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Brief: Apple Just Told You Who Pays for AI

Apple raised prices on every Mac and iPad it sells, citing memory costs that have surged sharply in a single quarter, and the stock fell 6 percent. PCE inflation landed at its highest level since April 2023. Google's DeepMind research lab lost a Nobel laureate and three other researchers to rivals i

Super Brief: Record Demand, Record Doubt — Super Brief

Record Demand, Record Doubt. Three of today's stories are the same bet wearing three different suits. Micron printed $41.5 billion in quarterly revenue at an 84.9% gross margin, guided 17% above consensus, and said all of its 2026 high-bandwidth-memory capacity is already contracted. That is the senior, transparent claim on AI-

Brief: Record Demand, Record Doubt

Micron just printed $41.5 billion in quarterly revenue and an 84.9% gross margin, and the market it proved is the same one that just took gold below $4,000 for the first time since November and repriced a September rate hike from impossible to probable in seven sessions. The demand and the doubt arr

Super Brief: The AI Selloff Started in Seoul — Super Brief

The AI Selloff Started in Seoul. Korea's KOSPI fell 8% on Tuesday and tripped a circuit breaker, SK Hynix and Samsung down more than 12%, and not one input to that crash was Korean. The index is still up roughly 80% on the year even after the plunge, Taiwan is up better than 50%, and mainland China sits flat. The consensus calls it

Brief: The AI Selloff Started in Seoul

Tuesday found the fault line Monday's calm was hiding. South Korea's KOSPI fell 8% and tripped a circuit breaker, SK Hynix and Samsung down more than 12%, and the shock rolled west into a Nasdaq rout. Nothing broke inside the AI models. The money that builds them got more expensive. Traders now pric