Security
Best Free VPN for 2026: 5 Services That Don't Sell Your Data
Five free VPNs that protect your data instead of selling it - verified data caps, server counts, and the catches each provider won't mention.
AI
Amazon Mechanical Turk Closes to New Customers July 30 After 21 Years
Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk to new customers July 30. No new features planned. Existing users keep access to the 21-year-old crowdsourcing platform.
AI
Google's Declaration of Independence Ad Puts Gemini in 1776. Bluesky Calls It Tone Deaf.
Google's July 4 ad imagines the Founding Fathers drafting the Declaration in Workspace with Gemini's help. YouTube cheered. Bluesky called it tone deaf.
AI
Google Maps Is Testing a Gemini Feature That Places Your Dinner Order Before You Arrive
Google Maps is building a Gemini food ordering mode inside Ask Maps. An APK teardown found UI strings describing the feature. No launch date confirmed.
AI
Alibaba Bans Claude Code After Reverse Engineers Find User-Detection Code in April Release
Alibaba classified Claude Code as high-risk software and will ban it from July 10, after researchers found code that could identify Chinese users of the tool.
AI
LongCat-2.0: Meituan Open-Sources a 1.6T Coding Model Trained Entirely on Chinese Chips
LongCat-2.0 is a 1.6T open-source coding model from Meituan, trained on 50,000 domestic Chinese ASICs. MIT license, 1M context, SWE-bench Pro 59.5.
AI
GLM-5.2: 1M Tokens, MIT License, and Better Coding Scores Than GPT-5.5 at One-Sixth the Cost
GLM-5.2 is the best open-weight AI model on earth right now. MIT license, 1M-token context, and coding benchmarks that beat GPT-5.5 at one-sixth the cost.
Industry
Meta Cut 8,000 Workers to Build AI Agents Faster. Zuckerberg Now Says the Plan Didn't Work.
Zuckerberg told Meta employees Meta AI agents are behind schedule. Four months after cutting 8,000 workers, the agentic bet is not producing as planned.
Security
Fewer Than 5% of AI-Found Open Source Vulnerabilities Get Patched. Akrites Is the Industry's Fix.
Linux Foundation launched Project Akrites to coordinate open source vulnerability patching at AI speed. Backed by AWS, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI.
Industry
AI Claimed 31% of All June Job Cuts. Tech Employers Cut 83% More People Than Last Year.
AI led US layoff reasons for the fourth straight month. Tech employers cut 83% more workers than H1 2025. Oracle, Intuit, and GitLab all cited AI.
AI
Together AI Raises $800 Million at $8.3 Billion to Run Open-Source Models at Enterprise Scale
Together AI raised $800 million in a Series C at an $8.3 billion valuation. Customers including Cursor and Cognition report 6x to 60x cost savings over closed models.
AI
Anthropic Published Fable 5's Cybersecurity Rulebook and a Scale for Grading Every AI Jailbreak
Anthropic published the four-tier Fable 5 cybersecurity safeguards framework and proposed the CJS scale for scoring AI jailbreak severity, developed with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.