The Justice Department cleared Paramount's $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery without conditions, over reported objections from career antitrust staff, leaving an EU remedy decision due July 22 and possible UK intervention as the deal's final hurdles.
Valve's cube-shaped SteamOS console shipped June 30 in four configurations from $1,049, sold through a randomized reservation lottery, with the company blaming an AI-driven memory shortage for a price far above its original target.
Mantis Robotics unveiled the MR-X, a biomimetic dual-arm robot that lifts 70 lbs and moves at 10.6 m/s without safety cages, relying on its SafetyCore reflex system to work near people.
The Allen Institute for AI released MolmoMotion, an open model that predicts an object's future 3D trajectory from a video, marked points, and a language instruction, plus a 1.16-million-video training dataset and a new benchmark.
Aflac Life Insurance Japan says attackers accessed its policyholder portal between June 15 and 25, exposing personal data on roughly 4.38 million customers and agents.
Etched unveiled working A0 silicon for Sohu, its transformer-only inference ASIC, disclosing $800 million raised at a $5 billion valuation and more than $1 billion in signed customer contracts.
Roche says its next-generation inhibitor divarasib improved both progression-free and overall survival versus approved KRAS G12C drugs in a 338-patient Phase 3 NSCLC trial.
A 269-page bipartisan discussion draft from Reps. Obernolte and Trahan would place large frontier AI developers under semi-annual federal audits and preempt state AI-development laws for three years.
Microsoft is moving hollow-core fiber from pilot to production for Azure, partnering with Corning and Heraeus after a research team recorded the lowest optical-fiber loss ever measured, 0.091 dB/km.
Deployable Energy's 1 MWe Unity reactor reached criticality at Idaho National Laboratory, the third US advanced reactor to go critical under DOE authorization by the July 4 deadline set in a 2025 executive order.
SK Hynix will list ADRs on the Nasdaq on July 10 to raise up to $29 billion, potentially the largest ADR offering on record, with all proceeds funding new chip fabs, advanced packaging, and EUV scanners.
Tesla began robotaxi service in Miami on July 3, 2026 - its first city outside Texas and California - but the geofence covers only a small slice of Miami-Dade even as its fleet shrinks.