AI News for July 14, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Apple's OpenAI suit reveals unanswered Feb warning letter, seeks return of Ive's device: Court filings show Apple first flagged the suspected theft of its hardware secrets to OpenAI in a February letter that went unanswered, months before it sued.
[NEWS] Meta expands Louisiana AI data center to 5GW, over $50B: Meta will grow its Hyperion supercluster in Richland Parish, Louisiana to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity, pushing the site's cost past $50 billion and making it the company's largest data center.
[NEWS] 200+ economists and 16 Nobel laureates warn on AI's economic upheaval: More than 200 economists, executives, and researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, signed an 88-word statement titled 'We Must Act Now,' urging immediate action to prepare for AI's economic impact.
[RESEARCH] German consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model topping English and German benchmarks: A German research consortium led by the KI Bundesverband released Soofi S, an open-source 30B language model trained entirely on Deutsche Telekom's Industrial AI Cloud in Munich.
[RESEARCH] SensorFM beats rivals on 34 of 35 health benchmarks, trained on 1 trillion minutes of wearable data: Google Research says its SensorFM foundation model, trained on more than one trillion minutes of unlabeled wearable sensor data from five million Fitbit and Pixel Watch users, outperformed specialized comparison models on 34 of 35 health and behavioral benchmarks.
[NEWS] Apple rallies $600B as investors flee the AI-spending selloff: Investors piled back into Apple, fueling a roughly $600 billion rally, as nervousness over AI spending hammered chipmakers and cloud giants.
[NEWS] Turing winner Rich Sutton launches Oak Lab to build self-learning AI agents: Reinforcement learning pioneer and 2024 Turing Award winner Richard Sutton founded Oak Lab in Toronto with Khurram Javed, both formerly of John Carmack's Keen Technologies.
[NEWS] 1X unveils a humanoid hand it says cracks robotics' 'hands problem': 1X revealed a new hand for its NEO home humanoid that it claims matches or exceeds human performance, with 25 degrees of freedom versus 27 in a human hand.
[RESEARCH] MIT's SceneSmith uses AI agents to build 3D worlds for robot training: MIT CSAIL and Toyota Research Institute built SceneSmith, a system that uses three AI agents to assemble the objects, walls, and overall layout of realistic 3D scenes for robot training.
[NEWS] Video AI startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation tops $2B: Singapore-based PixVerse closed a Series C extension totaling $439 million, lifting its valuation past $2 billion.

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