Technology explained without the jargon. Much of our coverage is about AI, what it can and cannot do, and whether the money pouring into it makes sense.
Twenty-five years ago, a money-losing Apple bet on a $399 music player built around a Toshiba hard drive nobody else wanted. The iPod taught the company how to lock up suppliers, sell what plays on its devices, and advertise with a pair of white earbuds, and Apple used every lesson to build the iPhone that retired it.
Memory-chip prices roughly doubled in 2026 after Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron moved production toward the chips AI data centers buy. Laptops and phones are paying for it, and the forecasts run to 2028.
We still only have its word for it — the entire public record of the first autonomous agent cyberattack rests on what two companies have chosen to tell us.
Hundreds of billions pour into artificial intelligence each quarter. History says we've seen this before — but history may not have the final word.