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July 19, 2026

Feinstein Institutes’ double neural bypass restores hand movement and touch in paralysed patient

A Feinstein Institutes team restored hand movement and touch to a man paralysed from the chest down using a brain-computer interface combined with spinal and cortical stimulation.

July 19, 2026

AWS billing portal bug shows some customers billions of dollars in erroneous charges

AWS billing portal bug showed some customers erroneous charges up to $2.5 billion on July 17, 2026. Amazon says figures don't reflect real usage.

July 18, 2026

Meta in Early Talks to Lease Compute Capacity to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal

Meta is in early talks to lease computing capacity to Anthropic in a deal worth up to $10 billion over two years. The arrangement would mark one of the largest AI compute leases to date.

July 17, 2026

Google Delays Gemini 3.5 Pro Launch as Coding Benchmarks Fall Short

Google delayed Gemini 3.5 Pro past its June 2026 launch as coding results missed internal benchmarks, sending Alphabet shares down roughly 4%.

July 17, 2026

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 Beats Opus 4.8 as the Largest Open Model Ever

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8T parameter open model matching Opus 4.8 on intelligence benchmarks and topping frontend coding leaderboards. Weights drop July 27.

July 14, 2026

New Unpatchable BootROM Exploit Targets Apple’s A12 and A13 Chips

Researchers disclose usbliter8, an unpatchable BootROM exploit hitting A12 and A13 chips, affecting iPhone XS through iPhone 11.

July 14, 2026

Public Opposition to Data Centers Has Doubled in Nine Months

71% of Americans now oppose a nearby data center, up from 42% in August 2025. Surveys show rising worries over electricity, water, and AI.

July 14, 2026

Google’s Generative AI Search Guide Reads Like a Warning About Generic Content

Google's new generative AI search guide debunks llms.txt, chunking, and AI rewrites, while warning that commodity content is exactly what AI Overviews replace.

July 14, 2026

Why Most Annual App Subscribers Don’t Come Back After They Cancel

Report finds most annual app subscribers churn for good after canceling, with very few returning, making the cancellation moment more decisive than win-back campaigns.

July 14, 2026

Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Profiting From Scam Ads on Facebook and Instagram

California has sued Meta, alleging the company knowingly profited from scam ads on Facebook and Instagram that targeted its own users.

July 14, 2026

YouTube moves to automatic AI labels on generated videos

YouTube will now auto-label videos when its systems detect significant AI use, repositioning disclosures below the player and locking labels to C2PA metadata.

July 14, 2026

The Long-Term Game: SEO Strategies That Hold Up in AI Search

AI search rewards durable SEO fundamentals, not short-term tactics. Here's what to keep, what to change, and what to stop doing to build compounding visibility.

July 14, 2026

Gallup Poll: Americans Prefer Local Nuclear Plants Over AI Data Centers

A new Gallup poll finds 71% of Americans oppose local AI data centers, more than the 53% who oppose nearby nuclear plants.

July 14, 2026

European Commission Orders Meta to Change Addictive Facebook and Instagram Features

The European Commission issued a preliminary order on July 10 directing Meta to alter addictive design features on Facebook and Instagram, with fines up to $12 billion possible under the DSA.

July 13, 2026

Meta’s Instagram AI image tool lasted days before a privacy backlash ended it

Meta pulled its Muse Image Instagram AI feature within days of launch after SAG-AFTRA, privacy groups, and users objected to default-on use of public photos.