You probably won't see this in the Pixel 11 ads from Google, but the company raised prices of its devices, downsized the memory and limited the Google One freebies.

The Pixel 11 launch featured a bit of inflation as well as shrinkflation. Google's Pixel launch's included starting prices for the Pixel 11 all $100 more than the equivalent Pixel 10 devices. The Pixel Watch 5 starts at $50 more than the previous model.

Google's device prices run from $399 (Pixel Watch 5) to Pixel 11 at $899 to Pixel 11 Pro at $1,099 to the Pixel 11 Pro Fold at $1,899. The base versions of the Pixel 11 Pro and Pro XL have 256GB starting storage, double the Pixel 10 versions. But RAM in those base devices are now 12GB compared to 16GB in the Pixel 10.

Meanwhile, Google cut the Google One AI Pro trial bundle with the Pixel 11 Pro and other devices from 12 months to six months. If you buy the Pixel 11 there is no free trial at all.

There were a few upgrades with Google Tensor G6 processor, slight camera upgrades and more durability.

In the end, Google just confirmed what we all know: 2026 is not the year to upgrade your personal devices due to soaring component costs. Thanks AI.

Super Micro reported fourth quarter net income of $1.18 billion, or $1.62 a share, on revenue of $11.1 billion, up from $5.8 billion a year ago. Super Micro preannounced the quarter.

For fiscal 2026, Super Micro reported net income of $2.2 billion on revenue of $39.1 billion. As for the outlook, Super Micro projected first quarter sales of $14.5 billion and $15.5 billion with non-GAAP earnings of $1.01 a share to $1.10 a share. Fiscal 2027 revenue will be between $65 billion to $72 billion.

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's former chief operating officer, said he will be leaving the company to "start something new." Lightcap joined OpenAI in 2018. His most recent role was chief operating officer. That gig ended in April and he was given a role focused on special projects. OpenAI has been reshuffling its executives.

Epicor said Vaibhav Vohra will become CEO Oct. 1. Current CEO Steve Murphy will step down at the end of Epicor's fiscal year and remain on the Board of Directors.

Vohra has been Epicor's President since October 2024. He joined Epicor in 2021 as Chief Product Officer.

The Wall Street Journal has a story detailing the tough investor questions Anthropic is seeing ahead of its IPO, which should be this Fall. According to The Journal:

"Company executives have played down the impact of Chinese competition in meetings, telling investors that Anthropic is hyperfocused on offering cutting-edge AI models, the people said. Chief Executive Dario Amodei and other top U.S. AI leaders have publicly said that most users want the most intelligent AI systems available at any given time, suggesting that Chinese systems are less of a threat since their capabilities generally trail those of top AI models by at least a few months."

A business that depends on being a few months (or weeks) ahead of open models is one of two companies driving the AI economy. There are no details on pricing of shares or the financials yet. I can't wait to see the numbers.

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Intel said it raised nearly $20 billion in a common stock offering. The company was originally looking for $15 billion. In a statement, Intel said the proceeds would go to general corporate purposes and maintaining a strong balance sheet.

The chipmaker priced the underwritten public offering of 210,526,315 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $95 per share.

OpenAI released GPT-5.6-Cyber, a more cyber permission version of GPT-5.6 Sol, and expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative. Daybreak will now have two tiers. Daybreak Blue, provides access to frontier models, and Daybreak Red, which features purpose-trained cybersecurity models.

Monday topped second quarter estimates, but provided a light third quarter outlook. Monday reported second quarter earnings of 8 cents a share on revenue of $346.6 million, up 22% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings in the second quarter was $1.48 cents a share, well ahead of estimates.

For the third quarter, Monday projected revenue of $368 million to $370 million, up 16% to 17%. The company said its push upmarket is showing results.

CBRE released its mid-year review of the commercial real estate sector and noted that "preference for 250+ megawatts with 125+ acres of land continues to drive site selectors in new markets."

The issue is that power procurement is extending beyond a decade so data center operators are looking at natural gas, small modular nuclear reactors or co-location at existing energy sites. Electrical equipment supply chain shocks also a pressing concern.

In addition, the average construction cost per megawatt is running $14 million to $16 million.

CBRE's note on risk is worth a look:

"Counterparty and tenant risk remain a focus in 2026 and differentiate landlord strategies. While certain landlords and operators are willing to lease significant capacity to non-investment-grade tenants, others are opting to only serve the world’s largest technology companies. In the event of a slowdown, the bifurcation of financial health of operators will reveal itself."

OpenAI said that its early testing of its upcoming Astra model may have critical cyber capabilities that may delay its launch. Astra wasn't involved in the Hugging Face incident. OpenAI is implementing stricture security control, pausing Astra internal activities and adding universal monitoring for risky actions.

At Black Hat, OpenAI reconstructed the Hugging Face incident. The video is worth a watch for background.

Anthropic said it updated Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards to reduce false positives by about 85%. These fallbacks would result in users being bumped down to a less capable model over safeguards.