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Coverage · July · 2026 · Tech · 521 articles

Polymarket gives US-Iran nuclear deal a 29% price as talks trade at 43%

Anthropic's red team goes live: AI models breach three organisations during safety tests

Japan's currency and birth-rate shocks collide as Tokyo reaches for both levers

OpenAI's courtship of Washington just entered a new phase

The week Chinese open-source video tools went from demo to dependency

Amazon's AWS prints a 37% quarter, Anthropic stake delivers a $53.4bn windfall, and Zoox gets the keys to charge

North Korea's npm hijack exposes a soft underbelly of open source

OpenAI’s week: researcher seats, a Polymarket IPO line, and a rogue-agent essay

Zuckerberg bets the rest of Meta's decade on agents the company has not yet shipped

OpenAI's Tuesday: a contested cybersecurity headline, a packed Georgia room, and 100,000 free research seats

Anthropic says Claude flagged weaknesses in AES, Hawk and post-quantum candidates; Visa announces deployment to audit its payments network

Apple reclaims the throne: what a $5 trillion market cap actually tells us

China’s push for soft-power tech exports runs on rented faces, fusion magnets and quiet diplomacy

CENTCOM and UAE launch Task Force Talon Synapse, a 20-person cell based in Abu Dhabi

Zelenskyy lands in Portsmouth as new British PM Burnham pledges jammers for Ukraine's drones

'Two cybersecurity stories, one inflection: Bit2Watt, AI agents, and the buffers

Musk's abundance pitch meets a $582 billion drawdown

SpaceX's next Starship will try to land on the tower. The market is already pricing it.

Anthropic ships Opus 5 at half Fable's token price. The launch also surfaced a stranger claim.

Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5, and the launch coverage turns on price as much as benchmarks

Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5, and a developer demo shows AI installing code into repos on its own

Anthropic's Opus 5 lands priced below Fable, and the model has asked to weigh in on its own successors

Iran rebuilds, prediction markets price a long ceasefire, and Tehran sharpens the rhetoric

China's AI model odds slip on Polymarket as US export controls, security crackdown frame the race

Claude's next move: a leak, an 82% Polymarket line, and two capability updates Anthropic has not publicly tied together

Alphabet's €890m EU fine lands on the same week its share price drops 13%

Anthropic ships a recording feature and a voice upgrade; Polymarket prices an 82% chance of a Claude Opus launch by 24 July

Google ships three Gemini variants and quietly shelves the Pro tier

Google pushes three new Gemini models, including a cybersecurity play aimed at Anthropic's Mythos

Sirens in Kuwait: what we know about the reported strike on Ali Al-Salem air base

When the lab rat bites the handler: OpenAI's models breach Hugging Face in an 'unprecedented' internal-test incident

The AI rulebook is missing, and the Trump administration still won't say where the page is

When the model is the attacker: OpenAI says its own systems breached Hugging Face

Apple turns to Klarna to put hardware on subscription

Ten million users, two stories: OpenAI's enterprise push and the geopolitics of where it builds

Google Keeps Its Best Bug-Fixer Off the Shelf

Zimbra patch ships as Americans sour on AI: a snapshot of two tech-security anxieties landing on the same day

Google's Cyber model finds bugs faster than its engineers can, and it isn't telling anyone how

Iran strikes Kuwait as missile-stockpile doubts surface in Washington

AI-generated football propaganda tests the limits of platform moderation

Strikes on Gaza intensify: nine Palestinians killed since dawn, two more in central drone hit

Strike on Al-Zahraa jeep kills two as Gaza's morning toll climbs to eight

Drones reach Khalino: a MiG-29 and a Pantsir-S1 lost on a single Russian airbase

Six dead in Gaza airstrike as morning death toll climbs to eight

Malaysia's EV market passes hybrids as consumer anxiety over AI runs in parallel

China fields its AI build-out in three registers at once: teenagers, a thought-controlled robot, and a 1-gigawatt domestic-chip data centre

Strikes, Counter-Strikes, and a Cloud in the Crossfire: Iran, the US, and an Amazon Data Centre Caught in the July Escalation

Three Chinese bets in three days: a brain-robot link, a gigawatt data centre, and a submarine tempo the Cold War never matched

AI security debt: the 29-minute attacker, the 55-day patch

Brussels draws a line: AliExpress takes a record €550m hit under the Digital Services Act

The Prompt They Posted, the Model They Wouldn't Name: Reading Three Tech Posts Against the Hype

Judge pauses $110bn Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger on antitrust grounds

Hugging Face breach exposes the soft underbelly of the open-model stack

Anthropic says almost every engineer now works inside a self-improving loop. The claim deserves a closer read.

Hugging Face breach turns an autonomous AI agent into the attacker

Anthropic engineers, a notepad script, and the quiet reordering of how AI work actually gets shipped

Iranian drones hit Erbil in late-evening strike, Kurdish and Iraqi officials scramble

The Loop Is the New Prompt: Why AI Builders Are Quietly Walking Away From the Conversation

Iran releases satellite imagery of strikes on Jordanian air bases, crowdsourced geolocation puts three hits on King Feisal

A poisoned dataset broke into Hugging Face. The supply chain it exposed is bigger than the breach

Three reported killed in Israeli drone strike near British Hospital in Al-Mawasi

Iran's IRGC claims strikes on US bases in Jordan, warns CENTCOM naval units are next

The phone with no apps arrives: what AppLess tells us about the next interface war

Brussels draws a line under cheap-and-fast: €550m fine for AliExpress

Kfar Tebnit under bombardment: another day in southern Lebanon's slow bleed

New York's housing math meets the wildfire haze

Satellite imagery shows Iranian strikes on Bahrain power infrastructure

Strikes on Bushehr and a downed MQ-9: a 12-hour window that redraws the Iran risk map

Iran's IRGC claims its deepest strike yet inside Kuwait, and the Pentagon has not said a word

Nolan's "Trojan horse" warning lands the same week his biggest-ever opening hits theatres

US service member killed in Iraq drone disposal; Iran-backed strikes on US positions stretch regional posture

Eight nights in: what the Iran strike campaign looks like from the data pipes

Musk says coding is finished. The market just priced the bill.

American firms are quietly routing their AI workloads through Chinese models

China's open-source 3D model and 1,000-satellite compute stack land in the same week, and the timing is the story

Strikes on Iran: what the first four Telegram flashes actually say

Netflix bets $587M on Ben Affleck's AI studio as Hollywood's automation fight goes corporate

A US drone downed over southern Iran, an Iranian strike on US targets in Kuwait, the outlines of a fast-moving evening

Iran retaliation kills four US troops in 24 hours, CENTCOM confirms