Tech

Apple says it reached a $30B+ deal with Broadcom to produce 15B chips on US soil in the next five years, its largest pledge as part of its $600B US investments (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-8 Apple

South Korea's Kospi index is down 20%+ from its record high in June, falling 5%+ on Wednesday; Samsung and SK Hynix fall 5%+ amid long-term chip deal concerns (www.ft.com)
2026-7-8 Korea Samsung

France's competition watchdog orders Meta to negotiate in good faith with news organizations over copyright payments, after two groups filed complaints in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-8 France

China's CNVD says it found “security backdoor vulnerabilities” in Claude Code that “send sensitive information” like “location and identity to remote servers” (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-8 China

The EU General Court dismisses Apple's legal challenges against its designation as a DMA “gatekeeper” for its App Store and iOS; Apple filed the case in 2024 (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-8 IOS Apple

Chip startup SambaNova raised a $1B Series F led by General Atlantic at an $11B valuation and signs JPMorgan as a customer to deploy its chips for in-house AI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-8 Startup AI JPMorgan

Sources: Apple begins testing CXMT's DRAM chips for devices sold in China; Apple's interest thrusts CXMT and its relationship with Beijing into the spotlight (www.ft.com)
2026-7-8 China Apple

US lawmakers are considering strategies to curb US companies' growing adoption of Chinese AI models, as a House committee investigation investigates the risks (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-8 China AI

Japan Releases Snowman-Like Asteroid Image After Flyby (science.slashdot.org)
2026-7-8 Japan

A look at effective altruism's fall after SBF's arrest and how the soon-to-be rich from upcoming AI IPOs give the movement a chance to return larger than ever (nymag.com)
2026-7-8 IPO AI

Palantir insiders and investors fear the company's enthusiastic embrace of President Trump's policies could drive away corporate clients and engineering talent (www.ft.com)
2026-7-8 Trump

The global AI boom has thrust CPUs back into the spotlight as Nvidia, Qualcomm, MediaTek, and others challenge Intel and AMD in the AI data center CPU market (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-7-8 Intel AI Nvidia AMD

Oratomic, which is developing quantum computing hardware and software, raised a $300M Series A led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures (thequantuminsider.com)
2026-7-8 Quantum

A look at Chinese lidar maker Hesai, blacklisted by the US DOD in 2024, as it expands in the US; Hesai says it has ~33% of the global automotive lidar market (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-8 China

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos In AI Images (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-8 AI Instagram

Paris-based Skello, which provides AI-powered HR tools for frontline workforce management, raised €200M led by Bridgepoint to support its European expansion (www.eu-startups.com)
2026-7-8 Europe AI Paris

Sources: Meta is testing AI glasses that continuously record audio and take photos every few seconds, letting users query or recall what they saw or heard (www.ft.com)
2026-7-8 AI

Nvidia and AI chip startup d-Matrix are combining their hardware in a new system to power AI models, the latest example of Nvidia partnering with rivals (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-8 Startup AI Nvidia

Source: the US Department of Commerce has given OpenAI the green light for a broad launch of GPT 5.6; the company expects to do a wide release this week (www.axios.com)
2026-7-8

Lisbon-based Bizay, a customized products marketplace for SMBs, raised a $55M Series D led by Indico, as it aims to accelerate its US expansion (tech.eu)
2026-7-8

Apple's interest in buying CXMT chips has thrust the Chinese memory chip maker and its relationship with Beijing into the AI supply chain spotlight (www.ft.com)
2026-7-8 China AI Apple

Sleep apnea device maker ResMed agrees to sell its software business MatrixCare to PE firm Frazier for $490M in cash; ResMed bought MatrixCare for $750M in 2018 (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-8

Meta announces that it will be updating its glasses with a new feature that disables the camera if someone tampers with the glasses' privacy LED light (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-8

Meta says Muse Image includes an invisible watermarking system called Content Seal and previews a web tool to check whether an image was generated with Meta AI (www.engadget.com)
2026-7-8 AI

Doom Developer id Software Is Reportedly Losing Half Its Staff (games.slashdot.org)
2026-7-8

Sources detail Xbox's big reset after its Game Pass strategy failed; Xbox spent nearly $80B on content deals, but gamers prefer to stick with a handful of games (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-8 Xbox

Samsung announces a Galaxy Unpacked event on July 22 in London, where it is expected to debut new foldables, including a Fold 8 with a shorter and wider design (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-8 Samsung London

Accenture confirms breach after hacker offers stolen data for sale (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-8 Hacker

As part of Meta's Muse Image rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content by other users (www.wired.com)
2026-7-8 AI Instagram

Microsoft Flips Windows Backup On By Default Outside the EU (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-8 Microsoft

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