Meta Platforms shares surged 15% in the best weekly rally since early 2024, closing at $669.21 on July 10, after the company launched Muse Image AI tool, upgraded Muse Spark, and announced plans to pr…
Meta halted its Muse Image AI's Instagram referencing feature three days after launch following backlash over privacy and consent concerns. The company admitted it 'missed the mark' on consent, as the…
Google Quantum AI published a reinforcement learning system in Nature on July 8 that calibrates its Willow quantum processor in real time, achieving a 3.5x improvement in error stability and a record …
The US reclassified the UAE to Country Group A:5, effective July 10, 2026, lifting license requirements for exports of advanced AI chips, servers, and dual-use technologies. The policy shift, which bu…
South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in its NASDAQ debut on July 10, marking the largest US listing by a foreign company. The IPO was driven by surging demand for high-bandwidth…
Google DeepMind's Gemma team partnered with Hugging Face in the Fast Gemma Challenge, achieving a 5x inference speed boost for the Gemma 4 model on a single NVIDIA A10G GPU, with peak performance of 4…
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 on July 9, introducing a three-tier pricing model with the Luna tier at $1 per million input tokens, a 25x cost reduction compared to competitors. The aggressive pricing target…
Coinbase's Layer 2 network Base processed over 20 million agentic payment transfers in 90 days and 169 million total AI transactions as of July 2026, driven by the x402 protocol for stablecoin-settled…
The US reclassified the UAE to Country Group A:5, effective July 10, 2026, eliminating export licenses for advanced AI chips, military gear, and satellites. The move follows the US-UAE AI Cooperation …
SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung warned on July 10 that the global memory chip industry will face its worst-ever supply shortage starting in 2027, with demand outpacing supply until after 2030, driven by AI…
Meta Platforms shares surged approximately 15% in a week, the company's strongest showing since early 2024, driven by AI model launches and plans to build a cloud computing business that would compete…
Apple accused former employees of sharing confidential information with OpenAI to support the AI company's device development efforts. The accusation adds strain to an already tense partnership betwee…
OpenAI reports that 8% of Codex contributor workdays exceeded 24 hours of cumulative AI-assisted engineering effort in Q2 2026, a fourfold increase from 2% a year earlier, driven by concurrent task ma…
Coinbase appointed Ryan VanGrack as Vice Chair and head of corporate affairs on July 9, 2026, to lead regulatory engagement and global partnerships as U.S. crypto rules are finalized. VanGrack, former…
General Fusion, a Vancouver-based fusion startup, will become the first publicly traded pure-play fusion energy company on NASDAQ under ticker GFUZ via a SPAC merger with Spring Valley Acquisition Cor…
The US Department of Commerce reclassified the UAE to Country Group A:5, easing export controls on advanced AI chips from Nvidia and other defense tech. The move unlocks license-free access for approv…
Robinhood will allow eligible US customers to connect third-party AI agents to trade cryptocurrencies on its platform, expanding its Agentic Trading product beyond stocks. The feature, announced July …
Elon Musk has directed Tesla employees to use Grok 4.5, an AI system from his own company xAI, and capped spending on rival AI tools at $200 per week per employee. The move raises conflict-of-interest…
OpenAI's Codex team hosted a Reddit AMA on July 10 to discuss GPT-5.6, a new model family with three tiers (Sol, Terra, Luna) offering competitive pricing and state-of-the-art coding performance. The …
Altera, the world's largest pure-play FPGA provider, returned to growth with roughly 20% annual revenue growth and more than doubled operating income, driven by demand for its programmable chips in AI…