$APPL consumer product prices are skyrocketing due to memory chip costs.

This is a tiny glimpse into the future of the "permanent underclass."

This term sounds like a joke until you actually break down what's happening right now.

Apple just spiked consumer product prices by 10-50%+

The best products & intelligence are slowly becoming only accessible to the rich, and the "underclass" will only be able to access watered-down, sh*t variations.

Tech companies are just making their best products completely out of reach for the average person (Fable 5 is another good example).

This trend will only accelerate.

We've never seen anything like the product price increases announced today by Apple and Microsoft.

Tim Cook: "I haven't seen anything like it in any area in over 40 years"

Elon Musk agrees.

The AI data center boom is driving a massive wave of consumer inflation.

So what does everyone think of OpenAI’s new BiDi voice model?

The bidirectional, full duplex stuff is honestly uncanny.

It doesn’t feel like talking to a chatbot anymore. It literally feels like talking to a real human who can listen, interrupt, react, and keep up in real time.

This is the first AI voice mode that actually feels alive.

Will you actually let AI agents make phone calls for you soon?

Like booking appointments, arguing with customer support, negotiating prices, managing boring life admin?

Because honestly, that might be the first AI feature normal people instantly understand.

AI Hardware by Memory Bandwidth.

Bookmark this list, it will help you before purchasing your next hardware equipment.

- Mac Studio M3 Ultra: up to 512GB @ 819 GB/s
- RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell: 96GB @ 1792 GB/s
- RTX 5090: 32GB @ 1792 GB/s
- RTX 4090: 24GB @ 1008 GB/s
- RX 7900 XTX: 24GB @ 960 GB/s
- Radeon PRO W7900: 48GB @ 864 GB/s
- AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700: 32GB @ 640 GB/s
- Intel Arc Pro B65: 32GB @ ~608 GB/s
- Tenstorrent Wormhole n300: 24GB @ 576 GB/s
- Tenstorrent Blackhole p150: 32GB @ 512 GB/s + 800G
- MacBook Pro M5 Max: 460-614 GB/s
- MacBook Pro M5 Pro: 307 GB/s
- DGX Spark: 128GB @ 273 GB/s (coherent + CUDA)
- Mac mini M4 Pro: 273 GB/s
- Ryzen AI Max / Strix Halo: ~256 GB/s (~96GB usable GPU)
- MacBook Air M5: 153 GB/s
- Snapdragon X2 Elite: 152-228 GB/s
- Intel Lunar Lake: 136 GB/s
- Snapdragon X Elite: 135 GB/s
- Mac mini M4: 120 GB/s
- Arc Pro B60: 24GB @ ~456 GB/s

This is the most underrated Hermes agent prompt.

Send this to Hermes, and your agent becomes your 24/7 personal executive assistant.

Monitors your upcoming meetings, task list, travel updates & more.

One of the best Hermes use cases

Hardware & infrastructure price increases over the last year:

RAM (DRAM)
→ Doubled since early 2025
→ +90% in Q1 2026 alone
→ DDR5 sticks: $80 → $300 each

GPU Memory (VRAM)
→ 16Gb module: $5.50 → $20+
→ Now ~80% of a GPU's total cost

GPUs
→ RTX 5090: $1,999 → up to ~$5,000 projected

SSDs (NAND)
→ +147% in Q1 2026

64GB DDR5 kit
→ $195 → $788

Laptops
→ Memory now ~20% of total cost (was 10-12%)

Overall PC/computer prices
→ +17% by the end of 2026 (Gartner)

Followed by 10-50%+ consumer product price increases by $APPL & $MSFT.

What do people actually use AI voice mode for right now?

I love the idea of talking to AI, but I’m still waiting for a real agentic voice mode on the iPhone.

Siri AI is nice, but I don’t just want answers.

I want an assistant that can actually do things, manage tasks, make calls, negotiate, book stuff, and handle life admin while I just talk to it.

If the US government is already rationing access to Fable and GPT 5.6 class models, I’m genuinely worried.

What happens when true AGI arrives?

