• July 2, 2026
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SoftBank Restarts $10 Billion Loan Talks, Offering Guarantee on OpenAI Stake

SoftBank Group has resumed negotiations with a consortium of banks over a $10 billion margin loan, this time with a concession designed to address the lenders’ concerns: the company is…

  • July 2, 2026
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KKR and SK Group Form South Korea’s Largest Renewable Energy Platform

The deal, announced on July 1, pairs one of the world’s biggest private-equity firms with one of South Korea’s largest conglomerates in a bet that the country’s energy future belongs…

  • July 2, 2026
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Anthropic Says It Will Remove Hidden Checks Targeting Chinese Users in Claude Code

The discovery began, as these things often do, with a curious developer taking a tool apart. A user who reverse-engineered Claude Code, Anthropic’s programming assistant, found that since April the…

  • July 2, 2026
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Nvidia Buys Into Security Camera Maker Verkada at $5.8 Billion Valuation

The investment, announced Wednesday, extends Nvidia’s reach into a business it does not usually touch: video surveillance. Verkada, a ten-year-old company that sells security cameras and the software that runs…

  • July 2, 2026
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Meta Names Its First Chief Data Officer as AI Reshapes the Company

The promotion, announced this week, consolidates a job that has been spreading across Meta for years: Alex Schultz, the company’s chief marketing officer, will become its first chief data officer,…

  • July 2, 2026
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Portugal Unveils Its Own AI Model, Betting on the Portuguese Language

The announcement came on July 1, wrapped in the patriotic packaging that national technology projects tend to attract: Portugal’s government unveiled Amalia, a large language model built around the Portuguese…

  • July 2, 2026
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LY and Bain Raise Kakaku Bid to $4.1 Billion, Pressuring EQT

The bidding war for Kakaku.com, the Japanese price-comparison operator, escalated Wednesday night when LY Corp and Bain Capital increased their offer to 3,384 yen per share, valuing the company at…

  • July 2, 2026
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Foldable Phone Displays Set for Rebound in 2026, Led by Apple and Samsung

The market for foldable smartphone displays, after a year of adjustment, is expected to return to growth in 2026, with shipments reaching about 27.5 million panels, an increase of 24%…

  • July 2, 2026
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Nvidia Bets on Revenue Sharing to Fund the Next Wave of AI Factories

The announcement, made on July 1, describes a partnership model that Nvidia has never used at scale: instead of simply selling chips, the company will help AI cloud providers build…

  • July 2, 2026
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OpenAI Proposes Giving the U.S. Government a 5% Stake

The idea, floated in preliminary discussions between OpenAI and the Trump administration, is unlike anything the technology industry has proposed in Washington: hand the government a roughly 5% stake in…