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AI Cost Reality Check Hits Tech Stocks as Apple Hikes Price

Explore episode Jun 26, 2026
Technology
Why Memory Chips Won't Follow the Old Boom-Bust Playbook

AI Cost Reality Check Hits Tech Stocks as Apple Hikes Price · Jun 26, 2026 Technology

Memory chips used to be wildly cyclical — when consumer demand collapsed, memory prices crashed. That pattern is broken now. Data center demand for AI infrastructure has structural staying power that consumer electronics never did. Building more fabs carries the same risk it always did, but the demand floor is much higher.

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OpenAI Delays IPO to 2027, Unbothered by Anthropic

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Ed Ludlow reports OpenAI is leaning toward staying private until 2027, consistent with its June 8th confidential filing, and appears calm about Anthropic potentially IPO-ing first.

Business
Volkswagen's Brutal Reckoning: 100,000 Jobs on the Line

AI Cost Reality Check Hits Tech Stocks as Apple Hikes Price · Jun 26, 2026 Business

Volkswagen is facing pressure from every direction: tariffs in the US, fierce Chinese competition at home and in China, and a massive European industrial base that's politically untouchable. The company has been pushing this reckoning off for years. Now it's cutting 100,000 jobs and slashing €11B in overhead — and the market barely shrugged.

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