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July 6, 2025, 1:50 AM

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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.
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’
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 …
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Source: an ongoing outage at IT giant Ingram Micro is caused by a ransomware attack from SafePay, which has become one of the more active operations of 2025  —  An ongoing outage at IT giant Ingram Micro is caused by a SafePay ransomware attack that led to the shutdown of internal systems, BleepingComputer has learned.
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Wall Street Journal:
Analysts estimate AI services within Microsoft Azure generated $11.5B in revenue in the just-ended fiscal year, up 100%+ YoY but only ~4% of Microsoft's revenue  —  AI has propelled the two companies toward an exclusive club, but Microsoft's path forward is more complicated
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 …
Richard Waters / Financial Times:
PitchBook: VC exits through public listings, acquisitions, and buyouts reached $67.7B in Q2 2025, up from $38.5B a year ago and the strongest showing since 2021  —  Figma listing plans might raise hopes of a rise in IPO activity  —  When design software company Figma revealed its plans …
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Cluely says its ARR hit $7M after signing a public company; a startup called Pickle says it built Glass, an open source, free product similar to Cluely  —  Cluely's revenue has skyrocketed to about $7 million in ARR since it launched its new enterprise product a week ago, founder Roy Lee told TechCrunch.
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Over the past year, long-time Bitcoin whales have been selling off their holdings, leading to a reshaping of the market as institutions increase their buying  —  A silent transfer of control is reshaping the $2.1 trillion Bitcoin market.  —  A steady stream of sales by long-time whales …
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
Shadma Shaikh / MIT Technology Review:
A look at India's push to compete in the global AI race, as the country's vast linguistic diversity poses a core challenge to building foundational AI models  —  In Bengaluru, India, Adithya Kolavi felt a mix of excitement and validation as he watched DeepSeek unleash its disruptive language model on the world earlier this year.
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
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An interview with Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost on settling the proxy fight with Starboard Value, serving the “design and make” workforce, US reshoring, and more  —  This article first appeared in The CEO Signal.  Request an invitation.  —  THE SIGNAL INTERVIEW

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