Shammas Space & Tech Briefing

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• Nvidia is Using Land and Electricity Deals to Lock In Its Hardware Bundle — The Information
• OpenAI calls for stronger AI laws in California — Politico
• OpenAI cuts developer pricing for frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model by more than 20% — Reuters
• AI data center builder Nscale reportedly seeking $3B IPO — SiliconANGLE
• xAI expansion sparks backlash in Southaven, residents say they were left in the dark — FOX13 Memphis
• Broadcom debt deal expected to reach upwards of $70 billion, sources say — CNBC
• New Mexico mother sues Meta after daughter was killed on a livestream — KRQE
• Anthropic Expects to Match or Top SpaceX’s Record IPO Size — Bloomberg.com
• Trump administration targets 1,000 rocket launches a year by 2030 — FOX 35 Orlando
• Video Blue Origin rocket explodes on launch pad - ABC News — Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
• President Unveils New National Space Strategy — The Well News
• Space Command to Relocate 200 Personnel to Alabama This Year — Air & Space Forces Magazine

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• OpenAI to pause some work on AI model Astra due to security concerns | AI (artificial intelligence) — The Guardian
• ON Semiconductor Reports Higher Profit, Revenue on Growing AI Data Center Business — WSJ
• OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide — TechCrunch
• Nvidia plans $3b investment in Stargate developer Lancium — Tech in Asia
• Runware Squeezes A 1MW AI Data Center Into A 20-Foot Shipping Container — Forbes
• How Amazon Built a Data Center in a California Town Without Anyone Noticing — WSJ
• Flock pitched turning Uber and Lyft drivers into a mobile surveillance network — Mashable
• Europe Will Launch Its Own Satellite Constellation As Its Breakup With America Continues — Jalopnik
• India’s Orbital Safety Strategy: How ISRO is tackling space debris through collision avoidance & advanced tracking — organiser.org
• Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin secures incentives to build $650M facility in Hutto — The Real Deal
• Schiess confirmed as third Space Force chief — Breaking Defense
• ULA working toward Vulcan return to flight as Blue Origin modifies the Rocket’s BE-4 engines — WFTV

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• What the Anthropic IPO Could Mean for Shrimp Welfare and Other Obscure Causes — The Information
• OpenAI Pauses Some Work on New Astra Model on Cyber Concerns — Bloomberg.com
• Hugging Face hack marks start of dangerous AI cyber era and many firms 'don't even know it' — CNBC
• Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role — The Guardian
• How cleaning up space debris could grow to become a big business — CNBC
• Musk Refuses Starlink for Ukrainian Strikes in Russia — kyivpost.com
• EU's Starlink alternative gets the green light, deployment will start in 2029 - GSMArena.com news — GSMArena.com
• NASA gives Voyager 2 a new lease on life nearly 48 years after launch — Scripps News
• What came into force with the EU’s AI Act this week – and what didn’t — Al Jazeera
• New Mexico Court Fines Meta $567 Million for Harming Kids — Truthout
• Meta is building a cloud business to sell AI compute, putting pressure on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud — MarketScale
• OpenAI reveals upcoming Astra model may possess ‘critical’ hacking capabilities — SiliconANGLE

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• Pritzker signs landmark AI regulation bill into law — WCIA.com
• Meta says US states are seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties in August youth safety trial — Reuters
• TeraWulf, Anthropic sign 20-year lease for AI campus at former Hancock County aluminum plant — WKYT
• Anthropic’s A$22 Billion Australian AI Cloud Tender Might Change The Case For Investing In IREN (IREN) — Yahoo Finance
• NASA Chief Says Blue Origin Has 'Honed In' on Cause of New Glenn Explosion: 'They're Going to Solve That' — Yahoo
• SpaceX Joins Nasdaq 100 Tomorrow — What It Means — BASENOR
• Bangladesh approves Starlink to export unfiltered internet bandwidth to neighbouring countries — The Daily Star
• Backed by Intel and Microsoft, AI chip and software company Syntiant (SYTN.US) advances toward its U.S. IPO — Moomoo
• US is ‘very much in a space race right now’ with China: NASA — NewsNation
• NASA Releases Draft RFP For ISS Replacement Plan — Aviation Week
• Nvidia GPU Debt Backstop Unleashes the AI Project Trinity: Capital, Offtake and Datacenters — SemiAnalysis
• Microsoft to cut thousands of jobs, Xbox to be hit hard — DW.com

