Shammas Space & Tech Briefing

Sources for this episode:

• After Nvidia And Tesla, Trump Confirms Apple Has Agreed To Build Chips With Intel Amid US Manufacturing Push: 'When Was The Last Time...' — Yahoo Finance Singapore
• Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic as talent drains from Google's AI crown jewel — Startup Fortune
• US move to restrict Anthropic models turns AI race into geopolitical test — Ynetnews
• Microsoft’s CEO Just Warned the Entire AI Industry: Your Dominance Will Trigger a Backlash — 24/7 Wall St.
• A view from Brussels: A sneak peek into upcoming guidelines on GDPR, AI Act interplay — IAPP
• MDA Space Buys Blue Canyon for $620M, NASA Mars Orbiter Awarded — KeepTrack
• China Tightens Indium Export Controls, Threatening AI Data Center Supply Chains — OECD AI Policy Observatory
• Chinese tech firm completes direct-to-cell satellite calls — Xinhua
• NASA Awards Private Mars Orbiter Contract for 2028 — KeepTrack
• Amazon drivers say a new update shuts off their AC automatically as dangerous heat waves intensify — Yahoo Autos
• China’s chipmaking supply chain runs through Southeast Asia — East Asia Forum
• OpenAI admits enterprises need better control over AI costs — thestreet.com

Disclaimer: This episode is entirely AI-generated. All claims should be treated with caution and manually verified against the original sources linked above.

Sources for this episode:

• Elon Musk’s SpaceX plots $20bn bond deal after record IPO — Financial Times
• The week that changed AI: Inside Trump's Anthropic crackdown, and how a phone call from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy triggered the chaos — Fortune
• Intel shares surge 11% after Trump touts deal with Apple — Axios
• Intel Announces Leadership Appointment at Intel Foundry to Accelerate Development and Manufacturing — Intel Newsroom
• US tells ASML it's concerned one of its chipmaking tools may be in China, Bloomberg News reports — Reuters
• Google Is Using Nvidia’s Playbook to Build a Rival AI Chip Business — WSJ
• Google VP Engineering, Gemini Co-Lead Leaves For OpenAI 06/18/2026 — MediaPost
• NASA selects DAPHNE mission concept to study space weather impacts on Earth’s atmosphere — space & defense
• Exclusive | The $13 Billion AI Startup Betting on Cheaper Alternatives to OpenAI, Anthropic — WSJ
• Space startups seek insurance for orbital AI data centers — Reuters
• Geopolitical realignment and the Global South AI divide — Mail & Guardian
• TSMC, Amkor lock in 10-year deal for advanced packaging and test services — The Business Journals

Disclaimer: This episode is entirely AI-generated. All claims should be treated with caution and manually verified against the original sources linked above.

Sources for this episode:

• Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to join IPO-bound OpenAI — Reuters
• Arianespace successfully launches 36 additional Amazon Leo satellites with an Ariane 64 equipped with advanced boosters — Newsroom Arianespace
• Trump’s Anthropic restrictions rattle U.S. allies as AI leaders gather at G-7 — The Washington Post
• Elon Musk’s Next Move May Be a Mega-Merger of SpaceX and Tesla — The New York Times
• Final AI Omnibus Text Dilutes Fundamental Rights Protections - — Center for Democracy and Technology
• Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus Rocket to Power Unprecedented NASA Observatory Rescue — Northrop Grumman
• SIA Applauds CHIPS Act Incentives for Coherent — Semiconductor Industry Association | SIA
• Qualcomm in Talks to Acquire AI Chip Startup Tenstorrent for Up to $10 Billion, Reuters Reports — Yahoo Finance
• Blue Origin rocket explodes on launch pad in setback to Jeff Bezos' space firm — TRT World
• NASA just picked these astronauts for the next Artemis mission — Mashable
• NASA Announces Public-Private Partnership to Advance Mars Science — NASA (.gov)
• Russia’s Guarantor Jammer Points to a New Tactical Threat to Starlink-Enabled Drones — Inside Unmanned Systems

Disclaimer: This episode is entirely AI-generated. All claims should be treated with caution and manually verified against the original sources linked above.

