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Chinese President Xi Jinping has appointed a new head of anti-corruption efforts in the armed forces as he continues the country’s biggest military purge in half a century... View Source

This week on the Engadget Podcast, we've got our first impressions of Valve's pricey Steam Machine, and we chat about Sony dumping PlayStation discs in 2028... View Source

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights Science Behind Discoverie... View Source

At the event "The Briefing: AI for Science" earlier this week, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a new "AI workbench for scientists" that pulls fragmented tools and datasets into one environment, and generates figures and visuals. Anthropic, already dominating the industry with its popular coding tools and powerful AI models, framed the launch around what it says is AI's potential to "dramatical... View Source

YouTuber Jon Prosser has finally filed a formal response to Apple's lawsuit made against him and another defendant over allegedly stealing iOS secrets. In his response, Prosser denied that he "planned or participated in any conspiracy or coordinated scheme" for the "purpose of injuring Apple." However, Prosser admitted to recording a FaceTime call showing unreleased iOS software and sharing revenu... View Source

Amazon is breaking all kinds of records on the back of the AI boom, and not the good kind. According to new reporting by Axios, Amazon’s AI buildout has fueled an unprecedented leap in the company’s emissions, a black mark on a corporation that pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 not even a year ago. In its newly released environmental report, Amazon disclosed that its t... View Source

Quantum Systems has raised $1.2 billion in a funding round, more than doubling the German drone startup’s valuation to about $8 billion post-money. The firm is one of a number of German startups making unmanned aerial vehicles that are benefiting from a surge in military spending in Europe. Co-CEO Sven Kruck spoke to Bloomberg The Opening Trade on July 2 about the startup's potential growth, conso... View Source

Killing game discs is an anti-consumer move that only benefits Sony... View Source

In the AI slop-loaded, algorithm-powered modern reality, trends come and go - and the tech industry is no different. For the last few years, The Verge staff has compiled a selection of things that are IN for summer and OUT for summer - and each time there are some strong feelings. (Here are the last two years' predictions.) Let's do it again! Mia Sato, senior report INOUTMotion sickness glassesAI... View Source

Want to see Uranus for yourself? Independence Day morning offers one of the best opportunities in decades, as the distant ice giant passes extraordinarily close to Mars in the predawn sky.Although we often hear that only five planets are visible to the unaided eye, Uranus can also be seen from Earth under the right conditions. As the seventh planet from the sun, it is very faint — near the thresho... View Source

Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed. | Image: Apple Since its inception, Apple TV, née Apple TV Plus, has built a reputation on quality over quantity. It has far fewer shows and movies than the likes of Netflix or Disney Plus, but generally speaking, the projects it does put out are quite good. It's a strategy that has brought comparisons to the HBO of old, and 2026 has featured a particularly stro... View Source

David Foster Wallace once asked readers to “consider the lobster,” in his famous essay about the ethics of boiling the creatures alive. But new tech brings new horrors, and perhaps Wallace, if he were alive today, would instead be writing about biohacking lobster brains so they can be taken over by an AI agent. Because that’s exactly what a group of young tech founders in San Fra... View Source

Bernard Arnault extolled the virtues of mathematics after pledging a record €50 million donation for a planned maths research institute at his alma mater, highlighting the discipline’s importance in a world increasingly shaped by AI... View Source

A new mandatory compliance report released by Microsoft shows how it declares profits in different European nations to reduce its tax bill... View Source

A scan of an imaging phantom, segmented to validate how cleanly structures separate under controlled conditions. | Image: Midjourney Medical Midjourney has shown more of its futuristic medical scanner. It still hasn't shown much proof it works. The AI startup, best known for generating images, released a behind-the-scenes video of its dunk-tank ultrasound scanner, which it plans to deploy in spas... View Source

Microsoft, Amazon follow AI companies by creating units of “forward-deployed” engineers... View Source

Sony is converting its PlayStation disc factory into a plant for optical microlenses... View Source

A new hack can trick AI browsers into breaking their guardrails by constructing a false reality around them where the rules are made up and actions don’t have consequences. Put another way, they’re basically hypnotized into doing stuff that could have devastating consequences for the user. These were the findings of new research from the cybersecurity firm LayerX, and they further illu... View Source

The video-game industry is bracing for a wave of European regulations that could limit kids’ access to some video games, potentially crimping sales across the globe... View Source

ZYN nicotine pouches, the FDA found, can be advertised as a less-harmful option for adult smokers. But quitting all tobacco and nicotine products remains the best idea... View Source

Kaley Glenn-Mills’ lawsuit reshaped the fight to protect children from social media. She says she still can’t stop scrolling... View Source

The United States has taken some significant steps into the final frontier during its first 250 years.The nation has put people on the moon, helped build and operate a long-running space station in low Earth orbit (LEO) and sent fleets of robotic explorers to many corners of the solar system — and even beyond it, into interstellar space. All of this work has been done relatively recently, as the s... View Source

Google’s electricity use and emissions skyrocketed last year due to its aggressive AI infrastructure buildout, according to the company’s most recent environmental impact report. “The biggest change to our environmental impact is the expansion of our technical infrastructure — and the energy needed to operate it,” reads the report. The report adds that in the years sin... View Source

Most developing-world currencies rallied on Thursday after weaker-than-expected US employment data prompted investors to scale back bets that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates as soon as this month... View Source

The mobile phone of a Greek politician was repeatedly hacked by spyware while he was working on a European Parliament investigation into sellers of the surveillance technology, new research has found... View Source

Artificial intelligence is likely to have a less even impact on economies than the market hype would suggest, according to Allianz Chief Economist Ludovic Subran... View Source

