SAN FRANCISCO - Cloudflare, Inc. on Monday, July 13, 2026, announced the general availability of Precursor, a next-generation behavioral validation engine designed to counter increasingly sophisticated automated bots. The San Francisco-based connectivity cloud company said Precursor responds to a major shift in internet traffic patterns, with automated bot activity now...
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — Meta is dramatically expanding its Hyperion data center project in rural Richland Parish, lifting the planned investment to more than $50 billion and increasing the facility’s capacity to 5GW, the company said in a blog post on Monday. The site, which began construction in December 2024,...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has acknowledged major internal security and procedural failures in its handling of a significant credential leak tied to its GovCloud infrastructure. In a detailed after-action forensic report released on Thursday, July 9, 2026, the agency disclosed that it had no...
CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – SpaceX has grounded its Falcon 9 rockets after a rare launch failure during a Starlink mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, reported on July 13. The reusable booster suffered an engine problem traced to a liquid oxygen leak, which led to a catastrophic failure...
A June 2026 national survey of 1,690 U.S. adults conducted by research firm Verasight found that 69 percent support requiring major artificial intelligence companies to transfer 50 percent of their equity into a publicly owned sovereign wealth fund. The results, reported Sunday, July 12, 2026, closely align with the American...
Hundreds of demonstrators marched through San Francisco on Sunday, July 12, 2026, calling on leading artificial intelligence companies to halt the rapid development of frontier AI systems. Organized by the coalition Stop the AI Race under the banner "Freeze AI on Slushy Day," the protest began at noon outside OpenAI’s...
Elon Musk abruptly canceled a highly anticipated live television interview with CNBC on Friday, July 10, 2026, as SpaceX shares fell about 3 percent amid post-IPO volatility. The interview was set for noon Eastern Time on CNBC’s “Fast Money Halftime Report” and was to be Musk’s first TV appearance since...
Federal auto safety regulators in Washington have formally warned major autonomous vehicle developers, including Waymo, Zoox and Tesla, that self-driving cars are repeatedly interfering with emergency responders and endangering public safety. In a letter dated July 8, 2026 and released publicly on July 9, 2026, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...
Cybersecurity researchers have documented what they describe as the first fully autonomous, end-to-end ransomware attack executed entirely by an artificial intelligence agent, linked to a threat group dubbed JadePuffer. In reports released by cloud security firm Sysdig and Check Point Research, experts say the AI system independently carried out all...
In New York, a coalition of major U.S. newspaper publishers has asked a federal judge to impose severe sanctions on OpenAI, accusing the company of deception and evidence destruction in a high‑profile copyright lawsuit. In a motion filed Saturday, July 11, 2026, in the Southern District of New York, The...
