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July 8, 2026, 12:05 PM
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Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
Apple reaches a deal with Broadcom worth $30B+ to make 15B+ chips in the US over the next five years, Apple's largest as part of its $600B US investment pledge  —  The deal, for billions of chips, is the latest part of Apple's domestic investment pledge  —  Apple is ramping up its investment …
Axios:
OpenAI says it will launch GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, publicly on Thursday; a source says the US Department of Commerce approved a broad rollout  —  The U.S. Department of Commerce has given OpenAI the green light for a broad launch of its advanced GPT-5.6 model …
Meta:
Meta launches Muse Image in Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and previews Muse Video, the first media generation models from its Superintelligence Labs  —  We're excited to launch Muse Image and preview Muse Video, the first media generation models developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs.
Reece Rogers / Wired:
As part of Meta's Muse Image rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their Posts and Reels by other users  —  As part of Meta's Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Meta says it will update its smart glasses with a new feature that disables the camera when it detects that someone tampered with the device's privacy LED light  —  The company is rolling out an update following increased scrutiny of its smart glasses.
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Sources: Meta is testing AI glasses that continuously record audio and take photos every few seconds, letting users query or recall what they saw or heard  —  Mark Zuckerberg's hardware ambitions are edging into a new privacy fight over who gets recorded.  Meta is testing a prototype of …
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The EU General Court dismisses Apple's legal challenges against its designation as a DMA “gatekeeper” for its App Store and iOS; Apple filed the case in 2024  —  Apple (AAPL.O) lost its challenge on Wednesday against landmark EU rules that designate its app stores and operating system iOS …
New York Times:
Sources: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising $10B at a $130B pre-money valuation, its first outside funding round, including $4B from Coatue and $2B from Bezos  —  The rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos is set to take on external investors for the first time, at a $130 billion valuation.
Financial Times:
Sources: Apple begins testing CXMT's DRAM chips for devices sold in China; Apple's interest thrusts CXMT and CXMT's state-owned shareholders into the spotlight  —  Sharp turnaround for state-backed company central to Beijing's AI supply chain efforts  —  On a sprawling campus …
Bloomberg:
Chip startup SambaNova raised a $1B Series F led by General Atlantic at an $11B valuation and signs JPMorgan as a customer to deploy its chips for in-house AI  —  Chip startup SambaNova Systems Inc. has raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation, underscoring investors' conviction …
Madison Mills / Axios:
The OpenAI Deployment Company agrees to acquire Northslope, an applied AI company founded by ex-Palantir employees, its second acquisition after buying Tomoro  —  The OpenAI Deployment Company agreed to acquire Northslope, an applied AI firm, OpenAI shared exclusively with Axios …
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Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg:
Crypto VC firm Paradigm raised $1.2B, its fourth fund, to invest in areas outside of crypto, like AI and robotics; Paradigm had $11.9B in AUM at the end of 2025  —  Paradigm, the venture firm founded to invest in cryptocurrency companies, has raised a new $1.2 billion fund to make more bets outside …
Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
China's CNVD says it found “security backdoor vulnerabilities” in Claude Code that can be used to send info like “user location and identity to remote servers”  —  It advised users to uninstall the software or update to its latest version
Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET:
Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's Entire launches a decentralized Git network to handle high coding agent traffic, with servers in the US, the EU, and Australia  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Entire launched a decentralized Git network built for agents.  — The company plans to open-source its backend.
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Sources detail Xbox's big reset after its Game Pass strategy failed; Xbox spent nearly $80B on content deals, but gamers prefer to stick with a handful of games  —  Microsoft's Xbox to Cut 3,200 Jobs, Divest Studios in Overhaul.  Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox spent nearly $80 billion in the last decade …
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
Mistral launches Robostral Navigate, a hardware-agnostic robotics navigation model trained via simulation that utilizes a single camera and language prompts  —  Mistral AI announced a new robotics navigation model, as the French startup expands in the emerging field of physical artificial intelligence …
Eugene Kim / Business Insider:
Internal documents: Amazon is working on an Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, to handle more complex, multistep tasks, projecting $100M+ in GPU costs in 2026  —  Amazon's next Alexa AI upgrade may be able to handle more complex tasks.  Getting there is expensive, though.

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Scott Nover / Washington Post:
A US district court judge dismisses Trump Media and Technology Group's $3.8B defamation lawsuit filed in 2023 against WaPo; TMTG is considering an appeal

Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Early Nielsen numbers show 30M people watched the US-Belgium World Cup match through Fox, clearing the record for an English-language soccer telecast in the US

Michael Savage / The Guardian:
Prince Harry and six other prominent figures face an up to £50M legal bill after losing their phone-hacking case against Daily Mail owner Associated Newspapers

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Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider:
Oratomic, which is developing quantum computing hardware and software, raised a $300M Series A led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Samsung announces a Galaxy Unpacked event on July 22 in London, where it's expected to debut three foldables, including a Fold 8 with a shorter and wider design
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
OpenAI Chief Futurist Joshua Achiam is leaving later this month after nearly nine years; in February, OpenAI disbanded the “mission alignment team” he led
Grace Kay / The Information:
Memo: SpaceXAI and Cursor plan to launch their first jointly developed AI model as soon as Wednesday, after pushing back the launch to improve model efficiency
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Anthropic extends Claude Fable 5 access to all paid plans through July 12; access to the model was set to shift to token-based usage on July 7
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