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The interesting thing about viral narratives is that they don't have to be true to spread. There's now enough evidence pointing to the fact that AI usage does not kill jobs, but that might not matter

Sam Tabahriti / Reuters: The UK CMA proposes requiring Apple and Google to relax UK developer payment “steering” rules, and Apple to open NFC; Google says it “already made the changes” — Britain's com

A study from the American Lung Association found that if the U.S. transitions to a 100% zero-emission passenger vehicle fleet by 2050, it would result in 89,300 fewer premature deaths and $978 billion

They are such liars! The original frame for the US-AID debate was: 'Evil space Nazi Elon Musk killed 14,000,000 people!!!' *I and others pointed out that this is not possible, given that the global de

Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: Vimeo owner Bending Spoons raised 1.68B by selling 58M shares at 29 each, valuing it at ~18.4B, in one of the largest US IPOs by a European company in 2026 — Bending Spoons

Kyle Baird / The Block: Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, and 140+ companies join Open Standard to launch Open USD, a stablecoin that shares earnings from its reserves — Quick Take — Paym

A consortium of more than 140 financial, payments and technology companies, including Visa Inc., Stripe Inc. and BlackRock Inc., is backing a new stablecoin called Open USD, taking direct aim at the m

Voice AI is the core interface for future devices but it’s still not mainstream. And that is crazy to me. The quality is good enough to dictate everything (I’ve only had to add 20 words to my Wispr fl

This post presents an argument about the unintended consequences of taxation policies, drawing a parallel between sin taxes on cigarettes, alcohol, and fuel—which aim to reduce consumption—and implyin

85% of reported scam complaints involving social media were linked to Facebook, while 𝕏 had the lowest at just 0.1%. • Facebook was cited in 85% of identified social media scam complaints collected. •

Max Miller / Engadget: A look at security flaws, police misuse, and other concerns over the 100K+ AI-enabled automated license plate readers installed across the US, mostly from Flock — “You can't get

Timothy Prickett Morgan / The Next Platform: Academic papers and conference materials offer a deep dive into China's all-CPU LineShine, which pairs custom 304-core Arm CPUs with HBM to top the Top500

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Adobe: online spending across all retailers in the US hit 26.4B during Amazon's four-day Prime Day event, up 9.3% YoY; Walmart and Target also hosted sales — Online spending

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: AI coding startup 8090 raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures; founder Chamath Palihapitiya announces that he will lead the company as CEO — Chamath Palihapitiya,

Mark Maurer / Wall Street Journal: AI is forcing consulting firms to shift from hourly billing to fixed-fee or outcome-based pricing, a transition proving slow and difficult for the industry — As AI t

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: AI leaderboard provider Arena says it hit $100M in annualized run-rate revenue eight months after launching AI Evaluations, which offers performance analytics — Just eight

Software development automation startup 8090 Solutions Inc. today announced that it has raised 135 million in funding. Salesforce Ventures led the Series A round. It was joined by Palo Alto Networks I

Victoria Albert / Wall Street Journal: An interview with Axon CEO Rick Smith, who transformed the Taser maker into a policing software company, as its revenue from AI policing tools rises 700%+ YoY —

🚨ANOTHER CITY FALLS: DOWNTOWN CHICAGO SEIZED FOR ISLAM While our leaders obsess over Europe’s slow death, Chicago is being captured right now. On June 25, 2026, thousands of Shia Muslims took over dow

Another video from the founder here: https://x.com/garthsc/status/2051325313544827223?s Today we're announcing @_panthalassa’s $140M Series B, led by Peter Thiel, with participation from John Doerr an

Cybersecurity and artificial intelligence consulting firm Arcova today launched an end-to-end data center development offering that brings engineering, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance and grid-pl

Bloomberg: As a new law bars DOD from working with companies whose lobbyists also represent blacklisted entities, DC lobbying firms drop companies like Alibaba and Tencent — Washington's most powerful

