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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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CISA has confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026-20253, a critical Splunk Enterprise flaw that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to manipulate files, and ordered federal civilian agencies to patch by Sunday under Binding Operational Directive 26-04.

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Market intelligence platform Klue has confirmed attackers stole OAuth tokens connected to customer Salesforce environments on June 12, as the newly emerged Icarus extortion group publicly claims responsibility and the list of affected organizations continues to grow.

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Human Rights Watch obtained Bulgarian export licensing records showing surveillance firm Circles sold phone-interception and geolocation tools to ten governments — including the UAE, Bahrain, and Azerbaijan — between 2018 and 2023, raising fresh questions about the EU's export control enforcement.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook told the Wall Street Journal that price increases on the company's products are "unavoidable" due to a worsening global memory shortage driven by AI chip demand, signaling the supply crunch has reached even the most insulated players in consumer hardware.

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South Korea's Kospi surged 2.8% as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix reached all-time highs, while U.S. chip stocks including Intel and Micron powered a broad market rebound following a volatile Federal Reserve policy meeting.

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Amazon is investigating three engineers who testified before the Seattle City Council in support of a one-year moratorium on AI data center construction, prompting a civil rights complaint alleging the company violated a local ordinance protecting employee political speech.

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Waymo has recalled nearly 3,900 robotaxis after 13 incidents in which vehicles entered closed freeway construction zones in Phoenix and San Francisco, marking the company's second voluntary recall in just over a month.

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission voted unanimously Thursday to allow AI data centers and other large power users to connect more quickly to the U.S. electric grid, advancing a Trump administration priority amid rising public concern over electricity costs and grid reliability.

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