Ludovic Subran, chief investment officer and chief economist at Allianz, says there isn't enough evidence to say that the AI trade is in "bubble" territory. Speaking to Bloomberg's Caroline Connan at the Aix-en-Provence Economic Forum in France, he also says emerging-market stocks are looking more attractive due to demand for semiconductors, and that Europe might fail to reap the "AI dividend." (S... View Source

South Korean officials are preparing for currency flows related to SK Hynix Inc.’s offering of American depositary receipts as soon as Friday, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source

Semiconductor stocks started 3Q with their worst two-day selloff in nearly a month. The Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index, which is coming off its best quarter ever with an 88% advance, fell as much as 6% on July 2. Richard Windsor, Founder of Radio Free Mobile spoke to Bloomberg’s Abeer Abu Omar on Horizons Middle East & Africa on the stocks performance. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tesla has started taking orders for the Model Y Long Wheelbase in the US and Puerto Rico... View Source

At a time when markets are growing uneasy over whether the enormous sums being poured into artificial intelligence will ever pay off, the prices the sector commands for each unit of usage are drifting lower... View Source

Next-generation AI factories are forcing power equipment firms to rethink their portfolios in the race to profit from a market expected to be worth more than $200 billion a year... View Source

Bridgepoint is making a $1.4 billion bet on US real estate. Kayne Anderson Real Estate Co-Founder and CEO Al Rabil says it's all about preparing for a "10-year supercycle." He joins Open Interest to explain why AI infrastructure, healthcare real estate, and long-term demographic trends are creating massive investment opportunities, and why the merger preserves his firm's autonomy while unlocking f... View Source

South Korean stocks rebounded after a near 10% drop in the previous two sessions, highlighting skittish investor sentiment as scrutiny grows over the sustainability of the global AI boom... View Source

Microsoft is mobilizing 6,000 employees in a new unit aimed at helping enterprise clients better utilize AI. Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft's commercial business, discusses what is driving this move and what impact Microsoft hopes to see. He joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory The Birthplace of the United… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO Kid... View Source

Get a jump start on the US trading day with Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." US hiring slows sharply in June as Wall Street weighs what comes next. The Nasdaq fights back as Meta reshapes the global AI race, and OpenAI is reportedly considering giving the U.S. government a 5% stake. White House NEC Director Kevin Hassett reacts live to the jobs report, BlackRock's Rick Rieder breaks down... View Source

ElevenLabs has held early talks with investors to let employees sell shares in a secondary offering that would value the artificial intelligence startup at roughly $22 billion, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Spotify has asked Kalshi and Polymarket to remove its logo and clarify that neither company has a partnership with the streaming service after it identified users manipulating rankings that are tied to prediction market bets... View Source

Potential adjustments range from rethinking pricing and permissions to overhauling designs... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are MSIM CIO, Portfolio Solutions Group Jim Caron, Roth Capital Senior Research Analyst Craig Irwin, CUNY Graduate Center Research Professor, Economics Paul Krugman, Securitize Co-Founder & CEO Carlos Domingo, Envestnet Co-Chi... View Source

Kioxia Holdings Corp. has started shipping samples of its next-generation flash memory chips to AI data center operators, seeking to gain ground in the lucrative business against rivals... View Source

India’s attempt to fire up its fledgling private space program is showing early signs of success... View Source

The video game disc is dead, and Sony's been planning to kill it for some time, according to a report out of Austria. The man who leads Sony's discmaking operations, Sony DADC president Dietmar Tanzer, told ORF Salzberg that the company's Thalgau plant produces 600,000 discs every day, half of which are for PlayStation. But since it'll only be making 10 percent of that volume in 2028, it's plannin... View Source

Government attempts to address the global memory chip shortage by influencing prices or production capacity would worsen a historic squeeze on supply driven by the artificial intelligence boom, a semiconductor industry group warned the Trump administration... View Source

The selloff in China’s biggest internet firms has driven some valuations to record lows but investors say a recovery still looks a way off given the many headwinds they face... View Source

Hong Kong has become a vital conduit for high-tech products moving in and out of China, emerging as one node in a $2 trillion network of Asian trade fueled by a global boom in artificial intelligence... View Source

This is what most Tesla shareholders are still missing. Tesla/SpaceX/xAI have a massive advantage in power (natural gas turbines + solar + batteries + Virtual Power Plants). They’re turning AI data centers into modular “Megapods” — factory-built Lego blocks that can be deployed extremely fast. xAI’s Colossus is already scaling aggressively with behind-the-meter power. Tesla ... Read more... View Source

Quant funds in China have become so popular that they are being deluged with investors’ money... View Source

President Donald Trump said he sees the need for some standards on artificial intelligence technology, but wants to avoid burdensome restrictions that may hamper American companies competing with China... View Source

Pocket is listed in app stores but seemingly unavailable in the US... View Source

SpaceX grew its Starlink network by 24 more satellites on Wednesday evening (July 1) with a launch from California.A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the two dozen new relay spacecraft (Group 17-46) lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 10:58 p.m. EDT (0258 GMT on July 2 or 7:58 p.m. PDT local time). About an hour later, SpaceX confirmed the satellites were successf... View Source

Jacob Walthour Jr., CEO of Blueprint Capital Advisors, shares his expertise on account management and fund-to-fund services within private capital strategies. The discussion took place against the backdrop of ongoing redemption tensions in the private credit market, highlighting challenges and opportunities in managing private capital investments. He speaks with Romaine Bostick & Bailey Lipsch... View Source

Less than a week after its last test, SpaceX's latest Starship spacecraft went back to the stand for engine checkouts ahead of a coming test flight.The upper stage for SpaceX's giant Starship rocket, referred to simply as "Ship" — Ship 40, in this case — underwent a static-fire test of all six of its Raptor engines at the company's Massey site in Starbase, Texas. Ship 40 is in line for the 13th te... View Source

