smartphone shipments
Coverage of smartphone shipments in the Nexus archive.
- The Download: Claude’s inner workings, and the future of world models
The article discusses Anthropic's new research into AI models' internal reasoning processes and explores the development of world models to improve AI's understanding of the physical world. It also highlights recent tech news, including New York's data center moratorium, declining smartphone shipments, discoveries of sugar molecules in space, Nvidia's AI chip export restrictions, Russian cyber threats, and Trump's cryptocurrency transactions.
- Iran war disrupts phone shipments to Africa
The Iran war is disrupting smartphone shipments to Africa, reducing availability and increasing prices. Supply chain constraints, component costs, and weakened demand linked to the conflict have slowed shipment growth to the continent. Transsion, Africa’s top smartphone seller, faces a more challenging market due to rising supply chain costs and a memory chip shortage worsened by the Middle East crisis.