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Industry Jun 30, 2026

Rocket Lab to Acquire Iridium in $8 Billion Deal, Creating Vertically Integrated Space Giant

Rocket Lab will acquire Iridium for $8 billion in a cash and stock deal, combining launch services with a 66-satellite LEO network serving 2.55 million subscribers to compete with SpaceX and Amazon.

News Jun 30, 2026

Google Makes Gemini Personalized Image Generation Free for US Users

Google opens Gemini's personalized AI image generation to all free US users aged 13 and up. Previously a paid-tier feature, it uses Google app data to tailor images.

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#Google #Gemini #AI image generation #Nano Banana #personalization #free #US users

Industry Jun 30, 2026

Amazon Weighs Ditching Anthropic for OpenAI and Its Own AI After Price Hike

Amazon is considering replacing Anthropic's models with OpenAI's and its own Nova after price increases. Meta secretly used Google's AI for customer service and ad tools until Google cut capacity, and now restricts Claude and Codex to keep rival output out of training data.

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#Meta #enterprise AI #Anthropic #OpenAI #Google #Amazon #cloud costs #vendor lock-in #AI models

Industry Jun 29, 2026

Valve kills Dbland's unauthorized Companion Cube case after legal threat

Valve threatened legal action against Dbland over its unsanctioned Portal 2-inspired Companion Cube case for the Steam Machine. Dbland killed the product, admitted it did not have the right to make it.

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#Valve #Steam Machine #intellectual property #Dbland #Companion Cube #cease and desist #gaming accessories

Cloud Jun 29, 2026

Google Cloud Pairs Quantitative Models With Gemini for Science Push

Google Cloud will offer SandboxAQ's large quantitative models alongside Gemini, targeting scientific R&D where general-purpose LLMs fail at numerical accuracy. The move signals an industry-wide turn toward specialized AI for drug discovery, materials science, and semiconductor manufacturing.

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#Gemini #Google Cloud #DeepMind #sandboxaq #large quantitative models #scientific AI #drug discovery #materials science

Industry Jun 29, 2026

Tidal to demonetize fully AI-generated music, will tag tracks it detects

Tidal will demonetize all fully AI-generated music starting July 15, blocking royalties and direct-to-fan sales while tagging detected tracks for listener transparency.

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#streaming #Tidal #AI music #royalties #demonetization #music industry

Datacenters Jun 29, 2026

Omen AI raises $31M to monitor water in AI data centers and prevent costly outages

Omen AI has raised a $31 million Series A to monitor water quality in liquid-cooled AI data centers. Its spectrometer detects bacterial growth in coolant, preventing multimillion-dollar downtime.

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#liquid cooling #data centers #Series A #Omen AI #water monitoring #coolant contamination

Security Jun 29, 2026

Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require probable cause in major privacy win

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that geofence warrants are a Fourth Amendment search, requiring police to obtain a warrant based on probable cause before accessing cellphone location data from tech companies.

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#geofence warrant #Supreme Court #Fourth Amendment #location privacy #United States v. Chatrie

Security Jun 29, 2026

WhatsApp Opens Username Reservations, Letting Users Hide Phone Numbers

WhatsApp has started allowing users to reserve usernames globally, a privacy feature that will let people connect without revealing their phone numbers. The optional feature is expected to launch fully later this year.

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#Meta #WhatsApp #privacy #usernames #encrypted messaging #phone number protection

Industry Jun 29, 2026

Comcast spins off NBCUniversal and Sky, exits media and entertainment business

Comcast announced plans to spin off NBCUniversal and Sky into a separate publicly traded company, exiting media and entertainment to focus on its core cable, internet, and business services.

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#telecommunications #Comcast #NBCUniversal #Sky #media spin off #broadband #Peacock #Xfinity

Industry Jun 29, 2026

Sony to Delete 551 Purchased Movies From PlayStation UK Accounts, No Refunds Offered

Sony has confirmed it will remove 551 movies and TV shows from PlayStation Store UK on September 1, 2026, deleting them from customer libraries with no refunds.

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#Sony #PlayStation Store #digital ownership #StudioCanal #UK consumer rights #licensing agreements

Security Jun 29, 2026

StegoAd, Hijacked Packages, and a Critical SSH Flaw: Three Infrastructure Security Incidents Hit in Late June

Three separate infrastructure security incidents emerged in late June 2026: Microsoft removed 119 malicious Edge extensions using steganography, researchers found hijacked npm and Go packages deploying infostealers via VS Code tasks, and a public PoC was released for a critical libssh2 flaw.

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#npm #credential theft #supply chain #steganography #browser extensions #Go #libssh2 #CVE-2026-55200

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