The man whose Tesla struck and killed a woman inside her Texas home last month is now facing manslaughter charges, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal and local news outlet KHOU 11. 44-year-old Michael Butler was arrested on Wednesday and claimed to have been driving his Model 3 using Tesla's Full-Self Driving (FSD) system at the time of the crash, according to an arrest affidavit. The... View Source

Crusoe, the data center upstart with contracts to supply AI computing power for the likes of Meta Platforms Inc. and Oracle Corp., is in talks to raise about $3 billion in a funding round that may triple the company’s valuation, people familiar with the situation said... View Source

Jim Caron, CIO of the Portfolio Solutions Group at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, discusses the current state of the stock market heading into the second half of the year. Despite significant gains earlier in the year, Caron addresses whether investors should remain overweight in equities amid recent volatility. He speaks with Romaine Bostick & Bailey Lipschultz on "The Close." (Source:... View Source

The hosting platform wants sites to have more control over how AI companies use their content... View Source

"Silo" season 3 is almost upon us, offering another round of riveting episodes of Apple TV's undeniably intriguing sci-fi series. We're about to learn how the end of the world began with the new season's split-timeline between Silo 18 and the Before Times, when the madness all started.Adapted from Hugh Howey's trilogy of dystopian sci-fi novels, "Wool," "Shift," and "Dust," "Silo" was created by a... View Source

Mozilla shut down the well-loved read-it-later Pocket app last year, and now Meta is launching an app called Pocket with an entirely different, AI-focused pitch: this new app lets you make and share little interactive "gizmos" built from an AI prompt, as reported by Business Insider. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is all in on AI as the new social media, and he's previously described a vision of how use... View Source

The FBI is investigating whether a subsidiary of the data-collection firm Alarum Technologies Ltd. had a role in linking customers’ home internet devices without their consent into a network that people can use to disguise their locations, according to documents seen by Bloomberg News and confirmed by people familiar with the situation... View Source

Nadia Lovell of UBS discussed the recent volatility in tech stocks amid speculation about a strategic pivot by Meta. While some market participants worry that hyperscalers may have overbuilt cloud capacity without corresponding monetization, Lovell views the potential offloading of excess capacity as a constructive move that could improve capital efficiency and margins over time. She emphasized th... View Source

The United States' 250th birthday is almost here, so why not take a break from the fireworks and explore four America-themed wonders hiding in the summer night sky?Celestron NexStar 4SE(Image credit: Amazon)The Celestron NexStar 4SE is ideal for beginners wanting quality, reliable and quick views of the night sky. For a more in-depth look at our Celestron NexStar 4SE reviewOur celestial sightseein... View Source

As the first billionaire president of the United States, Donald Trump is nothing if not an indictment of American excess. He’s spent over $100 million in taxpayer dollars on various golf trips, and committed millions more to gild the Oval Office in gold and dig out a massive emergency bunker under the White House’s east wing. Those vanity projects provide the backdrop to the Trump fami... View Source

Invesco Advisers Inc.’s head of investment-grade credit for North America slammed SpaceX’s inaugural bond sale on Thursday for a “very sloppy” secondary market performance... View Source

The director and top designer of Rocksteady’s failed game open up about their experiences... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down reports that OpenAI is holding early-stage discussions about giving the US government a 5% equity stake. Plus, Tesla's delivery numbers rose 25% from a year ago, beating Wall Street's expectations by a wide margin. And, he CEO of Microsoft's commercial business discusses the tech giant's plan to set up a new organization with 6,000 employees to help businesses use... View Source

Laptop chargers are much easier to travel with these days, and there's one specific technology that is largely to thank... View Source

A Tesla Semi was involved in a grisly crash earlier this week with two passenger vehicles that killed a married couple and left another person critically injured. It’s the first known fatal collision for the battery-powered electric truck, Electrek reports. According to the Nevada Highway Patrol, the crash occurred on Sunday morning on US 50 in Dayton. The couple, identified in The Record-Co... View Source

Microsoft is building a 6,000-person AI deployment team to help businesses implement artificial intelligence.  Bloomberg' Tech co-host Ed Ludlow explains why the move mirrors the forward deployment engineer model pioneered by Palantir and adopted by AWS, and why hands-on AI implementation could be the key to unlocking enterprise ROI. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

From left: The Artemis II crew—NASA astronaut Christina Koch; CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen; and NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover—take time out for a group hug inside the Orion spacecraft on April 6, 2026.NASA NASA’s live coverage of the Artemis II mission mission drew unprecedented public interest – including more than 149.4 m... View Source

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe an oddball gas giant exoplanet orbiting a dead star, a white dwarf, located some 80 light-years away. This "life after death" system gives scientists a portentous vision of what the solar system may look like in around 6 billion years after the sun has exhausted the hydrogen in its core, shed its outer layers, and left behind a... View Source

The Weber Spirit E-325 grill with three burners. | Image: Weber If our recent Decoder interview with Weber Blackstone CEO Roger Dahle has you craving freshly grilled meats or veggies, Weber just so happens to have a variety of grills, smokers, griddles, and accessories selling at big discounts ahead of the July 4th holiday. It makes a bunch of models, but we’ve landed on a range of grills and grid... View Source

Valar Atomics, a California-based nuclear startup, generated power from an advanced reactor to run an Nvidia AI chip. While just a trickle of electricity was produced, it’s the first time a next-gen reactor has done so in the US. On the heels of a demonstration of Valar’s Ward 250 reactor connecting to the Nvidia Blackwell chip at the company’s site in Utah, Valar Atomics CEO Isaiah Taylor joins E... View Source

