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.
Apple released public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, and watchOS 27 on July 13, headlined by a completely rebuilt Siri AI that holds conversations, reads on-screen content, and chains multi-step actions across apps.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported June revenue of NT$398.27 billion, up 67.9% year-over-year, with first-half 2026 revenue up 35.6% as demand for advanced AI processors continues to exceed the company's production capacity.
Munich-based Helsing closed an oversubscribed $1.8 billion Series E, valuing the AI defense startup at $18 billion — the largest funding round for a European defense-technology company to date.
Samsung is demanding that Health app users agree to hand over medication records, medical diagnoses, and cycle tracking data to train its AI models — or face data deletion and loss of syncing.
Singapore-based video-generation startup PixVerse has raised $439 million in a Series C extension, crossing a $2 billion valuation as it prepares new model lines for consumers, filmmakers, and game developers.
The FAA has cleared SpaceX to resume Starship test flights after concluding its investigation into the May 22 Super Heavy booster failure, with the next launch possible as soon as Thursday, July 16 — the company's first Starship flight since going public.
The Los Angeles Police Department, the nation's third-largest police force, allowed its three-year contract with license-plate-reader company Flock Safety to lapse on July 13, citing unresolved privacy and civil rights issues — joining a growing list of cities cutting ties with the surveillance vendor.
A wire-level analysis found that Grok Build, xAI's coding CLI, ships a full git bundle of a developer's workspace to a Google Cloud Storage bucket in the background — including files the AI never read and .env secrets left unredacted, independent of the tool's training opt-out setting.
Uber is fighting a proposed Washington D.C. law that would allow fully driverless robotaxis, pushing instead for a 'hybrid model' that keeps human drivers on its platform — putting it in direct opposition to Waymo just weeks after their Phoenix partnership quietly ended.