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The victim of a fatal shooting involving a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent showed up at the scene near the car he was driving, and the agent shot out the windshield. Gregory Reck Portland Press Herald | Getty ImagesU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday suspended immigration-related vehicle stops after agents shot and killed two men in separate incidents six days apart after stops in Texas and Maine, two sources briefed on the matter told Reuters.The change in policy comes a day after ICE agents killed a driver in Biddeford, a town on the Maine coast about 25 miles…
For weeks this summer, the AI industry has been focused on Anthropic’s latest frontier model and Washington’s battle to control who has access to it. But while everyone was focused on the frontier, developers kept building. And they weren’t waiting for permission from the Anthropics and OpenAIs of the world. This spring, Chinese open weight models accounted for 41% of Hugging Face’s downloads, surpassing U.S. models. In OpenRouter, the top six most popular models are all open models from Chinese companies such as Tencent, Xiaomi, DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Z.ai. As of this writing, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 follows in seventh…
Humanoid robot startup LimX Dynamics showcases its product at its offices in Shenzhen, China, on July 3, 2026.Evelyn Chen | CNBCBEIJING — Humanoid startup LimX Dynamics is preparing to go public just over four years after it was founded during the pandemic.Founder Will Chan said, “Listing is essential,” emphasizing the importance of timing. He spoke to reporters Tuesday ahead of the company’s announcement that it had raised $200 million in a pre-IPO round. Zhang compared the situation to electric car startups in China. Nioh, Spen and lee autowas listed one after another in the United States from 2018 to 2020.…
TerraFirma’s semi-autonomous construction equipmentProvided by: Terrafirmaas space xElon Musk is pitching investors on a space economy with extraterrestrial life, and a two-year-old construction startup founded by two former Musk engineers is poised for a future of interplanetary infrastructure. Terrafirma announced Tuesday that it has raised $115 million in a funding round with investments from Kleiner Perkins, Bain Capital Ventures, and angel investors tied to defense technology companies SpaceX, Anduril, and Hadrian.The Austin-based company uses a combination of interfaces such as Xbox controllers to remotely control construction equipment, and says its tools reduce costs and improve safety. In the long term,…
As relations between the United States and Iran become tense again, President Donald Trump says the United States will reinstate its naval blockade against Iran and “become the guardian” of the Strait of Hormuz.President Trump added that the United States will impose a 20% toll on ships passing through the strait.Let’s take a closer look at President Trump’s remarks and what this means for ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.What did Trump say?President Trump revealed his plans for the Strait of Hormuz in an interview with Fox News and a post on his Truth Social platform on Monday.”We are…
An airline pilot spelled out a naughty message in the sky: “I’m bored” while flying over the UK on a two-hour test flight. While some might express boredom by doodling on paper or playing with their cell phones, this pilot took his message to new heights: nearly 1,100 feet (335 meters). Airline tracking website Flightradar24 captured the message, which was created during the flight on Saturday morning local time. Tracking data shows the Ravenair plane set off on a two-hour journey from the British city of Liverpool on the northwest coast, flying over neighboring northern towns on the Wirral peninsula…
Reflection AI, a US startup competing to develop open models, has signed a $1 billion computing deal with European AI infrastructure company Nebius. Nebius, formerly the international arm of Russian tech giant Yandex, will give Reflection access to Nvidia’s latest chips. The deal comes just weeks after the startup struck a similar deal to gain access to SpaceX’s computing resources, and reflects several partnerships by AI companies competing to secure compute for training and deploying models. Reflection is one of several openweight AI model development companies, along with increasingly talented Chinese developers, that has recently received ample attention as the…
Oil prices rose on Tuesday after the US bombed Iran for a third straight day and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked at least two oil tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz. West Texas Intermediate futures rose 3% to $80.55 a barrel by 8:47 a.m. ET. brent Futures, an international benchmark, rose 4.3% to $86.85. U.S. forces bombed military targets off Iran’s coast Monday night in an effort to reduce Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping, according to U.S. Central Command. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said it attacked two supertankers sailing through Hormuz with their transponders turned off. The UAE’s state-run…
chief of Google The AI sector is calling on the U.S. to spearhead a standards body that would oversee new AI models and assess national security risks, including cybersecurity and biological threats. Google DeepMind boss and Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis said in an article published in X on Tuesday that “urgent action” is needed to address the risks associated with artificial general intelligence (AGI), or AI, to the point where it matches or exceeds human intelligence.”We are already seeing the challenges that frontier models pose to cybersecurity, and as capabilities continue to advance, other threats, including nuclear and biorisks, may…
Sen. Tim Scott, Republican of South Carolina and Chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, during their confirmation hearing on Thursday, June 25, 2026 in Washington, DC, USA. Graham Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesRead more CNBC’s political coverage”The Fed’s dual mandate is very important, and I think we need to dig into the conversation around price stability, jobs, and artificial intelligence in South Carolina as well,” Scott said. “The real question we need to ask is how do…