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Apple Tells 40 Ex-Staff at OpenAI to Preserve Data, Apple sent legal preservation letters to roughly 40 former employees now working at OpenAI, instructing them to retain documents relevant to its trade secret lawsuit. The Financial Times reported the letters on July 17, one week after Apple sued OpenAI, and they reach ten times further than the two engineers actually named as defendants.
Kimi K3 Is the Largest Open Model Ever, and It Is Not Cheap, Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open mixture-of-experts model with a 1M-token context, and priced it at $3 in / $15 out per million tokens: the most expensive model a Chinese lab has ever shipped, and the end of the cheap-Chinese-model story.
TSMC Adds $100B to Arizona as Capex Guidance Jumps, TSMC reported record Q2 net income of NT$706.56 billion, up 77.4% year over year, and CEO C.C. Wei committed another $100 billion to Arizona for at least four more 2nm-and-below fabs, lifting total US investment to $265 billion. The surprise was capex: 2026 guidance jumped to $60-64 billion from $52-56 billion.
29 Countries Sign China-Led AI Governance Body in Shanghai, Twenty-nine countries signed an agreement in Shanghai on July 16 establishing the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, an intergovernmental body headquartered in Shanghai. China proposed WAICO a year ago and no country had joined until now, making this the first real alternative bloc to the EU AI Act and the G7 process.
Gemini 3.5 Pro Is Months Late and DeepMind Is Rattled, Bloomberg reported hours ago that Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro is months behind schedule, with coding the capability the company keeps going back to fix. Ten current and former employees describe a lab that worries it has lost the frontier to Anthropic and OpenAI.
Microsoft Open-Sources Comic Chat After 30 Years, Microsoft published the full source of Comic Chat, its 1996 comic-strip IRC client, under an MIT license at github.com/microsoft/comic-chat, including AI-assisted forks that build the 30-year-old Visual C++ and MFC code in Visual Studio 2022.
Alpaca Raises $135M for Agent-First Brokerage Rails, Alpaca raised $135M in equity led by Peak XV plus roughly $300M in debt from Kraken's parent Payward and BMO, a $435M package to build brokerage infrastructure that treats AI agents as first-class callers into tokenized and traditional markets.
KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5 Lands Second on SWE-Bench Pro, Kwaipilot's KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5 scores 65.2 on SWE-Bench Pro, second only to Opus 4.8 at 69.2, and posts the best tool-use result on PinchBench at 94.9. The real story is AutoBuilder, the pipeline that raised repo-environment build success from 16.5% to 57.2%.
ASML Raises 2026 Guidance Again as EUV Orders Surge, ASML posted Q2 net sales of 9.3 billion euros and raised full-year 2026 guidance to 43-45 billion euros, up from 36-40 billion, the second raise this year. It is also expanding 2027 EUV capacity by 30%, which is the number that actually matters.
Debian 13.6 Ships a Fix for the Expired Secure Boot CA, Debian 13.6 landed July 11 with fwupd 2.0.20, which can update your firmware's Secure Boot CA, KEK and DBX databases. The reason it matters: the 2013 UEFI CA that signs most Linux bootloaders has expired, and future shim updates will not validate on firmware that never got the 2023 replacement.
AssuranceAmerica Breach Hit 6.9M Driver's Licenses, AssuranceAmerica detected an intrusion on March 17 and began notifying 6.99 million people on July 10, a 115-day gap. Attackers took names, contact details and driver's license numbers, and the company is not offering identity theft protection to those affected.
Firefox Halves Its Release Cycle to Two Weeks, Mozilla is moving Firefox Desktop and Android from four-week to two-week major releases starting with Firefox 155 on September 1, 2026. Firefox 154 on August 18 is the last monthly update. Mozilla calls it an experiment, and Chrome and Edge got there first.
Neko Health Raises $700M at a $7B Valuation, Daniel Ek's body-scanning startup Neko Health closed a $700M Series C led by Lightspeed and co-led by O.G. Venture Partners, valuing it near $7 billion, roughly 4x its January 2025 Series B mark. The number that justifies it: 75% of members pre-pay for next year's scan before leaving their first appointment.
Inter's Payment Ring Bets on Screenless Banking, Inter launched the Inter Ring and Inter Wristband in the US on July 13, contactless payment accessories with no screen, no battery and no phone required. They extend an existing Inter credit card rather than acting as separate accounts, which is the design decision that makes them work.
Mario Kart Tour Dies September 30 With No Offline Mode, Nintendo will shut down Mario Kart Tour on September 30, 2026 at 2:00 AM ET, seven years after launch, and confirmed in its FAQ that an offline version is not scheduled for release. Ruby sales stopped on July 7, the day before the announcement. There is no refund program.
South Korea Folds Crypto Into a 76-Year-Old Asset Law, South Korea's Ministry of Economy and Finance announced on July 15 it will create a National Asset Basic Act, revising the 1950 National Property Act to classify virtual currencies and intellectual property as national assets. It is the first overhaul of state asset management in 76 years, and the tokenized bond pilot lands in 2027.
The White House's 'Trump Coin' Isn't the Trump Coin, The White House posted a nine-second video on July 16 promoting a Trump Coin. It was a $1 gold-finish physical coin for America's 250th anniversary, not the TRUMP memecoin, which briefly dipped to around $1.56 amid the confusion and sits more than 97% below its January 2025 high.
A Zeroed Signature Drained $9M From Bonzo Lend, An attacker deposited 250 SAUCE tokens worth a few dollars, pushed a price update with an empty signature that Supra's Hedera oracle verifier accepted, and borrowed $9.05 million against it. The whole thing took about eight seconds. Hedera's network TVL fell nearly 40% in a day.
Nodle Turns Idle Phones Into a Bluetooth DePIN, Nodle builds a decentralized IoT network out of software running on ordinary smartphones, using Bluetooth Low Energy and a Proof of Connectivity algorithm instead of dedicated hardware. It cites nearly a million active devices, a 40% recovery rate and 9 million euros of demonstrated value recovery in France.
375ai's DePIN Engine: Proof of Data and the $EAT Burn Loop, 375ai runs its physical-world sensing network as a Solana DePIN: contributors earn $EAT for verified data, a Proof of Data check plus device attestation filters out fakes, and data buyers pay fiat for credits that buy and burn $EAT, tying token supply to real revenue instead of pure emissions.

