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Cheap LCD TVs could be in trouble for Black Friday — the Chinese companies who control production are reportedly raising prices at a crunch time, while Samsung may be looking to abandon QLED TVs

Key LCD panel makers are upping prices this month, which is a crunch manufacturing period ahead of Black Friday and end-of-year sales
There are only three TV LCD panel manufacturers, and all have decided to protect profits with price rises, reportedly
Samsung's is also said to be cutting QLED TV production by up to 80%

If you're planning to pick up a super-cheap big-screen LCD TV for Black Friday this year, you may need to temper your expectations.

Key LCD panel makers have reportedly told manufacturers including Samsung, Sony and LG that they're putting their panel prices up just in time for production ready for the busiest sales period of the year.

Samsung Display doesn't make LCD panels any more, and LG Display has also stopped making them. That means the big TV brands are reliant on a handful of Chinese panel producers who now dominate the market: BOE, ...

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AI’s next enterprise risk is generated sprawl

For years, technical debt was one of the most useful concepts in software. It gave technology leaders a simple way to describe a familiar trade-off: a team could build quickly by cutting corners and making compromises but would eventually come back to clean things up. The debt incurred had to

KEONICS marks 50 years with a focus on regional technology infrastructure and AI

Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation Limited (KEONICS) has marked its Golden Jubilee, commemorating five decades of involvement in Karnataka’s technology ecosystem and outlining plans to expand technology infrastructure, digital services, skilling and AI initiatives across the state. The celebrations in Bengaluru included the launch of KEONICS’ new logo and

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Claude Opus 5.5 comes to Microsoft Foundry for long-running coding and knowledge work

AI models are increasingly taking on work that extends far beyond a single prompt: building a feature across a codebase, investigating a complex issue, synthesizing hundreds of pages of information, or working through a multi-step business process. As that work gets longer, raw intelligence is only part of what matters.

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GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna: For production agents in Microsoft Foundry

Today, we are expanding our GPT-6 series by welcoming GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to our generally available lineup in Microsoft Foundry. Building on the exceptional customer momentum of GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, this launch continues our work to deliver transformative capabilities in Microsoft Foundry that produce less

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AI’s next enterprise risk is generated sprawl

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Claude Opus 5.5 comes to Microsoft Foundry for long-running coding and knowledge work

GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna: For production agents in Microsoft Foundry