The company has been gaining traction in Europe... View Source

From June 3 to 13, aircraft at Ellington Field in Houston gave students a firsthand look at how scientists study Earth from the air. NASA Student Airborne Research Program students, researchers, and pilots gather with NASA aircraft at Ellington Field in Houston on June 9, 2026. NASA/Bill Stafford Through NASA’s Student Airborne Research Program, or SARP, students learned how airborne field ca... View Source

Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call or text the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. ChatGPT fanned the flames of a bipolar man’s worsening religious delusions, exacerbating a manic episode that culminated in a failed suicide attempt, a new lawsuit against OpenAI... View Source

IQM Quantum Computers CEO Jan Goetz joined Open Interest to explain why his company chose a Nasdaq listing, why quantum computing could solve problems impossible for today's supercomputers, and why he believes the AI boom is accelerating the future of quantum technology. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

New Glenn Catastrophe Aftermath: What's Next for the Space Industry? | Ars Live This week Ars hosted a live discussion with two space industry experts about the aftermath of the catastrophic explosion of the New Glenn rocket in late May. Along with Ars Technica Space Editor Eric Berger; the director of research at Quilty Space, Caleb Henry; and the host of the Main Engine Cut Off podcast, Anthony... View Source

Tesla stunned Wall Street with a massive second-quarter delivery beat, While production also topped forecasts, the company offered virtually no commentary or explanation, leaving investors with more questions than answers. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

For decades, to be a gamer was to accumulate a lot of stuff. Consoles, controllers, accessories, weird VR gloves that never worked properly, but mostly the games themselves. Over the years, games have come in every shape and size you can imagine. And now that era appears to be ending. On this episode of The Vergecast, David and Nilay talk about Sony's plan to end production of PlayStation discs, M... View Source

Beloved actor Gene Wilder, perhaps best known for his portrayal of the titular Willy Wonka in the 1971 musical fantasy film “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” died in 2016 at the age of 83 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. Now, almost exactly a decade later, Netflix is trying to resurrect his voice using AI — without securing his consent, since the tech to do so... View Source

Pembina Pipeline Corp. will move ahead with a project build a C$4.6 billion ($3.2 billion) gas-fired electricity plant that will power a data center project in Alberta... View Source

A potentially habitable rocky world has been found in the habitable zone around a red dwarf just 25 light-years from us.However, faced with a hostile wind of radiation from its host star, it remains unclear whether this new exoplanet supports an atmosphere, or the possibility of life. Nevertheless, astronomers are celebrating the discovery. "This one's exciting," said Paul Robertson of the Univers... View Source

China’s Kling AI has raised an initial $2 billion in venture capital funding as the spinoff from Kuaishou Technology seeks to expand its video AI operations... View Source

For a few days, it seemed like Universal decided that there would be no advanced screenings of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey for influencers. But on Monday, influencers sat alongside traditional critics and journalists at special showings of The Odyssey specifically for the associated press junket. Despite what it may have looked like, Universal was not going back on its word. The studio was sim... View Source

Henrico County, Virginia, is home to 37 data centers, with 17 more on the way. Right now, it’s being burned to a crisp amid a brutal heatwave, as is the rest of the east coast. Thank heavens for air conditioning, right? Maybe not if you’re one of penny-pinching county’s schools: days before this heatwave descended upon the area, the Henrico public schools were asked to dial back... View Source

Asian semiconductor stocks tumbled on Thursday, tracking tech losses on Wall Street after Meta Platforms Inc.’s plan to develop a business that would sell access to AI computing power raised worries about overcapacity. Brian Belski, CEO and founder at Humilis Investments, discusses the recent tech sector rout and what stocks he is keeping an eye on. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A new study by the European Southern Observatory warns that plans to launch more than 1.7 million satellites into orbit could have “devastating consequences for astronomy,” making the night sky brighter and reducing scientists’ ability to observe the galaxy and the universe beyond. Ground Telescope astronomers on Earth can forget about issues looking through millions ... Read more... View Source

It looks there for the taking, doesn't it? The third rock from the sun just sitting there, all defenceless, run by squabbling politicians ruling over a human race who'd rather be sharing "get ready with me" videos than vigilantly watching the skies as they should be.But next time you set your sights on invading planet Earth, remember that it's easier said than done. Some of the mightiest alien att... View Source

If you don’t want to spend $180 on the Elgato Key Light, the Godox ES45 Desktop LED Key Light is a more affordable option that offers nearly as much brightness and plenty of features, including adjustable brightness and color temperature. Right now, it’s cheaper than usual for the first time this year, selling for $119 ($20 off) at Amazon and B&H Photo. Godox ES45 key light Where to Buy: $139... View Source

Anthropic PBC is in talks with Samsung Electronics Co. to be a manufacturing partner for a custom artificial intelligence chip, the Information said, citing people familiar with the plan... View Source

Capcom is trying to get Onimusha: Way of the Sword out the door before the fall release calendar gets really crowded... View Source

A bright orange sunburst illuminates Earth’s atmosphere during an orbital sunrise in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 264 miles above the Caucasus Mountains.NASA/Chris Williams NASA astronaut Chris Williams took this photo of an orbital sunrise from the International Space Station on June 26, 2026. In 24 hours, the space station makes 16 orbits of Earth, tra... View Source

Sean from Sequoia introduces Dylan Patel and praises SemiAnalysis as the leading independent research firm in semiconductors, covering technical details, supply chains, and the big picture after semis had lost sex appeal in the West. He notes rumors of the firm recently passing $100 million in revenue and possible plans for a venture fund, while ... Read more... View Source

