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🟣 Anthropic Releases Guide to Running a Company with AI Agents

Anthropic has published a free, 30-minute guide showing how a company can be operated with a single human CEO supported by Claude agents instead of traditional employees.

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🇺🇸 France Honors America's 250th Anniversary

As midnight struck in Paris, the Eiffel Tower was illuminated with a giant "USA 250" projection, marking the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

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🔴 BREAKING: Moscow Under Large-Scale Drone Attack

Reports indicate that Moscow is currently under a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack involving hundreds of drones, with Russian air defenses responding across the region.

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🟣 Jeff Bezos: AI Will Make Engineers "Superhumanly Productive"

Jeff Bezos believes AI will dramatically accelerate invention by transforming how engineers build new technologies.

Key points:
• His AI startup, Prometheus, is reportedly valued at $41B and is developing an "Artificial General Engineer."
• The current 10-year "dream-to-build" cycle could shrink to 5 years, then 3, and eventually 1 year.
• Future engineering AI models will learn from physics, simulations, manufacturing, and real-world engineering data—not just internet text.

The broader signal: AI is moving beyond generating content toward designing and building real-world systems.

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🔴 Largest US Power Grid Warns It Can't Meet Expected Demand

PJM Interconnection, the largest power grid operator in the US, says it can no longer meet expected electricity demand and will implement measures to reduce power consumption across its service area, which covers 67 million customers in the Mid-Atlantic, the South, and Washington, D.C.

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🟣 AI Had One of Its Busiest Weeks Yet

Here's what happened:

• Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 and restored Fable 5 with new restrictions.
• OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 in limited preview.
• Google delayed Gemini 3.5 Pro once again.
• xAI moved Grok 4.5 into private beta.

And the pace isn't slowing down—GPT-5.6 is expected to receive a broader public rollout next week.

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🟣 Palantir Debate Highlights Growing Push for AI Sovereignty

Analyst Arnaud Bertrand argues that recent moves against Palantir in Europe point to a broader shift: governments are becoming increasingly reluctant to rely on foreign AI and data infrastructure for critical systems.

He suggests two trends are emerging:
• AI models are becoming more commoditized, putting pressure on proprietary AI business models.
• National sovereignty is becoming a key factor in AI procurement decisions.

Recent decisions by France, Germany, and Spain have intensified the debate over sovereign AI and strategic technology dependence.

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After reflection, this new narrative by Palantir is probably much more consequential than people may assume.

Palantir is basically being the canary in the coal mine announcing the death of two major assumptions propping up the US economy right now:

1) that AI labs will be able to extract significant economic rent - as opposed to AI models being mere commodities

2) that other countries can accept structural dependency on US technology and services without pushing back on sovereignty concerns

Why are Palantir specifically starting to be vocal about this?

First off, major middle-powers, even US “allies”, are one by one showing them the door. In June, France announced that the DGSI - its domestic intelligence agency, which had relied on Palantir since the 2015 Paris attacks - would replace it with French firm ChapsVision, with Prime Minister Lecornu explaining (https://t.co/SLhEGprBZC) that France “cannot accept new strategic dependencies in the digital sphere” and shouldn't depend on the goodwill of companies “capable of turning off the tap.”

Germany moved even earlier: its domestic intelligence service, the BfV, also selected ChapsVision over Palantir (https://t.co/pDZVj4SYUY), and the German military has said it will no longer use Palantir at all. Then, just this week, Spain instructed state-controlled companies - including strategic firms like Telefónica, Indra and Navantia - to avoid signing any new contracts with Palantir (https://t.co/0ik4UAFrT7).

Even in the UK, Washington's most loyal vassal, the NHS's £330 million data contract with Palantir is under review following parliamentary pressure (https://t.co/uJl6g4BMsW), and London Mayor Sadiq Khan blocked a proposed £50 million Palantir contract with the Metropolitan Police.

Palantir making a lot of noise around them caring about sovereignty makes a lot of sense: it's damage control since they keep being told they're a sovereignty risk.

I doubt it will work - because it's true: they are a sovereignty risk - but the fact that they feel the need to be vocal around this tells you where the wind is blowing: they're not shaping the narrative, they're reacting to one they're losing.

What they're saying against closed-source AI (basically a broadside attack on OpenAI and Anthropic), is again highly self-serving. Palantir's sudden love of open-weight AI models conveniently coincides with them launching 2 days before a partnership with Nvidia to sell exactly that: open models models (NVIDIA's Nemotron) in sovereign environments.

So it's essentially a product launch.

It doesn't make what they're saying wrong: it is factual that the value proposition of closed-source AI labs looks increasingly unsustainable. I mean: you're paying 10X the price of Chinese open-source AI models for something that's not really better (or just marginally) and on top of that you have zero control over your data, or the models themselves.

