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West living in ‘bubble of lies' over Ukrainian attacks on civilians – Moscow (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-7-1 Ukraine

CIA chief warns of AI-powered ‘digital nuclear weapons' (www.rt.com)
2026-7-1 AI

How a new Amazon-built transatlantic fiber-optic link in Ireland is symbolic of the country's AI ambitions, but also of its chronic lack of defense spending (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-1 Amazon AI Ireland

Anthropic says it is rolling back a covert Claude Code tracking feature to identify users based in China or affiliated with Chinese AI labs, after backlash (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-1 China AI

ByteDance is building a $39B data center complex in a free-trade zone in Brazil's Ceará, set to be its largest facility outside of China with a 1GW capacity (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-1 China Brazil

The US sentences Guo Wengui, a self-exiled billionaire Chinese tycoon who defrauded his online followers out of hundreds of millions, to 30 years in prison (apnews.com)
2026-7-1 China

Meta introduces a $20/month Meta One Premium tier for its glasses and limits its Conversation Focus feature to three hours of use per month for free users (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-1

Amazon fined $2.25M for withholding evidence from fraud victims (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-1 Amazon

DOT Announces 'Return of Supersonic Flight' For Commercial Airlines (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-1

Adobe patches seven max severity ColdFusion, Campaign flaws (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-1 Adobe

[Thread] The US' now-lifted export controls on Anthropic models created uncertainty, are an own goal, and will push service providers towards Chinese AI models (x.com)
2026-7-1 China AI

Anthropic says “some routine tasks like coding and debugging” on Fable 5 “will fall back to Opus 4.8” in “the near term” as it works to “reduce false positives” (x.com)
2026-7-1

How Big Oil Funded / Shaped a Landmark Princeton Climate Study (www.juancole.com)
2026-7-1 Climate

Protesting the intensifying Repression of Students across Iran (www.juancole.com)
2026-7-1 Iran

Regime Change, Past & Present: Iran and the Congo (www.juancole.com)
2026-7-1 Iran

The Nakamal Agreement is not quite the deal Australia wanted (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-7-1 Australia

Lightning strikes: new F-35 radar could have directed-energy attack mode (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-7-1 Energy

A look at Manifest, an annual convention for prediction markets where many purists worry that Kalshi and Polymarket are undermining the technology's public good (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-1

South Korean government data: the country's exports grew 70.9% YoY in June to $102.25B, an all-time monthly high, anchored by a record $44.82B in chip shipments (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-7-1 Korea

LeapXpert, which lets companies and sports franchises monitor staff business chats via apps like WhatsApp for compliance, raised $180M led by Riverwood Capital (www.axios.com)
2026-7-1 WhatsApp

BYD, Nio, and other Chinese carmakers are rushing to design and increase the use of locally developed chips with AI functions in a bid for chip self-sufficiency (www.ft.com)
2026-7-1 China AI

Japan commits up to $6.16B over five years to Noetra, a consortium led by SoftBank, Honda, NEC, and Sony, to develop a domestic AI foundation model by 2027 (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-7-1 Japan AI Honda Sony

Trump Drops Restrictions On Anthropic's Mythos and Fable Models (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-1 Trump

Chinese robot maker UBTech launches U1, a line of humanoid robots for personal companionship with lifelike silicone skin and emotional AI, priced from $17,650 (www.scmp.com)
2026-7-1 China AI Robot

Leaked Apple supplier docs show iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max may use Qualcomm modems in the US and Apple's own C2 chips elsewhere, A20 Pro packaging tech, and more (appleinsider.com)
2026-7-1 iPhone Apple

Tim Cook and EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen held “constructive” talks; sources say they discussed how Apple can launch Siri AI in the EU while avoiding fines (www.ft.com)
2026-7-1 AI Apple Tim Cook

Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, who has served as Google's VP and Chief Internet Evangelist since 2005, plans to step down from his role next week and retire (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-1 Google

New Florida Law Bans Local Net-Zero Emissions Policies (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-1

Anthropic says Fable 5 will be available via usage credits for Claude users from July 7, and is working with partners to draft an AI jailbreak severity standard (www.anthropic.com)
2026-7-1 AI

Getty Images announces plans to end its Shutterstock merger after the UK CMA conditioned approval of the deal on Shutterstock selling its editorial business (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-1

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