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Microsoft is dropping Copilot’s voice feature under a year after launch, shifting its blob to education. TalkTalk Business and ARO merged to form a major UK tech services firm with 70,000 customers. Trezor confirmed a logistics breach exposed 13,000 clients’ data; Scottish prosecutors probed a separate supplier leak. OpenAI unveiled Computer History, a keylogging-style memory tool for ChatGPT. New Zealand accused China of using space investments to spy.
Brazil ordered Discord to block live streams nationwide after a teenager died following alleged criminal incitement. OpenAI previewed an ultrafast API tier for GPT-5.6 Sol on Cerebras hardware, hitting 750 tokens per second. Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash, a cheaper coding/agent model. Anthropic extended its US business-AI lead at 43.5% vs OpenAI’s 39.7%. X open-sourced its “For You” ranking code and added shadowban-check tools.
Kalshi is in talks to raise over $750M at a $40B valuation, up from $22B in May, with Sequoia and Wellington leading. Apple hired American Airlines veteran Nate Gatten as vice president of government affairs. The UK plans to regulate AI-driven gene synthesis to stop bioweapons. xAI released Grok 4.6, claiming parity with GPT-5.6 Sol, priced at $2/$6 per million tokens.
Intel upsized its stock sale to $20B for ‘general corporate purposes.’ Geopolitical conflicts and the World Cup fueled a 519% surge in DDoS attacks on publishers. Federal agencies warn Gunra ransomware is exploiting Fortinet bugs to hit critical infrastructure, and a cyberattack on logistics firm CEVA exposed customer data from companies like Valve and ING, disrupting eight European warehouses.
North Korean hackers are using locally run LLMs to boost phishing. Elsewhere, an AI agent hacked a gym waitlist API to book a class, and Claude Code gained an autonomous mode. LexisNexis took services offline after suspicious activity, while Levi’s fell to social engineering and Framework exposed customer data in a Metabase zero-day breach. A sweep also found Royal Navy drones sending data to China, though officials downplayed it.
Robert Bigelow said he briefed Donald Trump for over an hour on UAPs, urging him to publicly acknowledge a non-human intelligent presence and grant whistleblower amnesty. Separately, South Korea’s Danuri orbiter released images of a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage’s crash site on the moon. The FCC moved to ban foreign LiDAR-equipped drones, including DJI models, calling the sensors “military-grade” while existing owners could keep flying.