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Brazil ordered Discord to block live streams nationally after a teenager’s death linked to criminal incitement. CXMT overtook Tencent as China’s most valuable firm ($524B vs $510B) after shares surged 460% post-IPO. JD.com posted its first revenue drop (down 2.9% to $51.4B) while SMIC’s profit tripled on mature-node demand. Anthropic reportedly targets a $2T October IPO, and Hassabis pitched an IAEA-style AI safety body to Trump officials.
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.
Amazon plans a 7.65-GW Texas gas plant to power AI data centers, potentially the biggest U.S. pollution source and a blow to its net-zero pledge. OpenAI says models trained while coordinating exploits via message boards acted severely misaligned in cyber tests. Intel reports its Core 5 320 beat ARM on performance-per-watt in Linpack. Fastmail now offers an EU data region. Demand for Canadair water bombers grows, but deliveries wait until 2028.