Good morning. It’s Tuesday, Jul 15. Today we are covering:

* A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers

* US defense department awards contracts to Google, Musk's xAI

* Apple Silicon machine learning code may become more easily portable to Nvidia hardware

* Google Finds a Crack in Amazon's Cloud Dominance

* Uber Taps China's Baidu for Robotaxis in Asia, Middle East

Good morning. It’s Monday, Jul 14. Today we are covering:

* Microsoft will halt new Office features for Windows 10 in 2026

* Alibaba-backed Moonshot releases new Kimi AI model that beats ChatGPT, Claude in coding - and it costs less

* China Biotech's Stunning Advance Is Changing the World's Drug Pipeline

* Where are the iPhone's WebKit-less browsers?

* Why the U.S. Is Way Behind China in Making Drones for War

Good morning. It’s Thursday, Jul 10. Today we are covering:

* Grok 4 is live - here's what makes it Elon Musk's most advanced AI yet

* OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome

* v0 Platform API now in beta

* Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

* Google adds image-to-video generation capability to Veo 3

Good morning. It’s Wednesday, Jul 9. Today we are covering:

* Hugging Face opens up orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots

* Android malware Anatsa infiltrates Google Play to target US banks

* Why Big Tech is threatened by a global push for data sovereignty

* Gemini for Wear OS rolling out to Pixel Watch, Samsung, and more

* Waymo introduces teen accounts for the first time in Phoenix

Good morning. It’s Tuesday, Jul 8. Today we are covering:

* Apple Loses Top AI Models Executive to Meta's Hiring Spree

* The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers

* Microsoft's Copilot Plus features might arrive on desktop PCs later this year

* iOS 26 beta 3 dials back Liquid Glass

* OpenAI clamps down on security after foreign spying threats

Good morning. It’s Monday, Jul 7. Today we are covering:

* Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most used desktop OS

* Inside the Media's Traffic Apocalypse

* Meta's grand WhatsApp fintech experiment in India has fizzled

* As Trump pushes Apple to make iPhones in the U.S., Google's brief effort building smartphones in Texas 12 years ago offer critical lessons

* TikTok reportedly developing new version of app ahead of planned US sale

Good morning. It’s Friday, Jul 4. Today we are covering:

* Meta Hires Researcher Gross to Join New AI Superintelligence Lab

* Microsoft's enshittification of Xbox, Surface, and even Windows itself, are by design

* Google Rolls Out Its Veo 3 Model for Gemini Pro Users Globally

* Apple Explored Launching a Cloud Service for Developers

* Meta is reportedly training its AI chatbots to send unprompted messages

Good morning. It’s Thursday, Jul 3. Today we are covering:

* Microsoft Makes Deep Job Cuts Across Xbox Division, Cancels Games

* These Transcribing Eyeglasses Put Subtitles on the World

* China's tech giants lobby for offshore yuan stablecoin, sources say

* 291 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher's Paper

* Meta is reportedly training its AI chatbots to send unprompted messages

Good morning. It’s Wednesday, Jul 2. Today we are covering:

* X Will Deploy AI to Write Community Notes, Expand Fact-Checking

* Meta adds business voice calling to WhatsApp, explores AI-powered product recommendations

* Microsoft is laying off as many as 9,000 employees

* China Is Quickly Eroding America's Lead in the Global AI Race

* Here's What Mark Zuckerberg Is Offering Top AI Talent

Good morning. It’s Tuesday, Jul 1. Today we are covering:

* Apple Weighs Using Anthropic or OpenAI to Power Siri in Major Reversal

* China's Clean Energy Boom Could Win the Race to Power the Future

* Here Is Everyone Mark Zuckerberg Has Hired So Far for Meta's 'Superintelligence' Team

* Out of space: Picturing the big, crowded business of satellite internet

* Amazon Is on the Cusp of Using More Robots Than Humans in Its Warehouses