10 Jul 2026
SpaceX attends Louisiana ‘summit’ as speculation over its plans swirls
Elon Musk, founder, CEO and chief engineer/designer of SpaceX, and owner of Twitter, speaks during a news conference after a Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket test flight at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla, Jan. 19, 2020. Twitter has informed the National Weather Service that it must pay thousands of dollars in additional fees to be allowed to automatically send out tweets warning of…
10 Jul 2026
Pixel 11 vs iPhone 18: The Best Phone to Wait For in 2026?
Google just confirmed its Made by Google event for August 12, 2026, which means the Pixel 11 will beat the iPhone 18 Pro to market by roughly a month. That timing matters more than usual this year — because for the first time, both flagships are built on TSMC’s 2nm process node, and both are using Samsung’s latest M16 OLED panels. The question isn’t just which phone is better. It’s which approach…
10 Jul 2026
UT San Antonio robotics team wins global engineering competition
Eight first-year UT San Antonio students are the new champions of the Siemens Immersive Design Challenge. This global engineering competition began with more than 1,900 participants, and after three rounds of competition the all-freshman team stood out from the rest.
09 Jul 2026
Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI’s AGI work due to illness
OpenAI’s Fidji Simo is departing her full-time role as the company’s AGI chief and is transitioning to being a “part-time advisor,” she said on X.
09 Jul 2026
OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing
OpenAI is sunsetting Atlas, the AI-powered browser it launched in October with ChatGPT at its core. But it’s not giving up on the idea that AI should help people browse the web. Instead, it’s taking some of the agentic browsing features it tested in Atlas and redistributing them across ChatGPT’s desktop app and a Google Chrome extension.
09 Jul 2026
Elon Musk's SpaceX Poured $7.7 Billion Into AI Last Quarter. Here's the Bet Behind Its Widening Losses.
In the first quarter of 2026, SpaceX ( SPCX +2.60% ) spent $7.7 billion building out AI infrastructure. That was more than three-quarters of the company's entire $10.1 billion capital budget for the period. That is a staggering bet. Will the gamble be worth it? Or is it setting up SpaceX to burn cash faster than the business can replace it?
09 Jul 2026
New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial
The New York Times and The Daily News claim that OpenAI has been lying about its ability to search customer chat log data and training datasets for their copyrighted works. It’s the latest escalation in a two-year lawsuit against the AI firm for allegedly violating copyright law by training its generative AI models on the Times’ content and reproducing that journalism in user outputs.
09 Jul 2026
Apple Ends Restores for iPhone 5c, iPad Mini, and Other Legacy Devices
A repair shop tech plugs a bricked iPhone 5c into a Mac and hits Restore. It fails — no useful error, no path forward, just a process that used to work and now doesn't. That's the new reality as of early July 2026: Apple has stopped signing the baseband firmware — the cellular modem component — for several legacy 32-bit devices, according to reports from 9to5Mac, and MacRumors, corroborated by…
09 Jul 2026
NVIDIA Valuation Falls to Multi-Year Low: Value Play or Value Trap?
NVIDIA's forward P/E fell to 22.22x, its lowest level since 2019, per Yahoo Finance. Revenue and earnings outlook remain robust, but Wall Street sees limited near-term upside. ETFs like SMHX, GXPT, SMH and SHOC offer diversified exposure to NVIDIA's AI leadership.
