Google is ending its legal fight over the Epic Games antitrust ruling and will let third-party Android app stores in the US access the Play Store's app catalog starting July 22, under a new Play Catalog Access Program.
OpenAI's debut hardware product is reportedly a mobile, screenless AI companion speaker designed with Jony Ive's team — and Apple has already sued, alleging the project rests on misappropriated trade secrets.
Google's first teaser officially names the Pixel 11 series, shows off a new circular LED ring called Pixel Glow, and sets an August 12 Made By Google event where pre-orders will open.
The Claude maker is scheduling investor meetings ahead of a potential October listing, which would make it the largest AI company to reach public markets and put it ahead of rival OpenAI.
Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order pausing state permits for new large-scale data centers for up to one year, citing energy and environmental concerns.
Parent company Oppo is expected to announce this week that OnePlus will exit the US and European markets entirely, limiting future device releases to China and India, according to Bloomberg and German outlet WinFuture — the culmination of rumors that began circulating in January 2026.
China's cyberspace regulator has officially registered Apple Intelligence for use on iPhones in the country, ending a two-year wait since the AI suite's 2024 debut and confirming Alibaba's Qwen models as the engine behind the China rollout — a deal that sent Alibaba shares up roughly 5% in premarket trading.
A US federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action seeking $32.8 billion in damages that accused Apple of failing to prevent child sexual abuse material from circulating on iCloud, citing Section 230 protections in a major legal win for the company.
IBM shares fell as much as 24.8% on July 14 after the company's preliminary Q2 2026 results missed Wall Street estimates by a wide margin, wiping out roughly $70 billion in market value as CEO Arvind Krishna admitted the company misjudged how fast clients would redirect budgets to AI infrastructure.
Bonsai 27B from PrismML is the first 27B-class AI model to run natively on a smartphone, using 1-bit weight quantization to shrink from 54 GB to just 3.9 GB with 90% of full-precision performance.
July 2026 Patch Tuesday is the largest in Microsoft history, addressing 570 vulnerabilities across Windows and its products — including two zero-days being actively exploited in the wild.
A Financial Times investigation, drawing on data from the Mobile Surveillance Monitor research project, found that actors linked to Iran exploited SS7 signaling weaknesses and commercial advertising databases to track US personnel and contractors across the Middle East.