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New Jersey Sues Amazon, Alleging It Illegally Suppresses Delivery Drivers' Wages
AG Jennifer Davenport accuses Amazon of running a monopsony over its Delivery Service Partner network, blocking unionization and barring DSPs from poaching each other's drivers.
China Weaponizes the Tata Electronics Breach to Undercut India's iPhone Buildout
Beijing's state media is citing leaked Tata Electronics files to attack 'Made in India' manufacturing quality, months after a ransomware group stole 630GB of Apple and Tesla supplier data.
Broadcom Patches Two Critical vCenter Flaws (CVSS 9.8) and an ESXi VM-Escape Bug — No Workarounds Available
CVE-2026-59309 and CVE-2026-59310 let attackers bypass vCenter authentication and gain remote code execution. CVE-2026-47876 lets a malicious VM break out to the ESXi host. Patch now.
Investors Slash Zepto's Valuation by 68%, Forcing India's Quick-Commerce Star to Delay Its IPO
Zepto's IPO anchor investors priced the company near $2.3-3 billion, less than half the $7 billion it raised at last October. The listing is now pushed back one to two quarters.
AI Demand Triggers a Chip Price Spiral: TSMC, Samsung, and Qualcomm All Raise Prices as Intel Revives DDR4
DDR4 has crossed $4 per Gb, TSMC's 2nm wafers sit near $30,000, and Samsung is doubling its 2nm customer base. The AI boom is now squeezing every layer of the chip supply chain.
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max Beats GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 on Key Benchmarks
Alibaba's 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max tops OSWorld, Parametric CAD Bench, and OmniDocBench, while trailing GPT-5.6 Sol on Terminal-Bench. Open weights ship next week.
DeepSeek's Retrained V4-Flash Now Beats Its Own Flagship on Every Agent Benchmark
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 posts 82.7 on Terminal Bench 2.1 and 54.4 on DeepSWE, outscoring the larger V4-Pro-Preview on all nine published agentic and coding benchmarks despite using only 13B active parameters.
AWS Grows 37% and Amazon Still Can't Keep Up — Jassy Hikes 2026 Capex to $220 Billion
Amazon's Q2 2026 revenue hit $200.6 billion as AWS posted its fastest growth in 18 quarters. Andy Jassy says even $220 billion in spending won't cover demand through 2028.
LG Triples Its Flagship Model to 750 Billion Parameters and Gives It Away Free
K-EXAONE 2.0 is Korea's largest AI model, released on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. It beats its predecessor by double digits on 24 benchmarks and cuts inference cost with a mixture-of-experts design.
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