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427 stories · page 39 of 48Jonathan Anderson showed his second haute couture collection for Dior - sculpture turned into a garment
On July 6 at the Musee Rodin in Paris, Jonathan Anderson presented Dior's fall haute couture - his second collection at the head of the house, led by the language of sculpture.
Read →The UN convened the first Global Dialogue on AI governance - and the science says capability is outrunning control
In Geneva on July 6, the UN convened its first Global Dialogue on AI. It comes with an independent scientific report by 40 experts, led by Yoshua Bengio and Maria Ressa, and the finding is clear: over a billion people use conversational AI every week, and reliable methods for controlling autonomous systems are still missing.
Read →In one window, Meta and GitHub close free AI paths - open gets more expensive
Meta is switching off the Llama API Public Preview on July 6; GitHub announced the full retirement of GitHub Models from July 30. The models stay available, but the convenient free doors to them are closing.
Read →Hayabusa2 flew within a kilometer of an asteroid - practice for deflecting dangerous rocks
On July 5, the Japanese probe Hayabusa2 passed about 1 km from the asteroid Torifune at a speed of around 5 km/s. Beyond the science, this is a test of navigation precision - the foundation of planetary defense.
Read →Declassified emails reveal Pentagon's dispute with Anthropic over autonomous weapons
Court documents reveal months of correspondence: Amodei holds firm - Claude doesn't go into fully autonomous weapons, or into domestic surveillance. The Pentagon wants 'all lawful uses' and declares the company a supply chain risk.
Read →James Webb detected the same unexplained signature on Pluto and Titan
5.11 microns. That's exactly where a team found an unidentified absorption in spectra from the James Webb telescope - on the surfaces of both Titan and Pluto. Likely from a molecule never seen anywhere else in the Solar System.
Read →SCMP reports Alibaba banned Claude Code. Alibaba declined to comment.
The whole story rests on one internal directive, seen by reporters at the South China Morning Post (a Hong Kong newspaper). Alibaba declined to comment. Anthropic stays silent. We ran it as news - but it's a single-source report that nobody involved has confirmed.
Read →Media reported a deal for all of Boston Dynamics. On 16 July Hyundai announced it officially, without a price.
As of July 13, 2026, neither Hyundai, nor SoftBank, nor Boston Dynamics has announced anything. The numbers - the remaining 9.65% for $325 million - come only from media. We wrote them up as done fact. Mistake.
Read →Seven holes in FatFs threaten millions of embedded devices, and there's no full patch
runZero disclosed 7 vulnerabilities at once in the FatFs file system - embedded in drones, cameras, hardware wallets, and dozens of platforms. Only one has been patched. For the rest, there's no fix yet.
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