Eight current/former OpenAI employees gave $215,000+ to Guardrails Alliance for stricter frontier‑AI regulation, opposing Greg Brockman’s pro‑industry PAC. Juan Felipe Cerón Uribe gave $200,000 ahead of Guardrails’ July 15, 2026 FEC filing; it launched with $5M and aims for $15M.
The United Kingdom announced in July 2026 that social media companies will be required to implement a default block on platform access for users aged 16 and 17 between midnight and 6 am. The measure,…
Microsoft released a significant batch of Windows 11 updates on July 14, 2026, as part of its July Patch Tuesday rollout. Among the changes is the ability for users to pause Windows updates…
A group of major publishers and authors filed a class action lawsuit against Google in July 2026, alleging the company used copyrighted works without permission to train its AI platform, Gemini.
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SpaceXAI said its Grok Build CLI was quietly uploading whole code repositories to Google Cloud—including files it was told not to open and secrets deleted from history—after July 2026 coverage by Cereblab. As of Monday the service returned disable_codebase_upload:true; Elon Musk promised deletion, while researcher Lukasz Olejnik called the data retention “excessive.”
Apple released the iOS 27 public beta on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, giving iPhone owners their first opportunity to try the company’s redesigned Siri assistant without enrolling in a developer program….
Google announced in July 2026 a major redesign of Google Images that shifts the platform from a pure search tool into a browsable, discovery-focused gallery — a format closely resembling Pinterest….
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in Northern California federal court on Friday, July 11, 2026, accusing former Apple employees of stealing trade secrets for OpenAI’s benefit. The 41-page…
Reflection AI inked a $1B deal with Nebius in July 2026 for access to Nvidia’s latest chips, weeks after a similar SpaceX compute arrangement. Founded in 2024 by ex-DeepMind researchers, the $8B startup has raised about $2.6B from Nvidia, Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind) argues in a July 2026 post for a US-led “frontier AI” regulator modeled on FINRA. It would evaluate models pre-release and coordinate an industry slowdown for too-risky systems, aiming to be operational before year-end; Hassabis warns AGI is “a few short years away.”
Singapore-based video-generation startup PixVerse announced on July 14, 2026, that it has closed a Series C extension round totaling $439 million, pushing its valuation past $2 billion. The company…
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in July 2026, accusing the AI company of stealing trade secrets after a former Apple employee allegedly downloaded sensitive internal files weeks after leaving…
