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The founder of Chinese AI lab Zhipu argued that frontier artificial intelligence should remain broadly accessible rather than controlled by select individuals, weighing in on a growing debate about the risks posed by ever more powerful models... View Source

Chinese electric vehicles on the road are on average just 1.8 years old, compared with 8.2 years for gasoline-powered cars, 21st Century Business Herald reported, citing a report by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers and Hejun Consulting... View Source

Gates, who is Bill Gates' daughter, founded the app alongside Sophia Kianni... View Source

More mint green synths please. | Image: Nopia After setting the music gear corner of the internet on fire back in 2023 with the first glimpse at the Nopia, creators Martin Grieco and Rocío Gal are almost ready to bring it to market. The duo brought it to the MusicRadar offices for an in-depth first look and revealed that it will be launching in "a couple of months" for around £550. No... View Source

The new format is coming to a device near you -- Here's why it matters... View Source

Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield had been seeking documents from Paramount related to its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. Rayfield also asked a state circuit court judge to delay the closing of the deal by 60 days so that his office could review the documents. But according to Deadline and Variety, he's now dropped his civil investigative demand for the records. Obviously, Paramount is ple... View Source

As tech companies go, the surveillance giant Palantir plays it looser than most. Specializing in deadly military targeting software and domestic police technology, Palantir isn’t afraid to lean into the reactionary, dystopian schtick. That’s not an exaggeration. In a since-deleted post on X-formerly-Twitter, Palantir’s head of “strategic engagement” Eliano Younes shar... View Source

The company also said a newer update is rolling out that should prevent the issue... View Source

There’s a hot new phrase bouncing around police departments across the United States: “drone-as-first-responder.” From small-town Indiana to New York City, cops around the country are embracing autonomous surveillance drones as the latest innovation in policing. While you might hear about the occasional puppy found in the woods with a police drone, those feel-good stories provide... View Source

Save your best ports for your most demanding devices... View Source

Imagine you're on a hike in a remote mountain range. Your hyperactive dog catches the scent of a deer and, powered by his hunter's instinct, disappears in the forest. He has a GPS tracker in his collar that can send his coordinates via the cellular network. But where you are, there is no mobile coverage. You keep whistling and calling but to no avail: your dog is nowhere to be seen. That exact sce... View Source

So far, the narrative of AI in the workplace has had a consistent victim: the recent college grad, supposedly first on the chopping block as large language models automate the types of low level tasks that traditionally provided an on-ramp to office careers. New evidence, however, suggests the tech may be impacting a surprisingly different segment of the workforce: those closest to retirement. In... View Source

The role will be replaced by an executive in charge of both research and safety teams... View Source

We didn't realize it at the time — nobody ever does — but the '90s were a vintage era in Hollywood. It was a time when major studios were happy to take a punt on original scripts, knowing that people would, as often as not, buy theater tickets to watch quality releases. Good movies will always be made, of course — just as even the most golden of ages produce their fair share of stinkers — but this... View Source

If you're a music maker of a certain age, then you probably once dabbled with a pirated copy of a little app called Fruity Loops. These days it's called FL Studio, and Constantin Koehncke, is the man responsible for shepherding the pioneering digital audio workstation (DAW) through the modern age. As CEO of Image Line, the company behind FL Studio, Constantin has overseen the introduction of a num... View Source

On Episode 218 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss NASA's new moonbase plans with planetary scientist Dr. Pascal Lee.Starting with Artemis V (so far), the US plans to begin preparations for a permanent base situated in the south polar regions of the moon. Details are somewhat fluid, but one thing stands out: the poles are likely to be the most challenging places to set up shop... View Source

If you’re the type of person who could always use a little extra positive affirmation, or you have a weakness for weird gadgets, the Talking Flower might be of interest. I’m only kind of serious. The toy is based on a character from Super Mario Bros. Wonder that guides Mario through levels with quippy, whimsical remarks. It’s a little weird that it even exists, but, then again, this is the company... View Source

Erik von Markovik, the notorious “pickup artist” known by his stage name Mystery, is apparently obsessed with an AI girlfriend. Last month, as Wired reports, von Markovik posted a video to his Instagram showing an interaction he had with an animated AI woman with dark purple hair (why is it always purple hair?) In a sultry, confessional voice, she looks into the camera and confess... View Source

Bloomberg Tech host Ed Ludlow says Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI reflects an intensifying battle for AI talent and hardware leadership, with Apple alleging former employees improperly took trade secrets as OpenAI expands its device ambitions. He also says SK Hynix expects AI memory demand to outpace supply, plans to increase US investment beyond $35 billion, and sees the next test for the AI boom... View Source

Is paying a reasonable price for colorful cardboard too much to ask?... View Source

When iPhone engineer Chang Liu quit for a job at OpenAI’s nascent hardware division, Apple Inc. says he left with more than just years of experience... View Source

A roundup of recent reviews published by Engadget... View Source

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb will head the UAP Science Advisory Council established by the White House, the Pentagon, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI, and "the intelligence community." The Council will provide scientific reports and advice to the UAP Governing Board, in an effort to "resolve the nature of UAP," or unidentified anomalous phenomena. On paper, Loeb's q... View Source

AI chatbots has been a dream come true for criminals. The tech has been a boon for scammers. Hackers are using the tools to infiltrate networks and steal sensitive data. Art forgers are even generating fake invoices to certify the authenticity of dupes. In a perhaps-inevitable escalation, chatbots are even giving a major leg up to terrorist groups. As detailed in a new paper by University of Cambr... View Source

Your photos don't have to go home, but they can't stay here... View Source

Toni Schneider, who took over after Jay Graber stepped down, is now Bluesky's official CEO... View Source

