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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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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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President Trump's annual financial disclosure shows more than $1 billion in cryptocurrency-related income, including roughly $594 million from World Liberty Financial, drawing sharp accusations of corruption from Democratic lawmakers.

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The Supreme Court issued a 5-4 ruling preserving Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook's position, while a separate decision expanded presidential authority to remove members of agencies such as the FTC — with significant consequences for consumers and regulators alike.

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The Pentagon has unveiled Agent Network, an agentic-AI system built with Palantir and Lumbra that aims to deliver targeting options to U.S. commanders within seconds, even as experts warn that governing autonomous AI agents at scale may prove nearly impossible.

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Imposter scams topped FTC fraud reports for the fifth year running in 2025, with roughly 1 million reports filed and $3.5 billion in losses — part of a record $15.9 billion in total fraud reported to the agency.

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Qualcomm unveiled its Dragonfly C1000 data center CPU with Meta as a launch customer, acquired AI software startup Modular for a reported ~$3.92 billion, and nearly doubled its 2029 non-handset revenue forecast to $40 billion, sending shares up 15%.

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Microsoft, Europol, and international partners disrupted the Amadey and StealC malware operations under Operation Endgame, seizing 326 servers, 142 domains, and identifying over $47 million in linked cryptocurrency.

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Germany is reportedly scrapping plans to build six F126 frigates in what would have been its largest warship commission since World War II, sending Rheinmetall shares down as much as 17.3% and dragging European defense stocks broadly lower.

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S&P Global announced Tuesday that Alphabet will replace Verizon in the 30-stock Dow Jones Industrial Average, with the Google parent's Class A shares set to join the index ahead of trading on Monday, June 30.

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The NHTSA has opened a special crash investigation after a Tesla Model 3 struck a home in Katy, Texas, killing 76-year-old Martha Avila. The driver told authorities he was using Tesla's partially automated driving systems at the time.

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Chevron and Microsoft have signed a 20-year natural gas supply agreement for Project Kilby, a planned 2.7-gigawatt data center in West Texas's Reeves County expected to begin receiving power in 2028.

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Silicon Data has partnered with CME Group to develop the first futures contracts tied to AI computing power costs, giving companies a potential tool to hedge against GPU rental-rate volatility. The contracts are still awaiting CFTC approval.

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A shortage of high-bandwidth memory chips is squeezing the four major hyperscalers — Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta — driving up AI infrastructure costs while memory and storage stocks surge 41% over the past month.

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Apple's iOS 27 distributes artificial intelligence across eight features built into existing apps, including a bill-splitting tool in Apple Cash, automated password updates, and natural-language Shortcuts — with a public release expected this fall.

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Apple's iOS 27 will bring a range of AI-powered features to iPhone this fall, including receipt-based bill splitting in Apple Cash, autonomous password updates, and smart notification grouping in the Home app — all running through Apple Intelligence.

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Nobel Prize-winning scientist John Jumper, co-creator of AlphaFold, is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic, the latest departure to rock Alphabet's AI research division amid an intensifying industry-wide talent war.

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Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner has made four music datasets — containing as many as 12 million tracks and used to train AI models — fully searchable by the public, revealing that artists from Lady Gaga to Radiohead appear in AI training pipelines.

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