Demand by AI hyperscalers has quintupled prices for flash over the past year, according to TechInsights. Meta, Microsoft and Amazon signed contracts with Kioxia this year to secure long-term supply by committing to higher prices.
Alphabet shares fell 13% on Thursday, erasing roughly $500 billion of market value in the stock's worst day on record. The owner of Google burned through cash last quarter and said searches in its AI Mode were threatening profits at its core advertising business. The report landed as investors grow increasingly wary of whether the AI investment boom will pay off.
The drop is the second-biggest in Wall Street history, behind Nvidia's $593 billion rout in January 2025. The headline figure is approximate: at 1:30 p.m. EDT, with shares down around 12%, the
We have dictated close to 100,000 words into a free app maintained almost single-handedly by a developer in Zeuthen. Here is what it does that paid rivals charge for, and where it still falls short.
Meta's 816-billion-parameter Muse Spark Open runs at home on two linked M5 Ultra Mac Studios that Apple has not yet priced. Hosted access costs $4.25 per million output tokens. Apple's own speed tests and today's cloud prices decide which workloads make the purchase pay.
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