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Privacy Advocates Warn FTC on X Data Risks

Privacy advocates warn the FTC that Elon Musk’s X poses a serious risk to Americans’ privacy and data security, urging the agency to reject X’s bid to end ongoing audits.

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Jul 02, 2026

OpenAI Offers US Government 5% Stake in Deal

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with the Trump administration to give the US a 5% stake in the AI firm, a far smaller share than Senator Bernie Sanders proposed.

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Jul 02, 2026

Microsoft Frontier Co: $2.5B AI Deployment Push

Microsoft launches a new AI deployment subsidiary called Microsoft Frontier Co. with a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 employees to help clients implement AI.

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Jul 02, 2026

OpenAI Offers 5% Equity to US Sovereign Wealth Fund

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, allowing the public to share in AI gains.

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Jul 02, 2026

Claude Science Beta Integrates NVIDIA BioNeMo for Research

Anthropic launches Claude Science public beta with NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit integration, giving life sciences researchers GPU-accelerated AI tools for faster discovery workflows.

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Jul 01, 2026

Google Gemini Spark on Mac: New Agentic AI Assistant

Google’s Gemini Spark, an agentic AI assistant that works 24/7, is now available on Mac. It can automate tasks like sorting files and creating spreadsheets.

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Jul 01, 2026

Venice AI Joins Unicorn Club with $65M Series A

Venice AI becomes a unicorn after raising $65M in Series A funding. The privacy-first AI platform is already profitable with over $70M in annual revenue.

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Jul 01, 2026

Bank of England Reviews Agentic AI Rules in Finance

The Bank of England is reviewing whether existing rules can cover agentic AI in finance, including payments, trading, and cybersecurity, Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden says.

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Jul 01, 2026

Japan AI Robot Plan 10 Million by 2040

Japan’s government has formally commissioned a project to deploy 10 million AI-powered robots across 18 industries by 2040, backed by up to one trillion yen in public funding.

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Jul 01, 2026

Trump Lifts Restrictions on Anthropic AI Models

The Trump administration has dropped restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable AI models, marking a significant de-escalation in a standoff between the gover...

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Jul 01, 2026

Vinton Cerf Retires From Google: Internet Pioneer Steps Down

Vinton Cerf, known as the ‘Father of the Internet’ and co-creator of TCP/IP, is stepping down as Google’s chief internet evangelist next week.

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Jun 30, 2026

Amazon FDE Org Deploys Engineers for AI Agents

Amazon creates a new $1 billion org called FDE, embedding engineers inside companies to build purpose-built AI agents, following similar moves by OpenAI and Anthropic.

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