AI News for July 12, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] SK Hynix tops $1 trillion market value, vows to double production in five years: SK Hynix's Nasdaq debut closed up 12.8% on its first day, pushing the memory chipmaker's market value past $1 trillion after its Korea-listed shares surged more than 630% over the past year.
[RESEARCH] China's BAAI unveils Orca, a world model that matches robots without action labels: The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence released Orca, a "world foundation model" that matches specialized systems across five robotics tasks despite its base model never seeing a single action label.
[RESEARCH] Study: terrorist groups run every major AI chatbot for attack planning: Boko Haram now uses ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, and DeepSeek for attack planning, building explosives, weapons maintenance, and operational security, according to a Cambridge (CASP) study based on 57 interviews with 27 former members.
[NEWS] Goldman Sachs says AI inflation is a US problem, adding 50bps to core PCE: Goldman Sachs estimates AI will lift US core PCE inflation by 50 basis points by year end, roughly five times the average bump expected in other developed economies.
[NEWS] OpenAI targets families as ChatGPT's audience ages up: OpenAI is hiring a dedicated product manager in San Francisco to build ChatGPT experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults, signaling a shift from individual productivity tools toward technology for entire households.
[RESEARCH] 'Slopsquatting' emerges as a supply-chain threat born from AI coding tools: Slopsquatting is a new supply-chain attack that exploits AI hallucinations: coding assistants routinely invent fake open-source package names, and attackers register those names and fill them with malware.
[NEWS] Beijing's Claude Code 'backdoor' warning seen fueling shift to domestic coding tools: Analysts say China's government warning that Anthropic's Claude Code contains a security 'back door' is set to accelerate a shift among Chinese developers toward domestic coding alternatives, handing local rivals a market opening as companies look to cut reliance on American labs.
[NEWS] Diesel generators smoke over Virginia data center as heat strains the grid: Diesel backup generators at a Digital Realty data center in Ashburn, Virginia, switched on over the July 4 weekend as a heat wave pushed the mid-Atlantic grid toward its limits, sending dark smoke over the facility.
[NEWS] Australia's Labor government splits internally over AI copyright exemption: Australia's governing Labor party is divided over whether to reverse last year's promise not to grant AI companies a copyright exemption, after tech-industry lobbying and a whistleblower tip to independent senator David Pocock reignited fears of a policy reversal.
[OPINION] AI is reshaping Big Tech hiring: engineers up, design and PM roles shrink: Software engineers now make up 55% of hiring at major tech companies, up from 46% in 2019, even as overall hiring stays below pre-pandemic levels, according to SignalFire data.

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