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• Self-Driving Startup Turing Gets AMD Backing, Adopts AMD GPUs — Bloomberg.com
• Taiwan’s Next Semiconductor Bottleneck Is Not Silicon. It Is Power. — semivision
• Nvidia's next-gen AI rack system delayed to 2028 on manufacturing snags, SemiAnalysis says — CNBC
• Transporter-17 Mission — SpaceX
• SpaceX Tests Chip Manufacturing in Space on Starlink Mission - Fana News - — Starlink & Satellites
• NASA chief says agency aiding Blue Origin explosion inquiry: ‘We can’t slow down’ — Washington Examiner
• SK Telecom plans $653 billion AI data center buildout in Korea — The Korea Economic Daily Global Edition
• Anthropic plans to buy 1.4-GW Australian data centre capacity, AFR reports — Investing.com
• OpenAI endorses multiple tech bills in Congress as it bets on regulation over resistance — Crypto Briefing
• Blue Origin Seeks Outside Investors For The First Time As New Glenn Explosion Clouds IPO Prospects — foreignpolicyjournal.com
• Alibaba to block employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code as US-China AI rivalry deepens — Firstpost
• Meta's AI cloud idea underscores a search for returns, not an AI retreat — digitimes

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• NASA launched an emergency mission to stop the Swift Observatory from crashing to Earth — The Verge
• Amazon’s Leo Constellation Hits 394 Satellites, Targets 2026 Launch to Challenge Starlink — finance.biggo.com
• Russia’s High-Stakes Bid to Chase SpaceX Stumbles Out of the Gate — Bloomberg.com
• Live coverage: Semiconductor manufacturing test bed to fly alongside Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 launch — Spaceflight Now
• Docomo Pacific deploys Starlink Mobile for customers, offering free emergency connectivity — guampdn.com
• The US government could own part of OpenAI — and no, that probably doesn’t mean you get a check — TechRadar
• ChatGPT-Maker OpenAI Is Headed for a $1 Trillion IPO. The Biggest Winner Could Be Microsoft Stock. — Yahoo Finance
• 1 private spacecraft intercepts another on Space Force's groundbreaking 'Victus Haze' mission — Space
• CPI | Belgium Opens Competition Probe Into Google’s Ad Practices — PYMNTS.com
• Meta's cloud ambitions emerge as EU tightens rules on AWS and Azure — MarketScale
• Blue Origin Banked $1.1B in Trump Contracts: New Glenn Has No Launch Pad — Tech Times
• CPI | Japan Closes Broadcom VMware Antitrust Probe — PYMNTS.com

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Sources for this episode:

• First-of-its-kind rescue mission launched to save failing NASA satellite — FOX 35 Orlando
• NASA's Psyche spacecraft used Mars as a free slingshot on 15 May 2026, gaining 1,000 miles per hour in speed and tilting its orbital plane by one degree, all without firing a thruster, to put it on course for a metal world that may be a planet's exposed iron core — Space Daily
• Anthropic in Talks With Samsung to Manufacture Custom AI Chip — The Information
• First known congressional SpaceX stock buys surface after record IPO — CNBC
• In April 2025, four private astronauts on SpaceX’s Fram2 mission became the first humans ever to circle Earth in a true polar orbit, flying directly over both poles — a route no government crewed space program had taken in more than six decades of human sp — Space Daily
• Amazon challenges SpaceX Starlink with satellite internet push, targets service debut — The American Bazaar
• OpenAI courts Trump administration as its latest investor — Axios
• White House asks OpenAI to limit GPT-5.6 model release in 2026 — Memeburn
• Trump will oppose heavy US AI regulation, says outgoing tech adviser — Financial Times
• Florida's AI data center boom hits a wall as 20 communities move to ban or freeze projects — The Cool Down
• AI data center builder Crusoe reportedly raising $3B at $30B valuation — SiliconANGLE
• Nvidia Is Making it Easier for AI Startups to Get Compute Power With a New Cloud and Revenue-Sharing Program — Yahoo Finance

