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China and the EU agreed on an October deadline to make progress on resolving trade disagreements. Europe is grappling with what analysts have dubbed “China Shock 2.0” — a tsunami of Chinese exports that threatens deindustrialization. Adding to its woes are reports that Volkswagen

One way Donald Trump plans to celebrate July 4th is by rolling out children’s savings accounts, known as Trump Accounts, and apparently, he’s been angling to get a big donation from SpaceX as part of that push. A person familiar with talks involving the Trump administration told

Tesla has begun testing a production version of its Cybercab that has two seats, but no steering wheel or pedals, in Austin, Texas. For now, the testing is being done with a safety monitor in the right passenger seat, according to a video posted on X, the social media platform ow

One of the many lessons from the wars in Iran and Ukraine is that the supply of munitions and weapons systems is finite, and difficult to replenish. That has led to a new way of doing business at the Pentagon, and a new battleground in the war between the states for jobs and econ

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Ahead of the July 4 travel weekend, Amazon and J.C. Penney have announced savings opportunities tied to gas consumption. Consumer sentiment in recent months has hit record lows as the Iran war led to higher gas prices, though that has recently lifted as prices have settled down.

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Libby will filter out AI content, kind of The ebook-lending app’s filters will rely on AI content being self-labele

Walmart last week announced plans to acquire Vibe.co, a connected TV ad platform designed with small- and mid-sized businesses and mid-market brands in mind. The deal, reportedly for $1.2 billion in cash, is the retailer’s latest move to further build its ad business and its larg

Why AI Data Centers Make Existing Power Plants More Valuable As AI accelerates electricity demand, utilities and investors are paying a growing premium for existing generation that can reach the grid faster than new projects. Utilities and infrastructure investors are increasingl

The digital lending platform Fibe recently filed its DRHP with SEBI to raise Rs 750 crore through a fresh issue in its IPO. Ahead of the public listing, the company reported a 31% year-on-year increase in operating revenue to Rs 1,601 crore for the fiscal year ended March 2026, w

X is making it easier for AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, Grok Build, and other MCP-compatible apps to connect directly to the platform through a new hosted MCP server. On Monday, the Elon Musk-owned social network unveiled a hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that let

Oakland University (OU) in Rochester, Michigan, is moving ahead with a data center project. This week, the university's Board of Trustees voted to move the project into the "due diligence" phase, reports WXYZ. The data center proposal selected was made by Fairmount Properties, wh

Dive Brief: - Over half of all the toy industry growth from January through April of this year came from women, according to a new report from Circana. - Overall, toy consumption is being driven by adults, with consumers aged 18 and over accounting for 35% of the total industry g

The world uses a lot of copper, but thanks to the energy transition and data centers, it’ll need a lot more. Between now and 2050, we’ll have to produce more copper than has been mined throughout all of human history, according to one study. Plenty of that copper — and even more

As organizations move from AI pilots to production AI factories, infrastructure decisions have shifted from peak chip specifications to cost per token: how many useful tokens they can deliver per dollar, per watt and within required latency targets. Codesigned with NVIDIA GPUs, C

When Jaiveer Singh talks about robots, he doesn’t begin with spectacle. He begins with infrastructure: the boards inside machines, the software that lets developers see through a robot’s cameras and the engineering required before a robot can leave a demo floor to do something us

US chipmaker Onsemi has acquired Synaptics in an all-stock transaction valued at around $7 billion. The deal is expected to close by mid-2027, subject to approval from Synaptics stockholders. In a statement, Onsemi said that adding Synaptics’ differentiated Edge AI compute franch

As companies struggle to integrate AI, they’re increasingly ready to bring in outside help — and service providers are launching new purpose-built groups to make sure they get it. On Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a new internal organization for AI-focused forward-de

Video and podcast recording tool maker Riverside is giving its users a new way to reach their audiences: newsletters. Riverside isn’t aiming to directly take on established newsletter platforms like Mailchimp, Substack, Beehiiv, or Ghost, however. Instead, recognizing that its us

