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-A judge has ruled that the Pentagon must not treat Chinese online retailer Alibaba as a Chinese military company with respect to new lobbying restrictions. -As reported by Game File, Sony shared a private message to PlayStation developers and publishers that said they "will still be able to place re-orders for existing PlayStation disc games." -The NASA Swift Boost mission launched on Friday morn...

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-Without a doubt, it was the most personally profitable period of any president's term in office, personally netting him a figure north of $2 billion. -According to an analysis from Zach Edwards, a staff security researcher at Infoblox, the person or group behind these accounts is running more than 10,000 malicious "crypto casino" websites. -Cloudflare has announced plans to automatically block mi...

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-OpenAI's Sam Altman has reportedly been in talks with the US government to ensure his company's path towards achieving its goals remains free of political hurdles. -A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket left for space in the early hours of July 2, bringing 29 Amazon Leo satellites with it. -X launched a live streaming command center called Live Studio, with tools creators need to go live more e...

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-In its report, the panel discussed how quickly AI capabilities have evolved over the past few years. The complexity of tasks AI models can accomplish has been doubling every few months. -Conversation Focus, in particular, is only accessible at no cost for three hours per month. If you want to use it for longer than that, you'll have to pay for a $20-a-month Meta One Premium plan. -Netflix has wor...

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-Reuters reported that the documents posted on "the dark web" allegedly show information about both components and their suppliers for the iPhone 18 Pro. -The US Supreme Court just issued a ruling that limits geofence searches by law enforcement agencies, which could have major ramifications for privacy rights across the country. -Tidal is still allowing tracks made with AI on its platform, but wi...

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-Rocket Lab announced it's buying Iridium Communications in a deal worth $8 billion to compete with SpaceX's ever-growing Starlink network -According to the Financial Times, Google was forced to cap Meta's use of its Gemini AI model after Mark Zuckerberg's company exceeded its computing capacity. -Sony has notified customers in a handful of European countries that they'll soon lose access to some...

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-OpenAI plans to stagger the release of its new AI model, and the first users will only be parties that are approved by the federal government. -According to the office of California Governor Gavin Newsom, it's meant to serve as an "early warning system" for widespread job cuts due to artificial intelligence, allowing the government to proactively determine where interventions may be needed the mo...

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-As part of its latest revamp, Faraday Future, the embattled electric car company, is now pitching a lineup of robots, including humanoids, quadrupeds and a robotic arm. -OpenAI has updated GPT-5.5 Instant, the model you interact with the most when you use ChatGPT, to be better at understanding context and adapting to queries as you alter them to add more conditions or clarifications. -And do you...

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-Superhuman offers services such as hallucination and plagiarism detection as well as a nifty little tool that displays how much of the internet is artificial intelligence. -Mark Zuckerberg has directed Meta to create a prediction markets app, that reportedly goes by the name "Arena" and could eventually compete with platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi. -Anthropic has announced Claude Tag, which...

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-OpenAI has launched Patch the Planet, a new initiative part of its Daybreak cybersecurity program, which was designed to serve the open-source community. -China's LineShine from the nation's National Supercomputer Center hit 2.198 Exaflops of performance, beating the previous champ El Capitan -Meta's Oversight Board has called on the social media company to strengthen its protection for ordinary...

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-The Wall Street Journal has found that the company is paying social media creators to post misleading content promoting the prediction market. -Norway is imposing a strict ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school kids. -Octopus Energy, the UK's largest energy provider, has teamed up with CATL, the world's biggest EV battery maker, to bring Chinese-style battery swap stations to...

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-Five members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice previously testified at Seattle city council meetings about AI data centers. Now, three of them are apparently under investigation by the company. -Richard Hermer, the Attorney General for England and Wales and Advocate General for Northern Ireland, has reportedly told his department to stop posting official updates on X. -Rivian has been sued...

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-Waymo told Engadget that it identified an area of improvement regarding performance around freeway construction zones, adding that the company voluntarily restricted freeway operations last month. -Relativity Space will provide spacecraft, rocket and cruise operations to deliver the agency's science instruments to Mars. -Apple's outgoing CEO Tim Cook all but confirmed that higher prices are on th...