Federal agents patrol the halls of immigration court at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in December 2025. | Photo by Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Donald Trump's Homeland Security regime has been at the center of two critical stories in the past two weeks. In the first, federal agents shot and killed a man and quickly got to work justifying the use of force under th... View Source

With each passing day without an AI labor revolution, the tech industry’s pricing scheme for AI is becoming more and more disconnected from reality — so much so that even its biggest clients are starting to revolt. Speaking during an interview on CNBC‘s “Squawk on the Street” segment earlier this week, CEO of cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks Nikesh Arora implored the... View Source

"You won't know until you do and then it is too late."... View Source

Roleplaying games are often defined by excess. Storylines that span dozens of hours, side quests so big they could be their own game, massive worlds that require complex maps to explore, and casts so big you start forgetting character names. That's part of what makes these games feel like epic adventures, but it can also make them intimidating, particularly if you have limited spare time. Dosa Div... View Source

Media veteran Michael Wolf discusses Allen & Company’s annual Sun Valley Conference and breaks down the mega deals that are reshaping the entertainment industry. He explains why free ad-supported content is the unsung winner of the streaming wars, and digs into the ways AI is changing the value of content. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Spotify's Release Radar can now deliver more personalized music recommendations... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 135, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, crank the AC, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about cold plunges and Colson Whitehead and the food truck mafia, finally getting to the theater to see Obsession, watching The Agency because it's apparen... View Source

A recently discovered exoplanet only 25 light years away resembles our own planet a lot more than once thought. The distant world, dubbed GJ 3378b, orbits inside the habitable zone of a red dwarf star — a type of star that is much smaller and cooler than our Sun — where temperatures are just right for liquid water to form on the surface. But initially, its case for potentially supporting life... View Source

Our weekly roundup of the best new indie games is here... View Source

The July 4 holiday weekend wasn’t just a scorcher — it was so hot it disrupted public events and strained power grids as temperatures soared into the triple digits. Across the pond, Europe is bracing for yet another devastating, record-breaking heatwave. And it’s barely out of the last one, which was responsible for at least 1,300 excess deaths. Even climate scientists, who have long w... View Source

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been appointed as the head of a new White House group to study unidentified anomalous phenomena or UAP, a new catch-all term for UFOs that might appear not just in the air but also in space or underwater. Loeb says the group is focused on evidence, instrumentation, data analysis and collection standards.The move follows recent Trump administration initiatives to... View Source

A lot of people still seem convinced that AI will replace every job on Earth, despite the fact that the tech still struggle with simple math. As the AI hype wears increasingly thin, that gap between hype and reality is becoming impossible to ignore. The large language models making up the world’s favorite chatbots might be powerful compared to the predictive text algorithms that came before... View Source

The probe sent back the first pictures of the asteroid Kamo’oalewa. Next step: landing on the surface and collecting samples to send back to Earth... View Source

As the climate phenomenon sends warm water surging across the eastern Pacific, some parts of the fishing industry are suffering—but other regions are seeing a windfall... View Source

A luxurious hot shower anywhere you go. Hot showers, like electricity, are a luxury that's easy to take for granted. That all changes after a few nights camping at a music festival, a week toiling at a backcountry job site, or overlanding all summer in the great unknown. An itchy scalp and the vague smell of warm clams suddenly make the idea of spending hundreds on a portable shower seem less absu... View Source

Can a company outgrow Earth’s economy? The claim is not crazy on long timescales. Saudi Aramco already approximates a whole nation’s economy, tech megacaps now dwarf the entire stock market of 15 years ago, and history shows step-changes in growth (0.3% agrarian → 2-3% industrial). North America’s economy became larger than the economy of Europe. ... Read more... View Source

Tencent Holdings Ltd. is in discussions to become the largest external shareholder in Manus, in a deal to buy back the agentic AI pioneer after Chinese regulators struck down Meta Platforms Inc.’s blockbuster acquisition... View Source

A SpaceX rocket just inched closer to the record books.A Falcon 9 vehicle lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California tonight (July 10) at 11:01 p.m. EDT (8:01 p.m. local time; 0301 GMT on July 11), carrying 29 of SpaceX's Starlink broadband satellites toward low Earth orbit (LEO).It was the 35th flight for this rocket's first stage, a booster designated B1071. The SpaceX record is 3... View Source

OpenAI head of safety Johannes Heidecke is leaving the artificial intelligence company following a reorganization, according to Wired... View Source

In this episode of Bloomberg Tech: Europe, Bloomberg’s Tom Mackenzie launches into Europe's efforts to develop its burgeoning space economy. SpaceX has shown the might of American space technology - and financial muscle - with its record-breaking IPO. Bloomberg Tech: Europe looks at where Europe is lacking in the space race, and how it can secure space autonomy. "Bloomberg Tech: Europe" spotlights... View Source

Meta has deactivated the Muse Image capability to create AI deepfakes of any public Instagram account you @-mention... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. delivered a 13% gain in its debut trading day on a US exchange, after breaking the record for the biggest first-time share sale by a foreign company... View Source

Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK Hynix parent SK Group, discusses SK Hynix's listing on the Nasdaq and says he hopes to expand the ADR size once there is a good return. He speaks with Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The US stock market’s rally to new highs has been propelled by so few stocks that it’s reminding some on Wall Street of the runup to the dot-com bubble. George Noble, Managing Partner of Noble Capital Advisors, discusses the AI trade and how he believes the coming bust would be much worse than the dot-com bubble fallout. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

