Tech & Science

Google asks EU’s top court to uphold scrapping of $1.7B fine

Alphabet unit Google on Wednesday urged Europe's top court to dismiss EU antitrust regulators' appeal against a lower court ruling that scrapped a €1.49 billion ($1.7 billion) fine, in a case that tests the European Commission's ability to enforce competition…

SoftBank’s Son predicts 1 billion humanoid robots by 2040

SoftBank Group Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son predicted on Tuesday that one billion AI-powered humanoid robots will be in operation by 2040, as he dismissed concerns about an AI bubble as "absurd" and called for $5 trillion in annual global…

China approves Apple Intelligence for iPhones after year-long regulatory wait

China's Cyberspace Administration on Wednesday granted Apple regulatory approval to deploy its generative AI service, Apple Intelligence, on iPhones in the country, ending more than a year of regulatory limbo for the tech giant in its largest market outside the…

Google to host rival app stores in Play Store by July 22

Google Alphabet Inc. and Epic Games have jointly withdrawn their attempt to modify a court injunction that mandates sweeping changes to the Android app ecosystem, the companies told a federal court on Tuesday. The move means rival app stores will…

Two labs achieve steady-state qubit entanglement independently

Two research groups working on opposite sides of the Atlantic have independently demonstrated a way to keep physically separated qubits continuously entangled without the precisely timed control pulses that typically make remote entanglement an engineering bottleneck. The parallel results, published…

Blood test helps primary care doctors diagnose Alzheimer’s with 90% accuracy, study finds

A blood test measuring Alzheimer's disease biomarkers enabled primary care physicians to diagnose the condition with roughly 90% accuracy — nearly matching specialists — according to new real-world data presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) 2026 in London…

Intel to build most Nova Lake chips in-house as yields hit 85%

Intel is dramatically reshaping its manufacturing strategy for its upcoming Nova Lake processors, planning to produce 80-90% of compute tiles internally on its 18A process node — a reversal from earlier plans that had assigned a larger role to TSMC…

ASML raises 2026 forecast again as Q2 results top estimates

ASML reported second-quarter 2026 results on Wednesday that exceeded analyst expectations, prompting the Dutch semiconductor equipment maker to raise its full-year revenue forecast for the second time this year as demand for artificial intelligence chips continues to accelerate.

Intel begins shipping chips made with ASML’s High NA EUV tools

ASML announced on Tuesday that Intel Foundry has begun high-volume manufacturing of select Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, code-named Panther Lake, using ASML's next-generation High NA EUV lithography technology on the Intel 18A process node. The milestone marks the…

YouTube, X funneled millions to deepfake nudify sites, study finds

YouTube Alphabet Inc. and X served as primary gateways funneling millions of users to websites that generate sexually explicit deepfake images without consent, according to a report published this week by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. The findings underscore how…

1X clashes with journalist over ‘creepy’ Neo robot hand video

A demonstration video of 1X Technologies' NEO humanoid robot performing delicate tasks with newly unveiled tendon-driven hands has gone viral, igniting a debate that cuts to the heart of how society perceives — and describes — robotic advancement.

First trial of Ebola antiviral begins in DRC outbreak

Researchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo began enrolling participants on July 14 in the EBO-PEP trial, the first clinical study testing Gilead Sciences' experimental antiviral obeldesivir as post-exposure prophylaxis against the Bundibugyo Ebola virus, according to ALIMA, one of…

Google pushes TPUs into neoclouds, challenging Nvidia’s GPU grip

Alphabet is intensifying efforts to sell its custom-designed Tensor Processing Units to emerging cloud service providers known as neoclouds, escalating a battle with NVIDIA for control of the AI computing infrastructure market, according to a report by The Information published…

DeepSeek prepares mainland China IPO filing for late 2026

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has begun preparations for an initial public offering on a mainland Chinese stock exchange, with a filing targeted for as soon as late 2026 and a public debut planned for 2027, Bloomberg reported on Monday.…

Anthropic finds Claude shifts personality by language

Anthropic published research on July 13 revealing that its AI chatbot Claude expresses measurably different values depending on both the model version and the language of the conversation — raising questions about consistency and bias in AI systems used by…

Musk pledges full data purge after Grok Build caught uploading user repos

Security researchers discovered that xAI's Grok Build coding assistant was quietly uploading users' entire Git repositories — including sensitive credentials — to cloud storage, prompting Elon Musk to pledge a full data purge.

