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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

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

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

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

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. @ZubyMusic Man, you have shootings in schools. Take care of

In this post, we cover best practices for implementing an effective backup strategy for BI assets in Quick Sight. We start by covering the options for selecting the assets to include in your backup, t

Rocket Lab has agreed to acquire Iridium Communications for 54 per share in a cash and stock transaction, valuing the company at approximately 8.0 billion. The deal combines Rocket Lab's launch and sa

In his speech today Andy Burnham promised to turn Britain into an 'Innovation Nation' through decentralisation But in AI - arguably the most innovative technology of all - he may find he is swimming a

Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: In Q2, there were thirteen 1B+ US venture-backed startup exits, either through acquisition or IPO, the most exits since the 2021 market peak — Startup exits valued at

In the UK, Police officers would have special 'cop nights' run by the Pakistani rape gangs where they were allowed to gang rape grooming gang victims as a 'Thankyou' for turning the other way. Bring b

This post claims that Democratic politicians do not advocate for higher taxes on billionaire George Soros despite his substantial wealth. The claim lacks context about Soros's actual tax situation, De

It’s total bullshit! Deaths in Africa DECREASED after cutting USAID funding, which they were using to push for violent overthrow of governments!! Anyone citing the Lancet study to claim Elon killed 14

Bloomberg: Japanese prediction market startups Miraima and Poyp are utilizing a “point-to-voucher” system to bypass strict anti-gambling laws, in a bid to rival Polymarket — Homegrown platforms, banne

Justice Alito's dissent lays it out plain as day. This opinion opens the door to more fraud and it is not difficult to understand why. Outside of military ballots, ballots that show up after election

Prediction market Kalshi sued Illinois over new taxes and licensing requirements enacted under Senate Bill 3019 to support the state's $55.9 billion budget. The new law imposes a 1.75% tax on the firs

Elon Musk has stated that reaching one million humans on Mars represents a crucial milestone for humanity's future as a spacefaring civilization. This reflects his long-stated goal of making humanity

NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft completed its first supersonic flight on June 5, 2026, marking the first time the aircraft exceeded the speed of sound. The X-59 is designed to fly at su

Bloomberg: Nebex, a fintech startup aiming to act as a broker platform connecting US space tech suppliers, foreign governments, and investors, raised a 30M seed led by GV — Alphabet Inc.'s GV venture

Neuralink is needed to solve the super low & lossy output bandwidth of humans. Our input bandwidth, thanks to vision, is many orders of magnitude higher than our output bandwidth, but could also be gr

Nice work by the @Tesla_AI team! The AI3 computer only has ~15% of the effective memory bandwidth of AI4, so this was a tough challenge. Drove Tesla FSD v14 Lite for an hour tonight on my M3 HW3 Tesla

One vote stood between America and independence. The man who had to cast it was 80 miles away, battling cancer, as a violent thunderstorm raged. His name was Caesar Rodney. A lesser-known founder of t

Clem Delangue argues that open-source AI development offers significant benefits for technological progress, market competition, and system transparency while presenting substantially lower risks comp

Open source AI is gaining traction due to the White House’s clampdown on Anthropic & OpenAI. “A lot of founders and developers have been burned by trying to build apps on top of these really advanced

OpenAI is releasing some sort of device related to its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, on July 15th. In a video posted to X on Monday, OpenAI shows a square-shaped device with several buttons, alongsid