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The US going 100% EV by 2040 would save more than 100k lives, study says

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

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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

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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 (Subrat Patnaik/Bloomberg)

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

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

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

Visa, Stripe and 140 others back new Open USD stablecoin to challenge Tether

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 dict…

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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

We tax cigarettes to reduce smoking. We tax alcohol to reduce drinking. We tax fuel to reduce driving. What do you think happens when you ta…

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 i…

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. •

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 (Max Miller/Engadget)

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

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 (Timothy Prickett Morgan/The Next Platform)

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

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 (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)

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

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 (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

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,

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 (Mark Maurer/Wall Street Journal)

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

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

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

AI software development startup 8090 nabs $135M funding round

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

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 (Victoria Albert/Wall Street Journal)

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 n…

🚨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

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

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Arcova promises to strip 18 months and up to $200M from AI data center builds

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

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 (Bloomberg)

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 …

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 f…

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,

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 (Peter Vercoe/Bloomberg)

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

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 (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

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

Chinese robotics outfits AI2 Robotics and X Square Robots each secure funding at $2.8B valuation

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,

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 (Bloomberg)

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 is splitting its media and broadband properties

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

Could being labeled 'too dangerous' be good marketing for frontier AI firms? Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue thinks so https://bloom.bg/4jP5R…

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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Cursor for iOS!

Cursor for iOS! Introducing Cursor for iOS. Build from anywhere by launching always-on cloud agents. Or remotely control agents running on your computer from the app. Composer 2.5 is 75% off in the ap

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 (David Keohane/Financial Times)

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 reg…

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

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

F1 in Austria: Starts off exciting, then goes the opposite way

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

Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship

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

Feminism was created to dismantle the family, not to liberate women.

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

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 (James Hunt/The Block)

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

Follow & contribute to Zenith in our repo Meta-Zenith and other updates to come https://github.com/Intelligent-Internet/zenith

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

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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 noth…

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

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 (Matt Burgess/Wired)

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 warns EU's plans to weaken its monopoly could expose user data

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

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

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 (David Segal/New York Times)

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

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 (Sam Fleming/Financial Times)

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

HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/nationaldesignstudio/rampart

RAMPART is a model or tool from National Design Studio available on HuggingFace that appears to focus on design-related applications or generative capabilities. The project was shared by Clem Delangue

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I just published my article on how hyperscalers like AMZN, MSFT, and $GOOGL will benefit in the token optimization era and why I believe t…

I just published my article on how hyperscalers like AMZN, MSFT, and $GOOGL will benefit in the token optimization era and why I believe the companies will re-rate much higher. https://www.uncoveralph

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I love optimizing machines It’s like a beautiful puzzle That also achieves true usefulness

Elon Musk expresses his passion for optimizing machines, describing the process as both intellectually satisfying (like solving a puzzle) and practically valuable. The statement reflects his engineeri

If you are building harnesses or AI tools and would like help adding grok in there hit me up More powerful models are coming and it's better…

Elon Musk offers assistance to developers building harnesses or AI tools who want to integrate Grok, Musk's AI model, into their applications. He indicates that more advanced versions of Grok are in d

I'm from the UK... And besides that, more Europeans die from heat every year than Americans die from guns, even including suicides. Use AC.

I'm from the UK... And besides that, more Europeans die from heat every year than Americans die from guns, even including suicides. Use AC. @ZubyMusic Man, you have shootings in schools. Take care of