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China is set for a debut flight of its Long March 10B reusable rocket in July with a launch window opening July 10 and an attempt to recover the first stage at sea. This would be China's third booster

Apple removed several Russian mobile apps related to the Russian internet company VK from its App Store , prompting the Kremlin to demand an explanation. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov suggested that

Artificial intelligence inference startup Sail Research Inc. today announced that it has raised 80 million in funding at a 450 million valuation. The company received the bulk of the capital in the fo

Sam Nussey / Reuters: Shares of Japanese NAND flash maker Kioxia slid 12% on Friday after a report that OpenAI was considering delaying its IPO sparked a selloff in AI-related shares — Shares of Japan

SITUATION EXPLAINED: The frontier lab regulatory problem. @ClementDelangue, co-founder and CEO of @huggingface: 'The frontier labs were basically doing marketing for the past few years. If you remembe

Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic and the White House are moving closer to an agreement to lift US restrictions on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — Anthropic PBC and the Trump administration are moving closer to an

Financial Times: Sources: Apple is lobbying the Trump admin for clearance to buy memory chips from US-blacklisted Chinese company CXMT to ease pressure from rising chip prices — The iPhone maker wants

George Steer / Financial Times: Sources: Donald Trump Jr. got ~300K in Kalshi equity after becoming a strategic adviser in 2025, when Kalshi was valued at ~2B; now it's worth $22B+ — Privately owned c

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Paul Meade, Apple's top executive in charge of Vision Pro and smart glasses efforts, is leaving for OpenAI to work on the company's AI-powered devices — Apple Inc.'s

Financial Times: Sources: Revolut told new hires they'll have to work in office at least three days a week from next year, retreating from its long-held remote-first approach — Europe's most valuable

New York Times: Sources: Russian hackers were behind a 2025 ransomware attack on Jaguar Land Rover that used “mind-blowing” encryption and cost UK's economy an estimated $2.5B — A loose collective of

Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX and Charter have held executive-level talks on a consumer mobile phone offering, which would help SpaceX become a DTC mobile phone provider — SpaceX and Cha

Financial Times: Sources: SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell told investors during an IPO roadshow SpaceX may launch a Starlink mobile product and build its own terrestrial US network — Move would test whethe

New York Times: Sources: the CFTC began an extensive investigation of Polymarket earlier this year; the agency's former acting head killed a separate investigation in July 2025 — Last year, the Commod

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Sources: Zuckerberg urged execs to explore Polymarket and Kalshi partnerships, as the Arena prediction app targets 100M monthly active “predictors” aged 18-34 — Mr. Zucker

South Korea's Defense Ministry announced it will train 500,000 'drone warriors' in a major shift toward drone-centric warfare . The plan aims to train personnel across all military branches so that 'a

SpaceX is planning to launch a direct-to-consumer Starlink mobile service in the US , as SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell discussed during a recent investor roadshow . A standalone mobile service woul

Step 1: Invent a new extra-bad category of crime, like 'hate crime' or 'terrorism', with extra-harsh punishments. Step 2: Expand the definition of the new kind of crime to include anything, or anyone,

California's State Bill 576, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, prohibits streaming services from airing commercials louder than the programs they accompany, taking effect July 1, 2026. The law requires

Alistair Gray / Financial Times: Swiss watchmaker Swatch seeks $170M from Samsung in a London trial over 26 digital watch face apps that allegedly cloned luxury brand designs, including Omega — Swiss

This post argues that companies building the best products at any given layer of technology or infrastructure will be those whose teams are deeply focused and passionate about that specific layer rath

The biggest risk in AI is concentration: of power, capabilities and economic wealth. Who can doubt it with trillion dollar companies and government now already controlling a massive part of it? So we

Bloomberg: The FTC fast-tracks approval for SpaceX to acquire Mesh, which raised a $50M Series A in February to make high-efficiency optical transceivers for data centers — Elon Musk received a regula

The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is rapidly fadin' And the first one now Will later be last For the times t

The OpenAI Foundation is joining Intercept as a founding partner through our AI resilience program. As AI accelerates advances in biology and medicine, we also need to prepare for the risks of misuse,

There are three reasons. First, woke progressives (“intersectional activists”) constantly thirst for confirmation of their moral superiority, which they typically get by defending whoever (they're tol

'There should be as many models in the world as firms in the world.' Satya and I dig into when to own vs. rent your intelligence, why every company should be building and climbing its own private eval

There's a lot of sloppy thinking around open models. You can ban them and make it impossible for US companies to use them, but this won't stop A) global open model progress B) bad actors using them So

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber expands the list of criminal convictions that disqualify US drivers and expands the background-check timeline, possibly removing ~0.5% of active US drivers — Uber Techno

Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume is reportedly preparing a major overhaul that could eliminate up to 100,000 jobs worldwide and eventually close four factories in Germany. The plants targeted for closure a

“We're in a weird state of the world where the supposedly totalitarian regime is trying to open up the technology, and the supposedly democratic government system is trying to restrict and control tec

When you came to Iceland in early June 2025 we had not yet started to see many of the consequences of the 2024 push to bring in people from Gaza (led by a group of women in an empathy rush). Since the

This post likely discusses concerns about potential U.S. regulatory restrictions on open-source AI models that exceed certain capability thresholds, reflecting debate about whether advanced AI develop

Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, discusses the company's commitment to open-source AI models and their role in democratizing machine learning. The post likely covers Hugging Face's strategy for adv

AMERICA IS BUILDING AGAIN 🇺🇸 I went underground with @boringcompany checking out the MUSIC CITY LOOP — a massive 25-mile twin-tunnel system in Nashville that will move people from the airport to downt

Gianluca Lo Nostro / Reuters: Anthropic hires French telecom group Orange's Chief AI Officer Steve Jarrett to help Anthropic “better understand and adapt” its products to Europe and Africa — The artif

Apple announced price hikes on MacBooks and iPads, citing increased memory and storage costs that CEO Tim Cook said had become unavoidable. The rapid expansion of AI data centers has created extraordi

Reuters: Apple says it removed VK's apps from the App Store to comply with sanctions; VK says they were removed without warning and it has never been under US sanctions — The Kremlin demanded an expla

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple says “the rapid expansion of AI data centers has created an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage”; the MacBook Neo rises from 599 to 699 — Apple Raises P

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Apple stock closed down 6.15% on Thursday after the company raised some product prices, its worst fall since April 2025 — Apple on Thursday announced price hikes on MacBooks

The surging cost of memory chips has translated into a bonanza for companies like Micron Technologies Inc., but for almost everyone else there’s going to be a steep price to pay, with both Apple Inc.

Chipmaking equipment giant Applied Materials Inc. is trying to make life easier for its chip fabrication plant customers, so they can build the extremely complex 3D architectures necessary for the nex

Hugging Face, a leading open-source machine learning platform, has achieved $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), marking a significant milestone in its growth as a commercial AI company. Th

BREAKING: Kazakhstan Railways is bringing Starlink internet to 900 train carriages this summer. • By July, around 900 train carriages will be equipped with Starlink internet. • The service will cover

BREAKING: Starlink is providing free internet for Venezuela after devastating earthquakes. • Free service through July 25 for people impacted by the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela. • The free se

AI tokenization has become essential for enterprises seeking to balance data security with innovation, enabling sensitive data to be used safely in AI workloads without compromising utility or complia