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The Nasdaq falls 5.5% as chip stocks crash, Google plans a $17 billion Wyoming data center, and Zipline raises $1.5 billion to bring drone delivery to 300 more Walmart sites.

Sequoia raises about $10 billion and shuts Arc, Scouts and London, Apple will scan public iCloud links in iOS 27.3, and Kamau reports three sickle cell patients free of pain crises.

Google ties student Search to its AI, AMD says it may out-sell Intel in x86 chips, and Ohio towns vote down data centers.

Inside Anthropic’s Updated Filing, Plus Apple’s Memory Problem

South Korea’s chip exports hit $56.4 billion in a month while Kioxia fell 15%, OpenAI merges ChatGPT and Codex limits, and Binance starts reopening withdrawals.

Binance pauses withdrawals after a record crypto hack, Amazon’s cloud grows fast while earnings fall short, and GM settles with 36 states over selling driver data.

Apple prices its first touchscreen Mac at $2,899, Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon takes the top spot on one AI index, and Audi joins Volkswagen’s EV battery recall.

Apple’s new M6 MacBook Pro and iMac open for orders, SK Hynix warns memory will stay scarce through 2030, and the FCC clears Amazon’s $11.5 billion Globalstar deal.

Anthropic filed for a Nasdaq IPO, Microsoft offered buyouts to about 60,000 employees, and Apple priced its new OLED iPad mini at $699.

Anthropic confirms Claude pulled Georgia vote counts on its own. Meta’s new AI terms put the risk on you starting Friday. Plus a robot dog with a 9.6-rated flaw, a $108M sodium-ion battery bet, and a $5 app that makes your iPhone shoot like 1991.

US banks start locking out AI agents, an Australian court orders Apple to allow rival app stores, and Micron’s Taiwan workers go on strike.

PHP rushed out fixes for two critical bugs as attacks began, a poisoned LiteLLM release stole developers’ keys, and Apple’s $1,999 iPhone Duo got its first reviews.