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Sunday, July 19, 2026 · 6 stories
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OpenAI Begins GPT-5 Enterprise Rollout to Fortune 500 Companies
OpenAI has started deploying GPT-5 to select enterprise customers including Microsoft, Salesforce, and Morgan Stanley. The new model reportedly shows 40% improvement in complex reasoning tasks and includes enhanced data privacy features. Full public availability is expected by Q4 2026.
Apple Announces Vision Pro 2 with 50% Weight Reduction, Ships September
Apple unveiled Vision Pro 2 at a special summer event, featuring a dramatically lighter design at 350 grams and a new M4 chip. The headset starts at $2,999, down from the original's $3,499. Apple also announced visionOS 3 with native spatial FaceTime for up to 12 participants.
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Ethereum Pectra Upgrade Goes Live, Boosting Staking Limits to 2048 ETH
Ethereum successfully activated the Pectra upgrade at epoch 364032, introducing account abstraction and raising validator staking limits from 32 to 2048 ETH. Gas fees dropped 15% in initial hours post-upgrade. The upgrade is considered the most significant since the 2022 Merge.
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DeepMind's AlphaFold 4 Predicts Protein Interactions with 95% Accuracy
Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaFold 4, which can now predict protein-protein interactions and molecular binding sites with unprecedented accuracy. Pharmaceutical partners including Novartis and Roche are already using the system to accelerate drug discovery timelines by an estimated 18 months.
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Nvidia Launches Blackwell Ultra B300 GPU with 288GB HBM4 Memory
Nvidia announced the B300 Blackwell Ultra GPU targeting hyperscale AI training, featuring 288GB of HBM4 memory and 2.5x the inference performance of the B200. Major cloud providers AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have committed to deployment by early 2027. Pricing starts at $40,000 per unit.
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FDA Grants Neuralink Commercial Approval for Paralysis Treatment
Neuralink received FDA approval to commercially offer its N2 brain-computer interface for patients with quadriplegia. The approval follows successful trials with 15 patients who demonstrated the ability to control computers and robotic arms. Initial procedures will cost approximately $85,000 and begin at select U.S. medical centers in October.
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