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Nintendo Switch 2 Is Getting a Replaceable Battery in Europe (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-7 Europe Nintendo Battery

Tencent releases Hy3, a 295B-parameter model that it says is competitive with GLM-5.1 and 5.2, under the Apache 2.0 license, following a preview launch in April (venturebeat.com)
2026-7-7 Tencent

Americans of All Ages Are Spending Less Time Socializing (news.slashdot.org)
2026-7-7 U.S.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signs SB 315, a bill requiring annual third-party safety audits of leading AI companies; OpenAI and Anthropic backed the bill (www.cbsnews.com)
2026-7-7 AI

Source: Mercor hit over $2B in gross revenue run rate in June, double its pace in April, and is profitable on a free cash flow basis (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-7

New Costco Gold Star Members—Join for $65 and Receive a $50 Digital Costco Shop Card (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-7

Max severity Adobe ColdFusion flaw now exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-7 Adobe

Software Is Now Written at the Speed of Thought. Security Isn't. (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-7

Fines Doubled As Teens Outsmart Australia's Social Media Ban (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-7 Australia Ban Social Media

Nintendo plans to stop selling the original Switch, Lite, and OLED in Europe from mid-February 2027 and update the Switch 2 to comply with new EU battery rules (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-7 Europe Nintendo Battery

Filing: Strategy sold 3,588 bitcoin for ~$216M between June 29 and July 5 to replenish its USD reserve; its holdings have an $11.4B paper loss at current prices (www.theblock.co)
2026-7-7 Bitcoin

10 Wild Stories About America's Most Fascinating Founding Father (listverse.com)
2026-7-7 U.S.

10 Amazing Lost Films That Were Found Again (listverse.com)
2026-7-7

Memo: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says the unit will divest five studios, including Ninja Theory, alongside 3,200 job cuts, to streamline the business, in a “reset” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-6 Xbox

Memo: Microsoft is laying off ~4,800 employees, or ~2.1% of its workforce; most layoffs are in Xbox, where ~8% are being cut, rising to 15% in this fiscal year (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-6 Microsoft Layoffs Xbox

Reddit says its AI-powered content moderation systems caught 25K “spammy posts and comments” per day in Q1, reducing users exposure to such content by 20% YoY (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-6 AI Reddit

Broadcom agrees to expand its Apple partnership through 2031 to develop and supply custom chips; in 2023, the companies announced a multibillion-dollar deal (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-6 Apple

Anthropic signs a 20-year, $19B lease to use a TeraWulf data center in Kentucky, set to have a ~400MW capacity, with the first power delivery in H2 2027 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-6

AI agent training platform Bespoke Labs raised $40M across a seed led by 8VC and a Series A led by Wing, saying the funding gives it almost two years of runway (www.axios.com)
2026-7-6 AI

Filing: Brookfield-backed data center company Csquare seeks to raise up to $1.35B in an IPO, selling 50M shares at $23 to $27 each for an up to $4.18B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-6 IPO

Google Ordered to Pay $2 Billion For Anti-Competitive Practices By Swedish Court (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-6 Google Sweden

How Masayoshi Son is remaking SoftBank in his own image, betting on AI; SoftBank trades at a ~50% discount to its net asset value, as some question the strategy (www.ft.com)
2026-7-6 AI Asset

A profile of Samsung union leader Choi Seung-ho, who helped win a ~$26B bonus package for chip employees, as he tries to resolve the rift over bonus gaps (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-6 Samsung

Q&A with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on why the startup is going public via SPAC, the physical layer as its proprietary advantage, safety, and more (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-6 Startup Robot

AI-driven drops in labor income and gains in capital income could hit Ireland's tax base, with 6%+ of its workforce in tech and heavy exposure to US companies (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-6 Tax AI Ireland

Some US voters are using AI tools as nonpartisan researchers, seeing them as a viable alternative to traditional news coverage, voter guides, and social media (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-6 AI

Ripple secures CASP authorization from Luxembourg's financial regulator, making it fully MiCA-compliant to offer crypto services across 30 EEA countries (www.theblock.co)
2026-7-6

Shenzhen-based Even Realities, a startup that makes smart glasses without cameras, raised a $150M pre-Series B led by Meituan and Tencent (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-6 Startup Tencent Shenzhen

A draft report from the US Treasury Department is set to warn about the risks of the AI market, likening some key aspects to the dotcom crash in the early 2000s (www.notus.org)
2026-7-6 AI

SK Hynix launches a US share sale to raise ~$28B; the company plans to sell 17.79M new shares, with the specific price range expected to be revealed later today (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-6

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