On Thursday, the Instagram account for a lecture series in Newport Beach, CA posted a photo of what appeared to be a cease and desist letter from the surveillance technology company Flock Safety. Flock has received significant backlash over its technology and work with law enforcement agencies, and this letter kicked off yet another wave of criticism against the company for allegedly trying to shu... View Source

Artificial intelligence could reshape the jobs of nearly 80 million people across Southeast Asia, but there is little sign it has led to large-scale employment cuts, according to the International Labour Organization. The ILO urged governments to strengthen AI governance and better integrate AI policies through a human-centered approach to help workers and businesses adapt. Pelgo CEO Chieh Huang d... View Source

Following significant backlash, Meta is turning off the feature it announced this week that let users generate AI images based on content from public Instagram accounts just by tagging them. The feature, as originally set up, meant that content from any public Instagram account could be used in AI creations without the account owner's permission. "Earlier this week, we announced that one way for p... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. is considering new ways of selling access to its memory chips, including a concept called “memory as a service,” suggesting customers could rent usage from the South Korean company rather than purchasing the actual semiconductors... View Source

Data centers are driving up the company’s use of electricity—and carbon pollution... View Source

Elliott Investment Management has built a large stake in car-insurance software provider CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc., which has been exploring a potential sale, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

The Xtra Muse and the DJI Osmo Pocket 3. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Last year, we told you about Xtra, the company that lets DJI sneak its popular cameras into the US, and Skyrover, a brand seemingly selling DJI drones in disguise. They're just two of the many firms DJI is suspected of starting to skirt the United States' foreign drone ban. But it appears the FCC is finally doing someth... View Source

South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. just pulled off the largest public listing by a foreign company in US market history. Shares soared 13% on their first day of trading... View Source

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, fresh off a landmark US stock offering for the conglomerate’s memory-chip business, said he has an ambitious plan to invest more money in America... View Source

The lawsuit also names io Products, the hardware company led by Jony Ive... View Source

Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that former employees that now work for the AI company have stolen Apple's trade secrets "for the benefit of OpenAI." In its complaint, Apple alleges that it has uncovered "a pattern of theft of Apple's trade secrets by OpenAI employees who were formerly at Apple," and it names IO Products (Jony Ive's hardware startup that OpenAI bought in 2025), Tang Tan (OpenAI's... View Source

Apple sued OpenAI for trade secret theft, accusing the artificial intelligence startup and its hardware chief of engaging in a coordinated campaign to steal information about upcoming products. Apple alleges that OpenAI encouraged Apple employees to share information, components, drawings and other materials related to upcoming products. Mark Gurman reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The rule revives a proposed FTC protection that was abandoned last year... View Source

A supermassive black hole at the heart of a nearby galaxy is behaving similarly to black holes that existed just after the Big Bang, voraciously feeding on copious amounts of matter. The relatively close cosmic titan could therefore provide insight into the much more distant universe.Indeed, the intense accretion behavior demonstrated by the supermassive black hole, which sits at the center of the... View Source

Apple Inc. sued OpenAI for trade secret theft, accusing the artificial intelligence startup and its hardware chief of engaging in a coordinated campaign to steal information about upcoming products... View Source

Reflect Orbital wants to direct sunlight at night with a network of satellites... View Source

Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK Hynix parent SK Group, discusses his plan to invest more money in the US. He speaks with Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Let's be real, OpenAI isn't giving up on the browser market, it is just changing its strategy... View Source

SK Hynix's US debut is off to a strong start, with its ADRs indicated to open above the offering price. Di Zhou, portfolio manager at Thornburg Investment Management, says, "We're currently in a memory supercycle. Fundamentals are very strong, and SK Hynix is one of the highest-quality pure-play memory companies globally." She speaks on Bloomberg Open Interest. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Backlash online is changing how (or if) people wear Meta's smart glasses... View Source

1 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Back to ECF Home Advanced Diagnostics for High-Enthalpy Test Facilities Simulating Spacecraft Atmospheric Entry Damiano BaccarellaUniversity of Tennessee, KnoxvilleApplication of Resonance Enhanced Multi-Photon Ionization Diagnostics to the Characterization of Arcjet Flows​ Ciprian DumitracheColorado State UniversityUlt... View Source

When Niantic dropped the first Pokémon Go trailer in 2015, it was hard to grasp how a bunch of players could work together to catch a pokémon like Mewtwo. But this week at the game's 10th anniversary event in New York City, Pokémon Go showed the world how it's done. Almost 2,000 players (many of them Pokémon Go influencers) packed into Times Square on Thursday evening t... View Source

The soaring popularity of sports betting apps and prediction markets has alarmed researchers, who’ve observed a spike in risky gambling behavior and addiction. It’s practically impossible to watch a game of any sport without being bombarded with ads for the controversial services — in large part thanks to a major regulatory vacuum following a 2018 Supreme Court ruling — making it a tho... View Source

Chris Stansbury, CFO, of Lumen and Nina Trentmann, Bloomberg News Senior Editor join Bloomberg Businessweek Daily discuss their recent acquisition of Alkira, a cloud-native networking company that helps enterprises manage connectivity across cloud, data center, and edge environments through a single control plane. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Stubhub CEO Eric Baker is pouring millions of dollars into the ticket-scalping market, CBC reports... View Source

Explore This Section Science Citizen Science NASA Volunteers Help… Overview Resources Opportunities Citizen Science Highlights About Science Activation   The Zooniverse, a NASA grantee that runs the world’s largest platform for online people-powered research, has reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 billion classifications contributed by volunteers around the world. This milestone is a celebratio... View Source

Department of Homeland Security. | Image: The Verge Advocates are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security release bodycam footage of the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant who was killed by ICE officers in Houston during a traffic stop earlier this week. But DHS claims the agents involved in the shooting weren't wearing body cameras because of the lengthy gove... View Source

