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Ford Rehires 'Gray Beard' Engineers After AI Falls Short (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-30 AI Ford

Sources: Chinese smartphone makers like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo told suppliers they will again cut 2026 shipment targets, with Xiaomi cutting 30% to ~95M units (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-6-30 China Xiaomi OPPO Vivo

Five Chinese tech and advanced manufacturing companies launched Hong Kong listings today to raise up to $5.6B, led by Apple supplier Luxshare's $3.15B offering (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-30 China Hong Kong Apple Manufacturing

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

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

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

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)
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Microsoft extends Windows Server 2022 hotpatching until October 2027 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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WhatsApp rolls out usernames to help users hide their phone number (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-30 WhatsApp

California strikes a deal with Anthropic to expand the use of Claude products across state agencies and local governments at a 50% discount (www.politico.com)
2026-6-30 California

In Q2, there were thirteen $1B+ US venture-backed startup exits, either through acquisition or IPO, the most exits since the 2021 market peak (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-6-30 IPO Startup

Quantifind, whose AI products help banks combat financial crimes such as money laundering, raised $200M led by Summit Partners (www.wsj.com)
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