We’ve got a special Decoder today — I had the chance to talk with Amy Lanzi, the CEO of Digitas North America, in front of a live audience at the Uber Villa at the Cannes Lions advertising festival in the South of France. I know, it’s a hard gig, but I do it for you. Amy has been on Decoder three times now, and she’s one of my favorite people to chat with — she is clear-eyed about what the adverti... View Source

Global ocean surface temperatures hit record highs last month — and scientists are warning that we’re well into “uncharted territory.” Both the Copernicus Climate Change Service and the Copernicus Marine Service, both of which operate under a European Union Earth observation program, confirmed independently that global ocean temperatures had broken 2024 all-time records last mont... View Source

Think smartphones dominate American culture? China may have taken the mobile-first lifestyle to another level. On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, Dan Wang, author of Breakneck, joins Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway to discuss how phone culture is reshaping Chinese society — from ordering a croissant for delivery in minutes to livestreaming shopping trips at the mall. (Source: Bloomber... View Source

Fake Mr Beast "promotions" are ubiquitous on Threads - they're also part of massive crypto scam network... View Source

Explore Webb Science James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NASA’s Webb Reveals Stars… Webb News Latest News Latest Images Webb’s Blog Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Webb Timeline Science Overview and Goals Early Universe Galaxies Over Time Star Lifecycle... View Source

Tesla had a generational beat on Q2 deliveires with almost 20% over consensus with 74000 over 406,000. It shows that the analysts were only lucky last few times, where Tesla was low on production. Now an actual good quarter. China 240-260K, europe 90K, US 150K. Tesla can come in at 481K... View Source

The weather cover for the Artemis 3 SLS core stage arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. (Image credit: NASA/Amber Jean Notvest)Did a flying saucer just land at NASA? It sure looks like it. This is actually the weather cover for the core stage of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which is currently gearing up to launch the Artemis 3 mission in mid-2027.What is it? Aboard NASA's Pegasus ba... View Source

Tesla just released its second-quarter delivery and production report, showing that the automaker is starting to recover after a particularly brutal sales year in 2025. The company said that it produced a total of 451,758 vehicles between April and June of this year, including 442,936 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, as well as 8,822 "other vehicles" like the Cybertruck and the Tesla Semi. (The compa... View Source

South Africa’s online grocery battle is entering a new phase where the competition is no longer just about delivering groceries faster, but rather about making shopping itself almost disappear... View Source

HDMI excels for media consumption, while PC gamers prefer DisplayPort... View Source

Tesla will have over 500,000 cars per quarter for Q3, Q4 2026 and every quarter there after. This is more than the predictions from analysts. I am predicting over 1.1 million vehicles delivered in Q3 and Q4, which is 200,000 over the analysts for the next two quarters and over 2.1 million cars for 2027 ... Read more... View Source

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was just caught with not just his hand, but his entire arm, inside the cookie jar. In yet another sign that his company is seriously struggling to keep up in the AI race, Google informed Meta earlier this year that it was cutting Meta off from the Gemini AI capacity it needed, the Financial Times reports. Ironically, the lack of access to Gemini — which is far superior to... View Source

Microsoft Corp. is setting up a new organization with 6,000 employees to help businesses with the technical and strategic work of deploying artificial intelligence... View Source

Financial disclosures show how much Trump loves tech stocks... View Source

Elon Musk, as tech critic Ed Zitron astutely noted, is a master plate-spinner: he always seems to keep the crowd dazzled with an ever-rotating spread of shiny toys. The plate currently featured front and center, SpaceX, has been wobbling after an underwhelming IPO. So Musk is giving it another hearty twirl: a flashy new AI-integrated device to keep investors on the two-trillion dollar hook. Accord... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders, Jefferies Tech Sector Leader, Software/Internet Research Brent Thill, Union Square Advisors President & Co-Founder Ted Smith, Guggenheim Partners Senior Analyst o... View Source

MGX has raised $49 billion for one of the biggest ever funds dedicated to artificial intelligence deals, propelling the two-year-old Abu Dhabi firm into the ranks of the most consequential investors in the sector globally. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The July full moon occurs at 10:36 a.m. EDT (1436 GMT) on July 29, when the lunar disk appears fully lit as it shines opposite the sun in Earth's sky. The July full moon is often called the "Buck Moon", to reflect the time of the year when young male deer grow out their antlers in the northern hemisphere and is the first full moon of summer, occurring soon after the 2026 summer solstice. When to s... View Source

Silo is such a complicated show that even its showrunner gets confused sometimes. While filming the final seasons of the Apple TV sci-fi thriller, Graham Yost remembers two instances where he messed up details: once it was an actor who realized that a conversation they were about to shoot should've already taken place, the other involved the Japanese localization team pointing out that a subtitle... View Source

Skyroot Aerospace Pvt announced that it was gearing up for its maiden flight of Vikram-1 — India’s first privately designed and developed orbital rocket — between July 12 and August 4, in what would be a critical milestone for the country’s first space unicorn after facing several delays... View Source

A long-defunct developer returned from the dead promising to revive the 3DO, but quickly pulled its pledge when it became apparent it didn't have the right to... View Source

The company is considering a cloud computing business to help generate revenue from AI... View Source

There are now enough Amazon Leo satellites to launch the service, but its constellation is still tiny compared to Starlink's... View Source

Twenty-five years ago today, a young, little-known programmer by the name of Bram Cohen fired off a short message to a mailing list for peer-to-peer enthusiasts. "My new app, BitTorrent, is now in working order, check it out here," Cohen wrote, followed by a link to his personal website. "What's BitTorrent, Bram?" the founder of the list asked in response. Cohen never bothered to reply. The world... View Source