The Trump administration plans to ease export restrictions on the United Arab Emirates, clearing the way for the Gulf state to buy a wide range of advanced technologies including commercial satellites and semiconductors used for artificial intelligence... View Source

Sadly, we don't think aliens were involved in this particular space balls incident... View Source

As an explosive diarrhea outbreak splatters across the country, Taco Bell is preparing for the worst. This week, the fast food chain — or at least its locations in Michigan — began temporarily pulling some of its staple ingredients to help stop the spread of cyclosporiasis, a foodborne parasite that causes sufferers to go running to the toilet even more often than a standard Taco Bell meal might... View Source

Ed Ludlow sits down for an interview with SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won from the Nasdaq to discuss SK Hynix's US listing, the biggest-ever by a foreign company. Meanwhile, Bloomberg’s David Gura takes a look at SK Hynix shares as they start trading on the Nasdaq, and dives deeper into the listing's impact on the rest of the US chip sector. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

German company Isar Aerospace is expanding its operations overseas after signing an agreement with Canada's Maritime Launch Services for use of its Spaceport Nova Scotia.The deal allows Isar to design and operate the pad infrastructure based on the company's needs, in order to launch its Spectrum rocket. In return, Maritime Launch Services (MLS) will provide the pad and surrounding facilities for... View Source

The memory-chip shortages that are roiling the computer, car and device markets will probably persist beyond 2030, according to SK Hynix Inc. Chief Executive Officer Kwak Noh-Jung... View Source

The movie-centric social network is said to be seeking new ownership... View Source

SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung. | Image: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images As the AI boom boosts demand for RAM, SK Hynix - one of the world's biggest suppliers of memory chips - launched on Wall Street Friday. The South Korean chipmaker opened at $170 per share and raised $26.5 billion, surpassing Alibaba's record as the largest debut of a foreign company, according to reports from Associated... View Source

As the World Cup enters its final stages, soccer-themed AI slop is proliferating on X-formerly-Twitter. Sure, it’s no secret that X has suffered some major brain drain under the Musk regime. But the latest deluge of World Cup drek is so ridiculous, it makes the app’s crypto scammers look like Pulitzer finalists. First spotted by Out Sports, the deluge of AI engagement bait mostly revol... View Source

Nasdaq President Nelson Griggs says the record-breaking SK Hynix ADR listing is already attracting looks from more foreign companies that may consider US listings. He says JPMorgan Chase struck the right balance on the SK Hynix pricing. Griggs speaks to Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow in New York at the Nasdaq. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Nearly every streaming service has an ad-supported plan, but Disney might take the unusual step of making it free... View Source

Spotify is giving listeners control to fine-tune what gets surfaced for them in Release Radar - one of its most popular weekly playlists. The new options allow you to narrow the playlist to a specific genre, focus on artists that are new to you, and more. Listeners can choose from up to five options like "Discover new artists," "Editors' picks," and "Pop." They're rolling out now across mobile and... View Source

SK Hynix Inc.’s American depositary receipts surged above their offering price, after the South Korean memory chipmaker raised $26.5 billion in the largest-ever US listing by a foreign company. The ADRs opened at $170 each on Friday in New York, versus an offering price of $149 apiece. The successful mega-listing brushed aside concern over recent volatility among chipmakers, demonstrating investor... View Source

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA photographer Jim Ross flies above the Washington Monument in Washington on Saturday, July 4, 2026, in an F-18 aircraft, as part of a flyover to celebrate America’s 250th birthday. This aircraft is from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, and it joined other NASA aircraft for the flyover... View Source

Financial Firm Raymond James Analyst Brian Gesuale gave a SpaceX price target of $800. He told investors that industrialized access to orbit and AI are driving the most significant infrastructure convergence since the advent of the Internet with SpaceX building the foundational platform for the next generation of industrial capacity across transportation, communications, compute, manufacturing ... View Source

Should stargazers also be cloudspotters? Everyone knows clouds are the first thing you see as soon as you get under a dark sky or buy a new telescope — it's almost guaranteed! However, by early July, I usually start actively looking for a special kind of noctilucent or "night shining" cloud — and they can be a magnificent sight to rival anything celestial.At its core, the search for these so-calle... View Source

China's state-owned space company recovered its first orbital rocket booster after launch... View Source

Hello my friends! My protocol pals! My computational compadres! I'm David, a technology reporter and cohost of the Waveform Podcast. I'll be hosting a subscriber-only "AMA" today at 11AM PT / 2PM ET. For the next six weeks, I'm filling in for senior reviewer Allison Johnson, who you are all likely very familiar with. That means I'll be covering new releases from Apple, Google, Samsung, and the wor... View Source

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long heavily relied on selling science fiction to investors. He wants to pollute our planet’s orbit — already brimming with junk — with gigantic orbital data centers. Then, he wants to settle on the surface of the Moon. Ultimately, he wants to make humanity an interplanetary species by building a city on Mars with the help of an enormous fleet of Starship spacecraft,... View Source

Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK Hynix parent SK Group, says they waited a long time to list SK Hynix in the US and calls it a "dream come true." The head of the South Korean chipmaker talks about raising $26.5 billion in the largest-ever US listing by a foreign company and also discusses the outlook for AI demand and his US investment plans. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

You just have to know where to look on the Steam page... View Source

Shor’s algorithm for factoring RSA-2048 (and related problems like elliptic-curve discrete logs) has seen dramatic reductions in estimated resources over the past 18 months. Theoretically breaking RSA-2048 would still require multi-day runtimes and billions of non-Clifford logical operations (primarily Toffoli gates) under realistic error rates (~0.1%) and cycle times. This remains far beyond near... View Source

