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Apple is making an unusual move in Washington, lobbying the U.S. government for permission to purchase memory chips from China's blacklisted CXMT. The ask comes as Apple, for the first time, raised prices across a range of its products, citing soaring memory and storage costs it can no longer absorb on behalf of customers.
Meanwhile, a story that sits at the intersection of personal health and artificial intelligence. Founder Connor Christou, despite being known for his rigorous fitness regimen, received a cancer diagnosis. His response was to feed everything into Claude — blood results, scan data, wearable output, even journal entries — using the AI as a kind of research partner in his own treatment.
And in the world of digital finance, stablecoin giant Tether is putting its twenty-three billion dollar gold stockpile to work. Through its tokenized gold product XAUT, Tether is now allowing holders to borrow against their bullion, essentially mirroring the bitcoin-backed lending model but anchored to physical gold rather than cryptocurrency.
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