As we celebrate America's 250th birthday with @Freedom250, we're reminded that our nation's story has always been defined by people willing to take on big challenges. @POTUS launched the Artemis progr

At least 1,200 people died of heatstroke in France last Wednesday, mostly elderly people indoors. Even crazier, about 70,000 Europeans die from the same every year, akin to a bi-weekly 9/11. Eurobros,

Peter Vercoe / Bloomberg: Australia's ACCC sues Amazon for allegedly introducing ads to Prime Video under unfair contract terms and forcing existing subscribers to pay more to avoid them — Amazon.com

Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: Changpeng Zhao says Binance's MiCA application in Greece was fully compliant and close to approval by at least one EU regulator but “other forces” opposed it — Quick Take

Two Chinese general-purpose and embodied artificial intelligence firms, AI2 Robotics and X Square Robots, today announced funding rounds that pushed their respective valuations beyond 50 billion RMB,

Bloomberg: Chinese robotics startup AI² Robotics raised ~736M at a ~2.9B valuation; Alibaba-backed X Square Robot raised an undisclosed amount at a ~2.9B valuation — Two Chinese robotics startups have

Comcast announced plans to separate into two independent publicly traded companies through a tax-free spin-off of NBCUniversal and Sky. The split will separate its cash-generating broadband arm from a

The Hugging Face CEO argues that being characterized as 'too dangerous' can serve as effective marketing for frontier AI companies, suggesting that such controversy may enhance their public profile an

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David Keohane / Financial Times: Dealogic: Japan saw 18 IPOs in H1 2026, the lowest since 2011, despite stock market surges, partly due to Japan's lack of AI, data center, and chip startups — Tokyo's

Deaths in Africa DECREASED after USAID funding was cut, because they’re no longer able to push for violent revolution to install leftist regimes! Did Elon Musk kill millions of people by cutting USAID

Extremely troubling “We will kill the white man’s children, we will kill their woman, we will kill anything that we find in our way!” —Andile Mngxitama, member of parliament in South Africa. This is w

George Russell won the 2026 Austrian Grand Prix held on June 28 at the Red Bull Ring, converting pole position into victory with Max Verstappen and Kimi Antonelli completing the podium. The race was r

SpaceX's Falcon 9 first stage successfully completed a landing on the 'A Shortfall of Gravitas' autonomous droneship, demonstrating the reusable rocket technology that is central to SpaceX's mission c

This statement reflects a conspiracy theory claim that feminism's primary purpose was to destabilize family structures rather than advance women's rights. This narrative lacks historical evidence and

James Hunt / The Block: Filing: Strategy paused its bitcoin acquisitions last week, instead topping up its USD reserve to 2.55B and announcing a 1B digital credit buyback program — Quick Take — Strate

Emad Mostaque announced that users can follow and contribute to the Zenith project through the Meta-Zenith repository on GitHub, with additional updates expected in the future. The post directs the co

For a US official to fly the flag of another country after having sworn an oath of citizenship that requires sole loyalty to America is nothing but treason! 🚨ISLAMIZED DEARBORN: THE POLICE FORCE IS BE

Matt Burgess / Wired: Google VP of Security Engineering Heather Adkins warns the EU's DMA proposals to open Android and Search could lead to a significant rise in fraud within weeks — Europe's pro-com

Google argued that the European Commission's proposal to require sharing search data with third parties would 'force us to hand this data over to third parties, with dangerously ineffective privacy pr

Grok Build daily updates Got another update to Grok Build.....it’s receiving daily improvements at a rapid pace Release Notes: v0.2.73 Features: • Keep text selection highlight setting added so drag s

David Segal / New York Times: How a Polymarket dispute over a single syllable ignited a bitter debate; Polymarket uses Risk Labs' Optimistic Oracle to decide ~200K tough call bets per month — In mid-A

Sam Fleming / Financial Times: How the UK is betting on IT and AI to combat slow economic and productivity growth, including moving beyond the Golden Triangle of London, Oxford, and Cambridge — Region

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