Sara Montes de Oca

President Trump publicly demanded New York reverse its first-in-the-nation moratorium on large AI data centers, while Senate confirmation hearings for Todd Blanche and Jay Clayton turned combative over a range of politically charged issues.

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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is pausing state environmental permits for new hyperscale data centers for up to a year, making New York the first state to impose such a freeze on large-scale AI infrastructure.

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Chipotle opened its first restaurant in Mexico on Thursday in the Monterrey metropolitan area, marking the fast-casual chain's entry into the country under a development agreement with restaurant group Alsea.

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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield has withdrawn his office's civil investigative demand against Paramount, ending the state's attempt to delay the company's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery after Paramount refused to hand over subpoenaed documents.

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The European Parliament voted to reinstate a law allowing companies like Google, Microsoft, and Meta to voluntarily scan user messages for child sexual abuse material, extending the authorization through 2028 despite more present members voting against it than for it.

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The Commerce Department is moving to ease semiconductor export controls on the UAE and has pledged to "favorably review" applications involving MGX, the state-backed firm that used a Trump family-linked stablecoin for its $2 billion Binance investment. Sen. Elizabeth Warren called the provision "corrupt."

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Circle Internet Group shares surged more than 13% in premarket trading after the fintech company received approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to launch a crypto-focused bank, with CEO Jeremy Allaire calling it a key moment for blockchain in mainstream finance.

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Stifel upgraded Shopify to buy on Friday and raised its price target to $150 from $110, arguing that agentic AI commerce will accelerate the platform's share gains even as the technology's financial impact remains in early stages.

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Micron Technology announced up to $3 billion in new domestic semiconductor investments, including $500 million for supplier GlobalWafers, and raised its total planned U.S. spending to $250 billion through 2035, as AI-driven memory demand continues to reshape the chipmaker's capital plans.

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Prediction market traders on Kalshi now place a 75% chance that U.S. gas prices will remain above $3.50 per gallon on Election Day, November 3, as renewed U.S.-Iran strikes raise doubts about Strait of Hormuz shipping flows.

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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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