Slate is the latest automaker to transition to lower-cost batteries perfected in China, driven in part by the repeal of EV tax credits that required materials to be sourced domestically... View Source

Signs of slower hiring, attrition and companies deciding not to replace exiting workers... View Source

Opera has introduced a new safety feature that protects against malicious 'ClickFix' clipboard attacks... View Source

OpenAI has begun preliminary discussions about giving the US government a 5% stake in the ChatGPT-developer. The Financial Times reported that executives proposed the move as part of a broader arrangement under which Washington would hold 5% of each of the leading American AI developers. Matthew Bloxham of Bloomberg Intelligence has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

After Americans declared independence on July 4, 1776, a waning gibbous moon rose in the night sky. To the people celebrating the birth of a new nation, it would have looked much the same as the moon we see today. But there was one subtle difference: 250 years ago, the moon was about 31 feet (9.4 meters) closer to Earth than it is now."The moon is currently drifting away from Earth at a rate of ab... View Source

OpenAI has floated giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake as a way of easing tensions with the Trump administration and blunting mounting public backlash against AI, according to the Financial Times. CEO Sam Altman argued that giving the public a financial interest in the company would be the best way to share the upside of AI, the FT reported, citing two unnamed people familiar with... View Source

Lombard Odier's EMEA CIO Nannette Hechler-Fayd'Herbe discusses the outlook for tech stocks, volatility and where she sees opportunities beyond artificial intelligence and semiconductors. She speaks on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Europe's highest court of appeal has upheld a record-setting $4.7 billion fine imposed on Google back in 2018... View Source

Heads up aurora chasers! The sun has been very busy. After unleashing an X1.1 solar flare on June 30, the sun continued its outburst by firing off 10 M-class solar flares in 24 hours! Several of these eruptions were accompanied by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that appear to be at least partially Earth-directed. Exactly how many of these solar storms will reach Earth (and how effective they will b... View Source

Investors in SpaceX have been largely flying blind since the company’s record-breaking IPO last month, with few financial projections to help determine what the stock is actually worth... View Source

According to the Financial Times, Sam Altman is floating the idea of having leading AI companies give US sovereign funds a five percent equity... View Source

Payloads of Amazon’s Leo satellites sorted by launch vehicle. | Image: Amazon Amazon says it now has enough satellites operating in low-Earth orbit to light up its Starlink internet competitor. With last night's launch, Amazon Leo has 396 satellites deployed, which is "enough to support continuous service across initial latitudes," according to Chris Weber, VP heading up business and product for... View Source

Long hours outdoors, day drinking, and World Cup matches are among the factors raising the risks of heat-related illness, as hot weather spreads across the eastern US... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. and its telecom unit will start renting AI computing resources to US companies next fiscal year in a bid to capitalize on the company’s growing pipeline of data center projects... View Source

SAP SE said it will cut back hiring and travel to save costs as Europe’s largest software company devotes more resources to developing artificial intelligence technologies and fending off new competitors... View Source

Google lost its long-running fight against a €4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) European Union antitrust fine after the bloc’s top judges said regulators were right to punish the US giant for abusing Android’s market power... View Source

Analysts say the emergence of a leveraged exchange-traded fund tied to semiconductor firm SK Hynix has grown so large, so fast, that it is magnifying swings in both the stock and South Korea's entire Kospi index. Bloomberg's Charlotte Yang reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Stocks fell as a selloff in chip stocks spread to South Korea, reviving concerns the rally in artificial intelligence shares may have gone too far. Bloomberg's Anthony Stephens reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

X has launched a new live streaming command center and additional creator payouts... View Source

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The Democratic Republic of Congo is drawing up plans for its first stock exchange as it seeks to attract more investment to an economy that’s benefiting from soaring demand for minerals critical to the AI buildout... View Source

Angela Ang, APAC MD of BitGo, a digital asset infrastructure company, believes that shifts from retail speculation to institutional investors drive demand for secure custody and compliant infrastructure. Her comments come on the back of bitcoin falling to a fresh 21-month low. She speaks with Haslinda Amin on "Insight with Haslinda Amin." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

OpenAI has begun discussions about giving the US government a 5% stake in the ChatGPT-developer, the Financial Times reported, citing two people familiar with the talks... View Source

Alex Yeh, Founder and CEO at GMI Cloud, discusses the company's business strategy and the outlook for the AI ecosystem. He speaks with Shery Ahn from the sidelines of the IVS2026 conference in Kyoto. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

LinqAlpha Inc., an artificial intelligence investment research company, is close to raising $22 million in a Series A funding round, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Hartmut Issel of UBS Wealth Management says the firm is still "slightly overweight" semiconductor stocks. He tells Bloomberg Television that "there's absolutely no sign of any let up" in overall demand for AI. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple Inc. is in negotiations to purchase chips from Chinese semiconductor makers ChangXin Memory Technologies Inc. and Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. to help reduce the impact of a global memory shortage. Bloomberg's Minmin Low has the context. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Switch Inc. is kicking off a private funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz that could raise about $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Ted Goldthorpe, founder of BC Partners Credit, joins Dani Burger and Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Deals." They discuss potential consolidation among dealmaking firms, dry powder and the business of sports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple Inc. is in negotiations to purchase chips from two Chinese semiconductor makers on a Pentagon blacklist to help reduce the impact of a global memory shortage that’s forced the company to raise prices across its product line... View Source

Skywatching Skywatching Home What’s Up Meteor Showers Eclipses Daily Moon Guide More Tips & Guides Skywatching FAQ Night Sky Network A predawn Moon-and-planets meetup, a returning comet, a great chance to see the Milky Way, and Saturn’s rings at a new angle. Skywatching Highlights July 7: Last Quarter Moon July 11 + 12: Dawn alignment of the Moon, Mars, Saturn, and Uranus July 14: New Moon; b... View Source

