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Sony "Temporarily Suspends" Memory Card Orders In Japan As Global Memory Crunch Worsens First, Sony hiked PlayStation console prices, blaming "continued pressures in the global economic landscape." Now, Sony Japan is warning that the global memory shortage has become severe enough to force a temporary halt to new orders for memory cards, as supply can no longer keep up with production needs. "Due to the global shortage of semiconductors (memory) and other factors, it is anticipated that supply will not meet demand for CFexpress memory cards and SD memory cards for...

Anthropic "Paces The Frontier" By Unleashing Its Most Powerful Opus Yet, And Slashing Prices Up To 60% Anthropic on Tuesday unveiled Claude Opus 5.5, just 10 days after CEO Dario Amodei called for "pacing the frontier" of AI development. The pitch: Fable-class brains at a steep discount. Anthropic says the new model "performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 for most tasks" and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5, which launched all of 60 days ago. List-price cuts run from 20% on input and output tokens to 60%...