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On 12 July 2026 EDF halted operations at three river-cooled reactors and reduced output at eight others to stay within legal river-temperature limits as national readings climbed toward 41 °C.
On 10 July 2026, China caught the maiden Long March-10B first-stage booster in a ship-mounted net minutes after launch, becoming the world’s third entity to recover an orbital-class rocket for reuse.
On 11 July 2026 Apple filed a 41-page complaint in U.S. District Court accusing OpenAI and two ex-Apple engineers of systematically siphoning unreleased-device files and supplier data to accelerate an upcoming AI hardware product, turning their 2024 ChatGPT partnership into open legal war.
On 10 July 2026 the European Parliament failed to muster the 361-vote absolute majority needed to block an urgent-file extension, so the lapsed ‘Chat Control 1.0’ mass-scanning regime was automatically reinstated through 3 April 2028, now with a clause excluding end-to-end-encrypted services.
On 10 July 2026, OpenAI started rolling out an autonomous workspace called ChatGPT Work—powered by its freshly released GPT-5.6 models—while announcing the August shutdown of the standalone Atlas browser and merging ChatGPT, Codex and browsing into a single desktop application.
On 11 July 2026, Apple filed a 41-page federal complaint accusing OpenAI and two ex-Apple engineers of stealing unreleased hardware designs and supplier data to jump-start an AI device line.
On 10 July 2026 China caught the 63 m-tall Long March-10B’s first stage in a ship-borne net minutes after launch, becoming the world’s second nation to recover an orbital-class booster and the first to do so via mid-sea net capture.
On 9 July 2026, EU climate agency Copernicus verified that Western Europe’s average June temperature hit an unprecedented 20.74 °C—3 °C above the 1991-2020 norm—while Germany’s health authority simultaneously reported 5,120 excess deaths from the late-June heatwave.
On 9 July 2026 OpenAI killed its standalone Atlas browser and simultaneously launched ChatGPT Work—an agentic workspace built on the new GPT-5.6 model—folding browsing, coding and workflow automation into one ChatGPT-based platform.
On 9 July 2026, OpenAI replaced ChatGPT’s turn-based “Advanced Voice Mode” with new full-duplex voice models—GPT-Live-1 for paid tiers and GPT-Live-1 mini for free users—allowing the assistant to listen and speak simultaneously.
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