Mohalla Tech Pvt., which operates social network ShareChat, short-video platform Moj and subscription-based micro-drama app QuickTV, is seeking to raise as much as $400 million from a public market listing planned for next year... View Source

Antonio Gracias, a long-time SpaceX board member, is looking for more investments in artificial intelligence, energy and space after bets in Elon Musk’s company netted his fund nearly $100 billion... View Source

Researchers found that 30% of accounts that amplified inflammatory statements in days after knife attack were based in the US... View Source

Apple Inc. is preparing an upgraded iPad Pro line and a redesigned entry-level MacBook Pro for next year, adding to a slate of several other major new products planned for the iPhone’s 20th anniversary year... View Source

El centro de datos de US$39.000 millones del creador de TikTok es el fruto más reciente de los esfuerzos de Lula por atraer inversión china... View Source

Next spring could be a fiesta of new iPads, MacBooks and iPhones... View Source

Apple is working on a "revamped" version of its entry-level MacBook Pro that it could launch as soon as the first half of 2027, Bloomberg reports. The company is also testing four new iPad Pros that are set to launch in the spring with a focus on "internal improvements." The updated MacBook Pro, which will keep the 14-inch screen size, will have a design that's "in line" with what Apple is plannin... View Source

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission plans to scrap guidance on radiation exposure for power plant workers that’s been in place since the mid-1970s... View Source

Steven Spielberg's latest sci-fi movie, Disclosure Day, has finally hit cinemas worldwide. It's been eight years since the iconic director released a movie in this genre, re-entering his UFO era with a twisted alien thriller. To mark his momentous return to sci-fi cinema, we've taken time to gaze across his entire sci-fi slate, ranking them from worst to best. We use the term 'worst' lightly, thou... View Source

Cody Spencer, the co-owner of the small games retail chain Pink Gorilla Games, put it well when I asked about the impact of Sony's recent announcement that it will stop making discs for new games starting January 2028. "It's sad to see. This decision is only a negative for gamers. We're losing the ability to sell games, to share games, and to own games." Sony's announcement has been devastating ne... View Source

Valar Atomics Inc., a California-based nuclear startup, generated power from an advanced reactor to run an Nvidia Corp. AI chip. While just a trickle of electricity was produced, it’s the first time a next-gen reactor has done so in the US... View Source

Duke “Rethinking Load Growth” reports that having a flexible energy demand during 3 peak hours unlocks 20% more overall power. Curtailing just ~0.5–1% of annual energy could unlock on the order of 76–100 GW of new load on today’s US grid. This is how Tesla, SpaceX and XAI can use virtual power plants, batteries to ... Read more... View Source

Fans’ euphoric reactions to the Mexican national team’s recent victory in the 2026 World Cup caused a series of unusual vibrations that were detected by seismic warning systems... View Source

A Hong Kong fund tied to SK Hynix has grown so large that it's beginning to move the stock it was built to track... View Source

5 min read NASA’s Chandra Examines Milky Way at Arms’ Length To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video This sequence begins with an artist’s concept showing the Milky Way galaxy as seen from above, with the estimated positions of spiral arms based on previous data. Next is an updated artist’s concept of the Milky Way, where the p... View Source

Xbox is making some big changes — again. On June 10th, a few months after Asha Sharma took over as CEO, she and newly-promoted chief content officer Matt Booty sent a memo to staff warning of an “Xbox reset.” The business, they said, is facing significant challenges, including a 3 percent “accountability margin,” massively higher component prices for consoles due to the mem... View Source

Everyone has had a bad day at work, but most of us are lucky enough that ours weren’t broadcast with a chyron live on television. On a live interview with CNBC‘s infamously churlish segment “Squawk Box,” Palantir CEO Alex Karp appeared to suffer a nearly 20-minute meltdown, complete with stuttering, nervous backtracking, and a steady supply of digressions so abstruse that t... View Source

AI is sparking nervousness among voters. AI money is funding the candidates. And AI is generating the campaign ads. On today’s Big Take podcast, how the first AI election mirrors the anxieties of our era... View Source

A vulnerability can reportedly connect real email addresses to anonymous ones... View Source

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said this week that Blue Origin has been putting significant resources into the cleanup of its launch pad since the explosion of its New Glenn rocket there in late May. "Blue Origin's response to the situation is almost beyond impressive, and that's not just a NASA assessment," Isaacman said in response to questions from reporters on Wednesday afternoon. He noted... View Source

A weekly, midday program that delivers high-impact, editorially driven coverage of the most important corporate transactions shaping the global market. Today's guests: Sullivan & Cromwell Global head of M&A Melissa Sawyer, Cloverlay Managing Partner Jeff Collins, Lazard Managing Director George Bilicic, Kirkland & Ellis Executive Committee Member Andre Calder, and PC Partners Credit Fo... View Source

A rumored SpaceX device could offer a way to access xAI's models without having to use a smartphone... View Source

Elon Musk says a report about a SpaceX AI phone prototype is "utterly false." The report, published on Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal, says SpaceX showed off a "handset-like prototype" to some investors before launching its record-breaking initial public offering in June. The device was "slimmer than an iPhone," and they were told it would run on a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip, according to the... View Source

Crossing $420 gets Tesla Inc. investors sparked up... View Source

Xbox may offer a way to preserve physical game purchases in an increasingly digital future... View Source

United Launch Alliance (ULA) will launch another batch of Amazon's internet satellites to orbit early Thursday morning (July 2), and you can watch it live.An Atlas V rocket carrying 29 Amazon Leo spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday, during a 29-minute window that opens at 12:24 a.m. EDT (0424 GMT).You can watch it live here at Space.com... View Source

