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Source: the Trump administration has talked with SpaceX about donating shares to Trump Accounts, which provide children with tax-advantaged savings accounts (www.semafor.com)
2026-6-30 Trump Tax SpaceX

Protesting Investigation of Professor Savneet Talwar over Palestine at School of Art Institute of Chicago (www.juancole.com)
2026-6-30

“The Angel with his darker Draught:” FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:48 (www.juancole.com)
2026-6-30

Nebex, a fintech startup aiming to act as a broker platform connecting US space tech suppliers, foreign governments, and investors, raised a $30M seed led by GV (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-30 Fintech Startup

Australia's ACCC sues Amazon for allegedly introducing ads to Prime Video under unfair contract terms and forcing existing subscribers to pay more to avoid them (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-30 Australia Amazon

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” (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-30

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 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-30 Startup AI

The UK FCA unveils the updated version of its crypto regulatory framework, after softening proposed rules that critics said risked holding the UK back (www.ft.com)
2026-6-30

‘It could fall any moment': RT reports from scene of Venezuela quake devastation (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-6-30 Venezuela

South Korea Plans To Train Entire Military As 'Drone Warriors' (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-30 Korea Drone

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 (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-30 Startup AI Salesforce

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-30

AI leaderboard provider Arena says it hit $100M in annualized run-rate revenue eight months after launching AI Evaluations, which offers performance analytics (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-30 AI

If China recovers Russian Far East coast, it will suddenly outflank island chain (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-6-30 Russia China

‘Ukrainian oligarch' injured in backpack bomb blast in Monaco – media (VIDEOS) (www.rt.com)
2026-6-30 Ukraine

Sources: hundreds of Meta contractors posed as minors to probe how competitor chatbots responded to prompts involving suicide, sex, and other high-risk subjects (www.wired.com)
2026-6-30 chatbot

Google says the Gemini app now offers Nano Banana image generation to eligible US users for free; it was previously only available to Plus, Pro, and Ultra users (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-30 Google

NAIC says public data stolen in ShinyHunters' PeopleSoft breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-30

Nissan discloses employee data breach linked to Oracle zero-day attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-30 Oracle Nissan

Tidal adopts an AI policy that blocks wholly AI-generated music from earning royalties and removes AI-generated music that impersonates artists (www.musicbusinessworldwide.com)
2026-6-30 AI

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% (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-30 China Taiwan Nvidia

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 (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-30 Virginia

African football sets record at World Cup (PHOTOS/VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-6-30 Africa

Ex-Governors, Big Tech Launch Coalition To Help Workers 'Navigate the AI Economy' (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-30 AI

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-30 Alibaba Tencent

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 (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-30 Uber Autonomous Car

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 (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-30 India iPhone Apple

The Country Sounds: New music contest to celebrate Russia's many languages (www.rt.com)
2026-6-30 Russia

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 (siliconangle.com)
2026-6-30 AI

Microsoft extends Windows Server 2022 hotpatching until October 2027 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-30 Microsoft

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