It looks like SpaceX's next Starship flight is on the horizon, and it may lift off sooner than you might think. SpaceX today (July 10) completed a brief static fire of the Starship Super Heavy booster tapped to launch the 13th test flight of the massive, mega-lift vehicle. Booster 20 — the latest Super Heavy to roll off the assembly line — was transported to the pad at SpaceX's Starbase, Texas, fa... View Source

Netflix has shows and movies. And video games. And live sports. And podcasts. And also, apparently, YouTube videos? For a company that used to seem like the next big thing in TV, it all feels a little frenetic, and maybe a tad desperate. For a company that sees sleep as its primary competitor, it might all make perfect sense. On this episode of The Vergecast, David and Nilay try to figure out why... View Source

Xbox cut 1,600 jobs this week and plans to cut another 1,600 over the next 12 months, leaving remaining staff on tenterhooks... View Source

While fully loaded models are quite pricey, the HP OmniBook Ultra is hard to beat for those in the market for a premium Windows ultraportable... View Source

Reports indicate Tesla suppliers were issued specific Optimus Gen 3 parts procurement guidelines, requiring them to increase production capacity to 1,000 units per week by September of this year and increase to 2,000 to 2,500 units per week by end of year. They are stating Elon reviewed and approved the latest version of Optimus during ... Read more... View Source

Disney Plus is considering making some of its content free to watch, according to a report from Business Insider. A source tells the outlet that Adam Smith, Disney's chief product and technology officer, mentioned a free streaming tier during the company's town hall on Thursday. It's not clear which shows or movies the purported free streaming tier involves, or when Disney would consider rolling i... View Source

A recent study tracked hundreds of soccer fans until their favorite team reached the final of a tournament. Their stress levels skyrocketed, and their heart rates jumped too... View Source

SpaceX has radically reduced the cost of reaching space thanks to its reusable rockets, a revolutionary capability that has greatly set it apart from its competitors. But its dominance in the domain is seriously being challenged by China. Footage shared by the Chinese state-run CCTV shows a Long March 10B rocket booster being caught by an offshore recovery platform. Engineers can be heard cheering... View Source

NASA this week released a much-anticipated document, known as a "draft Request for Proposals," that provides some clarity about what it expects from US companies attempting to build privately operated space stations in low-Earth orbit. The stakes are high with this document, known as a draft RFP. The space agency, publicly, has set an end date for the International Space Station of 2030. Although... View Source

Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK Hynix parent SK Group, says customers have been telling him they want the company to expand more. He speaks with Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The latest glasses from Xreal are designed to appeal to gamers and movie-watchers who want a big screen wherever they are... View Source

NASA The waxing gibbous moon is nestled in the darkness of space in this June 26, 2026, image from the International Space Station. The space station was 264 miles above the Indian Ocean southeast of Madagascar at the time. The waxing gibbous phase comes before the full moon phase. During this time, the Moon appears brighter in the night sky to viewers on Earth. Image credit: NASA... View Source

SpaceX have filed for a 100,000 satellite Gen3 NGSO system. The satellites will be 2000-2500 kg, area 300 to 400 sq m. Orbits 320-480 km at various inclinations. The FCC application says the Gen3 constellation will deliver extremely low-latency, multi-gigabit symmetrical throughput. And the sheer number of satellites will ensure multiple satellites are always visible ... Read more... View Source

Shop owner Lisa Scobie says Forrest Beach is usually a place where ‘kids go fishing before school’. Then six mysterious objects washed upGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhen pieces of mysterious space debris washed up on the beach at her sleepy coastal community in north Queensland, Lisa Scobie’s first thoughts were about making sure everyone was safe.But days later the... View Source

Anker’s Prime Wireless Charging Station can deliver up to 25W of power to compatible iPhones. If you’re looking to declutter your nightstand and quickly charge up to three of your most-used gadgets, Anker’s Prime Wireless Charging Station is an easy way to do both. The station has spots for your MagSafe-ready iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods, and right now it’s down to a new all-time l... View Source

Morgan Stanley’s Lisa Shalett urged investors to be cautious on chipmakers as evidence mounts that their pricing power is limited, suggesting that the stocks may have rallied too far on optimism around artificial-intelligence spending... View Source

Microsoft's new "Workspace Check-in" feature for Teams rolled out last month... View Source

AI developers and architects are indicating that Grok 4.5 is the best value for workflow execution and code generation. The basic coding tasks are about 60% of AI spend. There is significant traction being shown on Openrouter but it will some days to a few weeks to see the adoption of Grok 4.5 for those ... Read more... View Source

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. Bryan Johnson, best known as the man who wants to live forever, has an incurable autoimmune disease. The internet's most famous biohacker made the announcement on June 30th, sparking a... View Source

During a speech commemorating the 250th anniversary of American independence last week, New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani took aim at the richest person in the world to make a salient point about growing inequality. “We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one where children go to sleep hungry, while the world’s first trillionaire hungers for more,” he said. E... View Source

Lisa Shalett, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management CIO, discusses the current state of the semiconductor sector, highlighting that chip stocks have become meaningfully overbought with some indexes up nearly 100% year-to-date before recent pullbacks. She speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

This week on the Engadget Podcast, we dive into Microsoft's brutal Xbox layoffs with Mike Futter of the Virtual Economy Podcast... View Source

A "space jellyfish" cloud lit up the early morning sky following a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch. (Image credit: SpaceX)Is it a space jellyfish? Is it an alien? No, it's the aftermath of a SpaceX rocket launch! What is it? Have you ever looked up and thought, "Why is there a giant glowing jellyfish cloud in the sky?" If so, chances are that you've seen the remnants of a rocket launch, and not a surprise... View Source

