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The US banned 80% of its drone market overnight. China still makes 99% of the batteries. thenextweb.com/news/us-drone-…

Anthropic banned OpenClaw. Now ChatGPT powers it. One saw a cost problem. The other saw 3.2M users waiting. thenextweb.com/news/openai-op…

After $1T to shareholders, Apple's next $100B stays inside. Apple just quietly killed the rule that built its $4T valuation. thenextweb.com/news/apple-ter…

Y Combinator's 15 new bets include lunar manufacturing. The accelerator built on software says the garage is no longer enough. thenextweb.com/news/yc-summer…

McKinsey cut 25% of analysts. AI did the work. Meanwhile its new report warns 95% of companies see zero returns from AI. thenextweb.com/news/mckinsey-…

Every Netflix price hike since 2017 may be illegal. The clause being challenged is the same one Spotify, Disney+, and Apple TV+ all rely on. thenextweb.com/news/dutch-con…

Peter Thiel's fund burned through $4.6B faster than planned. It went to 7 companies in under 12 months, and the replacement fund is already $6B. thenextweb.com/news/founders-…

78,000 tech layoffs later, China banned AI firings. No Western country has yet. thenextweb.com/news/china-cou…

AI demand killed Apple's cheapest desktop. The $599 Mac mini is gone, and Tim Cook says supply is months away. thenextweb.com/news/apple-mac…

The company saved by meme traders is now hunting eBay. GameStop is $12B. eBay is $46B. Ryan Cohen does not care. thenextweb.com/news/gamestop-…

The $130B OpenAI case had a rough first week. Musk admitted on the stand that xAI trains on OpenAI's models. thenextweb.com/news/musk-open…

7 AI companies signed Pentagon deals. Anthropic was rejected. The 7 agreed to terms Anthropic wouldn't: domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. thenextweb.com/news/pentagon-…

Meta missed mobile. It won't miss humanoids. Now it wants to be the Android of every robot Tesla doesn't build. thenextweb.com/news/meta-acqu…

Just in: Trump broke the $750B Turnberry deal over cars. Semiconductors are next. thenextweb.com/news/trump-eu-…

Flourish reached $2.5B on the founder alone. Thomas Reardon built Internet Explorer, sold CTRL-labs to Meta, and now wants AI to run on 20 watts. thenextweb.com/news/flourish-…

OpenAI just admitted 80% of its code is AI. The same week, 80% of AI-using firms reported zero gains. thenextweb.com/news/openai-br…

US debt now exceeds the size of the economy. Washington and Big Tech are now borrowing from the exact same pool, at the exact same time. thenextweb.com/news/us-debt-t…

Mythos identified thousands of zero-days. Europe saw none. The NSA uses it, the Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic, and EU ministers can't even open it. thenextweb.com/news/eu-financ…

Anthropic's most dangerous model just got a 70-company veto. The NSA gets to keep using it. thenextweb.com/news/white-hou…