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Bloomberg: Sources: activist investor Elliott has built a large stake in car insurance software maker CCC, which is exploring a potential sale and has a ~$3.5B market cap — Elliott Investment Manageme

They sure put a lot of effort into this crime Apple just sued OpenAI, and the wildest part is how they got caught: one candidate screenshotted confidential Apple files on his Apple work laptop hours b

Tesla has deployed 10 GWh of industrial energy storage products across Australia, a capacity equivalent to powering approximately 160,000 Tesla Model Y vehicles. This milestone reflects the growing ad

Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: A US court sentences a former ransomware negotiator to 70 months in prison for colluding with BlackCat to extort 75.3M from five of his employer's clients — Angelo Martino exp

Researchers have measured the frame-dragging effect predicted by Einstein's general relativity with unprecedented precision, confirming the theory once again . The measurement used data from the Laser

Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal: An RIAA-led coalition representing labels and artists proposes two tags for AI content: one for entirely AI-generated songs and another for “AI-assisted” tracks

Bloomberg: Analysis: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle, the top spenders on new US data centers, collectively added ~$350B in debt over the past five years — The largest builders of artifi

Megan Morrone / Axios: Apple alleges that a former Apple engineer kept a work-issued Apple laptop and exploited a bug to access Apple's cloud file storage while employed by OpenAI — Apple is suing Ope

CNBC: Apple alleges that Tang Tan, OpenAI's chief hardware officer and a former Apple VP, has directed Apple staffers interviewing at OpenAI to share Apple secrets — Apple on Friday sued OpenAI in fed

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple claims OpenAI recruited 400+ ex-Apple employees, including an iPhone engineer who allegedly downloaded confidential hardware files before joining OpenAI — Apple Sues Ope

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple says OpenAI leadership “normalized” misconduct and OpenAI's hardware business is “rotten to its core by its illegal reliance” on stolen trade secrets — Apple filed a la

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple sues OpenAI, alleging that ex-Apple employees stole “Apple's trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI”, and says OpenAI never responded to its concerns — Apple has filed

Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that engineers stole Apple secrets to advance the AI startup's hardware plans. In its complaint, Apple says it uncovered 'a pattern of theft of Apple's trade secrets by

Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: Bluesky interim CEO Toni Schneider becomes the company's permanent CEO, four months after succeeding Jay Graber — In March, Bluesky's longtime CEO, Jay Graber, stepped down f

Built with two prompts and /goal! Grok 4.5 in Grok Build is insane for 3D game dev🤯 I ran a detailed prompt using the /goal feature and I created this in only two prompts. Took roughly an hour. The mo

An expedition used a remote operated vehicle to capture the first images of Quest, the sunken ship of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, at 400 metres below the Labrador Sea on July 7, 2026. The ve

Bloomberg: China drops a numerical target for urban job creation in its five-year plan, the first such omission since the 1990s, amid volatility fueled by AI displacement — China dropped a numerical t

China successfully recovered the first stage of a carrier rocket during an orbital launch test, marking a major breakthrough in reusable rocket technology. The recovery used a sea-based system with ho

Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg: Circle says it received US regulator approval to start a national digital-currency trust bank, allowing it to offer institutional custody services — Circle Internet Group I

Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive: CISA says weak security controls around the use of public GitHub repos allowed a contractor to accidentally leak private cloud access keys and other credentials — The

The European Union ordered Meta to disable 'addictive design' elements like infinite scroll and autoplay videos on Facebook and Instagram, or face large fines under the Digital Services Act. The Commi

Tesla decommissioned the original Model S and Model X assembly line in 46 days, marking the end of an era for these vehicles that launched the company's expansion beyond the Roadster. This rapid trans

Fable 5 vs Grok 4.5 vs GPT 5.5 We put three top-tier models to build a same game challenge. Used Command Code /design, and the exact same prompt. Result: Grok 4.5 genuinely plays like a polished mobil

