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Bookshelf: the next China is still China (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-7-15 China

Largest “Foreign” Holders of US Treasuries, incl. US Hedge Funds in the “Basis Trade” & US Companies with Overseas Entities (wolfstreet.com)
2026-7-15 Hedge Fund

A profile of PsiQuantum, which raised $1B in 2025, is building a quantum computer with photonic chips made by GlobalFoundries and is closely monitored by DARPA (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-7-15 Quantum

As China's rules for humanlike AI interaction take effect, many users are bemoaning the loss of the virtual companions they had created on Chinese AI platforms (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-15 China AI

Sources: DeepSeek's annualized revenue recently reached $400M to $500M as it seeks to raise ~$7.4B at a ~$74B valuation, up from ~$50B after raising ~$7B in May (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-15

Court filing: Google says it is ready to add third-party app stores in Google Play in the US on July 22, as Google and Epic withdraw their joint motion (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-15 Google

EU buying record Russian LNG volumes with total ban looming – FT (www.rt.com)
2026-7-15 Russia Europe Ban

Former rival of recently-deceased Lindsey Graham launches Senate bid (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-7-15 Senate

The UAE gained broader US AI chip access after aiding the US in the Iran war, letting G42 buy freely for at least nine months; G42 plans to become a US company (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-15 AI Iran

Sources: Oracle leads the race to sell “air-gapped” cloud services to Japan that the US says are key to secure intelligence sharing between Tokyo and its allies (www.ft.com)
2026-7-15 Japan Oracle Intelligence Tokyo

Daniel Ek's Neko Health, which offers AI-based full-body scans, raised $700M co-led by Lightspeed and O.G. Venture Partners, sources say at a ~$7B valuation (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-15 AI

Iran Abused Mobile Networks' Vulnerabilities To Locate US Military In Middle East (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-15 Mobile Iran

NYC-based Hadrius, which provides AI-native compliance tools for financial services, raised a $22M Series A led by CRV with participation from Y Combinator (www.axios.com)
2026-7-15 AI Y Combinator

Sources: Stripe and PE firm Advent International have jointly offered $60.50/share to acquire PayPal, a 28% premium to Tuesday's close, valuing it at $53B+ (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-15

Sources: OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is leaving the company to launch an AI drug discovery startup, and is in talks to raise $200M at a $2B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-15 Startup AI

Meta is sued by 26 current and former employees, who allege its use of AI in May layoffs unfairly targeted workers with disabilities or on protected leave (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-15 AI Layoffs

Sources: multiple GOP governors and large utilities are expected to join Trump's pledge for data center developers to cover their energy use and infrastructure (www.politico.com)
2026-7-15 Trump Energy Republican

ASPI Defence Conference tackles Australia's space security risks (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-7-15 Australia

Trump claims ‘other people' could lead ground campaign in Iran (www.rt.com)
2026-7-15 Trump Iran

India forced to balance growth and carbon footprint - economist (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-7-15 India

Monitoring Analytics: PJM's recent electricity auction is expected to add $6.3B to customers' bills in 13 states and DC through 2029 due to data center demands (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-15

InstaLILY, which develops AI agents to automate sales, operations, and service workflows, raised a $60M Series B led by Energize Capital (siliconangle.com)
2026-7-15 AI

Sources: CoreWeave is exploring the use of financial derivatives as a potential hedge against a future drop in memory and storage chip prices (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-15

The “Re-Mining” Revolution (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-7-15

Home Prices in the Largest Countries of Europe in Q1 2026, from Splendid Housing Bubbles to a Market that's Back to 2010 (wolfstreet.com)
2026-7-15 Europe Real Estate

Fed Should Hike “in the Near Term” if CPI & PPI this Week Are “Hot”: Fed's Waller. So at the July Meeting? Treasury Yields Jump (wolfstreet.com)
2026-7-15 CPI PPI

Gasoline Plunged in June and lots of Month-to-Month CPI Squiggles Happened to Drop Simultaneously, but that Won't Last (wolfstreet.com)
2026-7-15 CPI

Study: social networks drove 5.7M+ visits to nudify sites between December 2025 and March 2026, with YouTube accounting for 1.82M and X for 1.3M visits (www.wired.com)
2026-7-15 YouTube

Plant-based wound dressing fights infection before it takes hold (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-7-15

Space cargo costs could fall more than 90% by 2040, transforming the marketplace of space (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-7-15

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