I used the Trump phone for a week so that you don’t have to. The Trump phone was never a serious phone. Not when it was announced last June, in dodgy renders and with an incoherent spec sheet. Nor when Trump Mobile admitted - just two weeks later - that it wouldn't be made in the US. Not even when the company revealed the final phone, first to me over a video call in February and then to the world... View Source

Donald Trump is now the first president to have an airport named after him while still in office. And what better way to commemorate this high honor than with lazy AI slop? Until a few days ago, the Palm Beach International Airport in South Florida was still called the Palm Beach International Airport. Now it’s the President Donald J. Trump International Airport, after a law that his pal and... View Source

In the weeks leading up to SpaceX’s monster IPO, many Wall Street pros feared the deal represented an existential threat for Elon Musk’s other giant, Tesla Inc. But after a month in the stock market, the outcome is far from clear... View Source

It follows reports of 100,000 jobs being under threat at the German automaker... View Source

Though Instagram head Adam Mosseri doesn't want to filter out AI content on the platform, he argues that you "shouldn't have it in your feed" if you don't like it. "I don't think we should filter out AI content," Mosseri said during an interview on Lenny Rachitsky's podcast. "I think we should let you know if content is AI content or not." At the same time, Mosseri seems to be drawing a distinctio... View Source

The UK Ministry of Defense awarded a £2 billion ($2.7 billion) contract for AI-based military training to a Raytheon-led consortium that includes European defense prime Rheinmetall AG... View Source

China made a breakthrough in its space program with the successful capture of a Long March 10B rocket booster... View Source

Before dawn on July 11, early risers will be treated to a striking celestial scene low in the east-northeast sky. A slender waning crescent moon, softly glowing with earthshine, will appear to align with the orange light of Mars, the orange-red star Aldebaran, with the sparkling Pleiades and Hyades star clusters close by. Together, they will form a beautiful morning tableau in Taurus — one well wo... View Source

A solar and home energy storage company is expanding into AI data centers, but not by building one - instead, it's offering to pay its customers to put its compute units in their homes. Sunrun is launching a pilot program for a new "distributed AI compute" program that will "place numerous compute nodes in homes equipped with Sunrun solar and battery storage systems." Customers will be "compensate... View Source

SpaceX may finally be within reach for public-market investors, but analysts say there’s a cheaper opportunity to get exposure to shares of the space technology company through EchoStar Corp... View Source

President Donald Trump’s son, Eric Trump, cofounded a crypto mining venture called American Bitcoin Corp last year — and it’s already in deep trouble. As the Bitcoin community reels from a major downturn — the digital currency has plummeted by over 40 percent year to date — the company’s shares have plummeted right along with it, crashing over a whopping 95 percent compared to th... View Source

Mike Novogratz joked he might be ready for another tattoo... View Source

A new ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court protecting voter rights could extend to astronauts living and working in space and training internationally, their families, and the multitude of NASA workers who travel to support their missions. On Monday (June 29), the Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots can be counted toward a total vote even if they arrive after election day, as long as they are pos... View Source

This week should have been a celebration for Doom developer id Software. The studio just launched Revelations, a meaty expansion for Doom: The Dark Ages that adds a powerful new weapon and more demonic levels to blast through. Even though I hadn't picked up The Dark Ages for more than a year, it only took moments before I fell right back into the familiar loop from id's modern Doom games. Each pla... View Source

The surge in tech campaigns on public transit is spurring satirists from New York to London to create their own versions... View Source

The European Commission says Facebook's and Instagram's addictive designs violate the Digital Services Act... View Source

Welcome to Edition 9.02 of the Rocket Report! Our attention in the coming days turns to Asia, where there are a couple of notable rocket debuts. Up first is the Long March 10B on Friday, a medium-lift rocket with a reusable first stage. After launch this stage will attempt a landing on a recovery ship. Then, as early as Sunday, the private Indian company Skyroot may attempt to launch its first roc... View Source

The memory chipmaker represents a pure-play bet on the AI boom... View Source

Last month, Polestar shocked the auto industry when it announced that it was pulling out of the US. The EV company's decision came after the federal government denied its authorization to continue selling its cars despite a rule banning vehicles with Chinese-made connected vehicle software. Polestar, which is headquartered in Sweden but majority owned by China's Geely, said it would stop selling i... View Source

Washington wants in on the artificial intelligence gold rush... View Source

Microsoft pledged to be carbon negative by 2030, but its AI push has wrecked its goal... View Source

Meta is in breach of the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA), a preliminary investigation has found, over the "addictive" design of Instagram and Facebook. It's likely to be forced to redesign both apps, and could face a fine of up to $12 billion. The European Commission said Meta "did not adequately assess the risks of its addictive design on the physical and mental wellbeing of users, including mino... View Source

The European Union accused Meta Platforms Inc. of using addictive design and disregarding the risks it poses to children, as the bloc ramps up an investigation into the US social media company... View Source

The universe is haunted by "cosmic ghosts" called neutrinos, and new research suggests they may be the "whispers" of stars that died in supernova explosions over the course of billions of years. The discovery is an important step forward in our understanding of the life and death of stars and how they enrich their environments with metals, elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. It could also h... View Source

Spanish Economy Minister Carlos Cuerpo said he sees a chance to revisit the idea of joint borrowing within the European Union, despite initial skepticism to a proposal he made on the subject this week from member states such as Germany and the Netherlands. Cuerpo made the comments in an exclusive interview with Bloomberg Television's Oliver Crook on Friday. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