When Palantir says that "the architecture that maximally preserves sovereignty is one that enables institutions to own their tribal knowledge, and to compound it as alpha," they're right. I'd add that this also means you shouldn't trust Palantir either with that "tribal knowledge"... they obviously left this part out 😉

When you take a step back, these two things have major implications on many other US companies.

SpaceX - which just went public at the largest IPO valuation in history - is one clear example as I describe in my latest article on the new space race with China (https://t.co/JK3ELAyEVO).

If countries like France concluded with Palantir that they couldn't depend on a company “capable of turning off the tap” when it’s merely analyzing their data, what should they conclude about a company that aims to literally control their entire connectivity - at one man's whim, from space?

What percentage of SpaceX's crazy market cap is based on the assumption that foreign governments will not do to Starlink what they're currently doing to Palantir?

And SpaceX - or Palantir - aren't alone: a significant proportion of the top US tech giants, who rose in a world where no one questioned American technological hegemony, now face an environment that's much less conducive to the kind of lock-in their business models - and valuations - depend on.

When you pair this with the fact that it increasingly looks like the US made a wrong bet with closed-source AI - an extremely expensive wrong bet - the picture that emerges is of a country that bet its economic future on two things - proprietary AI and captive allies - and is losing both at the same time.

And to compound the problem, it doesn't help that the official narrative of the US government - via the voice of Jacob Helberg, the Under-Secretary of State (https://t.co/Z1rotPl9Ee) - is to be vocally opposed to "AI Sovereignty": essentially telling everyone "you know what, your worst fears are real, our tech companies are really out to undermine your sovereignty."

Read Helberg's post (the one I linked) and put yourself in the shoes of - say - a European or Asian leader and ask yourself how you'd react to being told that building your own AI capabilities is "marching in perfect formation into the past," that your pursuit of sovereignty is really just "synchronized mediocrity," and that your only path to the future runs through American technology.

If it was me in a position of power, I'd read this as a massive wakeup call: when another country's official position is that your sovereignty is a problem, history says you're about to need it.

So yes, it looks like - unexpectedly - Palantir, of all companies, is being quite the canary in the big tech mine. Yes they obviously do this for self-serving and cynical purpose, and yes they're of course also very much part of the problem and not the solution. But it doesn't make them wrong: sometimes it takes a vulture to tell you something is dying.

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🔴 France Records Hottest June Since 1947

France has experienced its hottest June since records began in 1947, underscoring the intensifying impact of extreme heat across Europe.

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🟠 Early Signs of AI Overspending Are Emerging at Meta

According to Reuters, Mark Zuckerberg told employees that Meta's AI agent development has been slower than expected and that the company's AI restructuring has yet to deliver the expected results.

Meta has committed $145 billion to its AI strategy while reducing its workforce by around 10%.

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🇹🇷 Turkish gamers have one request.

Dear @RockstarGames,

Türkiye is one of the biggest GTA communities in the world. Millions of us have supported the franchise for years, and we're ready for GTA 6.

Please add official Turkish subtitles to the game.

❤️ Like if you support Turkish localization.
🔁 Repost to help this reach Rockstar.

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🟢 Mark Slapinski: GTA 6 Turkish Petition Surpasses 13,000 Signatures

Canadian journalist Mark Slapinski says the petition calling for official Turkish subtitles in GTA 6 has now surpassed 13,000 signatures.

He encouraged supporters to keep signing and sharing the campaign with the goal of reaching 100,000 signatures.

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🟢 Türkiye Reportedly Ranks 4th in GTA 6 PS Store Pre-Orders

Reports suggest Türkiye ranks 4th worldwide in GTA 6 pre-orders on the PlayStation Store.

The figures have renewed calls for Rockstar Games to add Turkish subtitles, with fans arguing the country's strong demand should be reflected in localization support.

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🇹🇷 Millions of Turkish gamers want official Turkish subtitles in GTA 6.

Türkiye is one of the world's biggest GTA communities, and the call for Turkish language support keeps growing.

@RockstarGames, it's time to hear the community.

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🇹🇷 The GTA 6 Turkish subtitle campaign has now surpassed 20,000 signatures.

Momentum is building, but there's still a long way to go.

Next milestone: 100,000 signatures.

Keep signing. Keep sharing. Let's make sure @RockstarGames hears the community.

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🤖 President Trump says AI may become "much bigger than the internet" and whoever wins the race will shape the next era.

The signal is the framing. AI is increasingly being positioned as strategic national infrastructure, not just a technology industry.

That narrative may reinforce long-term investment in compute, energy, and semiconductor capacity as countries compete for AI leadership.

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