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GhostLock: 15-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Root And Container Escape — Jul 19, 2026 — Nebula Security's AI agent VEGA has disclosed GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499), a 15-year-old use-after-free in Linux futex code that grants local root and...Zhongqi Wuliang Puts A Quantum Computer In A Standard Server Rack — Jul 19, 2026 — Chinese Academy of Sciences spinoff Zhongqi Wuliang unveiled Qinghe No. 1 at WAIC 2026 on July 18, 2026, pitching it as the first neutral atom quantum...China Stands Up WAICO In Shanghai, Signing 29 Countries To A Rival AI Bloc — Jul 19, 2026 — On 16 July, 29 nations signed the founding agreement for WAICO in Shanghai, giving China a headquarters and a treaty framework to shape global AI gove...LG Energy Solution Wins Battery Deal For Google's 2.9 GWh Steel River Center — Jul 17, 2026 — LG Energy Solution will supply its U.S.-built JF2 DC Link LFP energy storage systems for Google and Cypress Creek Energy's Steel River project — Googl...WAIC 2026 Opens in Shanghai With Xi Jinping, 300+ Product Debuts and a China-Led AI Governance Push — Jul 17, 2026 — The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference opened in Shanghai on July 17 with Xi Jinping in attendance, 1,100+ exhibitors, 300 global product d...Google DeepMind Launches Gemini 3.5 Pro With 2M Token Context And Ultra-Tier Deep Think — Jul 17, 2026 — Google DeepMind shipped Gemini 3.5 Pro on July 17, 2026 with a 2-million-token context window, an Ultra-tier Deep Think reasoning mode, and a rebuilt...Grenergy Signs 15-Year, 1 TWh Night-Time PPA For 3.5 GWh Elena BESS In Chile — Jul 15, 2026 — Grenergy's 3.5 GWh Elena battery in Chile's Atacama has locked in a 15-year, 1 TWh-a-year night-time PPA — the largest battery-backed offtake deal the...QuiX Quantum Unveils Carina, First Universal Photonic Quantum Computer For Data Centers — Jul 15, 2026 — Dutch-German QuiX Quantum has delivered Carina, the world's first universal photonic quantum computing architecture designed for customer data-center...Google Snaps Up Entire 1.6GW Steel River Solar Output Under Arkansas vPPA — Jul 15, 2026 — Google will take 100% of the initial 1.6GW output from Cypress Creek Energy's 2.45GW Steel River Energy Center in Arkansas, the largest US solar-plus-...Ukraine to Favor On-Premise AI Models the Government Can Actually Control — Jul 8, 2026 — Ukraine will preferentially adopt AI systems it can run on its own servers, Chief AI Officer Roman Kyslyi told Reuters, citing the US export order tha...Robbyant Ships LingBot-Depth 2.0 And Boundary-Centric LingBot-Vision For Robots — Jul 7, 2026 — Ant Group's embodied AI unit Robbyant unveiled LingBot-Depth 2.0 and LingBot-Vision, halving depth error on transparent and reflective scenes and roll...Chrome 151 Ships 382 Security Fixes, Including Actively Exploited V8 Bug — Jul 6, 2026 — Google released Chrome 151 with 382 security fixes on July 1, 2026 — a record single-release patch that includes 15 critical bugs and the actively exp...Unsealed Emails Show Pentagon Called Anthropic Talks 'Very Close' As Blacklist Landed — Jul 5, 2026 — Court documents unsealed July 2 reveal Pentagon Undersecretary Emil Michael emailed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei that talks were 'very close' the day af...Meituan Open-Sources 1.6T LongCat-2.0 Trained on Chinese Chips — Jul 5, 2026 — Meituan has open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter agentic coding model trained end-to-end on a 50,000-chip domestic accelerator cluster,...White House Nears Voluntary AI Standards for Frontier Models — Jul 4, 2026 — The White House is finalizing voluntary standards for frontier AI model releases with major labs, the FT reports, with Google in talks ahead of its co...Claude Fable 5 Restored Worldwide After US Lifts Export Controls — Jul 4, 2026 — Anthropic's frontier model Claude Fable 5 returned to users worldwide on July 1 after the US Commerce Department lifted the emergency export controls...SGE Files Plan for 14 BWRX-300 SMRs in UK Worth £35 Billion — Jul 3, 2026 — Poland's SGE, with GE Vernova Hitachi, Samsung C&T and Google Cloud, has applied under the UK's Advanced Nuclear Framework to build 14 privately finan...Anthropic Files Confidential S-1, Joining $3 Trillion AI IPO Race — Jun 13, 2026 — Anthropic confirmed it confidentially submitted a draft S-1 with the SEC on June 1, joining SpaceX and OpenAI in a 2026 IPO wave that could carry a co...Google Patches Actively Exploited Chrome V8 Zero-Day CVE-2026-11645 — Jun 12, 2026 — Google has shipped an emergency Chrome update for 74 flaws, including CVE-2026-11645, a high-severity V8 out-of-bounds memory bug that is already bein...CISA Adds Actively Exploited Arista EOS Flaw CVE-2026-7473 To KEV — Jun 11, 2026 — CVE-2026-7473 in Arista EOS lets attackers smuggle unexpected tunnel traffic through 7000-series switches — and Arista has decided not to patch it.