Microsoft's first public country by country tax report (EU Directive 2021/2101) shows its Irish subsidiaries booked $47.1 billion in pretax profit — 38.1% of the global total — while employing just 6,654 peo...
On July 1, 2026 (not 2025), Sony announced it will stop producing physical game discs for all new PlayStation titles starting January 2028, citing digital downloads already at 80% of sales.
Vietnam's economy grew 8.18% in the first half of 2026, and the World Bank reclassified it as an upper middle income country effective July 1, 2026, after GNI per capita surpassed the $4,636 threshold.
On July 3, 2026, an attacker drained $820,000 in USDC from Hinkal, a zero knowledge proof based privacy protocol on Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum, by exploiting a ZK proof verification flaw — effectively forg...
Micron broke ground on July 4, 2026, for a ¥1.5 trillion ( $9.3 billion) dedicated HBM factory in Hiroshima, targeting first shipments of next generation HBM4 memory in summer 2028, backed by ¥500 billion in...
Bhutan's sovereign investment arm has sold 70–75% of its peak 13,000 BTC reserves in an 18 month drawdown, leaving under 1,750 BTC as of early July 2026.
Micron is investing ¥1.5 trillion ($9.3–9.6 billion) to build a new HBM production facility in Hiroshima, Japan.
Former BlackRock exec Joseph Chalom argues Ethereum is better positioned than Solana for institutional adoption, citing a roughly 1,000x advantage in validator count ( 900,000–1M vs.
On July 3, 2026, TotalEnergies ENEOS commissioned a nearly 28 MWp rooftop solar system at the Samsung Electronics HCMC CE Complex in Ho Chi Minh City — the joint venture's largest rooftop solar project in Vi...
French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are using direct personal diplomacy — texts, face to face meetings, and co hosted summits — to secure over $200 billion in AI infrastr...
Despite a RAM increase from 8GB to 9GB, the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e will miss two advanced Siri AI features—customizing Siri's voice expressiveness and a major accuracy boost for speech to text dictation—be...
In the final week of June 2026, European regulators and central bankers issued coordinated warnings that autonomous AI agents pose a systemic threat to financial stability, with the Bank of England's Sarah B...