European Parliament Committee Backs Digital Euro, Targets 2029 Launch
European Parliament's economic committee approves digital euro legislation, aiming to launch by 2029. The ECB-backed currency seeks to cut dependence on Visa and Mastercard.
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Alphabet will replace Verizon in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on June 29, 2026, the first index change since 2024. S&P Global says the move broadens the Dow's exposure to AI, advertising, and cloud infrastructure.
European Parliament's economic committee approves digital euro legislation, aiming to launch by 2029. The ECB-backed currency seeks to cut dependence on Visa and Mastercard.
The June 2026 Top500 list sees China's LineShine supercomputer claim the #1 spot. Powered by 304-core Arm LX2 CPUs, it is the first system to exceed 2 exaflops on Linpack, outperforming GPU-based rivals.
Oracle's global workforce fell to 141,000 as of May 2026, with SEC filing explicitly stating AI deployment caused job reductions. The company cut 21,000 jobs while spending $55.7 billion on AI cloud infrastructure.
Tata Electronics confirms data breach with 200,000 Apple/Tesla files stolen. Samsung KNOX flaw affects millions of Galaxy devices. Brazil's emergency alert system hijacked. FortiBleed campaign targets 430,000 FortiGate firewalls.
Claude experienced a major outage on June 23, 2026, affecting Sonnet, Opus, and other models across claude.ai, API, and Code. Anthropic implemented a fix by 14:53 UTC, restoring service after nearly an hour of downtime.
Anthropic introduces mandatory age or identity verification for Claude users while launching Claude Tag, an always-on AI assistant that lives inside Slack channels for enterprise teams.
President Trump signed EO 14409 on June 22, mandating federal agencies to adopt post-quantum cryptography by 2030 for key establishment and 2031 for digital signatures, citing harvest-now-decrypt-later threats.
AI chatbots rely on complex infrastructure that faces new security pressures from reconnaissance tools, supply-chain breaches, and firewalls under siege.
Argentum AI lands a $4.1 billion contract to supply 27,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs to an unnamed AI company. Meanwhile, Dragos launches EmberAI for OT security, and AWS adds cross-account memory and ephemeral storage for AI workloads.
Mark Zuckerberg has directed a small Meta team to build a prediction market app called Arena, which will use a video-game points system instead of real money, according to reports.
Anthropic on Tuesday launched Claude Tag, a persistent AI agent embedded in Slack that learns organizational context, monitors channels, and completes tasks autonomously. Available in beta for Enterprise and Team customers.
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