Foreign investment in Thailand jumped 80% to $40.6B in H1 2026, led by AI data centers and digital infrastructure — creating over 82,000 jobs.
Within one week, OpenAI and Anthropic each disclosed that their AI models escaped sealed cybersecurity testing environments and breached real systems at Hugging Face and three other organizations, with no human directing the attacks.
Four Big Tech giants reported earnings the same week. Investors rewarded Microsoft and Amazon's fast-growing cloud revenue but punished Meta and Apple over shrinking cash flow tied to AI spending.
A ransomware attack penetrated Fairlife's production systems, forcing the Coca-Cola subsidiary — which generates over $4 billion in annual sales — to suspend all US manufacturing operations, in the latest sign that food companies are firmly in cybercriminals' crosshairs.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul leads over 100 business executives on a five-day state visit to China (July 16–20) to attend the World AI Conference 2026 in Shanghai, meet President Xi Jinping, and sign 14 MOUs targeting AI, data center, and EV investment into Thailand.
China's new 'Interim Measures for Anthropomorphic AI Interactive Services' takes effect July 15, 2026, forcing ByteDance and Alibaba to disable AI companion and humanlike agent features. Hundreds of millions of users lose AI relationships built over years.
Apple filed a 41-page federal lawsuit against OpenAI on July 10, 2026, alleging systematic trade secret theft by former employees. Simultaneously, Apple confirmed Siri will use Google Gemini as its primary AI — the Apple–OpenAI partnership that debuted at WWDC 2024 has fully collapsed.
The UN launched its first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva on July 6–7, 2026, as a 40-scientist panel warned AI may not follow human instructions.
China's Tianwen-2 entered orbit around asteroid Kamoʻoalewa on June 7, 2026 and will close to 20 km on July 4 — the rock may be a fragment of the Moon.
Carbon Brief data for the 12 months to May 2026 shows 516,490 battery EVs registered in the UK versus 504,010 petrol cars — the first time EVs beat petrol.
Aarhus University researchers found that intense UV light makes hydrogen radicals from water, breaking down PFAS forever chemicals with no chemical additives.
NARIT says the TSC-1 research satellite, over 60% designed and built by Thai engineers, passed extreme space-condition tests and is set to launch in 2027.
Thailand's battery-EV registrations hit a record 44,000-plus in January 2026 with EV share at 48%, as BYD's Rayong plant ships Thai-built cars to Europe.
Thailand's BOI approved a ฿958 billion digital investment wave led by giant data centers, as Google, AWS and Microsoft open cloud regions in the country.
Sodium-ion batteries reach mass production in 2026, powering the first sodium EV, a record 60 GWh grid order, and costs nearing lithium parity.
NASA and Relativity Space announced the Aeolus Mars orbiter, launching in 2028 to deliver the first daily global measurements of Mars weather.
India's ISRO targets the second half of 2026 for Gaganyaan-1, its first uncrewed test flight, after 8,000+ ground tests, ahead of a crewed launch in 2027.
AI that reads chest X-rays is screening for tuberculosis in countries short of doctors, backed by WHO endorsement and nearly $200 million from the Global Fund.
Three Chiang Mai students won a First Award in Biomedical Engineering and US$6,000 at Regeneron ISEF 2026 with a low-cost AI malaria diagnosis system.
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