{"id":5144,"date":"2026-07-04T15:05:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T12:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/?p=5144"},"modified":"2026-07-23T00:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:52:54","slug":"top-tech-stories-of-the-week-july-5th-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/top-tech-stories-of-the-week-july-5th-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tech Stories of the Week \u2013 July 5th, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Alibaba to ban Claude Code over alleged backdoor risk, source says &#8211; TNW | <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/alibaba-bans-claude-code-alleged-backdoor-risk\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts &#8211; The Verge | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/961546\/xbox-layoffs-studio-sales-2026\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Secret Claude tracker shocks users after Anthropic\u2019s anti-surveillance stance &#8211; Ars Technica | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/07\/anthropic-outed-for-claude-tracker-that-secretly-monitored-chinese-users\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>China recovered its first reusable rocket and showed a new way to do it &#8211; Ars Technica | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2026\/07\/china-recovered-its-first-reusable-rocket-and-showed-a-new-way-to-do-it\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Anthropic and Blackstone launch Ode, an AI implementation firm &#8211; TNW | <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/ode-anthropic-blackstone-ai-implementation\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>How Sega\u2019s $5m saved Nvidia, the world\u2019s biggest company &#8211; TNW | <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/nvidia-sega-1995-5-million-rescue\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Starlink&#8217;s New V5 Dish: No Speed Boost, But It Trims Power Consumption, Weight &#8211; PCMag | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/starlinks-new-v5-dish-no-speed-boost-but-it-trims-power-consumption-weight\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic &#8211; The Verge | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/969285\/amd-anthropic-ai-infrastructure-deal\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>EU Gives Paramount&#8217;s Warner Bros. Acquisition The Go-Ahead\u00a0 &#8211; Engadget | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2221157\/eu-gives-paramount-warner-bros-acquisition-the-go-ahead\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>AliExpress fine: EU issues record \u20ac550M DSA penalty &#8211; TNW | <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/aliexpress-eu-dsa-fine-550-million\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google Releases Three New A.I. Models &#8211; TNYT | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/21\/technology\/google-ai-cybersecurity-gemini.html\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alibaba to ban Claude Code over alleged backdoor risk, source says &#8211; TNW | Link Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts &#8211; The Verge | Link Secret Claude tracker shocks users after Anthropic\u2019s anti-surveillance stance &#8211; Ars Technica | Link China recovered its first reusable rocket and showed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5144"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5151,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144\/revisions\/5151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}