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Researchers disclosed two new Microsoft 365 threats on July 9: the Helix data-extortion group, which uses voice phishing and SharePoint exfiltration, and the Forg365 phishing-as-a-service platform, which integrates AI-assisted lure generation with adversary-in-the-middle and device-code attack methods.
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Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 with aggressive developer pricing, OpenAI broadly released its GPT-5.6 series with a 54% efficiency claim, and Anthropic introduced a usage-analytics feature for Claude — all on the same day.
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Meta Platforms announced plans to build a 1 gigawatt data center in Alberta, Canada — its first major facility in the country — at an estimated cost of $9 billion, as the company races to expand AI infrastructure capacity.
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The European Commission adopted a nine-measure cybersecurity and AI action plan on July 7, aiming to reduce the bloc's dependence on foreign frontier AI systems after U.S. export restrictions temporarily cut off EU customers from models including OpenAI's GPT-5.6.
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Japanese telecom giant KDDI has revealed that a zero-day exploit targeting a shared email platform exposed the email addresses of 12.2 million people and the passwords of more than 7.6 million, affecting customers across five internet service providers.
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Hesai Technology, a Shanghai-based lidar manufacturer blacklisted by the U.S. Defense Department as a Chinese military entity, is expanding its commercial reach in America through a partnership with Nvidia, raising alarms among security researchers about potential cyberthreats to critical infrastructure.
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Canada's Communications Security Establishment revealed in its annual report that it conducted three offensive cyber operations in 2025, disrupting fentanyl brokers, an overseas extremist group, and a ransomware-as-a-service gang.
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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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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 delays in its next-generation Kyber server system.
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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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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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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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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 remain long after the summer's events conclude.
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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 to market integrity and financial stability.
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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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