Tech

Getty Images announces plans to end its Shutterstock merger after the UK CMA conditioned approval of the deal on Shutterstock selling its editorial business (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-1

FOIA docs: White House officials used auto-deleting Signal chats even after Trump advised against its use in April 2025, raising federal recordkeeping concerns (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-7-1 Trump

SpaceX cuts monthly Starlink prices in half in the Memphis area, as it endures blowback and legal challenges from opponents of its Colossus data centers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-1 SpaceX

Lime raised $174M in its US IPO, selling 6.68M shares at $25 each, at the midpoint of the marketed range, giving Lime a market value of $1.6B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-1 IPO

Vimeo owner Bending Spoons raised $1.68B by selling 58M shares at $29 each, valuing it at ~$18.4B, in one of the largest US IPOs by a European company in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-1 Europe IPO

Pie, a startup that uses AI to optimize marketing for brick-and-mortar small businesses, emerges from stealth with a $19.5M Series A led by Lightspeed (www.inc.com)
2026-7-1 Startup AI

Anthropic to restore Claude Fable access on Wednesday (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-1

Anthropic says the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 and that it will begin restoring access Wednesday (x.com)
2026-7-1

Sources: Microsoft plans to announce job cuts next week affecting less than 2.5% of its 220,000-person workforce, including roles in sales, consulting, and Xbox (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-7-1 Microsoft Xbox

Sources: Kalshi agreed to pay $20M to sponsor the World Cup knockouts, after initially balking at FIFA's $150M asking price, alongside ADI Predictstreet (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-1

Sources: the Trump administration plans to lift export restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 as early as Tuesday evening, making it available to all general users (www.politico.com)
2026-7-1 Trump

Anthropic rolls out Sonnet 5 with near-Opus 4.8 performance at a lower price (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-1

Amazon Blames Piracy Apps With Malware For Killing New Fire Stick Sideloading (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-1 Amazon

Almost 1,700 UK investors sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao for at least £150M, alleging Binance sold them risky derivative products without regulatory approval (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-1

Google Pulls the Plug On Tenor API, Killing GIF Pickers Around the Web (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-1 Google

Filing: President Trump reports $1.4B+ in income from his family's crypto ventures in 2025, including $500M+ from WLF and $635M from the sale of his $TRUMP coin (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-1 Trump

Malicious PyPI packages give hackers control of Telegram bot servers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-1

Sources: TikTok settles a lawsuit before a second California trial over social media harm to minors for an undisclosed sum; Meta and Snap remain defendants (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-1 California

Microsoft accelerates quantum-safe roadmap as risks grow (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-1 Microsoft Quantum

New BioShocking attack manipulates AI browser into data theft (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-1 AI Browser

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg met with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour about a possible takeover last year, before directing Meta employees to build a prediction market app (www.npr.org)
2026-7-1 Zuckerberg

California Bill To Preserve Online Games Fails Committee Vote (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-1 California

Omen AI, which provides real-time coolant health monitoring for data centers, raised a $31M Series A led by Nava Ventures, bringing its total funding to $41.5M (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-1 AI

Apple iPhone 18 Details Leaked In Tata Data Breach (it.slashdot.org)
2026-7-1 iPhone Apple

Claude Science is Here, Antibiotics Designed by Text Prompt Among Applications (science.slashdot.org)
2026-7-1

Google shuts down the Tenor API, affecting GIF pickers on platforms like Discord, WhatsApp, and Bluesky; Nikita Bier says X has migrated elsewhere (9to5google.com)
2026-7-1 Google WhatsApp

Claude Sonnet 5 costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $10 per 1M output tokens through August 31, after which prices rise to $3 and $15, respectively (9to5mac.com)
2026-7-1

A study of 22K US companies shows those spending most heavily on AI are adding workers faster than peers, but most gains are among tech companies and startups (www.ft.com)
2026-7-1 Startup AI

This $56 PDF tool handles almost all editing tasks you throw at it (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-1

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, with performance close to Opus 4.8 at a lower price and substantially better agentic performance than Sonnet 4.6 (www.anthropic.com)
2026-7-1

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