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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 (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-30 SpaceX

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 (www.theblock.co)
2026-6-29 Bitcoin

Internal documents: Meta is placing strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI division can use Claude Code and Codex, fearing inadvertent distillation (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-29 AI

Japanese prediction market startups Miraima and Poyp are utilizing a “point-to-voucher” system to bypass strict anti-gambling laws, in a bid to rival Polymarket (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-29 Japan Startup

AdGuard's Family Plan is on sale for a one-time $15 through 7/1 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-29

Webinar: Why business email compromise attacks keep succeeding (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-29

The US DOJ seizes nearly 400 domains for illegally streaming 2026 FIFA World Cup matches; last week, ACE, UEFA, and more shut down 44 domains linked to PirloTV (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-29

Chinese robotics startup AI² Robotics raised ~$736M at a ~$2.9B valuation; Alibaba-backed X Square Robot raised an undisclosed amount at a ~$2.9B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-29 China Alibaba Startup AI Robot

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 (www.wired.com)
2026-6-29 Android Google

Adobe: online spending across all retailers in the US hit $26.4B during Amazon's four-day Prime Day event, up 9.3% YoY; Walmart and Target also hosted sales (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-29 Amazon Adobe Walmart

Scientists Think Neptune and Uranus May Not Be the Ice Giants We Imagined (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-29

How a Polymarket dispute over a single syllable ignited a bitter debate; Polymarket uses Risk Labs' Optimistic Oracle to decide ~200K tough call bets per month (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-29 Oracle

Verizon and the UK's BT agree to create a joint venture for their international businesses with ~$4B in combined yearly revenue; Verizon will pay $625M to BT (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-29

How the UK is betting on IT and AI to combat slow economic and productivity growth, including moving beyond the Golden Triangle of London, Oxford, and Cambridge (www.ft.com)
2026-6-29 AI London

Sources: CXMT and Tencent sign a ~$3B, three-year DRAM supply agreement for servers ahead of CXMT's IPO; CXMT is in talks with other major Chinese companies (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-29 China IPO Tencent

An interview with Axon CEO Rick Smith, who transformed the Taser maker into a policing software company, as its revenue from AI policing tools rises 700%+ YoY (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-29 Interview AI

Academic papers and conference materials offer a deep dive into China's all-CPU LineShine, which pairs custom 304-core Arm CPUs with HBM to top the Top500 (www.nextplatform.com)
2026-6-29 China

Sources: disconnected US military databases may have led to the February 28 strike on an Iranian school; some see AI as a fix, others fear it amplifies errors (www.latimes.com)
2026-6-29 AI Iran

A look at security flaws, police misuse, and other concerns over the 100K+ AI-enabled automated license plate readers installed across the US, mostly from Flock (www.engadget.com)
2026-6-29 AI

AI is forcing consulting firms to shift from hourly billing to fixed-fee or outcome-based pricing, a transition proving slow and difficult for the industry (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-29 AI

The South Korean government, Samsung, and SK hynix plan to invest ~$590B for a new chip complex, including four chipmaking plants and a chip packaging cluster (www.ft.com)
2026-6-29 Korea Samsung

Kuo: the memory supply-demand gap will widen through 2027, with an estimated 15%-20% of 2026 consumer electronics capacity shifting to data centers in 2027 (medium.com)
2026-6-29

South Korea unveils plans for new AI data centers backed by ~$357.5B from SK Group, GS Group, and Naver, targeting 8.4GW initially and 18.4GW by 2035 (www.koreatimes.co.kr)
2026-6-29 Korea AI

Trump-Shuttered Climate Change Site Now Back Online In Nonprofit Hands (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-29 Trump Climate

Dealogic: Japan saw 18 IPOs in H1 2026, the lowest since 2011, despite stock market surges, partly due to Japan's lack of AI, data center, and chip startups (www.ft.com)
2026-6-29 Japan IPO Startup AI

Soaring memory costs are posing existential threats to small electronics makers, amid thin margins, low supply chain leverage, and little room for price hikes (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-29

DeepSeek details DSpark, a speculative decoding framework for its V4 models, saying it speeds up AI inference by up to 85% and was tested on Gemma and Qwen (www.scmp.com)
2026-6-29 AI

Shanghai-based Momenta, whose driver-assist tech is used by Toyota, Mercedes, and Audi in China, files for an IPO in Hong Kong, seeking to raise up to $751.1M (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-29 China Hong Kong IPO Toyota Shanghai

Jefferies: memory prices are expected to rise 40-50% in Q3 2026 and 30-40% in Q4, as Chinese memory makers are unlikely to provide meaningful near-term relief (wccftech.com)
2026-6-29 China 4Q

Humanoid robot maker Apptronik raised ~$1B at a ~$5B valuation, including from Mercedes-Benz, which has a handful of Apptronik's Apollo robots in its factories (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-29 Robot

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