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Verizon is seeking to tap into Silicon Valley’s AI spending in a big way. The telecom giant revealed a deal worth more than $1 billion to link Google data centers using Verizon’s dark fiber routes—and it’s also tearing copper wiring out of central offices as it converts them into small data centers suitable for supporting AI inference workloads. The telecom company publicly disclosed the Google partnership and data center conversion efforts as part of a new “AI Connect” business initiative during an earnings conference call covering the second quarter of 2026. Verizon also expects to announce additional AI-related deals by…

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U.S. President Donald Trump returns from a trip to Michigan on July 27, 2026 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected at the White House on Tuesday for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, as he looks to shore up support for Kyiv at a time when the Russia and Iran conflicts have shown signs of converging.The meeting comes as the U.S war against Iran and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine reach critical junctures. Trump has paused airstrikes against Iran as part of a push to give diplomacy another…

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Residents look at the sky illuminated by wildfires in Le Porge, south-western France early on July 23, 2026.Romain Perrocheau | Afp | Getty ImagesWildfires are continuing to rage in parts of France and Spain as concerns grow that the latest heatwave could exacerbate the disaster. The fires, which began in southwestern France, in Gironde, on Wednesday last week, have already burned nearly 104,000 acres in France and around 190,000 acres in Spain. The fires have forced nearly 300,000 people to evacuate the regions.Gironde’s prefecture has said the situation has remained stable overnight, with a total of 93 firefighters injured, according…

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ASML’s stock fell Tuesday after a report that China is mass-producing a critical tool that the Dutch tech giant has long held a monopoly over.The decline came amid a steep sell-off in global semiconductor stocks as investors continued to grapple with uncertainty about the sector. ASML was last trading down 1.8%, but the stock is up over 123% this year.Analysts told CNBC that while reports on China entering a market that ASML dominates may raise some concerns, the developments are unlikely to shake the Dutch company’s dominance, adding there are some big caveats to the story.”I would take this with…

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Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesThree days after SpaceX’s blockbuster public debut, Rep. William Timmons bought as much as $100,000 of the rocket company’s stock.The South Carolina Republican chairs a House oversight panel on military and foreign affairs and sits on a financial services subcommittee covering artificial intelligence — two sectors central to Elon Musk’s newly public empire.He was not the only member of Congress to buy in.Within six days of the June 12 initial public offering, at least six House members or their immediate families purchased a total of between roughly $83,000 and $245,000 in SpaceX shares, according…

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In a win, SerpApi warned that Reddit planned to act as a “toll collector,” requiring payments for scraping when it doesn’t even own the content. “Reddit seeks to consolidate its control over its users’ content so that it will be in a better position to tax that content. Reddit is not acting to protect its users; Reddit is clearing a path to exploit them,” SerpApi warned. Similarly, SerpApi accused Google of asking the court to ignore that it’s the “largest scraper on the planet,” while agreeing to cut off other web scrapers from information that is “100 percent public.” For…

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The U.S. Supreme Court building is seen in Washington on June 25, 2026, as the court releases a series of decisions nearing the end of its current term.Mehmet Eser | Anadolu | Getty ImagesThe Supreme Court’s job approval rating among all Americans has hit a record low, as support for the high court by Republicans sharply dropped in 2026, a new Gallup poll has found.Just 33% of Americans approve of the job the Supreme Court is doing, Gallup found. That is a 6-percentage-point drop from the 39% who approved of its work in July 2025, which was the prior low-water…

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