Mountain View, California-based Alphabet unit Waymo announced on July 8, 2026, that it will significantly expand its fully autonomous ride-hailing service to four additional U.S. metropolitan areas: San Diego, California; Las Vegas, Nevada; Tampa, Florida; and Denver, Colorado. The company said it will operate rider-only vehicles without a human safety...
On July 8, 2026, multiple Asian supply chain reports said Apple’s first foldable iPhone, tentatively referred to as the iPhone Fold or iPhone Ultra, has moved into mass production ahead of a planned September 2026 launch. Chinese outlets Cailian Press and East Money, and South Korea’s The Bell, reported that...
China is home to DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence company that is reportedly developing its own AI chip to reduce reliance on Nvidia hardware and other foreign suppliers. The domestically designed processor is intended to handle advanced AI workloads within China’s borders, providing an alternative source of high-performance computing power at...
A proposed $100 billion artificial intelligence data center project in Virginia has reportedly collapsed, disrupting what was expected to be one of the world’s largest AI infrastructure investments. The failure, described this week, has intensified scrutiny of structural challenges confronting the AI sector, including electricity shortages, constrained grid capacity, land...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is using Anthropic’s Mythos artificial intelligence model to audit government software code, according to three people familiar with the project. CISA’s Attack Surface Evaluation team is scanning government code repositories with Mythos to detect bugs and security flaws that could...
Washington, United States – The US government has restricted access to OpenAI’s newly unveiled GPT-5.6 family of models, including its most powerful system, Sol, as well as Terra, aimed at daily work, and Luna, a more affordable version. OpenAI says Sol is its most capable model to date and views...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Sunday, July 5, 2026, at 6:50 a.m. EDT (10:50 UTC), carrying a mixed payload that combined communications and manufacturing technology. The mission deployed 29 Starlink satellites into...
Anthropic, the U.S.-based developer of the Claude and Mythos AI models, has publicly called for a worldwide pause in the development of advanced artificial intelligence systems, according to a report by The Straits Times. The company says its latest models show preliminary signs of behavior that could move beyond direct...
United States – Amazon is accelerating its push into AI-powered consumer hardware under Panos Panay, its hardware and services chief, who outlined the company’s latest plans in a recent episode of The Tech Download. Panay described Alexa+, an upgraded, more contextual version of the Alexa voice assistant that is designed...
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees at an internal all-hands meeting on July 2 that development of the company’s AI agent technology has not accelerated as planned over the past four months, despite a major internal restructuring. Meta laid off about 8,000 staff and reassigned roughly 7,000 employees to...
