Tech Industry
India smartphone prices up 21%, the steepest anywhere
Counterpoint puts India's 2026 smartphone price rise at 21%, against a 15% world average, and budget phone shipments fell 45%.
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Tech Industry
DRAM and NAND prices climb again as AI takes capacity
DRAM contract prices rise 13-18% in Q3 2026 after an 80-90% jump in Q1, as memory makers move capacity to AI servers.
AI & LLMs
TypeSafe's Jev returns typed decisions, not text
Jev answers in 70 to 500 milliseconds and charges $0.042 per million input tokens, with output free. It cannot generate text at all.
New & Next
Galaxy S26 FE's first update fixes 50+ security issues
A roughly 400MB update patches more than 50 security issues, while GSMArena's 4.2/5 review flags a USB 2.0 downgrade and no wired DeX.
AI & LLMs
GPT-6 Astra is generally available on Bedrock and Copilot
GPT-6 Astra is GA on Amazon Bedrock at $10 per million input tokens, and in GitHub Copilot for Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise plans.
AI & LLMs
Claude Fable 5.1 cuts cache reads 75% and keeps token prices flat
Anthropic's Fable 5.1 holds input and output prices at $10 and $50 per million tokens, and drops cache reads from $1.00 to $0.25. Mythos 5.1 stays invitation-only.
AI & LLMs
DeepSeek warns developers a significant API price rise is coming
DeepSeek warned developers on August 6 that API prices will rise 'significantly' soon, with no figures or dates - while V4-Flash is the cheapest well-known model to run.
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