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📱 Musk: Grok V9 Significantly Outperforms V8 with 1.5T Parameters

Elon Musk announced on X that the training run of his latest Grok V9 (1.5T parameters) performed “very well,” and these results have not yet been incorporated into the supplementary training data for Cursor.

The current base model version under internal development is V9, with approximately 1.5 trillion parameters, featuring significant improvements over V8 in data cleaning, training methods, and model scale, and optimized for the Blackwell architecture to enhance computational efficiency.

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🇨🇳🇺🇸 China Allows Exports for 425 US Beef Plants

China has renewed export licenses for 425 US beef plants, making way for a full resumption of trade for the protein between the two countries, according to the US Meat Export Federation.

The Asian country has extended five-year registrations to those facilities, whose licenses had lapsed last year amid trade tensions between the US and China, the trade group said. An additional 77 registrations were added to China’s Food Import Food Establishment system.

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🇺🇸🇯🇵Trump Chats With Japan’s Takaichi on Alliance After Xi Meeting

Donald Trump spoke by phone with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and they affirmed the strength of the two countries’ alliance after the US President’s visit to Beijing, according to the Japanese government.

The two leaders talked for about 15 minutes, and agreed to continue communicating on key matters including developments in the Indo-Pacific region, according to a statement released by Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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🌍 Starlink's reliable high-speed internet is enabling healthcare access to underserved rural communities in Bangladesh through Grameen Health telemedicine platform and digitally connected diagnostic centers.

So far over 1.2M patients and 450K teleconsultations have been served. 🙏

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🧑‍⚖️🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro Fuel Fraud Probe Sweeps Up Head of Refining Group

Brazil's federal police carried out search and seizure warrants against former Rio de Janeiro Governor Claudio Castro and ordered privately owned refinery Refit to halt operations in a tax evasion investigation, a Supreme Court decision showed.

The court ordered Refit's owner, ​businessman Ricardo Magro, who lives in the United States, to be arrested on pre-trial detention. As ​the country's tax authority has carried out investigations into financial crimes over the ⁠past year, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has publicly called on U.S. President Donald Trump ​to arrest Magro.

In the decision, Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered Magro to be put ​on Interpol's red notice list, alerting foreign law enforcement agencies to arrest him. The ruling also froze about 52 ​billion reais ($10.3 billion) in assets, most belonging to Refit which is one of Brazil's largest chronic tax debtors, with ‌tens ⁠of billions of reais owed to federal and state authorities.

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🤑 Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse called the committee vote “the moment” in a post on X, saying the industry deserves “the same rules and protections as every other asset class.”

"The Senate Banking Committee is putting in the work as it moves the Clarity Act forward… incredible leadership! Millions of Americans are already in this market. Ripple stands behind this bill because they deserve the same rules and protections as every other asset class. If the largest economy in the world is going to lead on cryptoand it must — this is the moment. Let's get it done!" — Brad Garlinghouse wrote on X.


🟠Alexis Sirkia, an early Ripple and Ethereum market maker who now leads decentralized clearing firm Yellow Network told CoinDes that the "the real story of XRP in mid-2026 will not be its consolidating price, but the quiet, almost imperceptible rewiring of global finance."

"With legal clouds lifted and institutional capital proving remarkably sticky, the XRP Ledger is transforming into a compliance-grade tokenization and settlement layer, speaking the precise language that institutional capital does," — Sirkia added.


❗️The committee vote gave XRP a catalyst. Full legal clarity is still the trade.

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⚡️ China’s Ministry of Commerce on Saturday issued an update on bilateral trade talks following a two-day summit in Beijing.

🟠China and the United States have agreed to establish trade and investment councils, committing in principle to match each other’s tariff cuts on a reciprocal basis.

“The two sides will use the Trade Council as a forum to discuss issues such as tariff reductions on specific products,” — China’s Ministry of Commerce said.


The world’s two largest economies also made progress on agricultural trade and aircraft, the statement added:

⚫️The two sides agreed to reduce non-tariff barriers on certain farm goods, covering products like Chinese seafood, dairy products and American beef and poultry, and to expand two-way agricultural trade through mutual tariff reductions on a defined range of products.

🔘The ministry also confirmed a deal covering China’s purchase of US aircraft and Washington’s guarantee of supply of jet engines and components to China, agreeing to continue cooperation in related areas.

“The two sides have reached arrangements on China’s purchase of aircraft from the US and the US ensuring the supply of aircraft engines and components to China, and agreed to continue advancing cooperation in related areas,” — the statement said.


❗️President Donald J. Trump also sit down for a wide ranging interview on his historic trip to China with Bret Baier on Special Report. There are key moments in under two minutes.

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🔰 Tesla Virtual Power Plant is now available in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇷🇺 US Allows Russia Oil Sales Waiver to Expire Despite Tight Market

The Trump administration allowed a waiver that encouraged more Russian crude sales to lapse. The expiration effectively ends for now a brief period where the administration eased sanctions on some Russian oil, enabling purchases that would otherwise be barred.

