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President Trump announced on Truth Social that Apple has agreed to work with Intel to produce chips on American soil. Intel's stock jumped as much as 11 percent on the news, while Apple and Intel have yet to issue official statements.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission unanimously directed six major US grid operators to prioritize data center interconnection requests, as wholesale electricity rates surge 267% and AI power demand heads toward tripling by 2035.
Amazon Web Services is exploring selling its custom Trainium AI chips to third-party companies, with Andy Jassy estimating a potential $50 billion annual run rate — a direct challenge to Nvidia's data center dominance.
An attacker hijacked a contributor account with publishing rights to the Mastra AI framework's npm organization and republished 144 packages with a typosquatted dependency that deployed a cross-platform infostealer. Any system that ran npm install with a @mastra/* package after June 16 is potentially compromised.
NHTSA documents reveal 13 incidents in Phoenix and the San Francisco Bay Area where Waymo vehicles drove past ramp closure signs into active construction zones. The company voluntarily suspended freeway operations in May and will deploy an OTA software fix.
The Trump administration gave interagency approval to blacklist DeepSeek, China's top memory chipmaker CXMT, and more than 100 other Chinese companies — then chose not to act, prioritizing diplomatic relations over national security enforcement.
A widespread credential-harvesting operation dubbed 'FortiBleed' has compromised more than 73,000 Fortinet firewall and VPN devices worldwide, with confirmed victims including Accenture, Oracle, Comcast, Samsung, and Siemens.
Cybernews researchers found a publicly accessible Elasticsearch cluster containing 24 billion records and over 8.3 terabytes of infostealer logs — usernames, plaintext passwords, and associated login URLs compiled from at least 36 sources. The database has since been secured.
Attackers published 15 fake AI coding plugins on the JetBrains Marketplace under seven vendor accounts, collectively downloaded nearly 70,000 times. Each plugin silently exfiltrated OpenAI, DeepSeek, and SiliconFlow API keys to an attacker-controlled server.
Google has released Android 17, codenamed Cinnamon Bun, to Pixel 6 and newer devices. The update brings floating app Bubbles, a foldable gaming mode, and deeper Gemini AI integration.
SpaceX filed regulatory documents confirming it will acquire Cursor, the popular AI coding assistant made by Anysphere, for $60 billion in stock. The deal is expected to close in Q3 2026.
Varonis security researchers chained three vulnerabilities in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search into an attack that exfiltrates emails, passwords, and files with a single click — patched in early June, disclosed publicly June 15.