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Bloomberg : Memo: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says the unit will divest five studios, including Ninja Theory, alongside 3,200…
Natalie Breymeyer / Axios : AI agent training platform Bespoke Labs raised $40M across a seed led by 8VC and a Series…
CNBC : Anthropic signs a 20-year, $19B lease to use a TeraWulf data center in Kentucky, set to have a ~400MW capacity,…
Akash Sriram / Reuters : Broadcom agrees to expand its Apple partnership through 2031 to develop and supply custom…
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg : A profile of Samsung union leader Choi Seung-ho, who helped win a ~$26B bonus package for…
Ming-Chi Kuo : Kuo: suppliers plan to ship less than 1M iPhone fold units in 3Q26, which may push the start of device…
Financial Times : Bending Spoons' Nasdaq IPO caps its 50+ deals across 10+ years that transformed the Italian startup…
Olivia Carville / Bloomberg : A profile of Kaley Glenn-Mills, the plaintiff in K.G.M. v. Meta et al., who was awarded…
Sejal Sharma / Hindustan Times : India issues a notice to Telegram, asking it to curb the spread of pirated films and…
Kieran Smith / Financial Times : Sources: Uber halts plans to launch food delivery in five of the seven European…
Sofia Chesnokova / Tech Funding News : NY-based LinqAlpha, which provides AI-powered market research tools for hedge…
Gene Maddaus / Variety : Midjourney wants Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to reveal in court how they use AI…
Divya Arya / BBC : Instagram has been running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, with terms like…
Dawn Lim / Bloomberg : Blackstone's QTS abandons plans to build its portion of a 2,100-acre data center campus in…
The Information : Sources: Anthropic's bankers have hired UK law firm Freshfields to advise on its IPO; it also…
Grace Kay / The Information : Internal memo: Tesla plans to impose a $200-per-week limit for staff's AI spending…
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat : Z.ai launches ZCode, an “Agentic Development Environment” optimized for its new GLM-5.2…
Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg : Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones used by Ukraine, raised $1.2B…
Samantha Elkins / NBC News : Cloudflare sets a September 15 deadline for AI companies to differentiate their web…
Financial Times : An EU draft proposal dated June 30 shows the bloc is weighing weaker climate impact rules for…
Sayan Chakraborty / Nikkei Asia : Indian IT company Persistent Systems offers to acquire its Germany-based peer…
FinSMEs : CarbonSix, which is developing AI automation and robotic intelligence tech for manufacturing, raised a $40M…
Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : X launches Live Studio, an updated livestreaming hub within Creator Studio…
Bloomberg : Sources: Apple is in negotiations to buy chips from CXMT and YMTC, two Chinese semiconductor makers on a…
Bloomberg : Amazon's emissions rose 16%+ YoY in 2025, driven by data center construction and delivery fuel, while…
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: Apple is working on new iPad Pros and an entry-level 14" MacBook Pro with a new…
Ty Roush / Forbes : Alex Karp calls US reliance on AI labs for military tech “effing insane”, pans AI fees for…
Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing : How the rapid rise in US- and China-made AI abilities is leading to both a…
Andrea Shalal / Reuters : A UN panel co-chaired by Yoshua Bengio warns that AI capabilities are outpacing scientific…
Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg : SpaceX cuts monthly Starlink prices in half in the Memphis area, as it endures blowback…
The Atlantic : FOIA docs: White House officials used auto-deleting Signal chats even after Trump advised against its…
Dina Bass / Bloomberg : AI chip startup Etched says it has raised $800M from investors including Jane Street and a…
Reuters : Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter model that it says was trained on a 50K-chip cluster of…
Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times : Hotels, tour operators, and travel agencies rush to launch proprietary online…
Nikkei Asia : Sources: Chinese smartphone makers like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo told suppliers they will again cut 2026…
Emma Roth / The Verge : OpenAI teases a device it is launching in partnership with keyboard maker Work Louder on July…
Peter Vercoe / Bloomberg : Australia's ACCC sues Amazon for allegedly introducing ads to Prime Video under unfair…
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg : Adobe: online spending across all retailers in the US hit $26.4B during Amazon's four-day…
Matt Burgess / Wired : Google VP of Security Engineering Heather Adkins warns the EU's DMA proposals to open Android…
Yi Whan-woo / The Korea Times : South Korea unveils plans for new AI data centers backed by ~$357.5B from SK Group, GS…
Song Jung-a / Financial Times : The South Korean government, Samsung, and SK hynix plan to invest ~$590B for a new…
Mark Maurer / Wall Street Journal : AI is forcing consulting firms to shift from hourly billing to fixed-fee or…
Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg : Humanoid robot maker Apptronik raised ~$1B at a ~$5B valuation, including from…
Qianer Liu / The Information : Sources: Baidu's chip unit Kunlunxin Technology plans a Hong Kong IPO at a $50B target…
Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune : An analysis of US payroll data across 730+ occupations: employment among workers ages 22…
Wired : A look at a thriving underground economy for Claude access in China, including “transfer station” sites that…
Alistair Gray / Financial Times : Apple's appeal to a London Court of Appeal ruling begins Monday at the UK Supreme…
Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal : Masayoshi Son questioned Musk's orbital AI data centers, noting electricity is…
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