The Trump administration issued an initial waiver in March and a second after the first expired in April — both applying only to a subset of Russian oil that had already been loaded onto tankers.

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🤑 Europe’s Largest Asset Manager With €2.4T AUM Launches Its Tokenized Fund on Solana

Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager with €2.4 trillion in assets under management, and tokenization platform Spiko have announced plans to bring the Spiko Amundi Overnight Swap Fund, known as SAFO, to Solana.

Chainlink provides the infrastructure for publishing the fund’s net asset value onchain. The shareholder register initially launched on Ethereum and Stellar, but the companies confirmed they planned to expand to additional blockchains based on investor demand. Solana now becomes part of that expansion strategy.

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🇧🇾🇺🇸 Lukashenko praises US as Belarus receives two-thirds of humanitarian aid from Washington

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has praised the United States as a leading source of humanitarian assistance for his country despite the sanctions regime. Speaking at a meeting with Franklin Graham, president and chief executive of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Lukashenko said the US had supplied two-thirds of the humanitarian aid received by Belarus in the past year.

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🤑 Sending cross-border payments on the Stellar network is faster, cheaper, and easier.

It takes a lot to send a dollar, but it doesn't have to. That's why global institutions, from banks to organizations to actual governments, choose Stellar.

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🇺🇸🇹🇼 Trump on making chips:

"I’d like to see everybody making chips in Taiwan come over to us in America. Taiwan was developed because we had presidents that didn’t know what the hell they were doing. They stole our chip industry," — Trump said.


This aligns with Trump's long-standing push for reshoring semiconductor manufacturing to the U.S. for economic and national security reasons. Taiwan (primarily via TSMC) produces about 90% of the world's most advanced chips, a vulnerability he's highlighted for years.

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🛢🇨🇦 Enbridge Warms Up to New Canada Oil Pipeline After Carbon Compromise

Enbridge Inc. “definitely would consider” backing a new oil pipeline to Canada’s west coast, its chief executive officer said, giving an early vote of confidence hours after Prime Minister Mark Carney signed an energy deal with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

The Canada-Alberta pact opens the way to start construction on a new pipeline capable of carrying 1 million barrels a day of Canadian oil to the coast of British Columbia, from which it can be shipped to Asian countries that need the crude.

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🕵🏼‍♂️ Arm Holdings to Face US Antitrust Probe Over Chip Tech

Arm Holdings Plc is facing an antitrust investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission over the UK company’s licensing of its semiconductor technology, part of ongoing global scrutiny of the business.

The US competition and consumer protection regulator is probing whether Arm is trying to illegally monopolize parts of the semiconductor market. The FTC is looking to determine if Arm will refuse or lower the quality of licenses for blueprints to develop central processing units — the brain of a computer — while ramping up efforts to develop its own chips.

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🇺🇸 Feds request ‘summer surge’ of National Guard troops in DC

Federal authorities requested an additional 1,500 National Guard troops to be deployed to Washington, D.C., as part of a “summer surge” of law enforcement ahead of the country’s 250th anniversary celebrations.

The escalation, if fulfilled, will bring the total of National Guard troops in the capital to 5,000. Authorities said the coordinated effort will attempt to crack down on criminal activity, including violence, drug and illegal firearm trafficking, and large, disorderly gatherings of teenagers.

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🤝 Snap, YouTube, TikTok Settle School Suit Targeting Social Media

Snap Inc., Google’s YouTube and ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok reached agreements to settle the first lawsuit headed to trial over claims that addiction to top social media platforms has disrupted learning and pushed public schools to spend massive sums fighting a mental health crisis, according to court filings.

The trio of settlements announced leaves only Meta Platforms Inc. to face off with a rural Kentucky school district in a trial set to begin June 12 in federal court in Oakland, California. The terms of the settlements weren’t disclosed in Friday’s filings.

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🇺🇸 House talks look at blocking some state AI laws, including in California and New York

Bipartisan House talks on expected AI legislation are coalescing around a plan to preempt a specific set of state laws that rein in cutting-edge AI developers, according to two tech lobbyists and three AI policy advocates familiar with the discussions.

The bill would specifically preempt AI safety laws like those recently passed by California and New York, which require top AI developers to disclose information about new models in order to identify critical safety or security risks. State AI laws that do not regulate model developers are not expected to be preempted.

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🇮🇳🤝 ASML Partners With Tata Electronics to Advance India Chip Plans

ASML Holding NV entered into a partnership agreement with Tata Electronics Private Limited aimed at ramping up India’s goal to develop domestic chip-manufacturing capabilities.

The Dutch company’s technology will help power Tata Electronics’ planned 300 millimeter (12 inch) semiconductor foundry in Gujarat, according to a joint statement from the two companies. The signing of a memorandum of understanding coincides with a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Netherlands, which is looking to deepen bilateral relations with New Delhi.

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