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Salesforce signed a deal to buy Fin, the customer-service AI agent company formerly called Intercom, for about $3.6 billion to add fast-to-deploy service agents alongside Agentforce.

Robinhood cut about 10% of its full-time employees, roughly 290 people, to flatten management layers, booking about $28 million in charges.

At Augmented World Expo 2026 in Long Beach, Qualcomm launched Snapdragon Reality Elite, an XR platform with 48 TOPS of on-device AI and 4.4K-per-eye graphics that will power XREAL's Project Aura Android XR glasses.

DOE's Lux AI cluster, built by HPE with more than 4,000 AMD MI355X GPUs, was delivered to ORNL's leadership computing facility, starting installation of the first dedicated AI system for the Genesis Mission.

Pixar's fifth Toy Story film pits Woody, Buzz, and Jessie against Lilypad, a disruptive new tablet device competing for their kid Bonnie's attention.

The Obama Foundation's 19.3-acre campus in Jackson Park, built around a 225-foot museum tower, took its first visitors on Juneteenth, the day after a dedication ceremony at John Lewis Plaza. At roughly $850 million it is the most expensive presidential library yet built; ground was broken in September 2021 after years of lawsuits over the Jackson Park site.

PLDT's data centre arm VITRO filed its registration statement and REIT plan with the Philippine SEC for an IPO of up to PHP 24.2 billion, the country's first digital infrastructure REIT, backed by eight data centres of about 24 MW.

Yien Animation's Beyond Time's Gaze 2 begins release, the second season of the Chinese web-novel adaptation Guangyin Zhi Wai, continuing its cast's story as an ongoing original net animation.

Lucid is cutting about 18% of its U.S. workforce, roughly 1,500 people including factory workers, ending the second shift at its Arizona plant; COO Marc Winterhoff is out as the role is eliminated.

Microsoft's first datacenter in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, a single cluster of NVIDIA GB200 servers it calls the world's most powerful AI supercomputer, is fully operational after its equipment came online in April.

Harvard, Tishman Speyer and Breakthrough Properties cut the ribbon on the first phase of the Enterprise Research Campus in Allston: two commercial laboratory buildings called OneMilestone, the 343-apartment Verra, the Atlas Hotel, Harvard's David Rubenstein Treehouse conference centre, 40,000 square feet of retail and more than two acres of public open space. It is the opening move on a 36-acre site, with a Phase B of labs, offices and housing still to be permitted.

After a near-rejection, protests and arrests, councillors approved the $4.9 billion operating budget with $11.8 million of amendments, alongside a $4.4 billion five-year capital plan.

OpenAI's first Intelligence Processor, an inference accelerator it designed and Broadcom implemented, went from design to tape-out in nine months; Hock Tan and Charlie Kawwas handed it to Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.

Ferrero recalled specific batches of frozen Nutella Croissant and Nutella Muffin in seven European countries because they might contain metal fragments; the lots came from its Fresystem bakery near Naples.

At an uncontested annual meeting after the Wilson settlement, shareholders elect Chip Bergh, Esi Eggleston Bracey and Teri List and back Chip Wilson's proposal to declassify the board by 73.1 million votes to 0.3 million.

Milly Alcock stars as Kara Zor-El in the second film of the new DC Universe, produced by James Gunn and directed by Craig Gillespie.

Verizon, bidding as Cellco Partnership, won 82 of the 200 AWS-3 licenses in FCC Auction 113 for $3.16 billion, the bulk of the $3.57 billion the auction raised from seven winning bidders.

Led by Dykes on Bikes, the 56th SF Pride Parade filled Market Street from Beale Street to Civic Center on 28 June, with organisers expecting more than a million people over the weekend.

The second-season finale of Wistoria: Wand and Sword ended by announcing a third season of the fantasy action anime, along with a promo and celebratory visual.

A Leonardo AW139 carrying oil workers back from Aramco's offshore fields crashed on approach to Ras Tanura at about 6 a.m., killing its two pilots and 12 passengers, all Saudi nationals.

Verizon and BT agreed to combine their international enterprise networking arms into a 50:50 joint venture serving over 3,000 multinationals in 180-plus countries with about $4 billion in combined annual revenue; Verizon pays BT $625 million to equalize.

SanMar closes its acquisition of Bella+Canvas, separating the blank T-shirt maker from its sister brand Alo Yoga, a step Reuters says readies Alo for a public offering or sale.

The City Council approved Mayor Mamdani's first budget on 30 June, the largest expense budget in Council history, adding $350 million to reserves and $300 million over two years for a new rental-assistance program. It was agreed with Speaker Julie Menin the same day.

Etihad Rail began passenger service in the UAE, launching an introductory Abu Dhabi-to-Fujairah route ahead of its full national network opening.

7-Eleven sued Nike in federal court in Dallas on 1 July 2026, claiming the orange, green and red stripes on an Air Max 95 Big Bubble due on 11 July, 7-Eleven Day, copy its Tri-Color Mark.

Nike signed a multi-year deal to become the exclusive sports sponsor and supplier of Chivas de Guadalajara, outfitting its men's and women's teams, academy and esports side from the Apertura 2026.

The comedy short Bungo Stray Dogs WAN! 2 begins broadcast, the second season of the chibi spin-off gag series set alongside the main Bungo Stray Dogs anime.