The Week in Tech: SK Hynix’s Record IPO, Apple’s EU Defeat, and a Chip Trade That Can’t Decide How It Feels
A weekly briefing on the tech and startup stories that mattered most between July 4 and July 10, 2026: SK…
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SK Hynix Just Pulled Off the Biggest Foreign IPO in US History. Memory Chips Are Now the Center of the AI Trade.
SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in a Nasdaq debut on July 10, the largest foreign listing in US history, as…
DJI’s New Delivery Drone Just Flew Higher Than Everest. That’s Not a Publicity Stunt, It’s a Product Demo.
DJI's new EV50 cargo drone reached 8,861 meters during a Mount Everest research mission, twelve meters above the summit, demonstrating…
The Rest of the World Just Sold Two Million EVs in a Month. The US Fell Further Behind.
Global EV sales hit two million units in June while US sales remain well below where they stood before a…
Apple Just Lost Its Last Legal Argument Against the EU’s Big Tech Rulebook
The EU General Court dismissed Apple's challenge to its gatekeeper status under the Digital Markets Act on July 8, closing…
The AI Chip Trade Just Had Its Worst Week of 2026, and It Wasn’t Even About AI Demand
A sharp early-July selloff wiped well over a trillion dollars off chip stocks including Micron, Intel and AMD, driven not…
REE Automotive Is Getting Kicked Off Nasdaq. Its Slow-Motion Collapse Is a Warning for Every SPAC-Era EV Startup.
REE Automotive's shares were suspended from Nasdaq on July 7 after nearly a year of compliance extensions failed to save…
The US Doesn’t Have Enough People to Build the Chip Plants It Just Funded
A Bloomberg analysis published July 7 warns that a shortage of skilled workers, projected to hit 157,000 by 2030, threatens…
A College Startup Wants Frontline Soldiers to Shoot Down Drones By Hand. The Pentagon Is Already Buying.
Atlanta startup Askari Defense, born out of a Georgia Tech student accelerator, is building hand-launched interceptor drones for frontline soldiers…
Tesla Skipped the Training Wheels in Miami. No Safety Driver, No Lidar, No Pre-Mapped Roads.
Tesla launched a fully unsupervised robotaxi service in Miami on July 3 with no safety driver from day one, betting…