Moonshot’s Kimi Upends Conventional Wisdom on US Lead Over China
Chinese AI leaders acknowledged at a Beijing event that their country lags behind the United States in developing cutting-edge AI models, with one executive stating the gap may be widening. The admission challenged assumptions about China's competitive position in artificial intelligence development.
Ripple Payments Joins MiCA With 14 Firms, Does It Mean Anything For XRP?
Ripple Payments Europe joined 14 other firms added to the European MiCA register, bringing the total authorized crypto providers in the EU to 294. This regulatory authorization confirms Ripple's compliance with MiCA requirements in Europe, though the article notes licensing momentum is cooling.
Digital Bank Revolut Obtains In-Principle Approval to Offer Crypto Services in UAE
Revolut obtained in-principle approval from Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority to provide crypto services in the United Arab Emirates. The preliminary license permits the company to offer broker-dealer activities, asset management, investment services, and exchange functionalities across the UAE.
The World Cup tech innovations that will outlast the tournament
Lenovo deployed an AI system providing teams access to over 2,000 soccer-specific metrics and petabytes of historical data during the World Cup. The same technology helps viewers understand referee perspectives in real time while aiming to equalize resources across competing teams.
Google Cloud’s Always-On Memory Agent Replaces RAG and Embeddings With Continuous LLM Consolidation on Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
An Always-On Memory Agent uses continuous LLM consolidation in SQLite rather than vector databases and embeddings to maintain persistent memory. Three sub-agents handle ingestion, consolidation, and querying of structured memory data running on Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite.
Sakana AI’s Error Diffusion Trains Dale-Compliant Dual-Stream Networks, Reaching 96.7% MNIST and 61.7% CIFAR-10 Without Backpropagation
Error Diffusion trains dual-stream networks following Dale's principle without backpropagation, achieving 96.7% accuracy on MNIST and 61.7% on CIFAR-10. The method routes modulo errors through excitatory and inhibitory channels to scale learning across tasks including reinforcement learning.
Caitlin Clark pours in career-high 45 points as Fever edge Storm in thriller
Caitlin Clark scored a career-high 45 points with 10 assists, becoming the first player in WNBA history to record a 40-10 game. The Indiana Fever defeated Seattle 110-107, and Clark reached 200 career three-pointers in 74 games, breaking Katie Smith's previous record of 81 games.
Regions Bank’s Mobile Upgrade Drives Digital Transactions to 80%
Digital transactions at Regions Bank reached 80% following a mobile app upgrade. The bank's president stated that online and mobile offerings are central to the company's long-term strategy.
NASA Pushes New Wing Design to Find Structural Limits
NASA tested a 15-foot long lightweight wing design called SWEET-15 through extreme structural tests to identify its breaking points. The researchers found the wing performed better than expected, maintaining integrity even when pushed beyond its designed operational limits.
The Growing Crescent of Mars as NASA’s Psyche Mission Approaches
NASA's Psyche spacecraft captured images of Mars's crescent growing larger from May 2 to May 15, 2026, as the spacecraft approached for a gravity assist maneuver. The composite shows Mars appearing smallest at the center when farthest from the spacecraft, progressively enlarging as the distance decreased.
Tuberculosis drug discovery gets smarter with AI
AI models now help researchers narrow thousands of potential tuberculosis drug compounds down to the most promising candidates for further development. The technology reduces costly dead ends by identifying which compounds are most likely to succeed before expensive testing begins.
‘The Odyssey’: Box office predictions, review roundup, and Christopher Nolan’s big bet on movie theaters
Christopher Nolan's film The Odyssey, adapted from Homer's epic poem, was filmed over 91 days across six countries with a budget exceeding $250 million. The film is projected to earn between $90 million and $100 million in North America during its opening weekend.
Capital One releases VulnHunter, an open-source AI tool that finds software flaws before hackers do
An open-source AI tool called VulnHunter scans source code for exploitable vulnerabilities and proposes fixes before deployment. The tool uses "attacker-first forward analysis" to trace how adversaries would enter systems through APIs, network messages, or file uploads.
Intuit scrapped its own AI agent architecture twice in four months. At VB Transform 2026, its AI VP called that the fast path
Intuit rebuilt its AI agent architecture twice within four months, first consolidating specialist agents under a central orchestrator, then switching to a skills-based system after the orchestrator collapsed from complexity. The orchestrator failed because agents passing results in natural language lost critical context at each handoff, compounding errors across multiple agent interactions.
FTX Customers to Receive Up to 120% in New $900 Million Payout
FTX creditors will receive a $900 million payout on July 31, with most customers recovering over 100% of their original claims. Some creditors may receive up to 120% of their claim amounts through this fifth distribution.
