AI News for July 11, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Apple sues OpenAI, alleging a coordinated campaign to steal hardware trade secrets: Apple filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday, accusing it of orchestrating a campaign to poach Apple engineers and extract confidential information to jumpstart its own hardware business.
[NEWS] SK Hynix stock surges up to 14% in blockbuster Nasdaq trading debut: SK Hynix's American depositary receipts opened at $170 and jumped as much as 14% above their $149 offering price on their Nasdaq debut Friday.
[NEWS] Tencent-Manus talks take shape: $2B valuation, exit ban on founder: Tencent's talks to acquire a majority stake in Manus are firming up, according to the Financial Times: most existing investors, including Tencent, ZhenFund, and HSG, are discussing a deal at the same $2 billion valuation, with US investor Benchmark not expected to participate.
[NEWS] OpenAI adds 'Computer Use' feature that lets ChatGPT control your desktop: Alongside folding its discontinued Atlas browser into a Chrome extension, OpenAI is rolling out a separate desktop 'Computer Use' feature that lets ChatGPT click, type, move files, and work across apps and browsers in the background, either as a one-off action or a recurring task.
[NEWS] Meta pulls Instagram AI image feature entirely, days after revealing its opt-out: Meta pulled the Muse Image feature that let users generate AI images by @-mentioning any public Instagram account, just days after publishing an opt-out mechanism for it, saying it 'missed the mark.' The reversal followed sharp criticism from SAG-AFTRA and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, which warned it was an obvious tool for sextortion and nonconsensual replicas.
[RESEARCH] UK agency finds GPT-5.6 Sol jailbreaks that unlock autonomous cyberattacks: The UK AI Security Institute identified 'universal jailbreaks in the cyber domain' in GPT-5.6 Sol, letting testers unlock long-form agentic capabilities like vulnerability discovery and exploit development, according to a technical report OpenAI published.
[RESEARCH] OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces a proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture: OpenAI published a document in which GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra generates a proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture, a long-standing open problem in graph theory.
[RESEARCH] OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously post-trained its smaller Luna model: OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol independently post-trained the smaller Luna model from a 'fairly underspecified prompt,' finding training configurations, selecting GPUs, launching the script, and verifying the run through Codex.
[RESEARCH] Google's TabFM predicts on tables it has never seen, no per-dataset training: Google Research introduced TabFM, a zero-shot foundation model for tabular data that generates predictions on a new, unseen table in a single forward pass.
[RESEARCH] Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 beats GLM-5.2 on coding benchmark, at lower cost: Muse Spark 1.1 scores 71.3 on Artificial Analysis's Coding Index versus 68.8 for Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2, while costing an estimated $0.26 per task compared to $0.37 for GLM-5.2.

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