Hope You Weren't Putting Off Buying A Mac

Apple hiked Mac and iPad prices 15-25% on the memory crunch; iPhones held steady. Anthropic accused Alibaba of distilling Claude 28.8 million times. IBM detailed a 0.7nm chip, Facebook revived its Creator Studio app, and Kalshi chased a $40B valuation.

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Apple raises Mac, iPad, and other product prices by 15%-25%, saying it has "never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly"; iPhone is unchanged (wsj.com/tech/apple-raises-prices-on-macs-ipads…) (WSJ)

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Apple Raises Mac and iPad Prices to Counter Memory Shortages (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/apple-r…) (Bloomberg)

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Sources: in a letter to US officials, Anthropic accused Alibaba of adversarial distillation, using Claude 28.8M times from April to June via almost 25K accounts (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-24/anthrop…) (Bloomberg)

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IBM details a 0.7nm chip manufacturing process that utilizes a "nanostack" 3D transistor architecture, which it says could continue chip innovation for 10 years (nytimes.com/2026/06/25/technology/ibm-technolo…) (The New York Times)

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Facebook brings back Facebook Creator Studio as a stand-alone app with a built-in AI chatbot to help creators grow their audiences through personalized guidance (techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/facebook-rolls-out-a…) (TechCrunch)

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Meta looks to AI to review harmful content in cost-cutting drive (ft.com/content/39251a31-4a9d-4870-b86c-dc6353d…) (FT)

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Sources: Kalshi is in talks to raise funding at a ~$40B valuation in a round that may close as soon as Q3; Kalshi raised $1B at a $22B valuation in May 2026 (ft.com/content/b6ef5e8a-4288-4223-a017-c97b89c…) (FT)

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