29 Countries Just Created the World's First Permanent Intergovernmental AI Governance Body
On July 16 in Shanghai, 29 founding nations signed the World AI Cooperation Organization into existence — the first permanent international institution dedicated exclusively to AI governance. »
The Linux Foundation Just Created a Last-Resort Security Team for Critical Open Source Software
Akrites — backed by Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and OpenAI — will step in as maintainer of last resort when a critical open source package has no one left to keep it safe. »
Xbox Cuts 3,200 Jobs and Releases Four Studios — The Biggest Restructuring in Xbox History
Microsoft announced on July 6, 2026 that Xbox is shedding a fifth of its workforce and divesting Double Fine, Compulsion Games, Ninja Theory, and Undead Labs — the broadest reshaping of its gaming division since the Activision Blizzard acquisition. »
COSMIC Desktop 1.3 Is Here: System76's Rust Linux Desktop Gets Frosted Glass and GPU Monitoring
System76 shipped COSMIC Epoch 1.3.0 on July 14, 2026, delivering the long-awaited frosted glass visual effect, deeper AMD/Intel/NVIDIA GPU monitoring, and a Rust-native NetworkManager backend to its from-scratch Linux desktop environment. »
Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Pro: 2-Million-Token Context and Deep Think Reasoning Arrive
Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.5 Pro on July 17, 2026 — featuring a 2-million-token context window and a new Deep Think reasoning mode, the result of scrapping and rebuilding the model from scratch after engineers found structural failures in the original. »