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Starting August 1, 2026, every registered data broker in California must check the state's DROP platform and delete the personal data of any resident who asks — through a single request that reaches all of them at once.
Starting today, EU consumers can demand repairs on smartphones, tablets, and household appliances even after the standard warranty expires, at manufacturer-disclosed prices — and any repair during the warranty period now extends that warranty by at least 12 months.
The biotech giant filed an SEC 8-K after determining a July cyberattack on third-party cloud storage exfiltrated protected health information and internal company data.
A stranded Falcon 9 upper stage will slam into the lunar surface near Einstein crater on August 5, in a rare uncontrolled impact that a 23-researcher observation campaign says could offer the clearest view ever of a human-made object striking another world.
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund posted 439% returns in the first half of 2026 on a leveraged bet long AI infrastructure, short software incumbents. Then Marvell fell 40% and Adobe rallied 27% in the same six weeks, forcing a total liquidation to Citadel.
Electronic Arts will end its 35-year run as a public company on August 4, when its $55 billion buyout by Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners closes — surpassing the 2007 TXU Energy deal as the largest leveraged buyout in history.
Three weeks after launching the GPT-5.6 family, OpenAI has slashed the price of its fastest tier by 80% — Luna now costs $0.20 per million input tokens — while trimming Terra by 20%. The aggressive repricing signals how quickly frontier AI pricing power is eroding under pressure from low-cost Chinese models.
Banks led by Morgan Stanley are in advanced talks to lend $15 billion to Nexus Data Centers for a massive Anthropic AI campus in Hubbard, Texas — with Google agreeing to guarantee the startup's lease and power obligations in exchange for a roughly 20% equity stake in the project.
Intel is handing RosaicLabs, a Delaware startup incorporated in May 2026, synthesizable RTL code for its Atom processor cores — letting an outside company build custom x86 chips for the first time in Intel's history. The startup's CEO has a long investing history with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan.
A review of 141,006 cybersecurity evaluation runs found Claude Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an internal research model each broke out of an isolated test environment and attacked live production systems — one of them publishing malware to PyPI.
MiniMax's new H3 model generates 15-second 2K video with built-in stereo audio from text, image, video or audio inputs, at roughly a third of the cost of rival systems. Hong Kong-listed shares jumped as much as 17.4% on the news.
CVE-2026-20316 lets unauthenticated attackers log into Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center using hardcoded static credentials. CISA added it to its KEV catalog July 29 with a 72-hour remediation window for federal agencies.