Tech giants including Meta, Microsoft, and Sony have all raised prices on major hardware β and the reason traces back to one industry gobbling up memory chips at an unprecedented rate. Meanwhile, a bombshell 17,000-word investigation into OpenAI's Sam Altman is sending shockwaves through Silicon Valley, with one Microsoft executive making a jaw-dropping comparison to infamous fraudsters. Anthropic is also stirring controversy with a new identity verification requirement for Claude users that has privacy advocates sounding the alarm. On the creative tools front, both Canva and Adobe dropped massive AI-powered updates that could change how millions of people work. Plus, a federal jury just ruled against one of the most hated companies in live entertainment β and the fallout could be massive.