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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: Microsoft Will Raise Xbox Prices in August

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: Chinese-owned EV maker Polestar will exit the U.S. market after a Commerce Department ban.. And former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams sues Meta to overturn an arbitration order blocking her from promoting her book. Julie Chang hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:15.0

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0:24.4

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0:31.4

Here's your afternoon T&B Tech Minute for Thursday, June 25th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

0:38.5

Xbox prices will go up in August.

0:41.9

Parent company Microsoft says the increase is in response to storing costs of storage and memory.

0:48.3

The company said the memory crunch has had a pronounced impact on consoles, which are typically

0:53.1

sold at a loss.

1:03.0

Prices will go up by $100 for the 512 gigabyte models and $150 for the 1 terabyte models.

1:06.9

Microsoft said it'll also sunset its 2-terabyte model.

1:12.2

The change follows an earlier round of smaller U.S. price increases in October.

1:19.1

Chinese-owned EV-maker Poll Star will exit the U.S. market after the Commerce Department banned it from selling new cars in the country. The decision marks the first major casualty

1:24.9

of a U.S. rule prohibiting Chinese software in new vehicles that connect

1:30.0

to the Internet due to national security concerns. Pollstar said it'll continue to sell its remaining

1:35.3

stock of vehicles in the U.S. and will provide access to service centers for repairs. The Commerce

1:41.3

Department didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Poll Star says it'll

1:46.0

now focus on strengthening its business in Europe, which represents about 80% of its total global sales.

1:53.5

And former Facebook executive Sarah Wynne Williams is suing META to overturn an arbitration order

2:00.1

blocking her from promoting her book.

2:02.5

In careless people, Wyn Williams alleges wrongdoing by executives at what was then called

2:07.9

Facebook. She is now requesting the arbitration order be lifted and the process halted,

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