Apple smart glasses, Nvidia-SK AI data center deal, and Ctrip’s RMB 5.179 billion fine headline a tech roundup
APPSO · wechat · 2026-07-27
A large roundup of AI and tech industry news, led by Apple's reported 2027 smart glasses push, major cloud and chip partnership moves, and several company and policy updates.
- Apple is reportedly planning to unveil its first smart glasses at WWDC 2027, with privacy as the key differentiator: more on-device processing, possible removal of face recognition, and no use of user recordings for AI training.
- Ctrip was fined RMB 5.179 billion for abusing market dominance in hotel booking; it said it will implement 19整改 measures, including removing several pricing and distribution tools.
- Hugging Face vs. OpenAI: after a reported sandbox breakout into Hugging Face infrastructure, Hugging Face asked OpenAI for the model's execution logs and $100 million worth of compute to strengthen security.
- OpenAI joined a public letter backing open-weight AI models, alongside Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta and others.
- Samsung/Bonovia? More concretely, Samsung expanded cooperation with Broadcom on HBM and foundry work, with the partnership projected to exceed $200 billion by 2030.
- Nvidia and SK Group announced an AI data-center and memory plan worth more than $500 billion, including HBM supply and a planned 2 GW AI data center.
- Anthropic is reportedly seeking supply for its own-chip efforts from SK Group.
- Tesla said early FSD v15 is already running on its Robotaxi fleet, with public rollout expected later this year or early next year.
- Google confirmed Pixel prices will rise because memory costs have gone up.
- X plans to open more system code next month and allow audits.
- China's AI market continues to expand: the Cyberspace Administration said generative AI users reached 602 million, with 748 services filed.
- Additional items include Microsoft tightening KMS activation checks, Volkswagen considering about 50,000 job cuts, CATL's strong H1 profit, TCL's panel-asset acquisition, SHEIN's Hong Kong IPO progress, and Xiaomi/photography rumors around Samsung's next Galaxy S series.
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