Stable Launches StablePay to Bring Stablecoin Payments to the Mainstream
StablePay enables users to send and receive USDT instantly at no cost using StableChain settlement infrastructure. The platform targets both individual consumers and payment providers seeking to streamline cryptocurrency transactions.
Apple overtakes Nvidia to reclaim the title of world’s most valuable company at $4.88 trillion
Apple's market capitalization reached $4.88 trillion, surpassing Nvidia's $4.86 trillion to reclaim the title of world's most valuable company. Nvidia had held the top position for nearly a year before declining 3.5% in Friday trading.
NASA’s Chandra and IXPE Study Pulsar in Lighthouse Nebula
X-ray observations from NASA's Chandra and IXPE observatories were combined to study a rapidly spinning, magnetically strong neutron star within the Lighthouse nebula. The composite image released July 9, 2026 displays Chandra data in purple and IXPE data in blue.
AI Agents Finally Get Access Without the Password
AI agents can now access password-protected websites without requiring user passwords or manual intervention at login screens. The new capability allows agents to complete tasks like researching products, comparing prices, and filling forms across sites that previously required authentication.
Morgan Stanley’s ETRADE Rolls Out Direct Spot Trading for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana
ETRADE now allows eligible U.S. clients to directly buy, sell, and hold Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana within their brokerage accounts alongside traditional investments. The platform integrates three cryptocurrencies with existing holdings of stocks, ETFs, and mutual funds.
Women and men in the C-suite see 2 different workplaces
A new survey of senior executives reveals a widening perception gap between men and women regarding workplace fairness, with 90 percent of women now believing they are judged more critically in executive roles compared to 35 percent of men. Additionally, 83 percent of women surveyed believe they must be more exceptional than men to succeed, up from 68 percent in 2006.
Apple is in early settlement talks with the DOJ over its iPhone antitrust case
Apple and the Department of Justice are holding early settlement discussions regarding the 2024 antitrust lawsuit accusing Apple of violating competition law through its iPhone ecosystem. Apple has made multiple settlement offers this year, though active discussions do not guarantee an agreement will be reached.
SBI Holdings Finalizes Acquisition of Singapore’s Coinhako Platform
SBI Holdings completed its acquisition of Coinhako, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange. The deal gives SBI a controlling interest in the platform as part of its strategy to expand its global tokenized asset network.
Agents think in milliseconds, legacy infrastructure doesn't. LinkedIn, Walmart and Zendesk shared how they closed the gap at VB Transform 2026
Enterprise infrastructure designed for human workflows became the bottleneck when scaling AI agents to production, not the underlying AI models themselves. Companies like LinkedIn, Walmart, and Zendesk each encountered different infrastructure failures when moving agents from pilot to production environments.
What Zelenskyy risks by firing Ukraine’s tech-minded defense minister
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy dismissed Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov on July 15, removing the official most closely identified with Ukraine's effort to weaponize commercial technology and drones. Fedorov, 35, had overseen digital platforms for service members, direct equipment ordering systems, and reward credits for drone teams achieving verified battlefield results.
An AWS billing bug sent users estimated charges of up to $2.5 trillion
A pricing error in AWS's billing system generated false estimated charges reaching $2.5 trillion for some users. Amazon confirmed a unit pricing error in the Billing Console's estimated billing computation subsystem caused the erroneous charges, with one user seeing an estimate jump from $0.19 to nearly $2.5 billion.
Anthropic is in early talks to lease $10 billion in compute from Meta
Anthropic is negotiating to lease approximately $10 billion in computing power from Meta in preliminary discussions. The talks follow Anthropic's recent $1.25 billion monthly arrangement with SpaceX for access to Nvidia GPUs at the Colossus 1 data center.
Brex built its AI agent policy by watching what agents actually do, not by writing rules first
Brex built CrabTrap, an open-source HTTP/HTTPS proxy that intercepts agent network traffic and uses a large language model to approve or deny requests based on policy rules. The platform monitors every API call agents make at the network layer rather than relying on traditional SDK-level permissions or model guardrails.
How Apple’s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI’s IPO plans
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging misconduct by its chief hardware officer and claiming over 400 former Apple employees work there. The lawsuit's timing potentially complicates OpenAI's reported plans to pursue an initial public offering.
A cyberattack has disrupted one of America’s biggest milk brands. Should shoppers be worried?
A ransomware cyberattack forced Fairlife, a major U.S. milk brand owned by Coca-Cola, to suspend production operations after hackers gained unauthorized access to internal systems including production controls. The company stated product safety and quality remain unaffected, while Canadian operations continue functioning.