Do normal people actually get it, or do we only get the delayed, nerfed, “safe for public consumption” version while governments, labs and approved partners get the real thing?

AI was supposed to democratize intelligence.

It would be insanely dark if it just creates intelligence inequality on god mode.

I don’t think I’ll ever fully trust or use a model from Anthropic.

Not because Claude is bad, but because Anthropic is way too tied to the effective altruism / longtermist worldview.

That ideology already makes me nervous.

Combine it with AGI or ASI and it gets terrifying.

When people believe they are optimizing for “humanity’s future,” it becomes very easy to justify controlling, limiting, filtering, or deciding things for everyone else.

AGI should not be guided by a tiny group of people who think they know what is best for civilization.

This "Taste" Skill is cracked.

I can't believe I didn't discover it sooner - everyone should install this.

It works directly inside Claude Code, Codex, Hermes & more to completely kill AI-generated slop.

If you send this prompt to your agent, it will automatically install it

The Trump admin has asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6 over security concerns.

On Thursday, CEO Sam Altman told staff that the government will be approving access to GPT-5.6 customer by customer, a highly unusual approach.

Let this actually sink in:

The most powerful closed models on earth now require federal sign-off, one user at a time.

AI might've just hit its first real wall for progression.

Meanwhile, open-source models (like GLM-5.2 and
Sakana Fugu):

→ Can't be recalled
→ Can't be federally gated
→ Are already within months of frontier intelligence

This is the strongest bull case for open-source AI we've seen yet.

Seems like an easy win for China from here.

zenmux.ai

unsloth.ai/docs/models/glm-5.2

sakana.ai/fugu

Live footage of software engineers crawling to their laptops at 3 PM on Monday to send 1 prompt to Claude and let it do the rest of the week's work

New York Times: OpenAI is now leaning toward a 2027 IPO because the public market is testing whether AI giants deserve trillion-dollar prices before they prove durable profits.

IMO, SpaceX’s huge IPO and Anthropic’s confidential filing also change the OpenAI story because public-market capital is not infinite, and investors may already be digesting one massive AI-adjacent listing while preparing for another pure AI listing.

OpenAI cannot just ask for $1T in isolation, because every giant IPO competes for the same pool of institutional cash, risk appetite, and patience for loss-making growth stories.

So waiting until 2027 lets OpenAI avoid becoming the third huge test of AI-market depth in the same cycle

$MU Micron just reported a 15-fold profit jump because AI servers are now short of high-bandwidth memory, the stacked memory that keeps GPUs fed with data.

The shortage gives Micron rare pricing power, with adjusted gross margin reaching 84.9%, compared with 39% a year earlier.

DeepSeek is going on a hiring sprint, aiming to double every department.

The hiring spans AI core R&D, algorithms, deep learning research, full-stack development, and product roles, which means DeepSeek is no longer only tuning models but building the whole system around them.

I don't know how you feel inside, but i know a yacht would make you feel better

Mckinsey report - AI agents are quietly taking over the retail shopping cart and could mediate $3 Tn to $5 tn of global consumer commerce by 2030.

Instead of just suggesting a product, an AI agent can now scan multiple stores, check inventory, and build a ready-to-buy shopping cart.

This shift is happening across 6 different levels of automation.

- At the lowest level, the AI just compares prices and features so a human can make the final choice.

- At the highest level, your personal AI agent negotiates directly with a store's AI agent to get the best price and shipping terms.

Brands will increasingly compete to win over algorithms rather than just human shoppers.

For this to work, retail stores must make their product catalogs and return policies machine-readable by software via API

If a brand only focuses on looking good to humans but hides its inventory data, the AI agents will simply ignore it.

Stores that expose their pricing and stock data through clear software connections will dominate this new landscape, while those relying purely on flashy marketing will lose out as machines make the actual purchasing choices.

Automation ranges from simple product comparisons to full machine-to-machine negotiation.

Media and government: most of you can't afford to live so let’s increase inflation more

OpenAI & Anthropic: AI will replace you, but we can't afford our own compute

Apple & Microsoft: memory's expensive, will you join the permanent underclass?