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OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-5.6 Sol, its flagship reasoning model for complex work across coding, research, science, cybersecurity, computer use and design.

Kylian Mbappé missed a penalty, then scored his eighth goal of the tournament and set up Ousmane Dembélé as France beat Morocco 2-0 before 63,811 in Foxborough. It was the last of the seven 2026 World Cup matches at Gillette Stadium, played as Boston Stadium.

Disney's live-action reimagining of the animated adventure sends Moana (Catherine Laga'aia) beyond the reef with the demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson) to restore prosperity to her island of Motunui.

Substitute Mikel Merino's 88th-minute rebound sent Spain past Belgium and into the World Cup semifinals in the last match of the tournament in Los Angeles.

Some 60 tall ships from more than 20 countries, led by USS Constitution, paraded into Boston Harbor for America's 250th, opening five days of free ship tours and fireworks.

Doga Kobo begins broadcasting Though I Am an Inept Villainess: Suuguu Chouso Torikae Den, a light-novel adaptation in which rival noblewomen Keigetsu and Reirin swap bodies through forbidden magic and must survive the political fallout together.

Based on the manga of the same name and animated by LidenFilms, the series reimagines a defeated Demon King, Ryuūsei Narukami, living out a second life as a reclusive shut-in — until Meteor Hanaori, the hero who once struck him down, resurfaces reincarnated as an ordinary high schooler. Trying to turn his life around, Ryuūsei takes a teaching job that happens to land him at her school, and old rivalry curdles into an unlikely spark between former enemies.

B&W's board authorised buying back up to $50 million of its common stock, starting after its second-quarter 10-Q, with no expiry date and subject to its lenders. The same day it called its last $61.4 million of 2026 notes for redemption.

A Lululemon YouTube series in which seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton learns other sports from fellow ambassadors, opening with a round of golf with Min Woo Lee.

The first Eurofighter Typhoon built for Germany's 20-jet Quadriga order, serial 34+02, flew for about an hour before returning safely to Airbus's Manching site.

Johnson & Johnson reported second-quarter sales of $25.3 billion, up 6.6%, and adjusted EPS of $2.90, and raised its 2026 outlook to about $101.1 billion in sales and $11.68 adjusted EPS at the midpoint.

Verizon said it will hand 274 company-owned stores to franchise operators and cut about 500 corporate jobs, moves affecting about 3,000 employees, effective 16 August 2026.

TSMC reported second-quarter revenue of US$40.20 billion, up 33.7% from a year earlier, a 67.7% gross margin and record net income of NT$706.56 billion, guided Q3 revenue to US$44.6-45.8 billion and raised its 2026 capital budget to US$60-64 billion.

Christopher Nolan's IMAX-shot adaptation of Homer's epic follows Odysseus (Matt Damon) on his perilous voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, facing the Cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens, and Circe along the way.

The Hoge Raad quashed the Amsterdam appeal court's admission of The Privacy Collective's GDPR mass claim over Oracle's and Salesforce's ad-tech and sent it to the Hague Court of Appeal.

The Apertura 2026 opener that Nike named as the on-pitch debut of its Chivas de Guadalajara kit ended in a 2-0 home defeat to Toluca at Estadio Akron.

Ferran Torres scored in the 106th minute as Spain beat defending champions Argentina 1-0 after extra time before 80,663 at MetLife Stadium, winning their second World Cup.

Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd said they will not offer app-only coupons or loyalty prices, launching ad campaigns that pitch the same shelf price for every shopper against rivals' bonus apps.

Ferrero's WK Kellogg Co shut its 1942 cereal plant at 9601 F Street in Omaha, laying off 451 union and non-union workers in two waves from 20 July to 18 August 2026.

Ten years after Paris approved Nouvelle AOM's full glass-facade transformation of the Tour Montparnasse, the tower's co-owners voted to abandon that plan in favour of a smaller, cheaper intervention.

Ferrero announced an $86 million expansion of its San José Iturbide plant in Guanajuato, strengthening Nutella and chocolate production, storage and a new high-voltage power supply to lift exports to North America.

San Diego Comic-Con filled the San Diego Convention Center from its Wednesday 22 July opening through 26 July 2026, expecting 135,000 attendees as the city secured the convention through 2030.

A Portland federal jury found on 22 July 2026 that Nike paid former process engineer Heather Hender less than male colleagues and promoted her more slowly because of her sex, awarding $19,739.52 plus $7.5 million in punitive damages under each of federal and Oregon law.

AMD launched its Helios rack-scale AI system, built on MI455X GPUs and Venice EPYC CPUs, with shipments to Microsoft starting in the second half of 2026 and a 2 GW Anthropic deployment from 2027.

Nestlé's first-half organic growth reached 3.6% and volumes (RIG) improved to 1.8% in the second quarter, but net profit fell 31.4% to CHF 3.5 billion on restructuring and a CHF 1.3 billion write-down of businesses it is selling. It kept its 3% to 4% growth guidance for 2026.

The 2026 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count found 45,194 people homeless in the City of Los Angeles, up 3.4%, and about 73,000 countywide, up 1.2%, driven by a 7.9% rise in unsheltered homelessness in the city.

Verizon added 184,000 postpaid phones and posted a record 40.1 percent adjusted EBITDA margin in the second quarter of 2026, raising full-year guidance for a second time and lifting its buyback target to $4.5 billion.

The fourth and final cour of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, subtitled The Calamity, begins airing, bringing Tite Kubo's shinigami saga to its climactic battle between Ichigo Kurosaki's allies and Yhwach's Wandenreich.

Distraction-free portable hi-fi player supporting microSD cards without an app.

Johnson & Johnson announced a proposed resolution of its remaining ovarian talc litigation, about 76,000 claims, with a $5.5 billion commitment paid per claim - no more than $3 billion in 2027 and nothing more before 2028 - if at least 95% of claimants take part.

Shenman Entertainment’s Yi Zhan Cangqiong begins streaming, a Chinese donghua following Gu An, a crippled young man who seizes the power of an ancient god at his lowest moment and turns it against the enemies who wronged him. The 26-episode ONA leans into a familiar but reliably popular power-fantasy setup — a written-off protagonist ascending to godlike strength to settle old scores.

Qualcomm closed its all-stock takeover of Modular, valued at about $3.1 billion at closing; Mojo, MAX and Modular Cloud carry on as brands and co-founder Chris Lattner becomes a Qualcomm executive vice president.