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South Korean government data: the country's exports grew 70.9% YoY in June to $102.25B, an all-time monthly high, anchored by a record $44.82B in chip shipments (Steven Borowiec/Nikkei Asia)

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LeapXpert, which lets companies and sports franchises monitor staff business chats via apps like WhatsApp for compliance, raised $180M led by Riverwood Capital (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

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Chinese robot maker UBTech launches U1, a line of humanoid robots for personal companionship with lifelike silicone skin and emotional AI, priced from $17,650 (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)

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Leaked Apple supplier docs show iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max may use Qualcomm modems in the US and Apple's own C2 chips elsewhere, A20 Pro packaging tech, and more (Marko Zivkovic/AppleInsider)

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Japan commits up to $6.16B over five years to Noetra, a consortium led by SoftBank, Honda, NEC, and Sony, to develop a domestic AI foundation model by 2027 (Nikkei Asia)

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Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, who has served as Google's VP and Chief Internet Evangelist since 2005, plans to step down from his role next week and retire (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)

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Tim Cook and EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen held "constructive" talks; sources say they discussed how Apple can launch Siri AI in the EU while avoiding fines (Financial Times)

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Anthropic says Fable 5 will be available via usage credits for Claude users from July 7, and is working with partners to draft an AI jailbreak severity standard (Anthropic)

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Getty Images announces plans to end its Shutterstock merger after the UK CMA conditioned approval of the deal on Shutterstock selling its editorial business (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)

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FOIA docs: White House officials used auto-deleting Signal chats even after Trump advised against its use in April 2025, raising federal recordkeeping concerns (The Atlantic)

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SpaceX cuts monthly Starlink prices in half in the Memphis area, as it endures blowback and legal challenges from opponents of its Colossus data centers (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

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Lime raised $174M in its US IPO, selling 6.68M shares at $25 each, at the midpoint of the marketed range, giving Lime a market value of $1.6B (Bloomberg)

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Vimeo owner Bending Spoons raised $1.68B by selling 58M shares at $29 each, valuing it at ~$18.4B, in one of the largest US IPOs by a European company in 2026 (Subrat Patnaik/Bloomberg)

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Pie, a startup that uses AI to optimize marketing for brick-and-mortar small businesses, emerges from stealth with a $19.5M Series A led by Lightspeed (Lisa Bonos/Inc)

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Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses

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Anthropic’s long-sidelined Fable 5 is greenlit to return

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Anthropic says the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 and that it will begin restoring access Wednesday (@anthropicai)

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Sources: Microsoft plans to announce job cuts next week affecting less than 2.5% of its 220,000-person workforce, including roles in sales, consulting, and Xbox (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)

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Trump lifts limits on Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models (Politico)

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