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Demon Slayer's producer Aniplex is open to the use of AI to contribute to the creative process
Omdia expects a 22% YoY drop in global smartphone shipments priced below $400 for 2026 amid soaring DRAM and NAND costs; Q1 memory costs were ~60% of materials (Zaker Li/Omdia)
Zaker Li / Omdia:
Omdia expects a 22% YoY drop in global smartphone shipments priced below $400 for 2026 amid soaring DRAM and NAND costs; Q1 memory costs were ~60% of materials — In the first blog of this two-part series, Omdia explores how rising DRAM and NAND prices are reshaping smartphone economics …
Mario Kart Tour ending, as Nintendo mobile games enter new phase
Sources: MiniMax is working on a 2.7T-parameter model internally called M3 Pro, which it could release as early as Q3 as open source; M3 has 428B parameters (Juro Osawa/The Information)
Juro Osawa / The Information:
Sources: MiniMax is working on a 2.7T-parameter model internally called M3 Pro, which it could release as early as Q3 as open source; M3 has 428B parameters — Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a new large language model with 2.7 trillion parameters, larger than any other Chinese AI models currently …
Apple reaches a deal with Broadcom worth $30B+ to make 15B+ chips in the US over the next five years, Apple's largest as part of its $600B US investment pledge (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
Apple reaches a deal with Broadcom worth $30B+ to make 15B+ chips in the US over the next five years, Apple's largest as part of its $600B US investment pledge — The deal, for billions of chips, is the latest part of Apple's domestic investment pledge — Apple is ramping up its investment …