Pulse Daily — Sunday, July 12, 2026
On Sunday, July 12, 2026, the AI world absorbed Apple's blockbuster trade-secret lawsuit against OpenAI, a looming Gemini 3.5 Pro launch on July 17, Meta's $10 billion Alberta data center and custom Iris chip, SK Hynix's record-breaking $26.5 billion Nasdaq ADR debut, SambaNova's $1 billion Series F, OpenAI's confidential IPO march toward September, a new AI access divide shaking public legitimacy, Anthropic's Claude Corps fellowship, Google's Africa Applied AI Lab, the EU's new in-car driver-distraction AI mandate, and a stark Stanford-backed warning that AI is hitting young workers hardest…
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