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Newsmax Says Meta Will Use Its News Archive for AI Queries

The publisher says its current and archived reporting will become available across Meta apps and devices, but the announcement leaves attribution and rollout details open.

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Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro months late; Alphabet loses ~$200B in a day

Bloomberg (Julia Love, Davey Alba), citing 10 current/former employees, reported July 16 that Gemini 3.5 Pro — promised by Pichai at I/O in May for June — is months behind internal targets on coding performance; a late-June training-data up

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Apple Intelligence cleared for China with Alibaba Qwen (and Baidu)

July 15: China's CAC registered Apple Intelligence for launch in mainland China; Alibaba confirmed Qwen will be integrated into Apple Intelligence across iOS/iPadOS/macOS/visionOS (text + image understanding/generation); Baidu confirmed sup

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Fidji Simo steps down as OpenAI's CEO of AGI deployment (health)

July 9: Fidji Simo announced she is leaving her full-time role (CEO of AGI deployment / Applications; Altman's de facto No. 2) to become a part-time advisor, after three months of medical leave for a severe exacerbation of a chronic neuroim

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xAI officially rebrands as SpaceXAI; Grok brand untouched

On July 6, 2026, xAI rebranded as SpaceXAI (X handle @xai → @SpaceXAI), formalizing the Feb 2, 2026 all-stock SpaceX–xAI merger (~$1.25T combined) after SpaceX's record ~$75B June IPO (SPCX, $135/share, +19% day one). Grok products, SuperGr

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