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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

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,

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 —

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Emma Roth / The Verge: OpenAI teases a device it is launching in partnership with keyboard maker Work Louder on July 15, saying “Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade” — A new video sho

Recent research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the first signs of ozone depletion appeared as early as 1957 , decades before CFCs became widely used. Th

Laura Kreutzer / Wall Street Journal: Quantifind, whose AI products help banks combat financial crimes such as money laundering, raised $200M led by Summit Partners — Its Graphyte platform aims to hel

Emma Roth / The Verge: Rocket Lab plans to acquire Iridium for $8B and combine Rocket Lab's launch services with Iridium's satellite-based communications network to rival SpaceX — Iridium's constellat

Based in the UK, Curve are building a financial super-app, a smart wallet that consolidates all your debit and credit cards into a single app and card, simplifying how millions of users spend, send an

NPR: SCOTUS finds that Trump's 2025 firing of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter without cause was lawful, placing independence of several agencies in doubt — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday

TechCrunch: SCOTUS limits the law enforcement use of “geofence” warrants, saying people have “a reasonable expectation of privacy” in their cell-phone location data — Zack Whittaker Lorenzo Franceschi

Sony notified PlayStation users in the UK and Europe in June 2026 that 551 StudioCanal movies and TV shows they had purchased would be removed from their libraries on September 1, 2026 , with no refun

Semafor: Source: the Trump administration has talked with SpaceX about donating shares to Trump Accounts, which provide children with tax-advantaged savings accounts — THE SCOOP — The Trump administra

The Information: Sources: AI video startup Higgsfield is in talks to raise 300M to 500M at a 5B pre-money valuation, more than 4x its valuation in a January 2026 round — AI video startup Higgsfield AI

Catherine Perloff / The Information: Sources: Amazon is weighing using OpenAI's and its own Nova models to cut costs after Anthropic raised prices for using its models in Amazon products — As Anthropi

Reuters: Sources: component and supplier lists, and photos of iPhone 18 Pro models, are among files a ransomware group stole from Apple's Indian supplier Tata — Sensitive lists of components and suppl

Reuters: Sources: CXMT and Tencent sign a ~$3B, three-year DRAM supply agreement for servers ahead of CXMT's IPO; CXMT is in talks with other major Chinese companies — Chinese memory chipmaker ChangXi

Katrina Manson / Los Angeles Times: Sources: disconnected US military databases may have led to the February 28 strike on an Iranian school; some see AI as a fix, others fear it amplifies errors — - A

Song Jung-a / Financial Times: South Korea, Samsung, and SK Hynix say they plan to invest ~$590B to build a new chip complex, including four chipmaking plants and a chip packaging cluster — Companies