AI is hurting Apple in more ways than one: it may force iPhone price increases
It’s been called RAMageddon: AI’s insatiable demand for hardware has caused a worldwide shortage of memory chips. Now outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook is warning its customers that your next…
The NO FAKES Act Could Silence Satire, Commentary, And News
The NO FAKES Act is supposed to target harmful AI-generated impersonations. But in reality, it will make it easier to suppress commentary, satire, and other lawful speech. That’s why EFF…
Tim Cook Says Apple Price Increases Are ‘Unavoidable’ Due To Memory Crunch
RAMaggedon claims another one. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple’s outgoing CEO all but confirmed that higher prices are on the way…
Precise Gene Editing in Early Human Embryos Reignites the ‘Designer Baby’ Debate
Scientists at Columbia University have used a precise gene-editing tool, base editing, to make changes in three disease-linked genes in early-stage human embryos. The goal wasn’t to create pregnancies, but…
The Best Nintendo Switch 2 Games of 2026
Developer Lovely Hellplace’s debut project, Dread Delusion, is one of my favorite indie games from the past few years. This open-world action RPG may have been first released in 2024,…
Tim Cook confirms price hikes are coming for iPhones, iPads, and Macs
We’re doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, and we’ve been trying to shield our customers from the increases, but the situation has…
Second carcass-eating fly species cleared by FDA for maggot wound therapy
The Food and Drug Administration this week cleared a second carcass-feasting fly species for use in maggot wound therapy, according to an announcement from Cuprina Holdings, a Singapore-based company that…
The White House Wants Anthropic to Block All Jailbreaks. That May Not Be Possible
The Trump administration’s disagreement with Anthropic over its most advanced AI models appears to be fast coming to a head. Trump officials tell Inner Loop that if Anthropic wants to…
Chi-Hua Chien saw Facebook coming — now he says the real AI winners won’t be selling AI
Chi-Hua Chien has spent more than two decades as a venture capitalist, but he thinks like a cultural anthropologist. As a co-founder of Goodwater Capital, a firm focused exclusively on…
The Free and Open Web Is Under Attack at the IETF
The ability to access publicly available information using automated tools is a central value and benefit of a free and open internet. Automated access—often called crawling or scraping—powers important, useful…