Sources for this episode:

• Anthropic incident leaves confusion about Trump administration's AI regulation — NPR
• In boost to Musk, Justice Department seeks to dismiss air pollution lawsuit against xAI data center - ABC News — Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
• OpenAI Reportedly Torched $3.7 Billion In Q1, Lost $39 Billion Last Year — Now It's Weighing A Price War — Benzinga
• Musk's SpaceX overtakes Amazon to become world's fifth most valuable firm — BBC
• Intel Foundry Details Process Milestones and Future Innovation at VLSI Symposium — Intel Newsroom
• Elon Musk Is Unleashing SpaceX’s New War Chest to Solve His AI Problem — WSJ
• Amazon may face penalties from potential FTC ad suit, Bloomberg News reports — Reuters
• France to ditch Palantir’s AI data tools in favour of domestic provider — The Guardian
• HSBC partners with Google Cloud to expand AI usage — Reuters
• Angola’s Mercury signs bigger LEO deal with Eutelsat OneWeb — Developing Telecoms
• SK hynix (KOSE:A000660) Partners With Nvidia On AI Memory And Autonomous Fabs — Yahoo Finance
• Choreo may win up to $5 billion of SpaceX IPO wealth by bulk sale but likely made a devil's bargain -- a low fee for a high-maintenance clientele, analyst says — RIABiz

Disclaimer: This episode is entirely AI-generated. All claims should be treated with caution and manually verified against the original sources linked above.

Sources for this episode:

• Anthropic Disabled Fable 5 And Mythos 5 After A U.S. Export-Control Order. Here’s What Happened — Forbes
• Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire on SpaceX’s First Day of Trading — The New York Times
• DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit — WIRED
• The SoftBank Group Announces “Patching as a Service” Cybersecurity Solution Powered by OpenAI to Secure Critical Infrastructure in Japan — ソフトバンクグループ株式会社
• French Defense Ministry reaffirms OneWeb LEO commitment with initial $160 million capacity purchase over four years — Space Intel Report
• Astrobotic unveils Griffin-1, NASA’s Moon Base lander with 1,377-lb payload, for 2026 — Yahoo
• When Will Starlink Officially Announce An IPO? Here's What Prediction Market Is Saying — Benzinga
• QumulusAl Signs $124M+ Long-Term Agreements with Hyperbolic for Blackwell GPU Deployments — The Fast Mode
• Blue Origin rocket explodes during test, setback for bid to catch Musk’s SpaceX — DD News
• Kenya reaffirms commitment to space law and sustainable space governance at COPUOS session in Vienna — Tech Review Africa
• JAXA Nails H3 Return to Flight — Payload Space
• The decentralized hyperscaler: how "micro Edge" is reshaping the AI data center landscape — Data Center Dynamics

Disclaimer: This episode is entirely AI-generated. All claims should be treated with caution and manually verified against the original sources linked above.

Sources for this episode:

• Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire on SpaceX’s First Day of Trading — The New York Times
• Nvidia to raise $20 billion, source says, in first corporate bond sale in five years — Reuters
• 'Fix this code.' The three words that led the U.S. government to ban Anthropic's Fable and Mythos — Fortune
• Shareholder Lawsuit Claims Microsoft Downplayed Copilot's Problems in Bid to Drive Up Stock Price — Law.com
• Trump’s China-Nvidia Dealing Threatens DOJ Chip Smuggling Trial — Bloomberg Law News
• OpenAI Is Now Facing Multiple Legal Investigations—Here's What State Attorneys General Are Demanding to See — inc.com
• Salesforce Increases AI Agent Focus With $3.6 Billion Fin Deal — PYMNTS.com
• A Kill Switch for Frontier AI — Lawfare
• SpaceX prepares to launch AST SpaceMobile BlueBird satellites from Florida — Florida Today
• Watch live: bigger booster, more powerful Ariane 6 launch — European Space Agency
• Astrobotic unveils Griffin-1 lunar lander for NASA Moon Base mission — Space
• SpaceX sends 24 Starlink satellites to orbit on 1st launch as a public company (video) — Space

Disclaimer: This episode is entirely AI-generated. All claims should be treated with caution and manually verified against the original sources linked above.

