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Apple has officially announced its annual September event, set for September ninth, two thousand twenty six, with the tagline Surprise and Shine. The livestream kicks off at ten in the morning Pacific time from the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park, and speculation is already running hot that this could be the year Apple finally introduces a folding iPhone to the world.
Shifting to the infrastructure side of the AI boom, cloud operators may be heading toward a serious memory spending crunch. Analysts at TrendForce are forecasting that DRAM and NAND flash costs could consume as much as sixty-eight percent of cloud capital expenditure by next year, as contract prices climb and demand from AI workloads shows no sign of slowing.
And in a story that sits at the intersection of finance and emerging technology, researchers at the Dallas Federal Reserve are raising a pointed warning about tokenized deposits. A broad shift toward blockchain-based banking instruments could pull as much as seven hundred billion dollars out of traditional bank lending, potentially tightening credit and pushing borrowing costs higher for everyday consumers and businesses alike.
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