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Sources for this episode:

• Satellite rescue mission to NASA orbiting observatory postponed — Reuters
• NASA awards Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace $144M for moon mission contract — kvue.com
• Amazon to start initial Leo internet service this year as network nears 400 satellites — news.cgtn.com
• How Bezos Learned to Love Trump—and Win More Contracts for Blue Origin — WSJ
• OpenAI reportedly in talks to give US government 5% stake — Fox Business
• OpenAI Is Now Considering a 2027 IPO With a $1 Trillion Valuation. Should Investors Expect the Same Volatility as the SpaceX IPO? — Yahoo Finance
• Trump Thinks Musk Will Donate SpaceX Stock to Trump Accounts — Bloomberg
• BNP Paribas Outlines Steep Regulatory Obstacles in SpaceX Mobile Integration Strategy — satnews.com
• SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 24 Starlink satellites from California — Space
• EXCLUSIVE: Meta's Zuckerberg says AI agent tech progressing slower than expected — Reuters
• We Still Need to Talk About the EU AI Act – and Before 23 July Now the Draft High-Risk Guidelines Are Here — Wolters Kluwer
• Why social media bans are gaining steam — Platformer

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Sources for this episode:

• Anthropic Seeks AI Regulation After White House Unshackles Cyber-Capable AI Models (Jul 1, 2026) — VitalLaw.com
• Why Meta’s Move to the Cloud Is a Big Deal—and Bad News for CoreWeave and Nebius — Barron's
• NVIDIA Unlocks AI Compute at Scale, Inviting Capital Partners to Power the AI Infrastructure Buildout — NVIDIA Blog
• Oracle Warns Its Splurge on AI Data Centers May Not Pay Off — Bloomberg.com
• NASA Rushes to Rescue a Falling Space Telescope and Push It Back Up — The New York Times
• Musk-Altman Judge Enlists Mediator to Resolve AI Titans’ Battle — Bloomberg.com
• Blue Origin: Here's How We'll Return New Glenn to Flight Faster Than Expected — PCMag Australia
• Live coverage: ULA to launch final Atlas 5 rocket supporting Amazon Leo’s broadband internet satellite constellation — Spaceflight Now
• Space Force’s proposed budget increase would largely go to existing programs, official says — Aerospace America
• Bipartisan Wisconsin lawmakers oppose federal moves to limit state AI regulation — WPR
• California Senate Judiciary Committee Advances COMPETE Act, Bringing Landmark Antitrust Reform One Step Closer to Governor’s Desk — Economic Liberties
• Texas grid is swamped by data center power requests 5x its all-time peak demand — Yahoo

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Sources for this episode:

• NASA Aims to Catch a Falling Space Telescope and Push It Back Up — The New York Times
• OpenAI’s $1 trillion ambition could delay its IPO — thestreet.com
• China's Nexchip Semiconductor seeks up to $890.3 million in Hong Kong share sale — Reuters
• Supreme Court says police need a warrant to obtain Google location data — The Washington Post
• Australia sues Amazon unit over alleged breach via Prime Video ads — Reuters
• Rocket Lab to Acquire Iridium in Historic Deal, Creating A Fully Vertically Integrated Space Powerhouse Primed for Growth — PR Newswire
• Marc Andreessen, Blake Masters Appointed to Defense Department Policy Board — The Information
• Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs — WIRED
• Salesforce is on an AI buying spree, but Wall Street still has its doubts — CNBC
• Poll finds bipartisan support for tighter AI regulation — The Hill
• California’s Massive AI Deal Promises Faster Government—and Critics Aren’t Buying It — inc.com
• STARTRADER Launches Pre-IPO Trading Products for OpenAI and Anthropic — Yahoo Finance Singapore

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