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….
On July 14, 2026, a widespread Plex outage hit live TV and on-demand, plus the plex.tv API and Discover Together, and some users even reported degraded local LAN playback (“takes ages” and may not work). Plex confirmed the issues on its status page and X, noting an outage lasting over an hour at the time of reporting.
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…
Telegram’s t.me shortlink domain went offline on Monday, July 14, 2026, and was restored the following day after the Montenegro-based domain registrar DomainME placed it on hold for U.S. sanctions…
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…
X has adjusted its feed algorithm to give greater visibility to posts from users’ mutual followers — people who both follow and are followed back by a given user. The change was announced on Monday,…
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…
Apple released iOS 27 betas on July 13, 2026, bringing the delayed Siri AI update; The Verge calls it functional but brief. The program also adds iPadOS 27, watchOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate. Betas may glitch and drain battery faster—back up first.