AWS Launches Graviton5-Powered EC2 Instances for AI and HPC New Graviton5-powered C9g and C9gd instances target AI orchestration alongside HPC and analytics, as AWS argues CPUs remain central to the next generation of AI infrastructure. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made its Grav

The Supreme Court ruled against US President Donald Trump’s attempt to end automatic birthright citizenship in a 6-3 decision Tuesday, preserving over a century of legal precedent and dealing a setback to a key administration priority. The court blocked Trump’s executive order, s

Aligned Data Centers is raising $1.19 billion in asset-backed securities from real estate and tenant lease payments across four of its US data centers located in Ashburn, Virginia; Plano, Texas; and Northlake, Illinois. According to a pre-sale report from S&P Global Ratings, thre

Recession: The Real Reasons Economies Shrink and What to Do About It, by Tyler Goodspeed. A former White House economist and current chief economist at ExxonMobil, Goodspeed sets out to demolish a number of recession myths, namely that they necessarily follow unsustainable booms,

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down limits on coordinated spending between political parties and their candidates, in the latest loosening of federal campaign finance restrictions. The court’s conservative majority sided with Vice President JD Vance and other Republicans

Off the Wire Press Releases FORT MEADE, Md., June 30, 2026 — The Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) at the National Security Agency (NSA), in close collaboration with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Army Research Office (ARO), has announced the

Dive Brief: - Consumer sentiment this month rose from a record low as cooling hostilities in the Iran war prompted a pullback in gas prices, according to an index released Friday by the University of Michigan. - The index increased 10% in June, with gains spanning income levels a

Off the Wire Press Releases Powered by AWS, the University of Utah’s new Secure Research Enclave brings secure, scalable cloud computing to complex research involving sensitive data, AI-enabled analysis and NIST, HIPAA, FISMA and CMMC requirements. SALT LAKE CITY, June 30, 2026 —

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The RAN is entering a new phase where the principles of openness, the flexibility of cloud-native architectures, and the power of AI converge. Open RAN has laid the foundation for disaggregation, Cloud RAN provides the architectural pathway to scalable automation, and AI-RAN repr

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One of Silicon Valley’s top political fixers, Bradley Tusk, built a career helping startups like Uber and FanDuel brawl their way to legitimacy — in his words, “legalize disruptive sh*t.” His message to AI companies: You have no idea what’s coming. “It is quite possible that this

AMD this morning is announcing a new family of their Versal Premium adaptive SoCs, the Versal Premium Gen 2 Memory on Package lineup. These latest designs are a further evolution of AMD’s existing Versal Premium Gen 2 silicon, which bring LPDDR5X memory on board the chip package

Dive Brief: - Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee on Thursday signed into law a bill that mandates a staffing ratio for the self-checkout area in grocery stores. - The legislation, which the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 328 supported, will require stores to assign at least on

Digital Realty Pays $3.5B for Blackstone Data Center Stakes The deal reflects the operator’s strategy to scale its footprint amid surging AI-driven demand for data center infrastructure, while potentially signaling Blackstone’s shift toward higher-return investments. Digital Real

A data center planned for Le Bourget, France, could be blocked by the commune’s newly elected mayor. Mehdi Nezzar, who took over as mayor of Le Bourget, a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, earlier this year, is demanding the cancellation of a 75MW data center planned

Equinix has officially killed its bare-metal service. The platform sunsets on June 30, though console access will remain available until December 31, 2026, for users with the 'Owner' role. They will still be able to download invoices and billing history and view historical accoun

A new state law limits Florida communities’ aims to offset greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the global climate and intensifying disasters such as hurricanes. Specifically, HB 1217 prohibits local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals. At least 10 cities and

Meta releases version two of its brain-computer interface that can turn thoughts into keypresses — non-invasive magnetoencephalography scanner can measure changes in brain activity This "thinking cap" could let patients use a BCI without needing to go under the knife. Elon Musk’s

Off the Wire Press Releases ENSCHEDE, Netherlands, June 30, 2026 — QuiX Quantum today released its vision of universal photonic quantum computing with logical qubits through Dedalo, the company’s new system architecture designed to achieve practical, fault-tolerant systems that w