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- Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters Disney has hired its first-ever chief technology officer and the new executive hails from an AI startup that the Magic Kingdom before accused of infringing on its IP.
- FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar The Federal Communications Commission yesterday approved Paramount Skydance’s plan to sell large equity stakes to the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar.
- Finding the cells that put our brain to sleep For a long time, sleep research has treated the cerebral cortex as a passive follower reacting to signals from the deep brain.
- Diana's brother says he's 'telling truth' about king's 'monstrous' phone call Charles Spencer has given his first interview after a week of making explosive claims about Britain's royal family. The accusations have preceded a war of words with Buckingham Palace.
- In India, the new iPhone can arrive faster than a pizza For some iPhone buyers in India, getting Apple’s brand-new iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone 18 Pro Max did not need lining up outside a store or waiting days for delivery.
- Google’s new ‘CC’ is an AI agent that helps families run their households Google is testing a new product designed to help families coordinate with the support of an AI agent.
- Uefa and Concacaf ask Gianni Infantino to give Fifa’s billions to its member associations The presidents of Uefa and Concacaf have written to Gianni Infantino requesting that Fifa release money from its $6bn reserves to its member associations.
- US government website used Chinese model the FBI called "malicious" On Wednesday, US government officials removed a Chinese AI search tool that was briefly deployed on the Federal Register website, Reuters reported.
- Joby Aviation’s 3,100-mile autonomous flight signals its push beyond electric air taxis An aircraft equipped with Joby Aviation’s autonomy technology flew more than 3,100 miles across the United States without a human pilot taking control at any point.
- Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts Talk about your competitor getting through the door. Security researchers used Anthropic's Claude to help hack into OpenAI workers’ ChatGPT accounts.
- Ukraine hosts leaders from seven countries for talks Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has welcomed leaders and representatives from seven regional countries for talks on deepening co-operation.
- ‘In almost every French game, there’s theatre’: Dean Richards on bringing joie de vivre back to English rugby Doncaster Knights’ new director of rugby is passionate about the Champ, who Steve Borthwick should pick from overseas and getting players to have a bit of fun.
- Sensitive UK police data vulnerable to ‘compromise’ by US government and foreign actors Official UK security assessment found Microsoft cloud platform storing files was at potential risk from hostile hackers.
- Calls for venues to cancel Ben Cousins speaking tour The calls come after the George Hotel in Ballarat earlier this week opted to cancel Cousins’ tour date.
- These laws were designed to ban thugs from Perth nightspots. Have they worked? The WA ombudsman’s first probe into Protected Entertainment Precinct laws revealed information blockages between police and the lead state agency had resulted in some serious offenders not being served.
- Under new (yet old) management, Lady of Ro is a throwback to how restaurants used to be Straight-shooting Greek flavours, an upbeat room, BYO: this buzzy Subiaco eatery has all the makings of your new favourite restaurant.
- We wanted to let Max Dowman bloom in the shadows but he has become hard to ignore | Barney Ronay In Borges’s story the land soon begins to decay beneath the large map and left to rot in the desert. Let Max Dowman exist, breathe, bloom in the shadows.
- North Korea's fake job interviews infected 30,000 devices WaterPlum recruiters used bogus coding tests to backdoor jobseekers and raid more than 7,000 crypto wallets. North Korea's work scams work both ways.
- Manus seeks $4B valuation in new $500M fundraise as it resumes independent ops Chinese AI startup Manus is in discussions to raise $500 million at a $4 billion valuation now that it has resumed operations as an independent company.
- Jon Rahm shoots 78-77 and slumps off in last place at PGA Championship Missed cuts for Tommy Fleetwood and Jon Rahm at the PGA Championship would be notable enough even without contemplating the latter’s 36-hole score.
- Head’s 75-ball hundred leads Australia to ODI series triumph Travis Head’s century helped power Australia to a convincing 84-run victory over Zimbabwe and a 2-0 series lead with a match still to come.
- FBI: Fake cop and government impersonation scams cost victims $1.6B The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center received close to 61,000 complaints of this type between January 2025 and July 2026.
- Head’s swashbuckling ton leads Australia to series-clinching ODI win over Zimbabwe Australia 356-6; Zimbabwe 272 all out. Captain Sikandar Raza top-scored with 45 while Brendan Taylor and Craig Ervine went at almost a run-a-ball against some disciplined spin bowling.
- Reserve Bank governor warns mortgage holders more interest rate pain could be weeks away Government spending is under the microscope as millions of Aussies brace for rate hikes.
- Reserve Bank governor warns mortgage holders more interest rate pain could be weeks away Australian mortgage holders are bracing for more financial pain with the Reserve Bank of Australia warning interest rates could rise again as early as the end of the month.
- NASA Awards SpaceX Three Crew Flights to Space Station To continue regular crew transportation to the International Space Station, NASA has awarded SpaceX three more missions through a contract modification.
- Family offices are clamoring for AI investments UBS’s 2026 Global Family Office Report, which surveyed 307 family offices worldwide with an average net worth of $2.7 billion.
- Nobel prizes to carry greater cash value this year The Nobel Foundation has announced its prize winners will receive more money from this year.
- Kylian Mbappé leaves Nike after 20 years to sign boot deal with Swiss brand On France captain also becomes a shareholder in company. Kylian Mbappé has ended a 20-year association with Nike to sign a boot deal with the Swiss challenger company On.
- COSI Telescope Comes Together UC Berkeley engineers and managers watch as the COSI detector assembly is slowly raised from a table in this July 8, 2026, image.
- FBI, Coast Guard boarded hacked oil tankers heading toward US coast The Coast Guard released several photos of its staffers and FBI agents climbing aboard one of the vessels, which were shared with CBS News.
- Tuchel should listen to ‘the 0.1%’ and learn from England’s World Cup mistakes | Jacob Steinberg As Tuchel unveiled his first England squad since the World Cup, he said 99.9% of supporters he bumped into did not talk about his substitutions during the Argentina game.
- Macron orders protection of French infrastructure from Russian hybrid attacks France's Emmanuel Macron has ordered more protection for critical infrastructure. Nicolas Lerner, head of France's foreign intelligence service DGSE, and Celine Berthon, head of France's domestic intelligence agency DGSI, attended.
- Open or closed AI? Nvidia’s Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes take on one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Nvidia said in July that 145 papers accepted at ICML 2026 cited its Nemotron open models and datasets, alongside research using other Nvidia open model families across robotics, autonomous vehicles.
- Admins, you've been warned: The clock is ticking on Edge's IE Mode Legacy web apps have guaranteed shelter only through 2029, and Redmond warns modernization can take years.
- Meta’s Muse hits Mac, letting the AI take actions on your computer Meta’s new AI assistant app, Muse, is now available on Mac. On the Mac, Muse can interact with your files, messages, calendar, notes and mail, all within their native applications.
- I’m so mad that I love Orion’s $2,195 AI mattress pad Orion’s founder Harry Gestetner is only 26 years old, but he’s more experienced as an entrepreneur than his age might suggest: He sold his last company Fanfix.
- The Transformers: The Movie re-review: Still the best (and it's not close) In honor of its 40th anniversary, here’s a celebration of the greatest Transformers movie ever made.
- Wall Street slips as higher US Treasury yields weigh US stocks have opened lower as investors digest changes in oil prices and higher Treasury yields.
- 2027 Xpeng X9 review The new Xpeng X9 is not only an electric Kia Carnival rival – it’s a different type of people mover.