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These are the daily tech headlines for the week ending Saturday, July 18, 2026. I'm Sarah Lane. Let's catch up on the news. The New York Times sources say Meta may have found another way to make its AI data center spending pay off. The company is reportedly in talks to rent computing power to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth up to $10 billion over two years. That would push Meta closer to becoming a cloud infrastructure seller, not just a company using all that compute for its own own AI models. In the ongoing Apple vs OpenAI legal fight, the Financial Times reports Apple sent preservation letters to around 40 former Apple employees now working at OpenAI telling them to keep documents and communications tied to Apple's trade secret lawsuit. Apple says the alleged misuse of hardware secrets may go beyond those two employees named in the complaint. OpenAI says it hasn't seen evidence the claims have merit. Little bit More Apple News Apple Music and Apple One have gotten a price hike. Apple Music individual plans are going from $11 to $12 per month, family plans from 17 to $20 and student plans from 6 to $7. Apple One's family and Premier bundles are also going up by $2, which Apple is blaming on rising music licensing costs. San Francisco City Attorney David Chu sent cease and desist letters to both Apple and Google over Nudify apps. Both companies have been ordered to remove 13 face swapping apps that can create non consensual nude images. Google says it removed the five Android apps flagged in the letters, but Chiu says the bigger issue is app stores profiting from tools that can be used for sexual abuse. Prediction Market Kalshi is moving into biotech. The company is launching bets on clinical trial outcomes and FDA decisions which with Applied xl. Starting with late stage trials and regulatory calls tied to public documents. Kelshi says it will screen traders and block people with material non public information. But the very obvious and potentially concerning question is whether betting markets create new incentives around drug trials. Back in 2019, the World Health Organization commissioned 13 reviews on the health effects of electromagnetic waves. A new study published Thursday on those findings by the New Zealand Medical Journal found no clear link between mobile phone use and brain, head or neck cancer. The brain cancer evidence was the strongest part of the review, though researchers say evidence for some other health effects is still too limited to be definitive. Samsung's next foldables have been on the usual prelaunch leak tour. New images shared by Evan Blass reportedly show the Galaxy Z Fold 8 wider redesign along with the Z Flip 8 and Fold 8 Ultra. This all comes before Samsung's July 22 event. If the leaks end up being true, Samsung looks to be making the Fold feel less tall and narrow, but still keeping the Flip and Ultra as separate foldable lanes. The Wall Street Journal sources say SpaceX is in talks to provide cloud computing power for Defense Department AI projects potentially worth billions of dollars. This would add data center capacity to SpaceX's existing defense role in satellites and communications, and put all SpaceX related companies even closer to sensitive government AI work. The Verge's Antonio G D Benedetto says that Microsoft's new 13 inch Surface laptop still has the great build, keyboard, webcam and all day battery life that he liked last year, but the base model is now $950 and offering just 8 gigs of RAM at that higher price in everyday use. He he says Windows 11 ate up most of that memory, causing freezes during fairly normal multitasking with Chrome teams, Slack and Google Docs. His verdict? Eight gigs is not enough for a Windows laptop in 2026, so buyers should spend more for 16 gigabytes or look for a better value alternative. For more analysis of the tech news of the day and the week, subscribe to DailyTreeNewsHow.com you can find show notes and links to all these headlines there as well. I'm Sarah Lane. Thanks for listening. Enjoy your weekend. We'll talk to you Monday.
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This episode is brought to you by Capital One. Capital One's tech team isn't just talking about multi agentic AI. They already deployed one. It's called Chat Concierge and it's simplifying car shopping using self reflection and layered reasoning with live API checks. It doesn't just help buyers find a car, they love it. It helps schedule a test drive, get pre approved for financing and estimate trade in value. Advanced, intuitive and deployed. That's how they stack. That's technology at Capital One.
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