Apple supplier Luxshare fell in its Hong Kong trading debut, closing down 1.6%, after raising about $3.1 billion in the city’s biggest listing of 2026 so far (Bloomberg)July 9, 2026
The AI data center boom has led to an increase in demand for power transformers, with average delivery times for orders, once measured in months, now stretching into years (Financial Times)July 9, 2026
A Brown University professor suspected his class was using AI to cheat after an average midterm score of 96%, prompting an in-person final, which averaged 48.6% (Emma Whitford/Inside Higher Ed)July 9, 2026
Cognition releases SWE-1.7, trained from Kimi K2.7 and available at 1,000 tokens/second, claiming it approaches GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8 on lower cost benchmarks (Cognition)July 9, 2026
Block agrees to pay $45 million and offer live customer support for Cash App to settle claims from 46 U.S. states that the company failed to protect users from fraud (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters)July 9, 2026
Technology Apple supplier Luxshare fell in its Hong Kong trading debut, closing down 1.6%, after raising about $3.1 billion in the city’s biggest listing of 2026 so far (Bloomberg)Stacey D. WallsJuly 9, 2026
The AI data center boom has led to an increase in demand for power transformers, with average delivery times for orders, once measured in months, now stretching into years (Financial Times)
A Brown University professor suspected his class was using AI to cheat after an average midterm score of 96%, prompting an in-person final, which averaged 48.6% (Emma Whitford/Inside Higher Ed)
Cognition releases SWE-1.7, trained from Kimi K2.7 and available at 1,000 tokens/second, claiming it approaches GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8 on lower cost benchmarks (Cognition)
Block agrees to pay $45 million and offer live customer support for Cash App to settle claims from 46 U.S. states that the company failed to protect users from fraud (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters)
Quartermaster, which builds an analytics platform and SmartMast, with sensors on a ship’s mast to relay maritime data in real time, has raised a $43 million Series A round (Sean O’Kane/TechCrunch)May 25, 2026
Asia How Southeast Asia’s tourism sector has changed in 2025 – The DiplomatBy Frank M. EverettJuly 9, 2026
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Technology Apple supplier Luxshare fell in its Hong Kong trading debut, closing down 1.6%, after raising about $3.1 billion in the city’s biggest listing of 2026 so far (Bloomberg)
Technology The AI data center boom has led to an increase in demand for power transformers, with average delivery times for orders, once measured in months, now stretching into years (Financial Times)
Technology A Brown University professor suspected his class was using AI to cheat after an average midterm score of 96%, prompting an in-person final, which averaged 48.6% (Emma Whitford/Inside Higher Ed)