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The AI data center boom has led to surging demand for power transformers, with average lead times for orders, once measured in months, now stretching into years (as.ft.com)
2026-7-9 AI

Good in principle, but China's new military AI logistics are themselves targets (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-7-9 China AI Logistics

Microsoft patches RoguePlanet Defender zero-day vulnerability (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-9 Microsoft

A Brown University professor suspected his class used AI to cheat after a take-home midterm averaged 96%, prompting an in-person final, which averaged 48.6% (www.insidehighered.com)
2026-7-9 AI

Companies are mobilizing internal groups of “AI champions” to drive adoption; BCG says 74% of front-line employees now use AI regularly, up from 51% in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-9 AI

Shanghai-based GPU maker Iluvatar CoreX raised ~$902M in a Hong Kong share sale; the company's stock has soared 257% since its January IPO, which raised $473M (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-9 Hong Kong IPO Shanghai

US Food and Drug Administration Rejects Petition To Set PFAS Limits In Food (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-9

Filings: Grubhub parent Wonder is raising hundreds of millions at a $9B valuation; source: founder Marc Lore indicated he'll contribute $200M to the round (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-9

Cognition releases SWE-1.7, trained from Kimi K2.7 and available at 1,000 tokens/second, claiming it nears GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8 on benchmarks at a lower cost (cognition.com)
2026-7-9

Beijing is testing who will stand by Taiwan (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-7-9 China Taiwan

AI Dominated the Fed's Meeting as Driver of “Persistent Inflationary Pressures” & Demand Growth (wolfstreet.com)
2026-7-9 AI

Block agrees to pay $45M and offer live customer support for Cash App to settle claims by 46 US states that the company failed to protect users from fraud (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-9

Northern resilience shapes national resilience. Building it demands continuity (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-7-9

A Silent Workspace In Claude Mirrors Key Features of Human Consciousness (slashdot.org)
2026-7-9

Sources: Reno-based AI chip startup Positron is in talks to raise ~$750M in two phases, at valuations of $3.5B in the first tranche and ~$5B in the second (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-9 Startup AI

The FTC settles with John Deere over a 2025 right-to-repair lawsuit, requiring the company to provide farmers and shops with equipment and software for 10 years (www.wired.com)
2026-7-9

John Deere Agrees To 10-Year Right-To-Repair Deal In FTC Antitrust Lawsuit (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-9

Mount Royal University confirms breach as hackers claim attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-9

Meta's Glasses Will Turn Off the Camera If You Tamper With the Privacy Light (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-9

OpenAI says it found widespread task issues in SWE-Bench Pro, estimates ~30% of tasks are broken, and retracts its earlier recommendation to adopt the benchmark (openai.com)
2026-7-9

US strikes Iran for second night as Trump says ceasefire is ‘over' (www.rt.com)
2026-7-9 Trump Iran

Fake Paysafe, Skrill SDKs on NPM and PyPi steal credentials (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-9

Apple Says It Will Spend $30 Billion To Design US-Made Broadcom Chips (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-9 Apple

Meta announces its first data center in Canada, a 1GW facility in Alberta that will cost the company about $9B and take two to three years to construct (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-9 Canada

Hackers exploit Roundcube flaw to spy on academic researchers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-9

Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-9

Trump clashes with Netanyahu over potential F-35 sale to Türkiye (www.rt.com)
2026-7-9 Trump Netanyahu

'Knockoff' Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands On Amazon (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-9 Amazon Browser

QT plus Rate Hikes: ECB Sheds €149 billion of QE Assets in Q2, -52% since mid-2022, Marks Gold Down by €160 Billion (wolfstreet.com)
2026-7-9 Asset

Grok 4.5 is available in Grok Build, in Cursor, and from the SpaceXAI console, but not in the EU; it costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens (www.axios.com)
2026-7-9

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