Articles from July 7, 2026
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Valve’s New Steam Machine Hits 2026 at $1,049: How It Stacks Up Against PS5 and Windows PCs
Valve’s long-awaited return to the living-room PC is here, and it’s not cheap. The new Steam Machine, shipping now in 2026, starts at $1,049 and arrives with SteamOS as its foundation, promising...
The Decade of Grit Behind FromSoftware’s Fame: Harada Praises Miyazaki’s Long Road to Elden Ring
On July 5, 2026, Katsuhiro Harada — the fighting game legend behind Tekken — posted a tribute to Hidetaka Miyazaki that cut through the usual industry noise. He called Miyazaki’s career...
Obsidian Entertainment Hit by Xbox Layoffs: 60-70 Employees Cut Amid Restructuring
Obsidian Entertainment, the revered RPG studio behind The Outer Worlds and Pillars of Eternity, has been caught in the latest wave of Microsoft’s Xbox restructuring. According to reports from PC...
Google's AI Search Shift: New Tools Track Your Brand's Citations in AI Overviews
Analytics Insight dropped a roundup on July 7, 2026, naming the key platforms that let you monitor how your brand appears in AI-generated search results. The list spotlights tools like Profound and...
Reddit Unleashes AI to Hunt Down AI-Generated Spam in Its Communities
In July 2026, Reddit confirmed it is using large language models to detect and squash a new kind of spam—posts created by marketers to manipulate how AI chatbots respond to user queries. The move...
Apple’s Siri Overhaul for 2026: Why System-Wide AI Beats Chatbots—and What Windows Must Learn
In 2026, Apple plans to launch a completely rebuilt Siri that won’t just answer questions but will anticipate your needs, perform complex tasks across all your devices, and weave itself into the...
Microsoft Teams Tops 90 Million Mobile Downloads in 2025 as Workplace Hub Goes Everywhere
Microsoft Teams has racked up roughly 90 million installs across iOS and Android in 2025 so far, making it the most downloaded Microsoft-published mobile app of the year. The figure, reported by...
Meet MAI-Image-1: Microsoft's First In-House AI Image Creator Arrives in Bing and Copilot
Microsoft broke free from its reliance on OpenAI’s DALL‑E technology on October 13, 2025, unveiling MAI‑Image‑1 — the company’s first entirely home‑grown text‑to‑image model. The...
Abu Dhabi’s 35,000-Seat Copilot Deal Sets a New Bar for Government AI
On July 6, 2026, the Abu Dhabi Government confirmed a landmark partnership with Microsoft to integrate Microsoft 365 Copilot into the daily workflows of its public sector employees. The initial phase...
Apple's iOS 27 Beta 3 Puts Siri AI Through a Trust Test as Safari Gets a Fresh Look
Apple dropped the third developer beta of iOS 27 on July 6, 2026, packing build number 24A5380h for eligible iPhones. The update arrives alongside fresh beta 3 releases for iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden...
Your Mercedes Is About to Become a Company Device: Microsoft Teams, Intune, and Copilot Arrive
Mercedes-Benz plans to turn its luxury vehicles into full-fledged enterprise endpoints, announcing on July 16, 2025, that it will embed Microsoft Teams, Intune device management, and eventually...
Android Backup Gets Stingier, Samsung Ditches Its Messages App: What Users Need to Know
TechPP’s July 6 and 7, 2026 Daily Briefs captured a two-day burst of platform news that signals a more aggressive monetization and consolidation of services across the mobile and cloud ecosystem....