Sources linked in the audio.

Sources for this episode:

• Inside the whirlwind 24 hours that led the White House to slap export controls on Anthropic — Politico
• Watch SpaceX IPO Sparks Surge in Space Industry Investment and Market Optimism — Bloomberg.com
• NASA taps US astronauts, Italian for Artemis mission with SpaceX, Blue Origin mooncraft — DD News
• Lawmakers Pave the Way for Space Force to Dissolve SDA, Space RCO — Air & Space Forces Magazine
• AAC Clyde Space wins ESA contract to complete maritime-monitoring constellation — SpaceNews
• State Attorneys General Are Investigating OpenAI — The New York Times
• AMD Meta AI Chip Pact Puts Data Center Growth And Valuation In Focus — Yahoo Finance
• Meta reportedly moves to unwind $2B Manus deal after Beijing’s demand — TechCrunch
• Kenya reaffirms commitment to space law and sustainable space governance at COPUOS session in Vienna — Tech Review Africa
• Japan and Italy to issue joint pledge for stronger space regulation — Nikkei Asia
• Boosting European leadership in in-space operations and services — European Space Agency
• Draft EU Guidelines Clarify When AI Systems Are High-Risk Under the AI Act — Jones Day

Disclaimer: This episode is entirely AI-generated. All claims should be treated with caution and manually verified against the original sources linked above.

Sources for this episode:

• Anthropic's safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI — TechCrunch
• SpaceX IPO sticks the landing. Here's what investors are saying about its epic first trading day — CNBC
• What NASA Needs to Stay on Track for the Moon — The New York Times
• Lawmakers Pave the Way for Space Force to Dissolve SDA, Space RCO — Air & Space Forces Magazine
• Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin says it will fly again this year after explosion. Nasa needs it to — The Guardian
• Top-three Semiconductor Spenders Heating up with CHIPS Act Funds — TechInsights
• AI’s Blithe Spending and Crusoe’s Stargate Woes — The Information
• Starlink on the Ukrainian front: Lessons for Europe’s strategic autonomy — Defence24.com
• ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano joins NASA’s Artemis III mission as pilot — European Space Agency
• Economic Liberties Denounces DOJ Approval of Paramount-Warner Brothers Mega-Merger — Economic Liberties
• State Department Signs Starlink Deal for Global Disaster Response - BASENOR — Tesla Accessories
• SpaceX Just Made The AI Infrastructure War Public — Forbes

Disclaimer: This episode is entirely AI-generated. All claims should be treated with caution and manually verified against the original sources linked above.

Sources for this episode:

• Elon Musk is the world’s first trillionaire (on paper) thanks to the SpaceX IPO — The Washington Post
• Meta and Reliance Industries partner to build AI data centre, enterprise solutions in India — The Economic Times
• Lawmakers Pave the Way for Space Force to Dissolve SDA, Space RCO — Air & Space Forces Magazine
• New AI Executive Order Calls for Frontier Model Security, Early Government Access and AI-Enabled Cyber Defense — Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
• Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raises $12B to build an 'artificial general engineer' for the physical world — TechCrunch
• The AI Price War Is Here, Piling Pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic — WSJ
• AAC Clyde Space wins ESA contract to complete maritime-monitoring constellation — SpaceNews
• Nvidia hires veteran lobbyist Bruce Andrews to head government affairs — Reuters
• Scoop: Republican lawmakers challenge TSMC's Washington clout — Axios
• India deploys 38,000 GPUs, launches ₹100-cr AI mineral hub — MSN
• Jeff Bezos recalls the 'very bad day for Blue Origin' with a 'promise': By the end of the year, we will b — The Times of India
• ‘Amazon.com of South Korea’ Is Fined a Record $409 Million — The New York Times

Disclaimer: This episode is entirely AI-generated. All claims should be treated with caution and manually verified against the original sources linked above.