China's passenger car sales fell 20.2% in H1 2026. ICE vehicles dropped 39% in June. Exports surged 82%. Analysts expect only 7-8 automakers to survive.

Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8, a 2.4T-parameter model it claims is second only to Anthropic’s Fable 5, but it has shown no benchmarks and no open weights yet.

Demand for Kimi K3 pushed Moonshot’s GPUs to their limit within 48 hours, so the Chinese lab paused new subscriptions and split its plans into two tiers.

Alibaba’s AliExpress has been hit with a €550 million ($629 million) fine from the European Union. Brussels says the Chinese shopping platform failed to keep illegal, unsafe and counterfeit products ...

Kenya is investigating a cyberattack that defaced President Ruto’s website and carried a five-bitcoin ransom demand. Officials say no data was stolen.

SpaceX has moved Starship Flight 13 to Thursday 23 July, its second slip in a week after several Raptor engines failed to ignite on the pad.

Samsung Display is shipping tandem OLED laptop panels that reach 1,600 nits, 40% brighter than single-stack OLED. Lenovo has the first certified product.

More than 140 rallies across 42 states turned scattered data centre zoning fights into a national movement over power bills, water and secrecy.

Trump Media asked trading firms for about $100,000 a month for the fastest feed of Trump’s Truth Social posts, the FT reported.

Blackstone is investing in Futronic, a South Korean maker of high-precision actuators, on undisclosed terms, in a bet on robotics and factory automation.

Scammers are sending pixel-perfect fake X login notifications to steal passwords. Hijacked accounts are used for crypto scams and phishing. Here is how to spot them.

Facebook and Instagram faltered for many users on 19 July, with thousands of Downdetector reports before services eased back and Meta stayed quiet on the cause.