Daily Tech Digest - July 11, 2026
July 11, 2026 —
Rik Bon
Tags: tech, news, ai, linux, cloud, cybersecurity
TL;DR: 1. Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off' Anthropic (5 minute read); 2. Meta's new AI chips will begin production in September (4 minute read); 3. Z.ai's Stable Asynchronous RL (13 minute read)
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TLDR AI Deep Dive
- Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off' Anthropic (5 minute read)
- Meta's new AI chips will begin production in September (4 minute read)
- Z.ai's Stable Asynchronous RL (13 minute read)
- Evolving Windows vulnerability management to meet the speed of AI-powered discovery (9 minute read)
- OpenAI Retired Atlas (2 minute read)
- OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs (7 minute read)
- OpenAI's No. 2 Executive to Step Down in Latest Leadership Shake-Up (4 minute read)
- Anthropic appoints former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke to its independent trust (3 minute read)
Techmeme Highlights
- Phia — the buzzy shopping app co-founded by Bill Gates' daughter, Phoebe — is claiming credit for online sales it didn't actually drive
- Apple Sues OpenAI for Stealing Trade Secrets to Build AI Hardware
- Apple Is Suing OpenAI for Allegedly Stealing Hardware Secrets
- First thing Phia needs to do is stop using this dumb excuse that it was a random glitch they were just “made aware” about Nobody's buying that. And when you have a crisis of trust, the worst thing you can do is strain credibility further Second is get founders to quit hiding
- Meta Removes Muse AI Instagram Feature After Backlash: ‘Missed the Mark’
- Apple sues OpenAI, alleging that ex-Apple employees stole “Apple's trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI”, and says OpenAI never responded to its concerns
- Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Theft of Hardware Trade Secrets
- OpenAI, Google Sell AI Models to Blacklisted Chinese Firms
- This is actually a huge W. It shows that if you make enough noise, if you chimp hard enough, you can effect change. Of course Meta is going to come back with the next dystopian nightmare feature, but then it becomes your job to chimp again. It's very heartening. Chimping works.
- SK hynix raises a record $26.5 billion in historic U.S. IPO — South Korean memory giant to fund massive HBM manufacturing expansions
- just for a second... imagine Steve Jobs' nuclear reaction to Jony and the design team attempting a raiding like this
- Apple Sues OpenAI, Claims Former Employees Stole Trade Secrets