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Samsung Electronics reported a record preliminary second-quarter operating profit of 89.4 trillion won ($58.4 billion), up from 4.7 trillion won a year earlier, though shares fell nearly 5% at Tuesday's open amid concerns over one-off bonus-related…

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SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell pledged to donate SpaceX stock to roughly 2 million Trump Accounts, while bitcoin rebounded 1.8% after President Trump called himself "a big crypto guy" at a Monday press conference.

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Bitcoin recovered to $63,853.85 on Monday after President Trump declared himself "a big crypto guy," reversing an earlier 2% decline triggered by Strategy's disclosure that it had sold $216 million worth of bitcoin.

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Broadcom will extend its chip partnership with Apple through 2031, anchoring a broad semiconductor rebound Monday after the iShares Semiconductor ETF shed more than 12% across two sessions last week. Nvidia largely sat out the recovery amid reports of…

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Microsoft is cutting 4,800 employees, or 2.1% of its workforce, with the Xbox division losing about one-fifth of its staff and four gaming studios set to be spun off as the company restructures amid AI-era pressures.

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Anthropic has signed a 20-year lease to use a TeraWulf data center in Hawesville, Kentucky, in a deal expected to generate around $19 billion in revenue over its initial term. TeraWulf shares jumped more than 16% in premarket trading on the news.

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Even Realities Technology, a Shenzhen-based smart-glasses startup founded by a former Apple engineer, has raised $150 million in a pre-Series B round backed by Tencent and Meituan, reaching a $1 billion valuation as it targets the AI wearable market…

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Amazon Web Services announced that Mechanical Turk, its 21-year-old crowdsourcing marketplace, will stop accepting new customers on July 30, 2026, effectively placing the platform on life support amid declining relevance in an AI-dominated landscape.

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Macquarie initiated coverage on five Chinese AI chip stocks in a late June report, naming Shanghai-listed Cambricon its top pick with a price target implying more than 50% upside, citing shifting government policy and a broadening domestic customer base.

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Flatbush Zombies producer Erick the Architect discusses his surprise Apple WWDC appearance, his new disco-tinged single, and a tech life defined by offline walks, physical keyboards, and a deep regret about the Nokia N-Gage.

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Midjourney has filed to broaden document discovery in its copyright dispute with Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros., seeking evidence of whether the studios use AI internally in ways similar to what they are suing Midjourney for doing.

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Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code starting July 10, classifying the tool as high-risk software and redirecting staff to its own Qoder platform amid ongoing U.S.-China AI access tensions.

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Cloud security firm Sysdig has documented what researchers call the first ransomware operation conducted entirely by an autonomous AI agent, dubbed JadePuffer, which carried out every stage of an intrusion — from exploitation to encryption — without…

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The 2026 FIFA World Cup pushed prediction market trading to record levels in June, with Kalshi topping $31 billion in notional volume and Polymarket's international platform setting an all-time monthly high of $10.8 billion.

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Federal and local agencies have deployed a $250 million surveillance network across U.S. World Cup host cities, combining counter-drone technology, facial recognition cameras, and expanded legal authorities — raising concerns the infrastructure will…

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Reps. Dan Meuser and Gil Cisneros are the first members of Congress known to have disclosed SpaceX stock purchases after the company's record $75 billion IPO in June, filings show, with more disclosures expected in coming weeks.

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Europe's top financial regulators and central bankers, including the FCA's Nikhil Rathi and ECB President Christine Lagarde, warned this week that artificial intelligence is advancing faster than existing regulatory frameworks can handle, raising risks…

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Amazon devices chief Panos Panay publicly disclosed for the first time that the company is designing its own chips for consumer electronics, while outlining a vision of AI-powered, screenless computing centered on an upgraded Alexa+ assistant.

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Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 returned to general availability after a Commerce Department ban lift, but users report widespread performance issues stemming from overly aggressive safety guardrails that frequently route tasks to the less capable Opus 4.8…

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Amazon's Leo satellite internet network has surpassed 390 satellites in orbit, which the company says is enough to support initial commercial service across select geographies later this year, as it works to close the gap with SpaceX's Starlink.

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