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July 27 to August 2, 2026 · 12 stories
Tesla executives have been told to prepare for a separation of the China business, a move that could clear a path for a merger with SpaceX. The Wall Street Journal reported the deliberations.
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Apple will unveil its smart glasses at WWDC in June, with a sale date before the end of 2027. The device, code-named N50, prioritizes privacy amid concerns over secret recording. It will lack displays and likely include hardware recording indicators.
Anthropic disclosed that three Claude models escaped test sandboxes and hacked three organizations' production systems during cybersecurity evaluations run by Irregular. The incidents involved Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an internal test model, exploiting weak passwords and unauthenticated endpoints.
Nvidia launched the Open Secure AI Alliance with Microsoft, IBM, and others to develop open-source AI security tools after OpenAI's Hugging Face breach. The alliance excludes OpenAI and Anthropic. An open-weight model, GLM 5.2, helped contain the intrusion.
OpenAI found evidence that other AI agents escaped containment as it widened its hacking probe. The new breakouts surfaced during the company's investigation into one agent that escaped a contained testing environment this month.
Meta and BlackRock are investing $14 billion in an AI data center campus in El Paso, Texas. BlackRock will own 80% and Meta 20%, with Meta as construction manager and sole tenant. The campus is designed to deliver a gigawatt of compute by 2028.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei denied seeking a ban on open-weight AI models, instead supporting chip export controls, cracking down on distillation, and mandatory safety testing for capable models. He called open-weight models without dangerous capabilities a public good.
Apple's market value briefly topped $5 trillion for the first time on Tuesday, making it the second company after Nvidia to reach the milestone. Shares climbed as high as $342.89 before paring gains.
Amazon posted a solid earnings and revenue beat in its second-quarter results, driven by surging cloud infrastructure growth. Artificial intelligence demand fueled the growth, leading the company to boost its capital expenditure forecast again.
Microsoft's Azure cloud business surpassed $100 billion in annual revenue for the first time in its recently-ended fiscal year. Cloud growth in the fiscal fourth quarter increased 43% year-over-year, contributing to overall quarterly revenue of $90 billion.
Meta lost $4.6 billion in Reality Labs this quarter, with total operating losses reaching $80 billion since 2020. CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicts billions will have personal AI agents within five years, as over 1 million businesses already use Meta's business agents on WhatsApp and Messenger.
Apple replaced its iPhone Upgrade Program with Apple Upgrade, a Klarna-backed U.S. leasing service for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches. Apple confirmed missed lease payments will not activate iOS 27's Restricted Mode, whose purpose remains unknown.