Judith Murphy

Judith Murphy is a financial journalist and market analyst covering AI, technology stocks, and emerging market trends. She has contributed to multiple financial publications and brings a data-driven approach to her coverage of the technology sector and its impact on global markets.

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Judith Murphy · Jul 20, 2026 · 1:53 PM

The EU just ordered Google to hand Android and Search data to its AI rivals

The European Commission ordered Google to open 11 Android features to rival AI assistants and share anonymized search data with competitors like OpenAI starting in 2027. Google's Kent Walker calls it a threat to user privacy and security.

Judith Murphy · Jul 20, 2026 · 9:27 AM

Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 Rocket Reaches Orbit on Its First Real Attempt

Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 rocket reached a 450 kilometer orbit on its first attempt on July 18, making India the third country with a privately built orbital rocket. The Hyderabad startup, now valued at $1.1 billion, plans two more test flights before commercial service begins in 2027, as rivals Agnikul Cosmos and Bellatrix Aerospace race to build out the rest of the country's private launch industry.

Judith Murphy · Jul 20, 2026 · 6:17 AM

Moonshot Quietly Fixed Real Security Bugs In Kimi K3's Coding Tool

Judith Murphy · Jul 20, 2026 · 12:36 AM

Alibaba Rushes Out Qwen3.8 Two Days After Kimi K3 Rattled Chip Stocks

Alibaba unveiled a 2.4 trillion parameter preview of Qwen3.8 just two days after Moonshot's Kimi K3 triggered a $3.3 trillion chip stock selloff. Alibaba claims the model ranks second only to Claude Fable 5, but the ranking rests on internal testing, not independent benchmarks, and Alibaba owns roughly a third of Moonshot, the rival it's now racing.

Judith Murphy · Jul 19, 2026 · 3:01 PM

How to Build a 30 60 90 Day Plan Template for a New Startup Hire

A 30 60 90 day plan template built for a startup looks nothing like the corporate HR version, because a five-person team can't afford six weeks of shadowing before a new hire ships anything real. This is the version that fits a company where the founder is still answering support tickets.

Judith Murphy · Jul 19, 2026 · 1:28 PM

China's New AI Companion Law Just Shut Down Chatbots for 512 Million Users

China's Interim Measures for AI companion services took effect July 15, 2026, forcing ByteDance's Doubao, Alibaba's Qwen and Tencent's Yuanbao to strip personalized companion features overnight. Roughly 512 million monthly active users got shutdown notices, with Qwen offering no way to save chat history and Doubao giving users until October 15 to export theirs.

Judith Murphy · Jul 19, 2026 · 8:31 AM

Zoox recalls 105 robotaxis after one drove blind into a wall of smoke

Amazon's Zoox recalled 105 robotaxis after an empty vehicle drove into heavy smoke at an uncordoned Las Vegas fire scene on June 20. The fleet-wide software fix, confirmed July 17, arrives days after NHTSA warned the industry of a broader pattern of driverless cars interfering with first responders.

Judith Murphy · Jul 19, 2026 · 4:05 AM

Samsung Confirms Nearly 1,000 Roles Affected in Englewood Cliffs as It Moves to Texas

Samsung Electronics America and Samsung SDS America filed WARN notices confirming nearly 1,000 layoffs in New Jersey as the company relocates its US headquarters to Plano, Texas. The cuts land less than a year after Samsung opened a brand new Englewood Cliffs campus.

Judith Murphy · Jul 18, 2026 · 7:49 AM

Visa and Mastercard Just Joined a New Standard for AI Agent Payments

The Linux Foundation operationally launched the x402 Foundation on July 14, 2026, uniting Visa, Mastercard, Coinbase, Stripe and 13 other premier members around one open standard for AI agents to pay for goods and services over HTTP. The protocol, built by Coinbase, has already moved 75 million transactions worth $24 million in a month, averaging 32 cents per payment.

Judith Murphy · Jul 18, 2026 · 4:36 AM

India's Smartphone Shipments Just Posted Their Worst June Quarter in Six Years

India's smartphone shipments fell 10 percent year over year in the second quarter of 2026, the steepest June-quarter drop in six years, as an AI-driven memory chip shortage pushed device prices up by as much as 53 percent. Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron have redirected fab capacity toward AI memory, and the fallout is landing hardest on India's budget phone buyers.

Judith Murphy · Jul 18, 2026 · 2:39 AM

Aethon Fund Launches With $50 Million Built on Retail Trading Signals

Aethon Fund launched July 14 with $50 million in capital, built on signals drawn from four years of retail trading data at George Kailas's Prospero.ai platform. The fund runs parallel AI-driven strategies and, unusually for a hedge fund, plans to publish live demonstrations of what its signals actually flag and why.

Judith Murphy · Jul 17, 2026 · 8:55 PM

Bonzo Finance Will Make Hedera Users Whole After Its 9 Million Dollar Exploit

An attacker forged a Supra oracle price feed to turn a 3 dollar SAUCE deposit into a 9 million dollar loan against Hedera lending protocol Bonzo Lend on July 11. On July 17, Bonzo announced it will restore every pre-exploit user position in full, backed by a recovery facility from the Hedera Foundation, while Bonzo Lend stays paused pending Halborn security audits of its new redemption contracts.

Judith Murphy · Jul 17, 2026 · 3:58 PM

Sibanye-Stillwater Bets $1.1 Billion on Platinum Mines That Won't Pay Off Until 2033

Sibanye-Stillwater has committed R20 billion, over $1.1 billion, to seven platinum group metal projects meant to sustain South African output through 2050. The flagship K4 shaft at Marikana won't hit steady-state production until 2033, even as platinum, palladium and gold all slide this week on Iran tensions and shifting Fed rate bets.

Judith Murphy · Jul 17, 2026 · 10:55 AM

SK Hynix's Record Nasdaq Debut Is Already Testing Investor Nerves

SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in the second-biggest U.S. share sale ever, then watched its stock swing from a 15.4% Seoul crash to a 27% ADR surge to an 11.5% plunge inside a single week. The volatility says less about memory chip demand than about how nervous investors have gotten over AI stock valuations.

Judith Murphy · Jul 17, 2026 · 6:04 AM

A Regulatory Filing Reveals DeepSeek Is Now Worth About $52 Billion

A Chinese stock filing from textile maker Anhui Korrun accidentally revealed that DeepSeek's first external funding round valued the AI lab at roughly $52 billion. The number, confirmed by Reuters, gives founders and investors their first real benchmark for pricing China's AI champions as DeepSeek reportedly eyes a $71 billion valuation and an IPO.

Judith Murphy · Jul 17, 2026 · 1:41 AM

Marc Lore's Wonder Raises $650 Million and Bets It All on an IPO Next Year

Marc Lore's food-hall company Wonder closed a $650 million Series D at a $9 billion valuation, with Cathie Wood's ARK Invest and AllianceBernstein joining the round. Lore says the company is ready to go public early next year, even though Wonder expects to burn $2.7 billion through 2029.