{"id":581369,"date":"2026-07-12T05:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T05:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/581369\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T05:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T05:09:18","slug":"this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-july-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/581369\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 11)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n

Khosla-Backed Startup Claims Breakthrough With Largest-Ever AI Model on an iPhone<\/strong><\/a>Aaron Tilley | The Information ($)<\/p>\n

“The largest AI models, which can measure in the trillions of parameters, are still far too big to run on mobile devices. But the model PrismML has working on an iPhone is capable of tasks like complex chat, reasoning, fully autonomous agents and software coding, the startup said.”<\/p>\n

Robotics<\/a><\/p>\n

Humanoid Robots Controlled by Surgeons Did World-First Operation on Live Pigs<\/strong><\/a>Jeremy Hsu | Ars Technica<\/p>\n

“Humanoid robots have surgically removed the gallbladders from living animals in an unprecedented medical experiment\u2014but not as autonomous machines capable of replacing human doctors. Instead, skilled human surgeons remotely controlled the robots\u2019 movements in a new example of human-robot teamups.”<\/p>\n

Biotechnology<\/a><\/p>\n

mRNA Vaccines Clear Sweeping Global Review of Safety and Effectiveness<\/strong><\/a>Bronwyn Thompson | Refractor<\/p>\n

“An international team…reviewed data from laboratory studies, clinical trials, and real-world statistics to fully investigate this relatively novel class of vaccine, from design and manufacturing to its long-term performance. ‘After billions of doses, we now have an extraordinary amount of scientific evidence,’ says lead author Dr. Anna Blakney, assistant professor at UBC\u2019s Michael Smith Laboratories and School of Biomedical Engineering.”<\/p>\n

Tech<\/a><\/p>\n

Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX Are Bigger Than the Last 25 Years of Tech Exits<\/strong><\/a>Russell Brandom | TechCrunch<\/p>\n

“SpaceX has already gone public at a $1.77 trillion valuation, and with both Anthropic and OpenAI pushing into the trillions it\u2019s likely the trio together will land somewhere north of $4 trillion. By comparison, the US Securities and Exchange Commission counted just $70 billion in US-based IPO proceeds last year.”<\/p>\n

Biotechnology<\/a><\/p>\n

11% of Americans Are Currently Taking a GLP-1 Weight Loss Drug Like Wegovy<\/strong><\/a>Matt Novak | Gizmodo<\/p>\n

“Gallup notes that obesity reached a record high in the US in 2022 at 39.9% but has ticked down to 36.4%, according to the latest data based on self-reported height and weight. That dip has been credited to the large number of Americans now using GLP-1 drugs.”<\/p>\n

Tech<\/a><\/p>\n

The Mistrust of AI Labs Bubbles Over<\/strong><\/a>Liz Hoffman | Semafor<\/p>\n

“Forward-deployed engineers, dispatched by AI labs to help customers implement their models, will come back to the mother ship with a deep understanding of how banks, consulting firms, retailers, manufacturers, and consultants operate. That customer support, to a suspicious eye, looks a lot like reconnaissance.”<\/p>\n

Future<\/a><\/p>\n

Microsoft\u2019s Carbon Emissions Went Up 25 Percent Last Year<\/strong><\/a>Stevie Bonifield | The Verge<\/p>\n

“Microsoft says this was ‘driven primarily by the expansion of our datacenter infrastructure,’ as well as the company\u2019s decision last February to stop purchasing ‘non-additional, unbundled renewable energy certificates.'”<\/p>\n

Tech<\/a><\/p>\n

China\u2019s Answer to AI Sticker Shock<\/strong><\/a>Matteo Wong | The Atlantic ($)<\/p>\n

“Having successfully persuaded corporate America to give their products a try, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are now\u00a0struggling\u00a0to prove that their tools are worth the money.\u00a0…While it\u2019s too soon to know whether GLM-5.2 is really capable of replacing America\u2019s top-tier AI agents, any firm or developer who is balking at the costs now might have an alternative.”<\/p>\n

Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n

Anthropic Found a Hidden Space Where Claude Puzzles Over Concepts<\/strong><\/a>Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review ($)<\/p>\n

“The J-space contains individual words that are related to the words and phrases that the model is most likely to spit out in a response in the near future. If Claude were a person (which it is not), you might say that these hidden words can reveal what\u2019s on its mind before it actually speaks.”<\/p>\n

Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n

Hackers Can Use 9 of the Most Popular AI Tools to Assemble Massive Botnets<\/strong><\/a>Dan Goodin | Ars Technica<\/p>\n

“A new attack the researchers have named HalluSquatting has the potential to assemble massive botnets, perform large-scale DDoSes, and infect devices at scale, a first for prompt-injection attacks. The attack works against AI coding assistants and agents, including Cursor, Cursor CLI, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Cline, OpenClaw, ZeroClaw, and NanoClaw, which are all susceptible.”<\/p>\n

Future<\/a><\/p>\n

UN Secretary-General Seeks Ban on AI Weapons<\/strong><\/a>Tom Chivers | Semafor<\/p>\n

“The UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres called for a ban on ‘killer robots,’ saying the decision to take life ‘must remain forever human.’ …Guterres called AI-controlled weapons ‘morally repugnant,’ although not all ethicists agree:\u00a0One roboticist argues\u00a0they are more discriminate in their killing than scared human soldiers, while a philosopher said in 2022 that using robots will prevent young men and women\u00a0bearing ‘the moral burden’ of wars.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Khosla-Backed Startup Claims Breakthrough With Largest-Ever AI Model on an iPhoneAaron Tilley | The Information ($)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,132108,18,19,17,82],"class_list":["post-581369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-curation","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116905283797165689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}