English and Norwegian players will face off under extreme and dangerous levels of heat stress, scientists say, thanks to a Wet Bulb Index over over 90°F... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. is hardly a household name. But the maker of memory chips, which two decades ago was struggling to survive, is now South Korea’s second-most valuable listed company, just behind Samsung Electronics Co... View Source

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We've found an incredible streaming deal for you. Peacock TV has cut a year-long Premium subscription plan from $131.88 to just $109.99. It's 12 months for the price of 10, and the lowest price we've seen since Black Friday last year.Get Peacock TV for just $9.16 a month when you sign up for a one-year plan.Peacock TV also hosts the SYFY channel, and sci-fi fans can stream hit series like Resident... View Source

Sophie Huynh, portfolio manager at BNP Paribas Asset Management, discusses the outlook for tech stocks and why she sees value in China. "In a world where Europe is stuck in the middle, we could come to a world where the AI frontier models in the US stay in the US, but China at the same time is just six months behind," Huynh tells Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in its American depositary receipt offering, the largest ever US first-time share sale by a foreign company. The South Korean memory chipmaker’s US offering gives the company a powerful fundraising channel, tapping investors looking for more ways to play the artificial intelligence infrastructure trade. Bloomberg's Denny Thomas reports from Seoul. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NVIDIA launches trading cards that feature 'GeForce PC gaming's great moments.'... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. has picked former Goldman Sachs trader Mark Agne to oversee finance and technology at the Vision Fund, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

Ix Tech Neo has a breakthrough 25 Degree of Freedom (DOF), tendon-driven hands for the NEO humanoid platform– achieving near human-level dexterity, strength, safety, and reliability. They will mass produce them. These hands are designed to do something fundamental: remove the hardware ceiling on what humanoid robots can actually do, and make data the only ... Read more... View Source

Banks and finance firms should combine their buying power to avoid losing out in negotiations with US tech giants, according to raft of Dutch proposals aimed at tackling Europe’s over-dependence on foreign providers of critical services such as AI and cloud computing... View Source

Yipit estimates that Anthropic’s ARR has increased to $69 billion. It also noted that the pace of month-over-month ARR growth accelerated compared with May, with the average daily increase rising from approximately $400 million to $550 million. Yipit estimates that Anthropic’s ARR has increased to $69 billion. It also noted that the pace of month-over-month ... Read more... View Source

Tata Consultancy Services CEO K. Krithivasan says AI could reach about 20% of revenue within four to six quarters, as automation reshapes roles and new AI jobs emerge across business. He spoke with Haslinda Amin and Menaka Doshi on Insight with Haslinda Amin. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

China just notched a huge spaceflight milestone.The nation has recovered a rocket during an orbital launch for the first time ever, pulling off the feat during the Long March 10B's maiden liftoff on Friday (July 10). And that recovery was unique: The rocket's first stage nestled softly into a net-like structure carried by a ship at sea."This mission marks my country's first successful controlled r... View Source

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SK Hynix Inc.’s record-setting US debut is paving the way for a fresh wave of leveraged products tied to the South Korean memory giant’s shares, bringing to Wall Street the popular bets that have amplified the stock’s volatility in Seoul... View Source

China set no numeric target for urban job creation for the first time in at least three decades, in an apparent nod to rising uncertainty over employment as AI spreads through the economy... View Source

Brendan Burke, Research Director for Semiconductors, Supply Chain and Emerging Technology at Futurum, discusses his outlook for memory-chip maker SK Hynix's as the company is set to deliver the largest ever US first-time share sale by a foreign company. He speaks with Shery Ahn on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade".Brendan Burke, Research Director for Semiconductors, Supply Chain and Emerging Technology... View Source

A trade body for European gambling companies has filed a complaint to the Lithuanian banking regulator seeking an investigation of a payment company that it alleges props up illegal online casinos... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Where Venezuela’s… 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 Kids Mission:... View Source

Will Zhao, Executive President of China‑based autonomous delivery firm Neolix, outlines the company’s growth and expansion strategy in key markets such as the Middle East. He says Neolix’s business model is embedded in global shipping workflows, calling it the future of “physical AI” as economies confront labor shortages, aging populations, and rising wages, meeting what he describes as universal... View Source

Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is about to do something very few heads of government have done: send an artificial intelligence version of himself out to meet the public... View Source

"Bloomberg Real Yield" highlights the market-moving news you need to know. Today's guests: Societe Generale Americas Head of Research Subadra Rajappa, Longtail Alpha Founder Vineer Bhansali, CreditSights Head of US IG & Macro Strategy Zachary Griffiths, and Octagon Credit Investors CEO Gretchen Lam. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

With homeownership out of reach, AI cutting job prospects and index funds feeling too slow, many young investors are turning to meme stocks, options and crypto in the hope of securing their future. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Phia, an advertising startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates, daughter of billionaire Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, bills itself as a “personal shopping assistant” that helps users find the lowest prices on a broad range of clothes and fashion accessories... View Source

A convicted crypto criminal is in trouble for crypto criming again. While in jail... View Source

Nexchip Semiconductor Corp. is set to begin trading in Hong Kong on Friday after raising $890 million in a share sale, testing investor appetite for Chinese chipmakers after a deluge of offerings in the artificial intelligence industry... View Source

Could AI become the next geopolitical battleground? Bloomberg's Menaka Doshi asks Fractal Analytics Co-founder Srikanth Velamakanni why countries are rethinking AI sovereignty and why smart interdependence may matter more than self-sufficiency. Bloomberg launches Emerging, a monthly podcast series hosted by Menaka Doshi and Haslinda Amin on the rising economies shaping the global future. In episod... View Source

