• SpaceX makes Nasdaq debut at $150 after pricing its shares at $135, giving it a market cap of $1.9T; Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire (CNBC)
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• Meta confirms that a widespread outage is affecting its services, including Facebook and Instagram (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
• MrBeast hits 500M subscribers on YouTube, a record for the platform (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
• Sam Bankman-Fried loses his bid to overturn his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence over the collapse of FTX (Luc Cohen/Reuters)
• Sources: six months after acquiring Rivos, Meta is struggling to integrate the chip startup and halted development of a chip for training its largest AI models (The Information)
• Sources: French startup Mistral AI is in talks to raise ~€3B at a ~€20B valuation; it was last valued at €11.7B during a funding round in September 2025 (Bloomberg)
• Companies with rising AI costs are increasingly using tools that tap cheaper models, including some from China, putting pricing pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic (Wall Street Journal)
• Niantic Spatial says Pokémon Go data is "not part of" its deal with spatial AI company Vantor, after concerns that game data could be used for military drones (Kenneth Shepard/Kotaku)
• New York City-based Current, which manages a consumer fintech platform, raised an $80M Series E at a $1.5B valuation led by Springcoast Partners (FinSMEs)
• Google sues Chinese cybercrime network Outsider Enterprise, accusing it of using Gemini AI to create fake websites and scam hundreds of thousands of Americans (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
• SpaceX's trading debut will be a test of the "Musk premium", the force behind Tesla's $1T+ valuation, and a gauge of investor appetite ahead of upcoming AI IPOs (Reuters)
• FanDuel owner Flutter plans to delist its LSE stock on August 3, citing low trading and high costs; Flutter moved its primary listing to the NYSE in 2024 (Lauren Almeida/The Guardian)
• Memory chipmaker Kioxia replaces Toyota as Japan's largest company by market value; Kioxia's shares surged 7.6% on Friday, lifting its market cap above ~$274B (Kanoko Matsuyama/Bloomberg)
• Sources: Nvidia has told Chinese clients that its new Vera CPUs for AI data centers could be available as soon as August and that they can begin placing orders (Reuters)
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• A White Supremacist Youth Group Helped Orchestrate the Belfast Riots
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• Pedal Electric H/T Review: A Fast, Powerful, Stylish Ebike
• Real-Life Disclosure Day Will Look Nothing Like Steven Spielberg’s New Movie
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• Matchmakers Are Being Paid $25K to Find Trad Wives for Rich Men
• The US Is Requiring Foreign Influencers to Get Work Visas for the 2026 World Cup
• You Probably Won’t Get Rich Off the SpaceX IPO
• SpaceX IPO Puts Elon Musk’s ‘Extreme’ Ownership to the Test
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• Apple’s Camera Chief Thinks AI Can Give You Superpowers
• Why You Might Already Own SpaceX Shares, Siri’s AI Makeover, and Knicks Owner’s Surveillance Machine
• ‘Hands Off Our NHS’: Anti-Palantir Protests Break Out in UK Over Deal With National Health Service
• Meet the OpenAI Engineer Leading ChatGPT’s Biggest Transformation Yet
• Massive Effigy of Elon Musk Raised Over Times Square to Protest Grok
• Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women
• Is It a Super El Niño Year? It Could Turn the World’s Weather Upside Down
• Drug Sites Hijacked Spotify’s Search Ranking Through Fake Podcasts
• Best Smart Chess Boards (2026): Chessnut, Millennium
• Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps
• The Best E-Readers of 2026: Kobo, Kindle
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• YouTube Appears to Be Making Money Off of Sanctioned Iranians’ Accounts
• Americans Are Trading Billions of Dollars on Polymarket’s Banned Offshore Platform
• Fiido Air Carbon Fiber Electric Bike Review: A Light, Quiet Ebike
• Welcome to the Waymo World Cup
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• Trump’s Border Crackdown Is Wreaking Havoc on the World Cup
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• People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Furious About the SpaceX IPO
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• Peacock Promo Codes: 40% Off June 2026
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| • Predictably, Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud conviction appeal has been denied
• Facebook and Instagram appear to be down
• How to see if Netflix is downgrading your picture quality
• Engadget Podcast: Making sense of SpaceX's messy IPO (and its messier CEO)
• Gemini can now adjust your picture settings on Google TV
• The Morning After: Apple's quest to make AI useful to its users
• Apple says Siri AI won't suck up to you
• Google sues Chinese scammers using Gemini AI for fraud
• Senators introduce bipartisan bill to fight government censorship
• Researchers are developing textiles that can produce drinking water from the air
• Overwatch's latest hero will throw a bike at your head
• Another parent has filed a wrongful death suit against OpenAI
• Boox's new Go 6 ereader offers stylus support for note-taking
• Waymo's monthly membership seems like a bad deal
• Reddit now lets you post videos in comments
• The Philips Skylight lets you recreate natural daylight anywhere in your home
• Dave the Diver swims onto iOS and Android this August
• Teardown finds that the Trump phone is practically the same as an HTC handset
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