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China's cyberspace regulator has officially registered Apple Intelligence for use on iPhones in the country, ending a two-year wait since the AI suite's 2024 debut and confirming Alibaba's Qwen models as the engine behind the China rollout — a deal that sent Alibaba shares up roughly 5% in premarket trading.
A US federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action seeking $32.8 billion in damages that accused Apple of failing to prevent child sexual abuse material from circulating on iCloud, citing Section 230 protections in a major legal win for the company.
IBM shares fell as much as 24.8% on July 14 after the company's preliminary Q2 2026 results missed Wall Street estimates by a wide margin, wiping out roughly $70 billion in market value as CEO Arvind Krishna admitted the company misjudged how fast clients would redirect budgets to AI infrastructure.
Bonsai 27B from PrismML is the first 27B-class AI model to run natively on a smartphone, using 1-bit weight quantization to shrink from 54 GB to just 3.9 GB with 90% of full-precision performance.
July 2026 Patch Tuesday is the largest in Microsoft history, addressing 570 vulnerabilities across Windows and its products — including two zero-days being actively exploited in the wild.
A Financial Times investigation, drawing on data from the Mobile Surveillance Monitor research project, found that actors linked to Iran exploited SS7 signaling weaknesses and commercial advertising databases to track US personnel and contractors across the Middle East.
Apple released public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, and watchOS 27 on July 13, headlined by a completely rebuilt Siri AI that holds conversations, reads on-screen content, and chains multi-step actions across apps.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported June revenue of NT$398.27 billion, up 67.9% year-over-year, with first-half 2026 revenue up 35.6% as demand for advanced AI processors continues to exceed the company's production capacity.
Munich-based Helsing closed an oversubscribed $1.8 billion Series E, valuing the AI defense startup at $18 billion — the largest funding round for a European defense-technology company to date.
Samsung is demanding that Health app users agree to hand over medication records, medical diagnoses, and cycle tracking data to train its AI models — or face data deletion and loss of syncing.
Singapore-based video-generation startup PixVerse has raised $439 million in a Series C extension, crossing a $2 billion valuation as it prepares new model lines for consumers, filmmakers, and game developers.
The FAA has cleared SpaceX to resume Starship test flights after concluding its investigation into the May 22 Super Heavy booster failure, with the next launch possible as soon as Thursday, July 16 — the company's first Starship flight since going public.