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July 6, 2025, 12:55 PM

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Robert Frank / CNBC:
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act expands Qualified Small Business Stock benefits for VCs, founders, and startup staff, raising tax-free gains from $10M to $15M  —  The wealthy will likely see a host of new tax breaks in President Donald Trump's “big beautiful bill,” along with permanent extensions …
France 24:
The Colombian navy says it has seized an unmanned narco-submarine that was equipped with a Starlink terminal, enabling the sub to be controlled remotely  —  The Colombian navy on Wednesday seized its first unmanned narco-submarine, equipped with a Starlink antenna, off the Caribbean coast.
Indragie Karunaratne / My Portfolio:
A developer details how he shipped Context, a native macOS app that was almost 100% built using Claude Code  —  I recently shipped Context, a native macOS app for debugging MCP servers.  The goal was to build a useful developer tool that feels at home on the platform, powered by Apple's SwiftUI framework.
Louis Ashworth / Financial Times:
A profile of Steam developer Valve, which has a flat corporate structure and high profit per head; Ampere: Steam hit 170M MAUs in May, versus 153M a year prior  —  Peering inside one of the tech world's strangest companies  —  Here at FT Alphaville we love exploring “black hole” companies …
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Ian Bogost / The Atlantic:
Velvet Sundown, an AI‑created band with ~850,000 monthly Spotify listeners and two recent albums, shows how some listeners are turning to anodyne AI music  —  “ Rubber burns, the map fades away / Chasing the ghosts of yesterday.”  Sure, fine.  —  The traffic receded as Chicago withdrew …
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
How Clorox is using generative AI for ad creation, brainstorming new products, and analyzing consumer reviews, as part of a five-year, $580M digital overhaul  —  Clorox employees' experiments with generative AI delivered new R&D ideas, better customer insights—and some misfires like ‘bleachless bleach’
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
The GSA says Oracle is giving the US government a 75% discount on its license-based software and a “substantial” discount on its cloud service through November  —  The deal could help increase adoption of the tech giant's cloud platform throughout the federal government
The Block:
DefiLlama: monthly DeFi fees have risen to $577M from an April low of $366M, with major protocols generating $275M through automated market-making services  —  - Major protocols like PancakeSwap have emerged as fee-generating leaders, accumulating $275 million in fees through …
Nikkei Asia:
Investigation: preprint research papers on arXiv from 14 academic institutions in eight countries had hidden prompts telling AI tools to give positive reviews  —  Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review  —  TOKYO — Research papers …

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