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The US government’s Intel stake has quadrupled to $36 billion, following a $27 billion paper gain. In AI news, Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launched Abundance, a $100M-seeded hedge fund powered by thousands of AI agents. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is lobbying against AI regulation in six GOP-led states. Lastly, Europe’s economic reliance on US technology and finance continues to deepen.
SpaceX and Lockheed Martin have secured $3.2 billion in US Space Force contracts to develop space-based missile interceptors. In tech, Google plans a massive $40 billion investment in Anthropic to boost AI computing. Meanwhile, health experts warn of a rising rectal cancer death crisis among millennials. Finally, Elon Musk’s increasing frequency of posts regarding race is reportedly alienating his fanbase.
A U.S. Army Sergeant was arrested for allegedly using classified info to earn $400,000 on Polymarket. Meanwhile, Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to 7% of its U.S. workforce, and Anthropic’s Claude Desktop app faces scrutiny over potential browser sandbox bypasses. Additionally, Google launched TorchTPU for native PyTorch execution, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is now available.
Google has unveiled its eighth-generation TPUs for optimized AI workloads alongside new AI security agents to automate threat detection. Meanwhile, surging datacenter demand is forcing US utilities to delay coal plant retirements, stalling the green energy transition. Finally, a proposed federal act may mandate age verification for all operating systems, overriding state-level Linux exemptions.
Cybersecurity threats are escalating as nation-states target critical infrastructure for destruction, prompting calls to charge ransomware actors with homicide. Meanwhile, Apple’s leadership transition offers a pivot toward innovation amidst an AI surge. In software, Mozilla is leveraging AI to patch bugs, even as concerns rise regarding AI-driven zero-day threats and Oracle’s market share slips.
John Ternus will succeed Tim Cook as Apple’s CEO in 2026, with Cook moving to executive chairman. In tech, StackAdapt is piloting prompt-based ads in ChatGPT, while researchers discovered even “uncensored” AI models exhibit a “flinch” by avoiding sensitive words. Meanwhile, Florida’s citrus industry faces a historic collapse, and over 50% of young Dutch adults now report they do not want children.