Daily Recap: Tech — 15 July 2026

Cybersecurity and AI policy are driving today’s tech story. In India, a reported contractor-linked breach has put thousands of files tied to the Kudankulam nuclear plant online, prompting investigations even as officials insist core nuclear systems remain untouched. In semiconductors, ASML underscored how relentless AI demand is reshaping the industry, raising its sales forecast and planning more capacity for the advanced lithography tools essential to next-generation chips. Apple, meanwhile, cleared a crucial regulatory hurdle in China, winning approval for Apple Intelligence with local help from Alibaba and Baidu—a sign that even the world’s biggest tech firms must adapt to national AI rules. The infrastructure race is also turning political: Donald Trump attacked New York’s new one-year moratorium on hyperscale data centers, highlighting growing tension between AI expansion and energy concerns. In Australia, a social media-fueled backlash around a Sydney queer venue showed how online platforms continue to ignite real-world cultural conflict.

Top Tech stories

• Kudankulam nuclear power plant files exposed in partial contractor data breach, officials say (12 sources)
• Apple Intelligence receives Chinese regulatory approval, partnering with Baidu and Alibaba (11 sources)
• ASML raises forecasts and plans capacity expansion on strong AI chip equipment demand (10 sources)
• Apple raises AppleCare+ prices for new Mac and iPad subscriptions by $0.50 monthly (7 sources)
• Trump criticizes New York’s one-year data center moratorium, calls it a “terrible decision” (6 sources)
• TCS launches NVIDIA-powered industrial AI lab in Bengaluru (5 sources)
• Leaked code from hack says Suno AI music trained on scraped YouTube, Deezer and Genius data (5 sources)
• Google and Epic withdraw settlement, bringing third-party app stores to Google Play next week (5 sources)

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