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July 3, 2026, 12:05 AM
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Katie Paul / Reuters:
At a town hall, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta's AI agent development has not accelerated as expected and its reorganization was not as “clean” as it could have been  —  Meta (META.O) Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told an internal town hall on Thursday that AI agent development …
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft invests $2.5B and forms the Microsoft Frontier Company to embed 6,000 forward-deployed engineers with customers to help deploy AI systems  —  Microsoft is launching a new AI “company.”  It won't be a separate legal entity, and most of its 6,000 people already work at Microsoft.
Qianer Liu / The Information:
Sources: Anthropic has initiated early-stage development of a custom AI server chip and held preliminary discussions with Samsung about manufacturing the chip  —  Anthropic has begun early-stage work on its own AI chip and held talks with Samsung Electronics as a potential manufacturing partner …
Grace Kay / The Information:
Internal memo: Tesla plans to impose a $200-per-week limit for staff's AI spending beginning July 6; the tally excludes beta versions of xAI products  —  Tesla told employees last month it would impose a $200 per week limit for staff's AI spending beginning July 6, according to an internal memo …
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Stephen Totilo / Game File:
Sony says all new PlayStation games will only be sold in digital formats from January 2028, as digital media preference “significantly outpaces physical discs”  —  New games sold for PlayStation consoles will only be available digitally and won't be sold on discs effective January 2028, Sony has announced.
The Information:
Memo: Microsoft is merging the consumer and enterprise versions of its Copilot chatbots into a single app featuring coding tools and AI agents dubbed AutoPilot  —  Microsoft is merging its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps and cutting unwanted features to ‘earn the right to exist’ in the eyes …
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Anna Heim / TechCrunch:
Finnish quantum computing company IQM closed up 2% in its Nasdaq debut Thursday after going public via a SPAC merger at a ~$1.9B valuation  —  IQM, a full-stack quantum company out of Finland, went public on the Nasdaq Thursday via a SPAC merger at a valuation of about $1.9 billion.
Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg:
Letter: chip sector group SEMI, including Micron and Samsung, warns Scott Bessent US policies affecting prices or production capacity would worsen the shortage  —  Government attempts to address the global memory chip shortage by influencing prices or production capacity would worsen …
The Information:
Sources: Anthropic's bankers have hired UK law firm Freshfields to advise on its IPO; it also advised on Google's acquisition of Wiz and ServiceNow's Armis deal  —  A British law firm has scored a big win: a role in the Anthropic initial public offering, expected to raise tens of billions at a valuation of more than $1 trillion.
Lucinda Shen / Axios:
Source: crypto payments and settlement startup Mesh is raising funding led by Binance at a ~$2B valuation, six months after raising $75M at a $1B valuation  —  Binance is set to lead Mesh's funding round that will value the crypto payments and settlement company at up to $2 billion, Axios Pro has learned.
Thomas Ricker / The Verge:
Amazon says Leo now has 396 satellites in low-Earth orbit, following a July 1 launch, which is “enough to support continuous service across initial latitudes”  —  Early adopters of Amazon Leo should temper expectations. … Amazon says it now has enough satellites operating …
Bloomberg:
The European Court of Justice rules that Google's earlier defeat against a €4.1B European Commission penalty over abusing Android's market power should stand  —  Google lost its long-running fight against a €4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) European Union antitrust fine after the bloc's top judges …

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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Anonymous Hollywood advice for David Ellison to get his WBD deal done: announce more jobs for starved-for-work LA, fire Bari Weiss, and chat with Kamala Harris

The Wrap:
The FCC votes to repeal the national broadcast ownership cap and replace it with a case-by-case review, approving the measure by a 2-1 margin

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
A US federal judge pauses an order requiring Trump to disclose details of his businesses' financial performance to the BBC in his $10B defamation suit

More News

Sam Altman / Financial Times:
Sam Altman proposes a “US-led international forum” to establish AI standards, provide analysis of capabilities and risks, and make AI models available to allies
Min-Jeong Lee / Bloomberg:
SoftBank and its telecom unit launch SB Neo to offer AI chips and cloud services to big companies, aiming to provide 10GW of capacity in the US by around 2030
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Z.ai launches ZCode, an “Agentic Development Environment” purpose-built for its GLM-5.2 model; Z.ai's GLM Coding Plan tiers range from $16.20 to $144 per month
New York Times:
Filings: Trump purchased up to $5M each in Broadcom, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia stocks on July 23, the same day he unveiled his AI action plan
Joe Warminsky / The Record:
The US DOJ says Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen, was extradited from Finland to face charges of participating in Scattered Spider hacks
New York Times:
President Trump says Micron will invest $250M in Trump Accounts; Micron says it will come via an employee matching program and a $250 deposit in some US states

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Samantha Elkins / NBC News:
Cloudflare sets a September 15 deadline for AI companies to differentiate their web crawlers into search, AI training, and AI agents or face being blocked
Wall Street Journal:
Nansen: about two-thirds of Trump's memecoin investors are currently in the red, and 85% of World Liberty's $WLFI buyers on the secondary market are underwater
Phoebe Liu / The Information:
Nvidia promises to financially backstop young cloud providers, like Firmus and Sharon AI, by renting back unused GPUs, in exchange for a share of their revenues
Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI has discussed giving a 5% stake to the US government, seeking to clear political obstacles by securing buy-in from the Trump administration
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