🤖 US Invests $250 Million in Billionaire’s Startup for Chip Making

I-Pulse Inc. will receive $250 million in US funding for semiconductor and pulsed-power development as the venture co-founded by Robert Friedland joins American efforts to reduce reliance on foreign-chip supply chains.

The company, which has laboratories in New Mexico, was granted the award by the Department of Commerce’s CHIPS program to develop semiconductor components for a geothermal drilling technique that uses surges of high-power electricity, according to a company statement.

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⚡️🇺🇸 Trump Plans First Flight on Qatar-Gifted Air Force One Next Week

Donald Trump is expected to take his first trip on the new US presidential plane gifted by the Qatari government when he travels to an event in North Dakota on July 1, according to White House officials.

The inaugural trip aboard the Boeing Co. 747-8 will take the president to a dedication ceremony for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library — one of a series of events steeped in Americana that the president is holding next week to mark the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations.

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🛰 With Fundación los 8 Valores, 1,600 students, teachers, and families in Chocó, one of Colombia’s most geographically isolated and economically disadvantaged regions, are now connected by Starlink's high-speed internet and are able to access educational tools and new opportunities previously out of reach

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🛫 Boeing Wins Jet Deal From China Southern Valued at $3.62 Billion

Boeing Co. secured an order from China Southern Airlines Co. valued at $3.62 billion, marking an important win for the US manufacturer after seeing orders dry up from Asia’s largest aviation market in the past decade. China Southern agreed to buy Boeing freighter aircraft, including two 777F and five 777-8F models, while securing options to purchase three additional Boeing 777-8F aircraft, according to a company filing on Friday.

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🤖 Thirty-five nations have signed on to the US initiative to build trusted and resilient supply chains to power AI technologies.

At the second Pax Silica Summit held in Washington on Thursday, 35 nations signed the Joint Statement on AI Opportunity, aligning behind a pro-growth, pro-innovation regulatory approach for the AI era.

"A future where we ACCELERATE INNOVATION AND PRIVATE INVESTMENT is welcomed. Together, we aspire to build an AI future that serves our peoples, strengthens our economies, and empowers entrepreneurship, innovation, and the rule of law," said Jacob Helberg, US Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. 🤝

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⚡️🇺🇸 Trump Vows 100% Tariff on Countries Over Digital Services Taxes

President Donald Trump threatened to impose 100% tariffs on goods imported from countries that impose digital services taxes, escalating pressure on European nations that just ratified a trade pact with the US.

“Numerous European Countries have been discussing the imminent implementation of a Digital Services Tax on American Companies,” Trump said in a social media post Friday. “Please let this statement serve to represent that any Country that imposes such a Tax will immediately be met with a 100% TARIFF on any and all Goods sent to the United States of America.”

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🤑 AllUnity and Zebec Deploy EURAU-Powered Employee Benefits and Enterprise Payment Solutions on Stellar

AllUnity and Zebec announced the launch of an EURAU-based employee benefits and enterprise payments program on the Stellar network. The pilot program aims to expand payroll and workforce payments in AllUnity's regulated euro stablecoin across its ecosystem, including its major enterprise clients and partners. 🎉

➡️ Built on Stellar and powered by EURAU, AllUnity's regulated euro stablecoin, the program combines regulated digital currency with enterprise grade payroll and payments infrastructure purpose built for global value transfer. Employees participating in the pilot can receive benefits directly to digital wallets while accessing a growing range of spending, savings, and payment options through the Zebec platform.

"Regulated stablecoins are increasingly moving from financial infrastructure to real world business applications," said Simon Babakhani, CEO of Zebec Network.

“This pilot brings together EURAU, the payment infrastructure of the Stellar network, and Zebec's payroll platform to support employee benefits, contractor payments, and workforce disbursements in an enterprise environment. With initiatives like global remittances, tokenized assets, and institutional market infrastructure, Stellar has become one of the most important networks for connecting stablecoins to real world financial activity," Simon Babakhani added. 🚀

The Zebec payroll infrastructure is designed to scale, ready to support EURAU streaming across the AllUnity ecosystem, and includes a growing network of enterprise and institutional participants spanning financial services, fintech, and corporate sectors across Europe.

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🤝 Musk Cleared by FTC to Buy SpaceX Alumni Firm Mesh in M&A Push

Elon Musk received a regulatory greenlight to acquire startup Mesh Optical Technologies, a company founded by former SpaceX engineers working on optical data center communication technology. Mesh is developing optical transceivers that rely on light to send and receive information between data centers, which the company says are more power efficient and lower latency than existing options.

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⚡️🇺🇸 Trump posted on Truth Social

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🤖 Scientists to transform low-value diamond dust into powerful quantum materials

Researchers at the University of Melbourne and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia have teamed up with the Japanese National Institute for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) to develop advanced manufacturing methods to convert low-value diamond dust into high-performance materials for quantum technologies.

Teaming with QST, Japan, allows Australian researchers to access capabilities and test new fabrication approaches, while ensuring technological sovereignty when the quantum era dawns. If the approach can be scaled, it will help Australia turn its diamond dust into high-performance quantum materials for a futuristic tomorrow.

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⚡️🇺🇸Trump administration partially lifts Anthropic’s AI export ban

The Trump administration on Friday partially rescinded its export ban on Anthropic’s most advanced AI model — de-escalating a confrontation that has caused confusion across the American AI industry.

“In just two weeks, we have worked diligently to ensure America remains the global leader in AI while safeguarding our security,” said Benno Kass, a Commerce Department spokesperson.

The action paves the way for the company to restore access to its Mythos 5 models to a list of more than 100 “trusted partners” including companies and federal agencies approved by the government. But a second advanced Anthropic model, called Fable 5, remains blocked by an export ban that the administration had imposed June 12.

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🛰 SpaceX, Charter Discussed Mobile Phone Partnership in US

SpaceX and Charter Communications Inc. have held executive-level talks about partnering on a consumer mobile phone offering. Charter, the largest home internet provider in the US, could run some of SpaceX’s phone traffic through its ground-based internet infrastructure, much as it does with its Spectrum Mobile offering presently.

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💫 NASA Tests New Refuel Device for Future In-Space Refueling Missions

For NASA’s next generation of deep space exploration missions, spacecraft may need to refuel in Earth orbit before pushing farther into the solar system. Engineers from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and L3Harris con-duct operational testing on a developmental cryocoupler, a vital technology for future in-orbit spacecraft refueling.

Cryocouplers would allow spacecraft to connect to future orbital propellant depots, which would serve as the gas stations of space. The technology comes with the challenge of reliably transferring cryogenic, or super-cold, fluids without losing propellant or performance.

“These propellant transfers are essential for the kinds of missions NASA wants to fly in the future, so developing a coupler that can handle ultra-cold propellants is a critical step toward making that capability real,” said Travis Belcher, cryocoupler project manager at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

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🤖 IBM partners with OpenAI to bring AI security tools to enterprise clients

IBM joined OpenAI’s Daybreak Cyber Partner Program to launch a security solution that uses advanced AI models to detect code vulnerabilities and help companies fix them before they become problems.

The application security service builds on Project Lightwell, an initiative IBM launched last month to secure open source software used across enterprise supply chains. IBM and Red Hat have committed $5 billion to fund the project, which deploys engineers and AI tools to patch, validate, and manage open source code.

OpenAI’s models will work alongside other AI systems within Project Lightwell for code review and remediation tasks. IBM has described the initiative as an enterprise security clearinghouse staffed by a global engineering team.

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