07 Jul 2026
How Boston Dynamics Got Its Atlas Humanoid Robot Fit for the World Cup
Before Atlas the humanoid robot strode onto the pitch to hand the ball to the referee during Norway and Brazil's World Cup match on Sunday, it hinted at its own soccer skills on the sidelines.
07 Jul 2026
OpenAI Releases GPT-Realtime-2.1 and GPT-Realtime-2.1-mini for Low-Latency Voice Agents in the API
OpenAI has released two new Realtime models in its API. They are named gpt-realtime-2.1 and gpt-realtime-2.1-mini. Both target low-latency voice and multimodal experiences.
07 Jul 2026
Anthropic Releases Paper About Claude’s Mental ‘Workspace.’ Don’t Read It Uncritically
A new research paper from Anthropic hypothesizes that there’s an internal “workspace” within the operations of the Claude LLM. The significance the paper is groping toward is that this so-called “J-Space” inside Claude is sort of like one leading idea about human consciousness—global workspace theory.
06 Jul 2026
iPhone 18 Pro Release Date: A New September Timeline Emerges
Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max — when will the next model arrive? NurPhoto via Getty Images July 6 update: this post, first published on Sunday, July 5, was updated with more news of the expected iPhone 18 Pro release timetable. The next Apple keynote, heralding the release of the iPhone 18 Pro, for instance, may be earlier than I’ve been predicting, a respected industry voice has said. Here are the…
06 Jul 2026
Watch SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch 81 satellites early on July 7
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches on the Transporter-16 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base on March 30, 2026.
06 Jul 2026
Apple foldable iPhone Ultra and iPhone 18 Pro: Release date rumors, colors and everything else we know about the upcoming lineup
In roughly two months, the 2026 iPhone event will be here and we'll finally get a look at Apple's latest wave of products. As of now, we already have a good idea of what to expect thanks to tons of rumors and leaks. A folding iPhone — potentially to be called the iPhone Ultra — is widely expected to launch alongside the iPhone 18 lineup. We've even seen some recent hints in the new iOS 27 beta…
06 Jul 2026
ETF Investors Trade Crypto and Gold for Semiconductors in June
June ETF Flows Highlights US exchange-traded fund inflows surpassed $192.9 billion in June Technology ETFs accounted for more than $15 billion of that, driven by memory chip- and semiconductor-focused ETFs The lion’s share of assets continued to pour into S&P 500 ETFs Vanguard S&P 500 ETF VOO became the first ETF to cross the $1 trillion threshold SPDR Gold Shares ETF GLD shed $50 billion from…
06 Jul 2026
Here's how SpaceX's Nasdaq-100 inclusion might affect options pricing
SpaceX bulls are proving a devout lot, not unlike the Tesla traders that came before them. Daily options flows still lean heavily bullish almost a month into trading and one day ahead of the stock's accelerated inclusion into the Nasdaq 100, the index behind the roughly $500-billion Invesco QQQ fund, of which Elon Musk's new giant will garner a roughly 1% weighting.
06 Jul 2026
Apple Documents Confirm Powerful iPhone 18 Pro Specs
Apple may not launch the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max until September, but regulatory filings offer more details about its next-generation smartphones.
