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Business11 Jul 2026 · 1 min

NYT-led group asks judge to sanction OpenAI over hidden evidence

News outlets allege OpenAI falsely claimed it could not search its models for copyrighted material, while having already done so before the suit was filed.

$Anthropic's $1.5B author settlement is a fraction of its $965B valuation$

Business10 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Anthropic's $1.5B author settlement is a fraction of its $965B valuation

The largest AI copyright settlement to date, paid to authors over pirated training data, barely dents Anthropic's balance sheet ahead of a possible IPO.

Business10 Jul 2026 · 1 min

US closes loophole letting Chinese firms buy Nvidia chips overseas

Updated Commerce Department guidance requires export licenses for Blackwell-series chips reaching any China- or Macau-headquartered entity, anywhere in the world.

Business10 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Nvidia's China AI chip market share collapses to near zero

Nvidia held roughly 95% of China's AI chip market in 2023; new export rules have pushed its share of H200 shipments to essentially nothing by mid-2026.

Business10 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Huawei, Cambricon and SMIC fill the gap Nvidia left in China

State-directed compute ecosystems are building CUDA-compatible architectures to lower the cost for Chinese developers switching away from Nvidia.

Tools10 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Apple unveils Siri AI with personal context awareness

The rebuilt assistant can draw on a user's messages, emails and photos to answer questions grounded in personal context, not just the web.

Business10 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Siri AI rollout skips the EU and China at launch

Apple's new assistant reaches US customers in English first, with international availability delayed by regulatory requirements abroad.

Business10 Jul 2026 · 1 min

AI unicorn Mercor acquires a16z-backed startup Deeptune

The $10 billion company's acquisition marks a notable consolidation move by one of 2026's fastest-growing AI startups.

Business10 Jul 2026 · 1 min

OpenAI unveils its own custom Jalapeño inference chip

The in-house silicon push aims to cut inference costs as OpenAI's compute bill grows alongside its model lineup.

Tools10 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Amazon's Alexa+ goes free for all US Prime members

The upgraded assistant, previously a paid tier, is now included at no extra cost across the Alexa app, devices and the web.

Tools10 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Google's NanoBanana 2 Lite generates images in under 4 seconds

Priced from $0.034 per 1,000 images, the lightweight model beats the original NanoBanana on quality while cutting generation time sharply.

Tools10 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Google's Interactions API reaches general availability

The API, aimed at building conversational and agentic experiences on Google's models, ships GA the same week as NanoBanana 2 Lite.