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Industry Jul 2, 2026

Sony to End Physical Game Discs for PlayStation by 2028, Signaling Industry Shift

Sony will stop releasing PlayStation games on discs from January 2028, citing consumer preference for digital media. The move follows Rockstar's digital-only GTA VI launch and may push Microsoft to accelerate its own disc-to-digital plans.

News Jul 1, 2026

Elon Musk denies WSJ report that SpaceX showed investors a slim AI phone prototype

Elon Musk called a Wall Street Journal report about a SpaceX AI phone prototype 'utterly false.' The WSJ said the device was slimmer than an iPhone, used a Snapdragon chip, and ran an xAI-powered OS. Musk has previously said SpaceX would 'aspire not to make a phone.'

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#SpaceX #Starlink #IPO #Elon Musk #xAI #smartphone #AI device

News Jul 1, 2026

Inference Chip Startup Etched Raises $800M, Unveils Working Silicon; Oxmiq Secures $35M for Unified AI Chip IP

AI inference chip startup Etched has launched from stealth with $800M in funding, a working silicon on TSMC's N4P process, and over $1B in contracts. Separately, Oxmiq raised $35M led by Samsung Catalyst Fund for a unified chip IP combining GPU, CPU, and tensor engines.

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#Linux kernel #TSMC #Tesla #AI chip #Etched #inference chip #Oxmiq #fab #AMD Zen 6 #chip design

News Jul 1, 2026

Amazon Kills Fire Stick Sideloading on New Models, Cites Malware Risk

Amazon's new Vega OS-based Fire Sticks block sideloading, a change the company blames on malware in piracy apps. Critics argue it's about control and ads.

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#malware #Amazon #sideloading #piracy #Fire Stick #Vega OS #streaming devices

News Jul 1, 2026

Anthropic Restores Claude Fable 5 Access After US Lifts Export Controls on Top AI Models

Anthropic is restoring Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after the Department of Commerce lifted export controls. Fable 5 returns publicly Wednesday; Mythos 5 stays exclusive to select partners. KYC verification may gate access.

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#Anthropic #Claude #Fable 5 #Mythos 5 #export controls #AI regulation #Department of Commerce #KYC

Industry Jun 30, 2026

Anthropic Launches Claude Science, an AI Workbench for Researchers with 60+ Preconfigured Skills

Anthropic released Claude Science on June 30, 2026, an AI workbench for researchers. It integrates 60+ scientific databases and tools, runs locally or on HPC, and includes a verification agent. Beta available for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users.

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#Anthropic #Claude Science #AI workbench #scientific research #BioNeMo #Basecamp Research #verification agent

Industry Jun 30, 2026

Netflix Uses AI to Recreate Gene Wilder's Voice for Willy Wonka Reality Show

Netflix has used AI to recreate Gene Wilder's voice for a new reality competition show inspired by Willy Wonka, sparking debate over the ethics of digital resurrection of deceased performers.

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#Netflix #AI voice #Gene Wilder #ElevenLabs #Willy Wonka #reality show #entertainment

Cloud Jun 30, 2026

Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite image generator, cheaper and faster than predecessors

Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite on June 30, 2026, a reduced-latency image generation model priced at $0.034 per 1,000 images. The company also rolled out the Gemini Omni Flash video generation API and a demo app, Omni Product Studio, for turning static images into cinematic e-commerce videos.

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#AI #Google #pricing #Nano Banana 2 Lite #image generation #Gemini Omni Flash #API #Omni Product Studio

Cloud Jun 30, 2026

Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5: Mid-Tier Model Challenges Flagship Opus on Agentic Tasks

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, 2026. The model outperforms Sonnet 4.6 on every benchmark and matches or beats Opus 4.8 on some agentic and knowledge work tests. Pricing starts at $2 per million input tokens through August.

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#agentic AI #Anthropic #Claude Sonnet 5 #AI model #pricing #AWS Bedrock

Industry Jun 30, 2026

From EdTech to AI Cloud: Classover Rebrands as Kidz AI, Secures $500M for GPU Infrastructure

Classover, an AI education startup, rebrands as Kidz AI and raises $500.6 million to build GPU cloud infrastructure and data center capacity, marking a dramatic pivot into the neocloud market.

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#Nvidia #neocloud #AI cloud #GPU infrastructure #Kidz AI #Classover #data center investment #1Legion #Cyfuture.ai #Chardan Capital Markets

Datacenters Jun 30, 2026

Rising Summer Heat and Power Strain Push Data Centers Toward More Outages

Summer heatwaves threaten more than half of the world's data center capacity, while Henrico County, Virginia, with 37 data centers, faces a 25 percent power rate hike and asks schools to conserve.

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#data centers #cooling #heatwaves #power outages #Henrico County #Virginia #summer 2025

Cloud Jun 30, 2026

AWS launches $1B forward-deployed engineer organization for enterprise AI

AWS is investing $1 billion in a new forward-deployed engineering organization focused on AI. Engineers will embed with enterprise customers to deploy purpose-built agents, aiming for fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.

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#AI agents #enterprise AI #AWS #forward-deployed engineers #cloud competition

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