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The rest of the wire for June 29, 2026 — 26 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one with questions about Elon Musk’s orbital data center hype TechCrunch
  2. Margaret Atwood says the problem with AI is ‘garbage in, garbage out’ The Verge
  3. Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI TechCrunch
  4. ConlangCrafter Turns AI to Imagining Languages IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  5. Trump Administration Allows Anthropic to Release Mythos to Select US Organizations Wired
  6. South Korea plans to train entire military as "drone warriors" Ars Technica
  7. NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for OpenAI Ars Technica
  8. OpenAI Has New AI Models. Here’s Why You Can’t Use Them Wired
  9. Europe Is Fed Up and Wants Its Own AI Wired
  10. The Download: brain-melting heatwaves and unprecedented OpenAI restrictions MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  11. Heat waves mess with your brain. Scientists are trying to figure out why. MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  12. Run a vLLM Server on HF Jobs in One Command Hugging Face
  13. Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead Ars Technica
  14. Google finally releases a Finance Android app, promises iOS version later in 2026 Ars Technica
  15. Why Does a Bank Need a Chief Scientist? IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  16. Which tokens does a hybrid model predict better? Hugging Face
  17. Repositioning retail for the AI era MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  18. What it Means to Be a Mathematician When AI Does the Math IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  19. The Download: Europe’s heat wave hits the grid, and IBM’s chip targets Moore’s Law MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  20. Accelerating Transformers Fine-Tuning with NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel Hugging Face
  21. AI Is Designing Radio Chips That Humans Couldn’t Even Imagine IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  22. Introducing the FFASR Leaderboard: Benchmarking ASR in the Real World Hugging Face
  23. Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think. VentureBeat
  24. Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure VentureBeat
  25. Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
  26. Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews VentureBeat
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