Apple raised prices on existing iPhone models in India by as much as 41%, implementing the change only hours before a new-model launch. The move departs from Apple’s usual practice of discounting older models and is among the company’s largest price adjustments this year across markets. Apple also increased iPhone prices in the US on Wednesday evening by about 10–21%, citing rising memory and storage chip costs as the rationale for global price hikes.

Wildfire and extreme-heat risk persisted across the US West, with Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and both North and South Dakota under red-flag warnings and fire-weather watches in much of northern and eastern Nevada. Sustained winds up to 25 mph (40 km/h) and gusts up to 45 mph raised fire-spread risk. Heat advisories covered parts of California, Nevada and Arizona: San Francisco issued a heat advisory and Stockton was forecast to reach 98°F (37°C). The NWS said an extreme-heat warning for southern Los Angeles will last one day, with daytime highs near 96°F and a heat index around 108°F (≈42°C). Extreme heat complicated firefighting of a brush fire that produced smoke over I-405 and forced temporary closure of the Getty Center on Wednesday.

Survey shows Chilean analysts expect Chile's benchmark policy rate to be 4.50% in 11 months.