When horrible things happen to people you care about, it’s only natural to seek someone to blame. If you ask the mayoral administration in charge of Paris, France, it seems responsibility for Europe’s devastating heatwave is being placed on the United States’ affinity for air conditioning. Last week, recently-elected Paris mayor Emmanuel Grégoire went on the record with Le Monde... View Source

Bending Spoons SpA shares rose 14% above their initial public offering price after the company and some of its backers raised $1.68 billion.  Shares of the Milan, Italy-based company, which acquires struggling software businesses, opened on Wednesday at $31 each, above the IPO price of $29 per share, before climbing as high as $33.14. The firm and investors including Baillie Gifford sold 57.97 mil... View Source

Selling server infrastructure would put Meta in competition with Amazon and Google... View Source

It doesn't get more America than giant rockets and missions to the moon.That's why NASA painted two giant "America 250" logos on the rocket that launched the Artemis 2 astronauts around the moon earlier this year. The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket lifted off on April 1, carrying the Orion spacecraft to orbit with NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, as well as the Can... View Source

The IPO window is showing more signs of life, with Uber-backed Lime raising $174 million in its public debut, pricing its shares right at the midpoint of the expected range. Lime CEO Wayne Ting says the company is going public to attract new investors, and is thinking about M&A, though "the bar is high." He joins Ed Ludlow from the Nasdaq on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Far-UVC could help rid future cars of odors... View Source

Anthropic AI Revenue I, Brian, describe the explosive revenue and usage growth of frontier AI companies. Anthropic’s revenue reportedly jumped dramatically (from ~$1B to $10B ARR, then to a $50B annual run-rate) thanks to new models like Opus 4.5 and now Fable. Demand is massively outstripping supply (reportedly 5x more demand than available compute), which ... Read more... View Source

SpaceX reportedly showed investors a "handset-like" AI device before going public. It could be another signal SpaceX wants to expand into wireless... View Source

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about bosses who have embraced AI so much that they’ve become loose cannons — outsourcing decisions to chatbots, making erratic strategy pivots based on their feedback, and even asking them who to fire. At the same time, other company leaders are turning against the tech. Writing for Inc, professional AI consultant and tech commentator Joe Procopio wrote... View Source

Just months ago, investors were selling the dollar against the euro to Bitcoin and gold. Now the dollar is rallying. So what’s changed? Ruth Carson explains. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Hot Jupiters are some of the most extreme planets in the universe, blazing gas giants like Jupiter or Saturn that exist so close to their stars that they complete orbits in a matter of days. Now, new research may rewrite the definition of these planets that make the solar system look a little bit mundane.The extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, at the heart of this rethink is CoRoT-2 b, a world with 3... View Source

Microsoft will likely soon follow Sony and stop the production of physical discs for Xbox games. But instead of leaving physical discs behind entirely, sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell me the company has quietly been working on a disc-to-digital feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections. Xbox employees recently started testing this new fea... View Source

Plaid Inc., a technology company whose network helps fintech apps connect to customer accounts, is considering an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

After a lengthy legal dispute, Krafton has settled with its subsidiary Unknown Worlds Entertainment, which is developing Subnautica 2, and will pay bonuses to the studio's staff, Bloomberg reports. The dispute began last year after Krafton pushed out Unknown Worlds' cofounders, Charlie Cleveland and Max McGuire, and its CEO, Ted Gill, ahead of a potential $250 million bonus for hitting certain fin... View Source

In the weeks following its dramatic IPO, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has yet to find stable ground. After shooting up to an all-time high of over $225, shares of the rocket company have swung wildly back down to Earth, betraying plenty of uncertainty over the company’s dizzying, north-of-$2-trillion market cap. After all, the company is burning through billions of dollars in cash, and its path... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Meta's plans to develop its own cloud infrastructure business aimed at selling access to AI computing power and models. Plus, the Trump administration lifts foreign access restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model. And, Lime CEO Wayne Ting joins as the company gets ready to debut on the Nasdaq. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Thus ends the messy saga of Subnautica 2... View Source

Marlinspike Partners just raised an oversubscribed $127 million Fund II to "rearm America," the latest sign that investors are piling into defense startups. Marlinspike co-founder and CEO Neil Keegan, who also served six years as a US Navy Surface Warfare Officer, joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

If you really want to get retro, Fujifilm is making some special editions of its classic instant camera... View Source

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 2 min read Curiosity Blog, Sols... View Source

The IR-compiled delivery consensus is 406,024. This should get beaten by 60,000-80,000 cars. Tesla vehicle shipments – Part 2 Kalshi also moving much higher. My number is 490k plus for shipments, with an absolute minimum of 475k. Kalshi (directional "Above X" markets) Above 460k: ~65% (up sharply, e.g., +24 points in recent data).kalshi.com Above 470k: ... Read more... View Source

If the number of satellites in Earth's orbit exceeds 100,000, humanity may lose its ability to study the universe from the planet's surface. That's the conclusion of a study conducted by astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) which warns that if existing plans to deploy a million orbiting data centers and tens of thousands sun-reflecting mirrors were to come to fruition, the worl... View Source

The Killswitch 2 lets you easily use the Switch 2 in handheld or docked modes. | Image: The Verge Dbrand apparently knows how to really whiff a product launch, as we recently saw with the Steam Machine Companion Cube shell. But it also makes the best case out there for the Nintendo Switch 2, which happens to be discounted right now. The Killswitch 2 is versatile, with better build quality than oth... View Source

Penalty kicks are already proving critical to big wins at this year’s World Cup. But the advantage in penalty kicks has more to do with psychological effects than who kicks first... View Source