U.S. government on Friday partially lifted its export block on Anthropic’s most advanced artificial intelligence system, Claude Mythos 5, ending a two‑week standoff rooted in national security concerns that began on June 12, 2026. In a letter to Anthropic’s chief compute officer, Tom Brown, Commerce Secretary Howard...

United States tech giants raise hardware prices

 

Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced significant price increases on key consumer hardware in late June 2026, citing a severe global memory chip shortage driven by surging demand for artificial intelligence data centers. Apple raised prices by 15 to 25 percent across Mac, iPad, HomePod and Vision Pro lines, with...

Washington regulators close probe into Honda Odyssey airbags

 

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has closed its preliminary evaluation into 441,002 Honda Odyssey minivans after a voluntary recall by American Honda Motor Co. addressed an airbag defect. Announced on Saturday, June 27, 2026, the decision ends a multi‑month federal inquiry into 2018–2022 model year Odyssey vehicles....

United States approves Elon Musk’s Mesh Optical acquisition

 

Washington, United States – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has granted early termination of its antitrust review, clearing Elon Musk to acquire Mesh Optical Technologies Corp., an independent hardware startup focused on next-generation optical communication for artificial intelligence data centers. The approval, recorded under transaction number 20261601, was confirmed through...

Cupertino-based Apple raises hardware prices amid chip crunch

 

Cupertino, California – Apple sharply increased prices across most of its hardware lineup on Thursday, June 25, citing an unprecedented spike in memory and storage chip costs driven by surging AI data-center demand. The MacBook Neo, introduced earlier in 2026 at $599 as Apple’s entry-level laptop, now starts at $699,...

California: Cisco cuts 471 Bay Area jobs

 

SAN JOSE, California — Cisco Systems Inc. is laying off 471 employees across its Bay Area offices as part of a previously announced global restructuring and shift toward artificial intelligence-focused products and services. Newly processed California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filings, dated Friday, June 26, 2026, show that the...

United States tech selloff wipes out Musk trillionaire status

 

In the United States, SpaceX shares have fallen sharply only weeks after the company’s record-breaking initial public offering. SpaceX went public on June 12, 2026 on the Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX, raising about $75 billion at an initial price of $135 per share and debuting at a valuation near...

United States retailer exits bankruptcy as Exemplar Luxury

 

United States-based Saks Global, the parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, officially exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Friday, June 26, 2026, and rebranded as Exemplar Luxury Group (ELG). The emergence capped a five-month court-supervised restructuring that sharply reduced the company’s leverage and reshaped its role...

United States firms explore SpaceX-Charter mobile partnership

 

SpaceX has held executive-level discussions with Charter Communications about a potential partnership to launch a direct-to-consumer mobile phone service in the United States, according to people familiar with the matter. The confidential talks, reported Friday, June 26, 2026, would leverage Charter’s extensive ground-based internet and Wi-Fi infrastructure to support traffic...

United States: Apple seeks waiver to buy blacklisted Chinese chips

 

Apple has launched a lobbying effort with the Trump administration to obtain emergency clearance to purchase memory chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), a Chinese semiconductor firm blacklisted by the U.S. government for alleged ties to the People’s Liberation Army. The campaign, reported by the Financial Times and initiated about...