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Super Brief: Apple Just Told You Who Pays for AI — Super Brief

Apple Just Told You Who Pays for AI. Three of today's stories are one mechanism wearing three faces. The Fed's preferred inflation gauge reaccelerated, core PCE hitting 3.4 percent, the highest since October 2023, and the rate market now puts a September hike at 73 percent, up from 29 percent a week ago. Underneath that print, a second

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