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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

Showcasing the importance of open source innovation in American AI, Palantir’s new intelligent engine — introduced today — uses NVIDIA Nemotron open models to serve the needs of U.S. government agenci

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

Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding This is an interesting new open weights (MIT licensed) model, the first model release from DeepReinforce. [...] with variants including 9B Dense, 3

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

In this post, we show how pairing Amazon Nova 2 Lite with Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6 delivers an efficient solution for digitizing scanned documents at scale. We built a two-model pipeline on Amazo

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

The Vercel CLI now includes Query Speed Insights, a feature that enables developers to measure and analyze database query performance directly from the command line. This tool helps identify slow quer

Vercel's AI Gateway now supports realtime voice, speech, and transcription capabilities, expanding its feature set beyond text-based interactions. This update enables developers to build applications

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

Vercel has updated its sandbox feature to automatically expire based on the last time the sandbox was used, rather than using a fixed expiration timeline. This change helps optimize resource managemen

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

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Soaring memory costs are posing existential threats to small electronics makers, amid thin margins, low supply chain leverage, and little room for price hikes — Earlier this year,

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

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Source: Taiwanese authorities raided Super Micro's Taiwan office as part of a probe into the alleged smuggling of Nvidia chips to China; SMCI closed down 8.1% — Super Micro Compu

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

Wired: Sources: hundreds of Meta contractors posed as minors to probe how competitor chatbots responded to prompts involving suicide, sex, and other high-risk subjects — Hundreds of contractors workin

The South Korean government today announced a 900 trillion won, or 584 billion, initiative to grow the country’s chip manufacturing capacity. Officials also plan to build about 357 billion worth of ar

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

South Korea announced a massive government-backed investment plan totaling 1 trillion across three pillars: semiconductors, AI data centers, and physical AI robotics, to position the country as a lead

Yi Whan-woo / The Korea Times: South Korea unveils plans for new AI data centers backed by ~$357.5B from SK Group, GS Group, and Naver, targeting 8.4GW initially and 18.4GW by 2035 — President Lee Jae

Agentic security company Straiker Inc. today revealed that it has raised 64 million in new funding to expand a platform built that secures the artificial intelligence agents now spreading across enter

Chris Metinko / Axios: Straiker, which develops tech for securing enterprise AI agents, raised a 64M Series A, bringing its total funding to 85M — Straiker, which secures AI agents, raised a $64 milli

In the agentic era, the role of the database has fundamentally changed. It is no longer a passive repository; it’s a critical context engine designed to ground generative AI apps, models and power aut

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that broad geofence surveillance constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. The ruling does

We recently announced the preview of the BigQuery AI.AGG() function. With AI.AGG(), you can use natural-language instructions within a single line of SQL to summarize or synthesize information over mi

Written by: James Sadowski, Alden Wahlstrom Introduction Four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the pro-Russia influence ecosystem has evolved from a tool of war back into a global s

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The inevitable weakness of metrics There are plenty of useful

Financial Times: The UK FCA unveils the updated version of its crypto regulatory framework, after softening proposed rules that critics said risked holding the UK back — FCA eases capital and disclosu

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: The US DOJ seizes nearly 400 domains for illegally streaming 2026 FIFA World Cup matches; last week, ACE, UEFA, and more shut down 44 domains linked to PirloTV — The

A think tank conducted research examining how the Space Force should respond to space warfare scenarios, with experts envisioning various ways satellites and spacecraft might be used in gray-zone or w

Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: Tidal adopts an AI policy that blocks wholly AI-generated music from earning royalties and removes AI-generated music that impersonates artists — TIDAL is in

Tidal shared its new policies regarding AI-generated music today and how the platform plans to 'protect artists' and 'inform listeners.' Instead of banning it outright, starting on July 15th Tidal wil

Learn how TrueFoundry AI Gateway exports OpenTelemetry traces to Arize AX so teams can trace, evaluate, and monitor production LLM and agent traffic without embedding a vendor SDK in every service. Th

Many organizations today are floating in a ton of data. This is good for powering AI agents, but less favorable when it comes to identifying which signals from all of that data actually matter. The so

Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Scott Gatreau, Director of Information Security, at Turner Industries, a privately owned industrial contractor that provides construction, maintenance, and fabricatio

The U.S. Department of State is offering up to $10 million for information identifying or locating members of the UNC5792 and UNC4221 hacker groups linked to Russia's intelligence and military service