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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 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
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 (Financial Times)
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 (Wall Street Journal)
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 (Bernhard Warner/New York Times)
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 (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
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+ (Milana Vinn/Reuters)
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 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
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 (Wall Street Journal)
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 (Politico)
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 (Ivan Penn/New York Times)
InstaLILY, which develops AI agents to automate sales, operations, and service workflows, raised a $60M Series B led by Energize Capital (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
Sources: CoreWeave is exploring the use of financial derivatives as a potential hedge against a future drop in memory and storage chip prices (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
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 (Ej Dickson/Wired)
OpenAI says Apple's claim that OpenAI never responded to its concerns is false; emails: an Apple lawyer mixed up two OpenAI staffers in Apple's initial outreach (David Ingram/NBC News)
The Trump administration launches the "Gold Eagle" federal clearinghouse for sharing AI cyber threat information between the government and private sector (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop)

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