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Before this newsletter takes a break for the Fourth of July next week, here are the startup stories and funding rounds that caught our eye over the last few days, which have been quite busy.

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All childhood vaccines in question after first meeting of RFK Jr.&s vaccine panelAll childhood vaccines in question after first meeting of RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel

A federal vaccine panel entirely hand-selected by health secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. ....

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Trump&s FTC announces merger condition that prohibits advertising boycottsTrump’s FTC announces merger condition that prohibits advertising boycotts

, which is subject to a 30-day public comment period, would resolve an administrative complaint filed by the FTC against Omnicom and Interpublic. ....

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Petlibro, the pet tech startup known for its automatic feeders and filtered water fountains, has just launched its latest product, the AI-powered Scout Smart Camera, designed to provide pet owners with real-time insights into their furbabies’ activities and behaviors.

Scout is similar to other pet cameras on the market; it monitors your pet in real...

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After a week, Trump Mobile drops claim that Trump phone is &made in the USA&After a week, Trump Mobile drops claim that Trump phone is “made in the USA”

was announced last week with a claim that the device would be made entirely in America, and people were rightly skeptical. ....

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Three axial flux motors and 850 kW fast charging? Meet the GT XX.Three axial flux motors and 850 kW fast charging? Meet the GT XX.

The pack in the GT XX concept has 3,000 cells, giving the pack an energy density of 300 Wh/kg. ....

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This week, two major AI companies scored early wins in court, with federal judges siding with Meta and Anthropic in separate lawsuits over how their models were trained on copyrighted material.

The decisions represent the first real legal validation of AI companies’ argument that training models on books, images, and other creative works can be c...

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Google&s spotty Find Hub network could get better thanks to a small setup tweakGoogle’s spotty Find Hub network could get better thanks to a small setup tweak

Bluetooth trackers have existed for quite a while, but Apple made them worthwhile when it enlisted every iPhone to support AirTags. ....

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Apple&s push to take over the dashboard resisted by car makersApple’s push to take over the dashboard resisted by car makers

Of the original 14 brands listed by Apple, Jaguar Land Rover said it was still evaluating the system, while Ford and Nissan along with its Infiniti brand said they had no information to share about future application. ....

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We’re almost there, and ticket rates have officially rolled back with savings of up to $425.

A Technology NewsRoom All Stage, the founder summit of the year, is just around the corner. On July 15, Boston becomes startup central. Are you ready to gain the insights and strategies you need to launch or scale?

Now’s the moment

For a limited time, we’ve b...

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Is DOGE doomed to fail? Some experts are ready to call it.Is DOGE doomed to fail? Some experts are ready to call it.

Whether Trump's appointees can manage DOGE without Musk's help or his appointees remains to be seen, as DOGE continues to seek new hires. ....

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Gemini CLI is a free, open source coding agent that brings AI to your terminalGemini CLI is a free, open source coding agent that brings AI to your terminal

Some developers prefer to live in the command line interface (CLI), eschewing the flashy graphics and file management features of IDEs. ....

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Startups demand consistent decision-making and pressure-filled pivots, which bring huge emotional swings. It's not surprising that stress and anxiety shows up at every stage. But what if it didn't have to be a liability?At A Technology NewsRoom All Stage 2025 on July 15 at Boston's SoWa Power Station, Dr. David H. Rosmarin, scientific psychologist, author, and Harvard ...
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For the previous five years, we've been paying a lot of attention to Framework, the upstart PC business focused on modular, repairable, upgradeable, and customizable laptop computer designs. ... For the past five years, we've been paying a lot of attention to Framework, the upstart PC company concentrated on modular, repairable, upgradeable, and customizable laptop designs.So far, Framework has actually done a solid job of using a consistent stream of hardware upgrades for its systems, especially the original Framework Laptop 13. But the company's track record on software application supportincluding BIOS updates and motorist updates with efficiency improvements, bug fixes, and important security updateshas been more of a combined bag.As of our piece in April 2024, several iterations of the Laptop 13 board had gone years without a BIOS update or updated chauffeur package. The very first iteration of the laptop still just had beta support for Windows 11, which had been out for 2.5 years by then, and the company was also struggling to supply Linux assistance and assured practical upgrades for other models.We spoke to Framework CEO Nirav Patel for that short article, who acknowledged the issues and provided some explanationsmainly, that Framework is a little business which it relies on upstream hardware makers like Intel and AMD for some updates. He likewise promised that improvements were coming.Patel stated that a dedicated group at Compal, the white-box PC producing company that makes most of Framework's hardware, had actually been employed and was being onboarded. And as soon as that group was up to speed, the plan was to constantly cycle through Framework's entire catalog of old and existing items, making certain that no model was ignored for long.Patel's mid-summer [2024] timeline for making these changes turned out to be a bit optimistic, but it does appear as though the team has materialized development over the previous calendar year or two. Structure's BIOS and motorist upgrade status page since June 25, 2025. Every single one of Framework's laptop computers has actually gotten at least one BIOS and motorist update in the past calendar year, a huge improvement over the state of things in April 2024. Credit: Framework This thread on Framework's Reddit gives a high-level overview of the release dates for Framework's chauffeur packages and BIOS updates, and, for all its products going back to 2021's 11th-gen Intel Core variation of the very first Framework Laptop, the company has actually shipped a minimum of one BIOS upgrade in the previous eight months. Many models have seen a minimum of one update in calendar 2025. The driver bundles tend to be a bit older, however the earliest ones are from June 2024, and the Core Ultra Framework Laptop and all AMD models have actually gotten at least one motorist bundle update in 2025.
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The axion may help clean up the messy business of dark matterThe axion may help clean up the messy business of dark matter

