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Russia and Ethiopia agree to deepen ‘strategic' partnership (www.rt.com)
2026-7-8 Russia

Omdia expects a 22% YoY drop in global smartphone shipments priced below $400 for 2026 amid soaring DRAM and NAND costs; Q1 memory costs were ~60% of materials (omdia.tech.informa.com)
2026-7-8

Sources: Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a 2.7T-parameter model, dubbed M3 Pro and set for release as early as Q3, and plans to open-source it (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-8 China AI

Apple says it reached a $30B+ deal with Broadcom to produce 15B chips on US soil in the next five years, its largest pledge as part of its $600B US investments (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-8 Apple

South Korea's Kospi index is down 20%+ from its record high in June, falling 5%+ on Wednesday; Samsung and SK Hynix fall 5%+ amid long-term chip deal concerns (www.ft.com)
2026-7-8 Korea Samsung

France's competition watchdog orders Meta to negotiate in good faith with news organizations over copyright payments, after two groups filed complaints in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-8 France

Ugandan farmers sue in UK against TotalEnergies-backed pipeline (www.rt.com)
2026-7-8 U.K.

China's CNVD says it found “security backdoor vulnerabilities” in Claude Code that “send sensitive information” like “location and identity to remote servers” (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-8 China

US commanders ignored intelligence warnings before strike on Iranian girls' school – CNN (www.rt.com)
2026-7-8 Iran Intelligence

Polish official put on Ukrainian ‘kill list' amid Nazi collaborators row (www.rt.com)
2026-7-8 Ukraine Poland

NATO summit opens with Trump threats: As it happened (www.rt.com)
2026-7-8 Trump

Russia targets Samsung-Ukraine missile plant in overnight strike – MOD (www.rt.com)
2026-7-8 Russia Samsung Ukraine

The EU General Court dismisses Apple's legal challenges against its designation as a DMA “gatekeeper” for its App Store and iOS; Apple filed the case in 2024 (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-8 IOS Apple

Chip startup SambaNova raised a $1B Series F led by General Atlantic at an $11B valuation and signs JPMorgan as a customer to deploy its chips for in-house AI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-8 Startup AI JPMorgan

Sources: Apple begins testing CXMT's DRAM chips for devices sold in China; Apple's interest thrusts CXMT and its relationship with Beijing into the spotlight (www.ft.com)
2026-7-8 China Apple

US lawmakers are considering strategies to curb US companies' growing adoption of Chinese AI models, as a House committee investigation investigates the risks (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-8 China AI

Japan Releases Snowman-Like Asteroid Image After Flyby (science.slashdot.org)
2026-7-8 Japan

Australia's door is still open to goods made with Uyghur forced labour (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-7-8 Australia

A look at effective altruism's fall after SBF's arrest and how the soon-to-be rich from upcoming AI IPOs give the movement a chance to return larger than ever (nymag.com)
2026-7-8 IPO AI

Palantir insiders and investors fear the company's enthusiastic embrace of President Trump's policies could drive away corporate clients and engineering talent (www.ft.com)
2026-7-8 Trump

Another Iranian Funeral – Iconic Writer dies in Exile (www.juancole.com)
2026-7-8 Iran

The global AI boom has thrust CPUs back into the spotlight as Nvidia, Qualcomm, MediaTek, and others challenge Intel and AMD in the AI data center CPU market (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-7-8 Intel AI Nvidia AMD

Oratomic, which is developing quantum computing hardware and software, raised a $300M Series A led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures (thequantuminsider.com)
2026-7-8 Quantum

A look at Chinese lidar maker Hesai, blacklisted by the US DOD in 2024, as it expands in the US; Hesai says it has ~33% of the global automotive lidar market (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-8 China

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos In AI Images (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-8 AI Instagram

Paris-based Skello, which provides AI-powered HR tools for frontline workforce management, raised €200M led by Bridgepoint to support its European expansion (www.eu-startups.com)
2026-7-8 Europe AI Paris

Israeli Violations in Gaza Amid Deepening Humanitarian Crisis (www.juancole.com)
2026-7-8 Israel

Donald Trump, Climate Arsonist in Chief (www.juancole.com)
2026-7-8 Trump Climate

Sources: Meta is testing AI glasses that continuously record audio and take photos every few seconds, letting users query or recall what they saw or heard (www.ft.com)
2026-7-8 AI

Nvidia and AI chip startup d-Matrix are combining their hardware in a new system to power AI models, the latest example of Nvidia partnering with rivals (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-8 Startup AI Nvidia

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