Author: Amitabh Sarkar

Published: July 19, 2026 Meta will begin mass production of its fourth-generation custom AI chip, called Iris, in September 2026, after an internal memo obtained by Reuters confirmed the chip completed a six-week testing phase with no major issues. The chip is the latest iteration of Meta’s MTIA (Meta Training and Inference Accelerator) program, which the company launched in 2023. Meta designed Iris in partnership with Broadcom and is manufacturing it at TSMC. Supporting suppliers include Samsung for RAM, Sandisk for storage, and Sumitomo Electric for fiber optic interconnects. Iris targets ranking and recommendation algorithms, inference workloads for Meta’s consumer…

Published: July 18, 2026, 6:00 PM IST 1Password launched a zero-exposure credential integration with Claude on July 16, 2026, letting the AI agent complete logins on business apps without the password or one-time code ever entering the model. When Claude needs to sign in during a browser task, 1Password prompts the user for a Touch ID approval, then injects the credential directly into the page. 1Password, the Toronto-based password manager, built the integration with Anthropic to close the authentication gap that has blocked businesses from letting AI agents act inside credentialed software. The pattern injects the secret at runtime, checks…

Published July 10, 2026 Apple filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI on July 10, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging a coordinated scheme to steal iPhone and Apple Watch hardware trade secrets directed by OpenAI’s own Chief Hardware Officer. The complaint names two individuals — Tang Tan, OpenAI’s Chief Hardware Officer and a 24-year Apple veteran, and Chang Liu, a former senior Apple engineer — and accuses both of systematically extracting Apple’s confidential hardware designs, manufacturing processes, and proprietary materials technology. The Allegations Against Tang Tan Tang Tan spent 24 years at Apple,…

Published July 9, 2026 · Updated: September 27, 2026 OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work on July 9, 2026 — an AI agent that accepts multi-step goals, gathers context from connected apps, and completes them autonomously for hours. Since launch, OpenAI has shipped four capability waves: webhook triggers, a headless Chrome browser, and persistent storage in August; ChatGPT Ads integrations on September 16; and voice-native mobile execution on September 23, 2026. What ChatGPT Work Does ChatGPT Work executes multi-step work goals end to end. A user submits an outcome — “analyze last quarter’s sales data and build an executive summary deck” —…

Anthropic began rolling out rupee-denominated Claude pricing in India on July 13, 2026, listing Claude Pro at ₹2,000 per month on annual billing — the company’s first local pricing for its second-largest market, which accounts for 5.8% of global Claude usage. The move lets Indian subscribers pay in rupees instead of absorbing dollar conversion costs, but Anthropic has not enabled UPI, the payment rail most Indians use daily, according to TechCrunch reporter Jagmeet Singh. Anthropic did not respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment on the rollout. What Claude Now Costs in India Claude in India is priced in three rupee…

Updated: August 2026 Meta Muse Spark 1.1 is a multimodal agentic reasoning model released on July 9, 2026, by Meta’s Superintelligence Labs — the company’s first paid AI model available via a commercial developer API — priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, roughly 25% of what comparable models from Anthropic and OpenAI cost, according to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The launch marks a deliberate strategic shift for Meta, which has historically distributed AI models for free via the open-source Llama family. Muse Spark 1.1 is closed-weight and sold as a subscription API, placing…

OpenAI asked a federal court on July 14, 2026 to award it more than $1 million in legal fees from Elon Musk’s xAI, hours after xAI filed notice that it will appeal its repeatedly dismissed trade-secret lawsuit to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. OpenAI’s filing argues the xAI suit “should never have been filed,” according to Bloomberg. xAI filed its notice of appeal on July 13, 2026. The dispute centers on xAI’s claim that OpenAI poached xAI employees and encouraged them to steal confidential information — a claim courts have dismissed multiple times. xAI Takes Its…

Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday is the largest in company history: 570 vulnerabilities patched across Microsoft products, including 59 rated Critical and 3 zero-days — two of them already being actively exploited in the wild. The surge is directly attributed to Microsoft’s AI-powered vulnerability detection system, which is now finding bugs in Windows faster than attackers can exploit them. Key Facts — July 2026 Patch Tuesday 570 total vulnerabilities patched — the most in a single Patch Tuesday in Microsoft’s history 59 Critical: 48 Remote Code Execution, 9 Elevation of Privilege, 1 Security Bypass, 1 Spoofing 3 zero-days: 2 actively…

A zero-day vulnerability in Cursor IDE — the world’s most popular AI coding assistant, with 7 million active users across 50,000 companies — allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on a developer’s machine with zero interaction required. Opening a malicious repository is enough. Security firm Mindgard discovered and reported the flaw on December 15, 2025, but received no remediation or user notification for seven months before going public. Key Facts — Cursor 0day Disclosure Attack vector: Malicious git.exe in project root, auto-executed by Cursor on Windows when opening a repository User interaction required: None — no clicks, no prompts, no…

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