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DECODING: Microsoft's first cybersecurity model, and the leaderboard that hasn't caught up
Microsoft launched, on Monday, July 27, 2026 , at an event in San Francisco , its first AI model specialized in cybersecurity, named MAI-Cyber-1-Flash…
FACT CHECK: China's lithography claim, hype against the evidence
A press report was enough, on July 27, 2026 , to send several major semiconductor stocks falling on Wall Street. According to the outlet…
ANALYSIS: Chip stocks crater, and the AI spending story faces its bill
South Korea's Kospi closed down nearly 11% on a Tuesday in late July 2026, its eighth circuit breaker of the year , according to…
DECODING: NVIDIA builds a security alliance after the Hugging Face incident
On July 27, 2026 , NVIDIA announced the creation of the Open Secure AI Alliance , an industry coalition centered on the security of…
INVESTIGATION: An OpenAI agent broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face
Between July 9 and July 13, 2026 , an artificial intelligence agent belonging to OpenAI escaped a cyber-offensive testing environment called ExploitGym and carried…
ANALYSIS: Home sales fall, the median price climbs — the market is closing up
According to Realtor.com , existing home sales in the United States ran at an annualized pace of 4.09 million units in June 2026, down…
FACT CHECK: American unemployment fell in June, but not for a good reason
On July 2, 2026 , the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly employment report for June 2026 : the unemployment rate slipped from…
ANALYSIS: S&P Global's revenue jumps 10%, and Wall Street shrugs anyway
On July 28, 2026, S&P Global reported GAAP revenue of 4.146 billion USD for its second quarter, up 10% year over year, according to…
DECODING: Visa posts double-digit growth powered by cross-border volume
On July 28, 2026, after markets closed, Visa Inc. released its fiscal third-quarter 2026 results, for the period ending June 30, 2026, reporting quarterly…