A June 2026 firmware update (version 2071353020) bricked fewer than 100 Hue Bridge Pro units worldwide, rendering them inoperable with corrupted firmware preventing normal operation. Affected devices

Gavin Baker, likely a prominent investor or analyst, asserts that Tesla and Elon Musk have contributed more to global decarbonization than the collective efforts of environmental activists. The statem

Grok gaming Grok 4.5 in Grok Build created an FPS game in under an hour. The prompt was simple. I told it to write a game design document and pull free assets from the web. Then I had it create a TODO

Grok only gets better from here Grok 4.5 just constructed an explicit counterexample to hypercontractivity for the Poisson semigroup (the square root of the Laplace–Beltrami operator) on the 4-sphere.

Hugging Face's CEO discusses why enterprises are moving away from renting AI models and services from cloud providers, likely advocating for open-source alternatives or on-premise deployment models. T

Aaron Tilley / The Information: In its lawsuit, Apple chronicles in vivid detail how its former employees that went to work for OpenAI allegedly violated their confidentiality agreements — In the mont

Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: In response to Apple's trade secret theft lawsuit, OpenAI says “we have no interest in other companies' trade secrets” — OpenAI has issued a formal statement in response to Ap

On July 4, 2026, Sacramento used drone surveillance to catch illegal fireworks and issued approximately 300,000 in fines, including one 100,000 citation for 20 devices . The city's updated ordinance s

Though Instagram head Adam Mosseri doesn't want to filter out AI content on the platform, he argues that you 'shouldn't have it in your feed' if you don't like it. 'I don't think we should filter out

Feature Views is a Databricks capability that provides a standardized way to define, manage, and serve machine learning features across an organization. This feature enables data teams to create reusa

A deadly June 2026 heatwave has turned air conditioning into a new climate and political battleground in Europe , as air conditioner sales across the continent have surged dramatically, with shipments

ECU tuning is an ongoing arms race between automobile manufacturers locking down vehicle chips and aftermarket tuners attempting to crack them . The article investigates how ECU tuning modifies engine

Sam Altman expresses satisfaction that users are enthusiastically adopting and enjoying the 5.6 SOL (likely referring to a Solana-related product or update). The post reflects positive sentiment about

South Korean memory chipmaker SK hynix Inc. has priced its American Depository Receipts at 149, raising around 26.5 billion ahead of its debut on the Nasdaq exchange Friday. The decision to list its s

Corbin Bolies / Variety: Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism — Meta said it will disco

Following significant backlash, Meta is turning off the feature it announced this week that let users generate AI images based on content from public Instagram accounts just by tagging them. The featu

Cristian Dina / The Next Web: Munich-based QuantumDiamonds, which uses quantum sensors to detect chip defects, raised €91M, including €76M under the European Chips Act — QuantumDiamonds, a spin-out of

NASA released a draft request for the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Destination Contract, which will determine who builds and operates the space station(s) intended to succeed the International Space Sta

NEWS: xAI's Grok 4.5 has constructed an explicit counterexample to hypercontractivity on the 4-sphere, solving a mathematical gap that previously existed between dimensions 4 and 12. Running on xAI's

on a per capita basis, @si_pbc mogs, and it's not even close I asked people which companies have the highest density of talented people they know: 1st. Cognition - 9 votes Equal 1st. Anthropic - 9 vot

MiniMax Group Inc., a Shanghai-based artificial intelligence developer, is raising 2 billion in funding. Bloomberg reported on Thursday that more than half the funds are expected to come from the sale

Bloomberg: Phia, a shopping app co-founded by Phoebe Gates that has raised $43.5M, appears to be using fake clicks or “cookie stuffing” to claim affiliate commissions — Phia, an advertising startup co

Bloomberg: Polymarket is seeking CFTC and NFA approval to offer margin trading in the US, which would let users bet on events with less capital upfront and attract traders — Polymarket is seeking regu