In fact, axions belong to a much broader class of “ultra-light” dark matter particle candidates, which can have masses down to 10^-24 eV. is is multiple billions of times lighter than the WIMPs—and indeed most of the particles of the Standard Model.

That means axions and their friends act nothing like most of the particles of the Standard Model....

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A Technology NewsRoom All Stage-- the ultimate founder top-- is forming up to be a powerhouse event where 1,200 creators and VCs across all phases will come together to create meaningful connections and acquire useful insights they can instantly apply to scale their startups. Join us on July 15 at SoWa Power Station in Boston and belong to the ...
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Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI modelsAnthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

But if you're not intimately familiar with the AI industry and copyright, you might wonder: Why would a company spend millions of dollars on books to destroy them? ?...

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Discovery of HMS Endeavour wreck confirmedDiscovery of HMS Endeavour wreck confirmed
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When Cluely, a startup claiming to be building a product that helps people “cheat” on everything, announced that it raised a $15 million Series A financing round from Andreessen Horowitz, some people on X criticized the VC firm for backing the controversial company.

After all, Cluely isn’t just offering a product that may have questionable uses; t...

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Ubuntu disables Intel GPU security mitigations, promises 20% performance boostUbuntu disables Intel GPU security mitigations, promises 20% performance boost

Ubuntu users could see up to a 20 percent boost in graphics performance on Intel-based systems under a change that will turn off security mitigations for blunting a class of attacks known as Spectre. ....

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Philips Hue bulbs will be even more expensive in July. And it may not end there.Philips Hue bulbs will be even more expensive in July. And it may not end there.

Philips is upping the prices of its popular and already-expensive Hue series of smart lighting products starting July 1. ....

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A Technology NewsRoom All Stage, our big occasion for founders of start-ups at all phases of funding (see what we did there?), is showing up July 15 at Boston's SoWa Power Station. And it's our pleasure to reveal that Underscore VC's investing partner Chris Gardner will join a packed lineup of speakers by leading a breakout session titled MVP in the ...
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As you can see in the included charts, SteamOS showed noticeable frame rate improvements in four of the five games tested. ....

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Key fair use ruling clarifies when books can be used for AI trainingKey fair use ruling clarifies when books can be used for AI training

"This order doubts that any accused infringer could ever meet its burden of explaining why downloading source copies from pirate sites that it could have purchased or otherwise accessed lawfully was itself reasonably necessary to any subsequent fair use," Alsup wrote. ....

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Suno, the AI music company currently in a legal battle with music labels, announced on Thursday the acquisition of WavTool, a browser-based AI digital audio workstation (DAW). This acquisition aims to improve Suno’s editing capabilities for songwriters and producers.

WavTool, launched in 2023, offers several tools to musicians, such as stem...

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Ars Live: What&s up with the sudden surge in temperatures?Ars Live: What’s up with the sudden surge in temperatures?

, a climate scientist and researcher at Berkeley Earth. ....

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Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates into 2026, with strings attachedMicrosoft extends free Windows 10 security updates into 2026, with strings attached

It's worth noting that the Windows Backup and Microsoft Rewards methods for getting these updates require the use of a Microsoft Account, something Microsoft has been pushing with slowly increasing intensity in Windows 11. ....

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Founders are typically told to go after product-market fit before anything else, however what if scaling prematurely, too quickly, is what's really holding them back?At A Technology NewsRoom All Stage 2025 on July 15 in Boston, Jon McNeill, CEO and co-founder of DVx Ventures (and former president of Tesla and COO of Lyft), will take the Scale Stage to turn the ...
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It&s a family affair in final Fantastic Four: First Steps trailerIt’s a family affair in final Fantastic Four: First Steps trailer

 opens next month.

in recent weeks, culminating with the release of one last trailer before the film premieres next month....

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Media Matters sues FTC, says agency is retaliating on behalf of Elon MuskMedia Matters sues FTC, says agency is retaliating on behalf of Elon Musk

The lawsuit alleged that Media Matters' free speech rights are being violated "as state governments and now a federal agency have employed sweeping governmental powers to attempt to silence and harass an organization for daring to speak the truth." Media Matters said that under the First Amendment, it has "a privilege against disclosure of materials that would chill its constitutional rights." The FTC also violated "basic statutory requirements" in US law because the investigative demand "fails to identify the relevant 'conduct' or the 'alleged violation' that the FTC is investigating," the lawsuit said. ....

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