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    New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI

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    Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage

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    Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code

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    What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

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    The UK’s generational tobacco ban might not work. I’m supporting it anyway.

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    Can Cursor Remain a Platform for OpenAI and Anthropic’s Models Inside SpaceX?

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for July 5, 2026 — 26 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. The fanfiction community is at war with AI — and itself The Verge
  2. A device that revives eyeballs from dead donors could make eye transplants possible MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  3. Google DeepMind Unionization Talks Are Off to a Rocky Start Wired
  4. Anthropic wants to develop its own drugs The Verge
  5. The Download: a smoking “endgame” and a new Elizabeth Bear story MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  6. AI’s Volatile Power Use Quietly Tests Grid Limits IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  7. A behind-the-scenes look at Midjourney’s medical scanner leaves many questions unanswered The Verge
  8. Achieving operational excellence with AI MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  9. Trump gets OpenAI to offer US 5% stake, far lower than Sanders’ target Ars Technica
  10. Musk’s X poses “serious risk to Americans’ privacy,” advocates warn FTC Ars Technica
  11. Google’s AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025 Ars Technica
  12. OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom The Verge
  13. Meta Is Charging a Subscription for Smart Glasses Features. Welcome to the New Era of Consumer Tech Wired
  14. Goose, a New Gay Dating App, Appears to Be a Psyop Wired
  15. After spooking Trump into safety testing, Anthropic AI models get global release Ars Technica
  16. As AI Reshapes Global Energy Systems, Melbourne Leads Through Engineering Collaboration IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  17. The Space-based Data Center Hype Machine Is Already in Orbit IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  18. Hugging Face and Cerebras bring Gemma 4 to real-time voice AI Hugging Face
  19. ScarfBench: Benchmarking AI Agents for Enterprise Java Framework Migration Hugging Face
  20. Why Specialization Is Inevitable Hugging Face
  21. Emily Bender Sets the Record Straight on “Stochastic Parrots” IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  22. Featuring Every Eval Ever Results on Hugging Face Model Pages 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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