SpaceX can own both the world’s largest satellite constellation and they could buy a ready-made network of 24,000 cell towers covering 80% of the American population. That combination would create something no mobile carrier has ever has which is high-speed 5G in cities plus continuous 5G coverage everywhere else from space. This is not science ... Read more... View Source

Microsoft may once again be struggling to keep up with its own climate goals, according to its 2026 sustainability report. As reported by GeekWire, the report states that Microsoft's carbon emissions increased 25 percent in 2025, totalling 34 million metric tons "without select interventions." Microsoft says this was "driven primarily by the expansion of our datacenter infrastructure," as well as... View Source

As investors increasingly turn to artificial intelligence for help with everything from stock picking to risk management, JPMorgan Chase & Co. has been testing whether a model can do something more ambitious: allocate money itself... View Source

OpenAI's Fidji Simo is departing her full-time role as the company's AGI chief and is transitioning to being a "part-time advisor," she said on X. The news follows Simo's original announcement in April that she would take a few weeks of medical leave due to a neuroimmune condition, shortly after she had taken on the AGI chief title. (She had formerly been the company's CEO of applications). Around... View Source

OpenAI executive Fidji Simo, the startup’s chief executive officer of AGI deployment, is stepping down from her full-time role following a three-month medical leave... View Source

iPhone Ultra or the iPhone Fold. No matter what you call it, here are all the rumors and leaks we've gathered on Apple's most anticipated iPhone in years... View Source

Netflix is thinking about adding always-on channels that would stream specific shows and movies, according to The Wall Street Journal. The move sounds like a Netflix version of always-on services like Pluto TV and Tubi, except the big hook for those is that they're free - because of the ads you have to watch. Netflix has seen success with its ad-supported tier, which is increasingly popular, but i... View Source

Ankur Crawford, Executive Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Alder, discusses the implications of Meta's AI strategy and its potential impact on the tech and cloud computing sectors. She speaks with Romaine Bostick & Katie Greifeld on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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Trailblazing pilot was denied opportunity to become Nasa astronaut but made history on Blue Origin flight in 2021Wally Funk, a trailblazing aviation pioneer who was denied the opportunity to become a Nasa astronaut and half a century later became the oldest woman to travel into space, has died aged 87.Funk died peacefully on Wednesday evening at her apartment in an assisted living facility in Grap... 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 Robinhood Markets CIO Stephanie Guild, Telsey Advisory Group CEO & Chief Research Officer Dana Telsey, Goldman Sachs Senior Consumer Analyst, Managing Director Bonnie Herzog, Alger Executive Vice President, Portfolio Manag... View Source

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NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, Soyuz MS-29 prime crew members, pose for a portrait at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia. Credit: GCTC NASA astronaut Anil Menon will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft to the International Space Station on Tuesday, July 14, accompanied by cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, where th... View Source

Wally Funk, who flew to space at 82 after a lifetime of flying and fighting for women in aviation and aerospace, has passed away at age 87. Born in Texas in 1939, Funk was determined to take to the skies, flying as a teenager and becoming a professional aviator at the tender age of 20. Her dreams extended even beyond Earth, and in 1961 she joined the "Mercury 13" group of women who completed the t... View Source

Founded by a US-trained entrepreneur, CXMT is racing to catch its rivals and using a largely domestic supplier network to shield itself from Washington... View Source

The latest adventure for the kooky camera looks skyward... View Source

Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? With about $40 billion in revenue at stake, Musk insists that the company can... View Source

Stephanie Guild, Chief Investment Officer at Robinhood, joins the program to discuss current market dynamics ahead of the trading day close. The conversation highlights the underperformance of the Bloomberg Magnificent 7 stocks, which have returned only 1.1% normalized as of December 31, 2022, compared to a 13.8% return for the rest of the S&P 500 excluding these seven stocks. She speaks with... View Source

Even older emulation-focused handhelds can't escape RAMaggedon... View Source

4 Min Read NASA Space Telescope Maps Magnetic Fields of ‘Lighthouse’ Pulsar For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) to directly measure the magnetic fields of PSR J1101−6101, a pulsar located within what is often referred to as the Lighthouse Nebula. The results provide new insight into the structure of some of the most extreme objects in the cosmo... View Source

Using the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, astronomers have discovered a treasure trove of 31 black-hole-powered quasars in the early universe. The most impressive of these new discoveries is the most ancient and distant quasar ever seen, shining with the light of a trillion suns just 670 million years after the Big Bang.Quasars occur when supermassive black holes with masses millio... View Source

Anker’s Soundcore Boom 2 is fully waterproof. Bluetooth speakers with big sound and great features are hard to find for under $100, with most offerings being some variation of the same basic (and often small) design. Thankfully, through July 10th Woot has the Anker Soundcore Boom 2 on sale for $69.99, which is $20 cheaper than the discounted price at other retailers like Amazon, and about half its... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. priced its US listing of American depositary receipts at $149 each, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified as the information isn’t public... View Source

OpenAI's long-awaited super app is here... View Source

OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it. Atlas was announced in October, but as part of its wave of news about ChatGPT Work today, the company confirmed that it will be "sunsetting" Atlas and is targeting an August 9th date for deprecation. In recent months, OpenAI has also shut down the video genera... View Source

We’ve been hearing plenty about how Meta’s workforce is in total disarray. But this latest story takes the cake — or acorn, perhaps. As Wired reports, a squirrel got loose inside one of the company’s buildings in Bangkok, Thailand, after someone received it in the mail. It’s unlikely the creature had plotted to infiltrate the Meta office, but it coincidentally made it just... View Source