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This week alone, Google raised the price of its phones, YouTube made it harder to get paid, and Elon Musk announced a chip factory bigger than anything we've seen before.

It got me wondering how much the next wave of tech is going to cost you.

In this week's issue:

  • Why your next phone may cost more
  • What Elon Musk is building in Texas
  • How YouTube is making it harder for creators to get paid

See you next week!

— Kelechi, Interim Managing Editor


🚀 BIG STORY

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📱 The Pixel 11 costs $100 more. It doesn't feel $100 newer

By Ogbonda Chivumnovu

Google has added a faster chip, more storage, and a pile of new camera and AI features, but this is still largely a refinement year for the hardware. So why are buyers paying more for a phone that looks and feels so familiar?


⚡️ MORE BIG STORIES

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🏭 Elon Musk is building a chip factory for products that barely exist yet

Tesla and SpaceX are spending $16.8 billion on a 100-million-square-foot semiconductor complex. But what's strange is that the factory is being built around a future of massive robot fleets, autonomous cars, and computing in space that hasn't arrived yet. Just how big does Musk think that future is?

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