Month: June 2026

Valve raised the 512GB Steam Deck OLED to $789 (from $549), citing component costs — and in the Philippines, gray-market pricing now lands in ROG Ally X territory.

Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO, beating OpenAI to the gate — and a public Anthropic ultimately answers to shareholders, a common source of pressure on free tiers.

Nvidia’s RTX Spark is a Windows laptop and desktop chip with a Blackwell GPU that can game at 1440p or run a 120B AI model on-device — with machines from six OEMs due this fall.

Meta patched an Instagram flaw that let attackers hijack accounts by asking its AI support assistant to reset the password — used in the wild to deface high-profile handles.

Dell revived the XPS 13 at Computex from $599 (students)/$699, with a 13.4-inch 2.5K 120Hz screen, a 6-core Intel chip, and full x86 Windows. Philippine pricing is still to come.

The Surface Laptop Ultra pairs Nvidia’s new RTX Spark chip with a 15-inch mini-LED screen and up to 128GB of memory for on-device AI; no price has been announced.

Ayala, Globe, Mitsubishi, and KDDI signed an MOU to build the Philippines’ first “intelligent city,” with Makati CBD as the pilot for an AI- and IoT-driven urban platform.