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-The gain for electrified vehicles comes during a down period for the auto industry. Global car sales dropped five percent in the first half of 2026, largely due to falling shipments in the world's two largest car markets, China and the US.

-The FCC defines "advanced robotic devices" as a software-controlled autonomous robot that can perceive its environment, weighs more than 4.4lbs (inclusive of its dock), travels across the ground and offers wireless connectivity.

-Researchers from "select academic institutions" included in the program will receive hands-on support from OpenAI, access to the company's latest GPT-5.6 Sol Pro model and be able to invite four collaborators from their institution to participate.
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- In the updated post, the company said it has been finding "a small number of cases where the models identified and used publicly exposed credentials at the account-level on other publicly-available services" during its ongoing review.

-According to the Financial Times, the award-winning team behind Google DeepMind's AlphaFold program is no more.

-SpaceXAI has filed a lawsuit against Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to challenge the state's new law that would ban apps and websites that can generate nonconsensual intimate images.
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Apple will refresh its Series 12 and Ultra 4 watches with better specs, but not a design overhaul
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-The non-profit wrote, "as the EU moves toward banning nudification applications, we assess how Hugging Face, the dominant open-source AI hosting platform, contributes to the risk of non-consensual intimate imagery.”

-Upon asking ChatGPT to copy the style of Agatha Christie for a mystery story about a woman investigating the sudden disappearance of her husband, the chatbot told us it couldn't do what I was asking for.

- Amazon Leo, a subsidiary of the tech giant founded in 2019, filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission to launch up to 5,105 satellites as part of its plans to bring direct service to mobile devices.
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