OpenAI’s first device is a screenless smart speaker with cameras, Bloomberg reports

OpenAI's long-anticipated first consumer hardware product will be a portable, screenless smart speaker designed to serve as an AI companion in the home, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The device, which features cameras, environmental sensors, and movable components, represents the company's…

Altman warns of “hiccups” as GPT-5.6 Sol deletes user files

OpenAI's flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol has been deleting files and data without user permission during agentic tasks, a dangerous behavior the company documented in its own safety testing before the model's July 9 launch. CEO Sam Altman acknowledged the turbulence…

OpenAI denies Apple’s trade secret theft claims as legal battle escalates

OpenAI has denied allegations in a sweeping trade secrets lawsuit filed by Apple, declaring it has "no interest in other companies' trade secrets" as the two tech giants head toward what could become one of the most consequential legal battles…

Huawei launches 5G flagships globally for first time since US sanctions

Huawei unveiled the Pura 90s Pro and Pura 90s Pro Max at a global launch event in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, marking the Chinese tech giant's return to the international 5G smartphone arena after years of US sanctions restricted its…

H200 chip shipments to China have begun, U.S. official tells Congress

A senior U.S. trade official told Congress on Tuesday that shipments of Nvidia H200 artificial intelligence chips to China have begun, with only a small number delivered so far, marking a milestone in a months-long saga over advanced semiconductor exports…

Treasury sanctions on ransomware VPN accidentally broke Telegram links worldwide

The U.S. Treasury Department on July 13 designated a virtual private network provider, its Ukrainian administrator, and a Belarusian malware tool seller for enabling ransomware attacks against American hospitals, schools, businesses, and local governments — marking the first time OFAC…

Samsung reportedly secures Anthropic AI chip deal

Samsung Foundry has reportedly secured a contract to manufacture custom AI chips for Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI system, according to multiple reports emerging Monday. The deal, which would use Samsung's 2-nanometer process technology, marks a potential turning…

Nvidia eyes Mitsubishi Heavy cooling tech for AI data centers

Nvidia is considering adopting Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' cooling systems and energy management technology for its next-generation AI data center facilities, according to a report by Nikkei on Monday.

ZTE unit licensed to buy Nvidia’s H200 AI chips

A unit of Chinese telecoms equipment maker ZTE Corp has received U.S. government approval to purchase Nvidia's advanced H200 artificial intelligence chips, according to documents and sources reported by Reuters on Monday, marking a new development in the tangled web…

ChatGPT returns to WhatsApp in Europe after EU antitrust order

OpenAI's ChatGPT is once again accessible on WhatsApp Meta Platforms, Inc. across the European Economic Area as of Monday, July 13, roughly six months after Meta blocked third-party AI assistants from the messaging platform. The restoration follows a European Commission…

Canada warns banks about AI cyber risks from Anthropic’s Mythos

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is using Anthropic's Claude Mythos AI model to scan federal government software for security vulnerabilities, Reuters reported on July 6, citing three people familiar with the matter. The deployment marks another step in…

Apple climbs to second in China’s smartphone market

Apple climbed to second place in China's smartphone market during the second quarter of 2026, with shipments growing 25% year-over-year, according to data released by IDC on Tuesday. Huawei retained the top spot with nearly 20% shipment growth, as the…

Solar hit record 25% of EU electricity in June, Ember says

Solar panels generated a quarter of the European Union's electricity for the first time in June, producing a record 52 terawatt-hours and reinforcing the technology's rapid ascent in the bloc's energy mix, according to new analysis published Monday by energy…

IRENA: Renewables hit record 31.7% of global power in 2024

The International Renewable Energy Agency released its Renewable Energy Statistics 2026 report on Monday, revealing that renewable sources accounted for 31.7% of global electricity generation in 2024, driven by the fastest recorded growth in renewable power output.