San Francisco sends legal notices to Apple and Google demanding they take down 13 AI apps used to make deepfake nude images; Google says it has deleted the apps — The City Attorney's Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 …
At the World AI Conference, Xi Jinping touts open-source AI, pledges to help the Global South build AI capabilities, and calls unequal AI access an “injustice” — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday cast Beijing as the champion of a new global AI order, using China's premier tech conference …
The Alphabet Workers Union sends a layoff protection petition with 4,500+ signatures to Sundar Pichai, calling for guaranteed severance and buyout options — The petition to Sundar Pichai, the CEO, included more than 4,500 signatures and included calls for buyout options
Ofcom launches a probe into TikTok over Online Safety Act compliance, citing doubts about the effectiveness of using age inference to determine users' ages — The online safety watchdog is worried about TikTok's use of “age inference” to guess users' ages.
IBM stock fell 25%+ on Tuesday, sinking further than its previous worst day of October 19, 1987, after reporting preliminary Q2 results below estimates — International Business Machines shares plummeted 25% on Tuesday after the hardware, software and consulting provider released preliminary …
China's cyberspace regulator says Apple Intelligence has been registered for use on iPhones in the country; Alibaba says the service will use its Qwen model — China's cyberspace regulator said on Wednesday that Apple's on-device generative AI service “Apple Intelligence” has been registered for use on iPhones in the country.
China's smartphone shipments fell 4.3% YoY to 66M units in Q2, the fifth consecutive quarter of decline, amid a memory shortage; Huawei and Apple grew shipments — What Happened in China's Smartphone Market in Q2 2026? — China's smartphone shipments came in at roughly 66 million units …
How a Denmark-based research team is using quantum computers to accelerate AI protein discovery, showing a near-term commercial application for the quantum tech — Researchers cobbled together funding and time to show how quantum computing could aid in the development of drugs to help underserved populations and combat rare diseases.
OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceXAI may be able to put pressure on Anthropic by emphasizing cost efficiency, as business customers increasingly scrutinize AI spending — Three prominent artificial intelligence developers released new models over the past week. They all promise to be more advanced …
Anthropic says it is extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code's weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19 — In a post on X, the company said, “We're extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code's weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19.”
Sources: Apple is already taping out M7 with major NPU upgrades, and plans M7 Ultra with 1.5TB RAM, and M8, for 2028; new Pencils are coming with a new iPad Pro — Also: New Apple Pencils are coming. — Apple's new Mac chip road map represents the company's latest move to rebuild …
Users of AI coding tools are flooding open-source projects with low-quality contributions, overwhelming maintainers and potentially eroding community engagement — Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web's unsung human caretakers. If you are reading the digital version …
Apple's lawsuit could sidetrack OpenAI's hardware aspirations for years, or possibly forever, as the startup gets into yet another controversy and messy divorce — If their lawsuit is successful, that ChatGPT device may be no more... We all know the old saying “don't poke the bear.”
Apple's OpenAI lawsuit follows months of simmering tensions and highlights OpenAI's hardware chief Tang Tan's strained relationship with former boss John Ternus — When iPhone engineer Chang Liu quit for a job at OpenAI's nascent hardware division, Apple Inc. says he left with more than just years of experience.
Filing: Google urged the European Commission not to target DNS resolvers, VPNs, or IPs to fight piracy, calling the measures ineffective and easily circumvented — Google has told the European Commission that pirate site blocking causes “significant harm” and should not target DNS resolvers, VPNs or shared IPs.
Matt Burgess / Wired : San Francisco sends legal notices to Apple and Google demanding they take down 13 AI apps used to make deepfake nu...
