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| 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-Bicchierai — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday limited the law enforcement use of …
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| 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 further overturned a 91-year-old precedent that has prevented presidents from removing members of independent agencies at will.
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| 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 Anthropic grows to become a leading AI model used by enterprises, it's been flexing its power with customers—including one of its most important early backers, Amazon.
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| 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 suppliers, and photos of Apple's upcoming iPhone 18 Pro models are part of files posted on the dark web … | Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
WhatsApp rolls out username reservations globally, allowing users to claim a unique name before the privacy-focused feature launches later this year — Following years of anticipation and months of preparation, WhatsApp today began rolling out username reservations worldwide …
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Google says the Gemini app now offers personalized Nano Banana image generation, previously limited to Plus, Pro, and Ultra users, to eligible US users for free — Google announced on Monday that the Gemini app is now offering its personalized Nano Banana-powered image generation feature to a broader audience.| Christine Mui / Politico: |
California strikes a deal with Anthropic to expand the use of Claude products across state agencies and local governments at a 50% discount — “A lot of departments are going to switch their usage to this contract, and that's very much our intent,” Chris Given, California's chief information officer …
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| 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 Computer Inc.'s offices in Taiwan were raided by government authorities on Monday, widening an investigation … | Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Waymo and Uber quietly ended their partnership in Phoenix in May; Uber says it is readying the launch of a separate autonomous vehicle partnership in the city — Waymo robotaxis are no longer available on Uber's ride-hail app in Phoenix, Arizona, ending a nearly three-year partnership in the city …
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| James Hunt / The Block: |
Filing: Strategy paused its bitcoin acquisitions last week, instead topping up its USD reserve to $2.55B and announcing a $1B digital credit buyback program — Quick Take — Strategy paused its bitcoin acquisition last week despite raising $1.15 billion in MSTR proceeds, with its total holdings remaining at 847,363 BTC.
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| 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 working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids—and then prompted rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to discuss high-risk subjects.| 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 constellation of 66 satellites provides communications for 2.5 million subscribers.
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| 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 introducing an AI policy that will automatically tag wholly AI-generated music in its app and block it from earning royalties.
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Google VP of Security Engineering Heather Adkins warns the EU's DMA proposals to open Android and Search could lead to a significant rise in fraud within weeks — Europe's pro-competition proposals could see Google Search and Android systems opened up. The company claims there are serious privacy flaws.| 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 to invest alongside South Korean government in factories to meet surging demand for memory chips
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| Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg: |
Marc Andreessen is appointed to the DOD's Defense Policy Board, a committee tasked with giving strategic advice to the defense secretary and other top officials — Billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, the one-time Democratic supporter who switched his allegiance to Donald Trump …
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| 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 is in talks with investors to raise $300 million to $500 million at a valuation of $5 billion before the investment … | Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
Digital Realty says it plans to acquire a majority stake in three fully leased Northern Virginia data centers from Blackstone-managed funds in a $7.8B deal — Digital Realty (DLR.N) said on Monday it would acquire a majority stake in three fully leased Northern Virginia data centers …
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| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
AI coding startup 8090 raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures; founder Chamath Palihapitiya announces that he will lead the company as CEO — Chamath Palihapitiya, best known for his venture capital firm Social Capital and the All-In podcast, announced Monday that the AI coding startup he founded raised a sizable Series A.
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| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
AI leaderboard provider Arena says it hit $100M in annualized run-rate revenue eight months after launching AI Evaluations, which offers performance analytics — Just eight months after launching its commercial service, AI leaderboard provider Arena, which originated as a research project …
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| 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 shows a Codex-focused device built in collaboration with Work Louder.| 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 disclosure requirements after complaints that incoming digital assets regime was too onerous
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| Bloomberg: |
As a new law bars DOD from working with companies whose lobbyists also represent blacklisted entities, DC lobbying firms drop companies like Alibaba and Tencent — Washington's most powerful lobbying firms are rushing to cut ties with Chinese tech giants including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd … | 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 help banks and other organizations ferret out money-laundering and other financial crime, the company says
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| Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Internal documents: Meta is placing strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI division can use Claude Code and Codex, fearing inadvertent distillation — As Meta Platforms tries to wean itself off expensive AI coding applications from Anthropic and OpenAI, it is confronting a difficult challenge …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Baz releases Baz Planner, which uses four specialized AI agents to analyze code at the planning stage, and extends its seed funding by $9M to $17M — Agentic coding startup Baz Technologies Inc. said today it's launching a new platform that sits between developers and the code bases they're working … Sponsor Posts
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