Tech

Abu Dhabi-based MGX raised a $49B AI-focused fund, exceeding its $45B target, and plans to spend as much as $10B annually over the next few years (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-1 AI

Sony says it is closing the virtual PlayStation 3 store in select markets in 2026 ahead of global store closures for the PS3 and PS Vita in July 2027 (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-1 Sony

Sources: Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI computing power and models, to compete with AWS and Azure (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-1 AI

A researcher says a vulnerability in Apple's Hide My Email tool lets anyone discover a real email address; first reported in June 2025, Apple is yet to fix it (www.404media.co)
2026-7-1 Apple

Taiwanese authorities detain two Super Micro staff and an Albatron manager after a raid of Super Micro's local offices this week over Nvidia shipments to China (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-1 China Taiwan Nvidia

Over 900 Oracle E-Business instances exposed to ongoing attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-1 Oracle

The Vera Rubin Telescope Begins Surveying Our Cosmos (science.slashdot.org)
2026-7-1

Stockholm's Patent and Market Court orders Google to pay nearly $2B to Klarna's PriceRunner in a dispute over abuse of power in the shopping comparison market (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-1 Google

Sony says all new PlayStation games from both first- and third-party developers will be sold in digital formats from January 2028, ending physical game discs (www.gamefile.news)
2026-7-1 Sony

Twelve Labs, which is building AI models to make video searchable and understandable, raised a $100M Series B co-led by NEA and Naver, and signs an AWS deal (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-1 AI

Together AI, which offers access to open-source models, raised $800M led by Saudi Aramco's Prosperity7 at an $8.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $1.3B (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-1 AI

A UN panel co-chaired by Yoshua Bengio warns that AI capabilities are outpacing scientific understanding, the “potential benefits of AI are enormous”, and more (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-1 AI

Wayve files to sell shares on the London Stock Exchange's new Private Securities Market, the first major company to test it, and let staff sell $85M in shares (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-1 London

One app. 150+ languages. One $70 payment for lifetime access. (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-1

Microsoft fixes GIF functionality in the Windows Emoji Panel (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-1 Microsoft

How the rapid rise in US- and China-made AI abilities is leading to both a transformation in AI use at work, and sudden lurches in policies and markets (www.oneusefulthing.org)
2026-7-1 China AI

How a new Amazon-built transatlantic fiber-optic link in Ireland is symbolic of the country's AI ambitions, but also of its chronic lack of defense spending (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-1 Amazon AI Ireland

Anthropic says it is rolling back a covert Claude Code tracking feature to identify users based in China or affiliated with Chinese AI labs, after backlash (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-1 China AI

ByteDance is building a $39B data center complex in a free-trade zone in Brazil's Ceará, set to be its largest facility outside of China with a 1GW capacity (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-1 China Brazil

The US sentences Guo Wengui, a self-exiled billionaire Chinese tycoon who defrauded his online followers out of hundreds of millions, to 30 years in prison (apnews.com)
2026-7-1 China

Meta introduces a $20/month Meta One Premium tier for its glasses and limits its Conversation Focus feature to three hours of use per month for free users (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-1

Amazon fined $2.25M for withholding evidence from fraud victims (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-1 Amazon

DOT Announces 'Return of Supersonic Flight' For Commercial Airlines (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-1

Adobe patches seven max severity ColdFusion, Campaign flaws (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-1 Adobe

[Thread] The US' now-lifted export controls on Anthropic models created uncertainty, are an own goal, and will push service providers towards Chinese AI models (x.com)
2026-7-1 China AI

Anthropic says “some routine tasks like coding and debugging” on Fable 5 “will fall back to Opus 4.8” in “the near term” as it works to “reduce false positives” (x.com)
2026-7-1

A look at Manifest, an annual convention for prediction markets where many purists worry that Kalshi and Polymarket are undermining the technology's public good (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-1

South Korean government data: the country's exports grew 70.9% YoY in June to $102.25B, an all-time monthly high, anchored by a record $44.82B in chip shipments (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-7-1 Korea

LeapXpert, which lets companies and sports franchises monitor staff business chats via apps like WhatsApp for compliance, raised $180M led by Riverwood Capital (www.axios.com)
2026-7-1 WhatsApp

BYD, Nio, and other Chinese carmakers are rushing to design and increase the use of locally developed chips with AI functions in a bid for chip self-sufficiency (www.ft.com)
2026-7-1 China AI

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