Apple Mac price hikes, Anthropic vs. Alibaba, robot ban
Good morning. It’s Thursday, June 25. Today we are covering:
* Apple hikes prices on Macs and iPads by up to $200 as memory chip costs surge amid the AI boom
* Anthropic accuses Alibaba of using 25,000 fake accounts to extract Claude‘s coding and AI capabilities
* Commerce Secretary Lutnick signals a crackdown on Chinese humanoid robot imports as an “arms race”
* Gemini in Chrome adds a “Select from screen” tool as Gemini 3.5 Flash gains computer use capabilities
* Cloudflare teams up with Chrome, Edge, and Firefox on a new anti-bot protocol called PACTs
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