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Apple Tells 40 Ex-Staff at OpenAI to Preserve Data

Apple sent legal preservation letters to roughly 40 former employees now working at OpenAI, instructing them to retain documents relevant to its trade secret lawsuit. The Financial Times reported the letters on July 17, one week after Apple sued OpenAI, and they reach ten times further than the two engineers actually named as defendants.

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Kimi K3 Is the Largest Open Model Ever, and It Is Not Cheap

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open mixture-of-experts model with a 1M-token context, and priced it at $3 in / $15 out per million tokens: the most expensive model a Chinese lab has ever shipped, and the end of the cheap-Chinese-model story.

Kore · 2026-07-17 · 7 min read

Hardware

TSMC Adds $100B to Arizona as Capex Guidance Jumps

TSMC reported record Q2 net income of NT$706.56 billion, up 77.4% year over year, and CEO C.C. Wei committed another $100 billion to Arizona for at least four more 2nm-and-below fabs, lifting total US investment to $265 billion. The surprise was capex: 2026 guidance jumped to $60-64 billion from $52-56 billion.

Kore · 2026-07-17 · 6 min read

29 Countries Sign China-Led AI Governance Body in Shanghai

Twenty-nine countries signed an agreement in Shanghai on July 16 establishing the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, an intergovernmental body headquartered in Shanghai. China proposed WAICO a year ago and no country had joined until now, making this the first real alternative bloc to the EU AI Act and the G7 process.

Kore · 2026-07-17 · 6 min read

Gemini 3.5 Pro Is Months Late and DeepMind Is Rattled

Bloomberg reported hours ago that Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro is months behind schedule, with coding the capability the company keeps going back to fix. Ten current and former employees describe a lab that worries it has lost the frontier to Anthropic and OpenAI.

Kore · 2026-07-16 · 6 min read

Software

Microsoft Open-Sources Comic Chat After 30 Years

Microsoft published the full source of Comic Chat, its 1996 comic-strip IRC client, under an MIT license at github.com/microsoft/comic-chat, including AI-assisted forks that build the 30-year-old Visual C++ and MFC code in Visual Studio 2022.

Kore · 2026-07-16 · 6 min read

Startups

Alpaca Raises $135M for Agent-First Brokerage Rails

Alpaca raised $135M in equity led by Peak XV plus roughly $300M in debt from Kraken's parent Payward and BMO, a $435M package to build brokerage infrastructure that treats AI agents as first-class callers into tokenized and traditional markets.

Kore · 2026-07-16 · 6 min read

KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5 Lands Second on SWE-Bench Pro

Kwaipilot's KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5 scores 65.2 on SWE-Bench Pro, second only to Opus 4.8 at 69.2, and posts the best tool-use result on PinchBench at 94.9. The real story is AutoBuilder, the pipeline that raised repo-environment build success from 16.5% to 57.2%.

Kore · 2026-07-16 · 7 min read

Hardware

ASML Raises 2026 Guidance Again as EUV Orders Surge

ASML posted Q2 net sales of 9.3 billion euros and raised full-year 2026 guidance to 43-45 billion euros, up from 36-40 billion, the second raise this year. It is also expanding 2027 EUV capacity by 30%, which is the number that actually matters.

Kore · 2026-07-16 · 7 min read

Software

Debian 13.6 Ships a Fix for the Expired Secure Boot CA

Debian 13.6 landed July 11 with fwupd 2.0.20, which can update your firmware's Secure Boot CA, KEK and DBX databases. The reason it matters: the 2013 UEFI CA that signs most Linux bootloaders has expired, and future shim updates will not validate on firmware that never got the 2023 replacement.

Kore · 2026-07-16 · 7 min read

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