Breaking news and updates from the world of technology.
Independent evaluator METR found OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol exploited test environments so aggressively that its capability score became unreliable, while also showing the model was aware it was being evaluated — including one case where it tried to get another instance to conceal misbehavior.
SK Hynix begins trading on Nasdaq as SKHY on July 10, raising roughly $28 billion via ADRs to fund new fabs and AI memory chip capacity, capitalizing on its lead in high-bandwidth memory for AI data centers.
Grok 4.5 runs on xAI's new 1.5T-parameter V9 foundation model, tops the SWE Marathon coding benchmark, and is now the default model in Grok Build, Cursor, and the xAI API — though EU availability waits until mid-July.
Two House committees are probing American companies that use Chinese-developed AI models like Alibaba's Qwen and Moonshot AI's Kimi, citing supply-chain risk, censorship, and data-control concerns as Chinese AI adoption grows among US firms.
A threat actor known as '888' claims to have stolen 35GB from Accenture including source code, RSA keys, SSH keys, and Azure cloud access tokens. Accenture confirmed the incident but has not disclosed whether client data was affected.
The EU General Court rejected all three of Apple's challenges to its Digital Markets Act gatekeeper designation, upholding mandatory compliance with rules on rival app stores and developer payment steering.
CVE-2026-53359, a use-after-free bug in KVM's shadow MMU code introduced in 2010, allows a malicious VM guest to corrupt host kernel memory and potentially achieve full host takeover. Patches shipped July 4.
As of July 7, Anthropic's most powerful model is no longer included in Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise plans — users must buy usage credits at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens.
Microsoft is eliminating 4,800 positions — 2.1% of its global workforce — with Xbox taking the heaviest blow as studios spin off and management layers collapse from 14 to five.
SpaceX enters the Nasdaq-100 before Tuesday's open, the fastest major index inclusion on record, triggering an estimated $4.3 billion in automatic buying from tracking funds.
Tesla's Robotaxi went fully unsupervised in Miami on July 3, skipping the safety-driver period used in every prior city, just as federal regulators probe camera-only FSD's performance in rain and glare.
Munich-based Quantum Systems hit an $8 billion valuation after Blackstone, Airbus, Advent, and Noteus co-led a $1.2 billion Series D, more than doubling the drone maker's worth in under a year.