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Multiple recent studies have found that Tylenol use during pregnancy is not associated with autism in children. These findings contradict statements made by President Trump and Health and Human Servic

Sony announced it will stop producing physical discs for all new PlayStation games starting in January 2028, with future releases sold digitally through the PlayStation Store and other retailers. Sony

Stephen Totilo / Game File: Sony says all new PlayStation games will only be sold in digital formats from January 2028, as digital media preference “significantly outpaces physical discs” — New games

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Sony says it will close the virtual PlayStation 3 store in select markets in 2026 before closing PS3 and PS Vita stores “in all other countries” in July 2027 — The virtual

Bloomberg: Sources: Meta plans a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI compute and models, to compete with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud; META jumps 8%+ — Meta Platforms Inc. is dev

Steven Borowiec / Nikkei Asia: South Korean government data: the country's exports grew 70.9% YoY in June to 102.25B, an all-time monthly high, anchored by a record 44.82B in chip shipments — SEOUL —

Bloomberg: Stockholm's Patent and Market Court orders Google to pay nearly 2B to Klarna's PriceRunner in a dispute over abuse of power in the shopping comparison market — Alphabet Inc.'s Google was or

Associated Press: The US sentences Guo Wengui, a self-exiled billionaire Chinese tycoon who defrauded his online followers out of hundreds of millions, to 30 years in prison — A self-exiled billionair

Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: [Thread] The US' now-lifted export controls on Anthropic models created uncertainty, are an own goal, and will push service providers towards Chinese AI models — A lot to un

Financial Times: Tim Cook and EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen held “constructive” talks; sources say they discussed how Apple can launch Siri AI in the EU while avoiding fines — Discussions come as tech

Niko Gallogly / New York Times: Together AI, which offers access to open-source models, raised 800M led by Saudi Aramco's Prosperity7 at an 8.3B valuation, taking its total funding to 1.3B — Together

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Twelve Labs, which is building AI models to make video searchable and understandable, raised a 100M Series B co-led by NEA and Naver, and signs an AWS deal — Twelve Labs Inc.

TwelveLabs Inc., the developer of generative artificial intelligence foundation models that can understand videos like humans, today announced it has raised 100 million in early funding to expand beyo

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber dismissed two leaders at its AI data labeling business as part of a broader leadership transition at the unit, which it says is “seeing strong momentum” — Uber Technolog

The British government has signaled it is likely to intervene in Paramount Skydance's proposed $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, citing concerns about maintaining media plurality. Briti

Cloudflare’s new Attribution Business Insights dashboard helps website owners understand crawler behavior, appetite, and potential value, fueling business-level conversations around crawl compensation

Home battery installations in the United States hit a new record of 673 megawatts of residential energy storage in the first quarter of 2026. The surge was driven by rising residential electricity cos

Privacy-focused artificial intelligence company Venice.ai Inc. today revealed that it has raised 65 million in new funding that values the startup at 1 billion. Venice pitches itself as a private and

Financial Times: A study of 22K US companies shows those spending most heavily on AI are adding workers faster than peers, but most gains are among tech companies and startups — Study of 22,000 US com

Artificial intelligence is transforming what is possible in agriculture, but industry leaders should be wary of investing in AI without first laying the groundwork. The use cases are promising, especi

Peter Campbell / Financial Times: AI may help transform air traffic control by processing vast amounts of data, spotting collision risks early, and easing staff shortages as air travel grows — The tec

Belgian cybersecurity company Aikido Security NV today announced that it has acquired Root.io Inc., a company that offers patching for vulnerable open-source software at the exact versions organizatio

Kirstin Ridley / Reuters: Almost 1,700 UK investors sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao for at least £150M, alleging Binance sold them risky derivative products without regulatory approval — Almost 1,700 B

Amazon blamed the malware strain 'Preflayer'—which can record screen content, steal login credentials, and commit ad fraud—as justification for blocking sideloaded apps . The company is preventing pir

The Supreme Court agreed to hear Apple's appeal regarding a contempt ruling in its antitrust battle with Epic Games, reviewing lower court decisions that found Apple willfully defied a 2021 ruling inv

Emmy Martin / New York Times: As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, San Francisco tech workers making six figures say they cannot compete with the new AI elite and may have to leave — As OpenA

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Meir Orbach / CTech: Cyber unicorn Aikido acquires Israeli startup Root for 70-100 million — The Belgian company expands its AI security push and will open a new development center in Israel following

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Cybersecurity company Aikido Security acquires Root, which has raised about $37.6M and develops an AI platform for securing open-source components — Belgian cybersecurity

Protective DNS and content filtering company DNSFilter Inc. today launched an expanded partner program for managed service providers, restructuring its channel into three tiers as new company research

Matthew Martin / Semafor: Dubai- and London-based 1001, which uses AI to improve aviation, port, and energy infrastructure efficiency in the Gulf, raised 30M led by Lux Capital — THE SCOOP — Dubai- an

Reuters: Filing: President Trump reports 1.4B+ in income from his family's crypto ventures in 2025, including 500M+ from WLF and 635M from the sale of his TRUMP coin — U.S. President Donald Trump repo

Wall Street Journal: Filings: Microsoft's Ireland hub generated $47B in pretax profits for FY 2025, or 38.1% of its global total; new EU rules require country-by-country reporting — Country-by-country

HB 1217 prohibits local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals , with additional restrictions on carbon-trading programs, green procurement, and carbon-based taxes or fees . Governor Ron D

The Atlantic: FOIA docs: White House officials used auto-deleting Signal chats even after Trump advised against its use in April 2025, raising federal recordkeeping concerns — New records reveal that

This article discusses Databricks' evolution of database architecture, tracing the progression from monolithic database systems to Lakebase and then to LTAP (Lakehouse Transaction Processing), emphasi

Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: Getty Images announces plans to end its Shutterstock merger after the UK CMA conditioned approval of the deal on Shutterstock selling its editorial business — A

Google shut down the Tenor API on June 30, 2026, breaking GIF pickers in Discord, X, Bluesky, and WhatsApp. Platforms that built GIF search into their products using Tenor are now scrambling for repla

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google shuts down the Tenor API, affecting GIF pickers on platforms like Discord, WhatsApp, and Bluesky; Nikita Bier says X has migrated elsewhere — GIFs are a huge part of th

Google introduced Nano Banana 2 Lite, its fastest and most cost-efficient image model built for high throughput, speed and scale. The model generates text-to-image outputs in about four seconds and co

Google's NotebookLM is adding a new way to catch up on your notes: TikTok-style AI videos. The new feature is rolling out to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers, allowing NotebookLM to generate 60-sec

Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: Hotels, tour operators, and travel agencies rush to launch proprietary online tools and loyalty schemes to fend off future competition from AI travel agents — Chatb

Bloomberg: How Spain's LaLiga uses nationwide IP blocking to combat illegal sports streams, impacting an estimated 550K+ domains, putting it in conflict with Cloudflare — From small businesses to gove

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Bloomberg: Lime raised 174M in its US IPO, selling 6.68M shares at 25 each, at the midpoint of the marketed range, giving Lime a market value of 1.6B — Neutron Holdings Inc., better known as Lime, and

Ryan Lawler / Axios: MDOTM, which makes AI software for asset and wealth managers, raised 27M led by Expedition Growth Capital, bringing its total funding to 36.5M — MDOTM, which makes AI software for