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The U.S. Commerce Department will award GlobalFoundries $300 million under the CHIPS Act to accelerate silicon photonics — and take a roughly 1% equity stake in the company as part of the deal.
A coordinated attack on operational technology hit more than 30 Minnesota community water systems over July 26-27, knocking one treatment plant offline and forcing several utilities to switch to manual operation.
Samsung's semiconductor business delivered an all-time high operating profit of KRW 89.5 trillion ($62 billion) in Q2 2026, as AI server demand pushed memory prices and volumes to new records.
Microsoft's cloud and AI business delivered its strongest year yet, with Azure hitting the $100B annual revenue mark for the first time and Microsoft 365 Copilot reaching 30 million paid seats.
Claude Mythos Preview cut HAWK's key strength from 2⁶⁴ to 2³⁸ operations — a 67-million-fold reduction — in 60 hours, forcing the post-quantum signature candidate's withdrawal from NIST standardization.
DoorDash Air becomes the eighth drone operator in the US to earn FAA Part 135 certification, built entirely in-house by the same team behind the Dot ground delivery robot.
CVE-2026-16232, a CVSS 9.3 authentication bypass in Check Point's SmartConsole login process, lets an unauthenticated attacker seize full administrator control of Security Management Servers. Rapid7 published a public proof-of-concept this week, raising the stakes for organizations that haven't yet applied the July 22 hotfix.
The letter, endorsed by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and backed by OpenAI, doesn't call for an immediate pause -- it asks Washington to build the technical and governance tools needed to coordinate a verifiable slowdown if AI systems start improving themselves faster than humans can safely oversee.
The Richard Socher-led AI startup, which emerged from stealth in May with $650M in funding, committed $410M of that to Amazon Web Services — describing the deal as "likely one of the smallest" compute agreements it expects to sign.
The FCC placed Chinese-made humanoid and quadruped robots on its Covered List after a wormable Bluetooth exploit called UniPwn was found in Unitree hardware deployed at MIT, Princeton, and Carnegie Mellon — with no patch in sight.
South Korea's Kospi fell nearly 11% and triggered its eighth circuit breaker of the year as China's chipmaking progress and questions over hyperscaler AI spending converged into a global rout.
The mobile-first tool turns a written description into a playable starting game, with alpha access limited to age-verified users 9 and older and global publishing reserved for creators 16 and up.