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Apple Warns Users in 110 Countries of Mercenary Spyware — For the First Time, Straight to the Lock Screen
August 13's threat notification wave is the largest in the program's history, and the first delivered as a push alert instead of email. Devices in Lockdown Mode have never been compromised since the feature launched in 2022.
Microsoft Merges Consumer and Business Copilot Into One App, Ahead of a Full 'Super App' by Quarter End
The unified Copilot app rolling out worldwide handles both personal and work accounts, replacing separate consumer and Microsoft 365 apps. Podcasts, Deep Research, and Group Chat get discontinued August 18.
Google Ships Gemini 3.7 Flash Just Three Weeks After 3.6, While Gemini 3.5 Pro Stays Delayed
Gemini 3.7 Flash scores 65.3% on DeepSWE v1.1, up from 49.0% on the prior model, and lands at half the introductory price. It's the fastest Flash-to-Flash turnaround Google has shipped.
Microsoft Patches 421 Flaws — Lazarus Group Already Exploited One as a Windows Zero-Day
CVE-2026-68820, a use-after-free in AFD.sys (CVSS 7.0), let North Korea's Lazarus Group escalate to SYSTEM for five weeks before Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday fix. A separate DNS Server flaw, CVE-2026-62878, scores 9.8 and needs no user interaction.
CoreWeave Jumps 19%, Nebius Surges 34% as 'Neocloud' Earnings Confirm AI Compute Demand Isn't Slowing
CoreWeave posted $2.58B in Q2 revenue and a $104B backlog; Nebius grew revenue 454% year-over-year to $582.3M with customer commitments topping $40B. Both raised guidance.
A Bitcoin Miner Just Signed a $9.1B, 20-Year Lease With Anthropic
Riot Platforms will deliver 191MW of AI data center capacity at its Rockdale, Texas campus to Anthropic through June 2048, with the deal expandable to $16.1B. Bloomberg confirmed the anonymous tenant days after Riot's announcement.
xAI Ships Grok 4.6, Matching GPT-5.6 on Benchmarks at Half the Price of Rival Frontier Models
Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, tying GPT-5.6 Sol Max, while pricing at $2/$6 per million tokens undercuts Claude Opus and GPT-5.6. SWE-bench jumped 9 points over Grok 4.5.
Gemini Hits 1 Billion Monthly Users — Google's Fastest-Growing Product Ever
Sundar Pichai announced the Gemini app crossed one billion monthly active users, matching ChatGPT's June milestone. The last 50 million arrived in roughly three weeks.
Foxconn Now Makes More From AI Servers Than iPhones — Q2 Profit Jumps 35% to a Record
AI servers crossed 51% of Foxconn's revenue for the first time, and net profit hit NT$59.97 billion. The iPhone assembler has quietly become the backbone of the AI buildout.
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