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  • Get a Free $300 Amazon Gift Card

    Get a Free $300 Amazon Gift Card

    Samsung recently announced its newest foldable phone, the Galaxy Z Fold 7. With the best camera we’ve seen on a Fold to date, exclusive AI features, improved battery life, and a sleeker, slimmer design, we’re sure you’ll want to get yours as soon as possible. Luckily, there are plenty of ways to preorder the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and even score a deal in the process.

    The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 starts at $1,999.99 at Samsung and will be available on July 25.

    Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 deals

    While the Galaxy Z Fold 7 hasn’t been officially released yet, there are already deals to be had on the new device. Our favorite is from Amazon, which is offering the phone with double the storage plus a free $300 Amazon gift card. The bundle deal costs just $1,999.99, which is the starting price of the phone alone on Samsung’s website.

    Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 + Amazon Gift Card bundle.

    Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 + Amazon Gift Card Bundle

    Samsung’s newest Galaxy Fold model features a bigger, yet slimmer design than previous models, exclusive AI features, and the best camera on a Fold yet. Get a free $300 Amazon gift card and double the storage with this bundle.

    If you’re not an Amazon shopper, you can also take advantage of these preorder deals from other retailers.

    Galaxy Z Fold 7 Colors

    The new Fold phone comes in four colors, including one that is only available when you order on the Samsung website, so you can choose the one that best suits your personal taste.

    • Blue shadow
    • Jetblack
    • Silver shadow
    • Mint (only available online at Samsung)

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    Coupons and Deals Fellow

    Jenn Gonick is the Coupons and Deals Fellow on Business Insider’s Reviews team. A savvy online shopper, she’s always on the hunt for the best sales and promotions.ExperienceJenn joined the Business Insider Reviews team in early 2025, where she reports on the best coupons and deals available. Prior to joining Business Insider, she worked in PR, branding, and social media. Jenn began her editorial career at Prevention, where she covered product recommendations, shopping news, celebrity news, and health and wellness. She also played a role in covering major sale events, including Prime Day, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday.Why you can trust JennJenn knows not every deal is worth buying and doesn’t recommend anything she wouldn’t take advantage of herself. Her previous experience in PR and branding has also given her an eye for spotting misleading advertising language, so she always knows how to tell when a discount or coupon is the real deal.EducationJenn graduated from George Washington University with a degree in English & Communication and a minor in Applied Ethics.Expertise

    • Deals
    • Coupons
    • Major sale events to watch out for
    • Beauty and style
    • Fitness, health, and wellness

    Outside of work Outside of work, you can find Jenn frequenting her favorite coffee shops and restaurants, trying out new recipes, or browsing the local bookstore for her next read. She is based in Brooklyn.


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  • Physicists learn to control electricity at the quantum scale

    Physicists learn to control electricity at the quantum scale

    Today’s flagship processor packs more than 100 billion transistors, yet squeezing them any closer is turning design into a wrestling match with quantum physics.

    As the footprints of silicon switches approach the dimensions of a few dozen atoms, stray electrons tunnel across barriers that once looked rock‑solid, wasting power and scrambling signals.


    Physicists are asking whether that unruly behavior can be steered instead of suppressed, and a new study from the University of California, Riverside (UCR), claims the answer is yes.

    The team shows that by shaping atom‑perfect silicon clusters they can turn electron flow off and on through quantum interference, the same wave effect that makes light cancel itself in noise‑canceling headphones.

    How silicon molecule switches current

    Tim Su of UC Riverside and colleagues built their switch by assembling silicon atoms into a molecule called sila‑adamantane, a miniature copy of the crystal motif found in commercial chips. 

    “We found that when tiny silicon structures are shaped with high symmetry, they can cancel out electron flow like noise‑canceling headphones,” said Su.

    Aligning gold electrodes with the cage’s short branches lets the two electron waves reinforce one another, raising conductance, while contacting the long branches flips the phase and wipes the current out. The measured on–off ratio averages 5.6, rivaling single‑molecule devices built from exotic porphyrins.

    Smaller chips don’t work as well

    Conventional scaling relies on etching ever‑narrower channels and then doping them with other atoms so voltage can police the charge carriers.

    Once those channels dip below about five nanometers, electrons act less like marbles and more like waves, slipping through the gate oxide by tunneling and driving leakage to costly levels.

    Three‑dimensional FinFETs and gate‑all‑around stacks help but still fall victim to quantum leakage once dimensions hit the atomic wall.

    That stalemate pushes designers toward switches that exploit interference rather than brute electrostatics, trading geometry for wave control.

    Silicon switches, atom by atom

    Instead of carving bulk wafers with ultraviolet light, the Riverside team used classical synthetic chemistry to snap silicon-silicon bonds into the exact three‑dimensional orientation prescribed by their design.

    Bottom‑up growth means every device is born identical, a sharp contrast to lithography at atomic limits, where dropping a single atom can make neighboring transistors behave like strangers.

    The cluster’s perfect C3 symmetry proved crucial. When electrodes were anti‑aligned with the long cage branches, destructive interference slashed conductance nearly threefold relative to a trimmed control structure that lacked one silicon link.

    Flipping to the short path realigned the wave phases and restored current, creating a mechanically tunable molecular switch.

    The low torsional barrier of the attached linkers means a modest stretch can toggle the molecule between off and on states like a lever.

    Silicon switch turns heat into usable energy

    The same interference physics could also sharpen silicon‑based thermoelectric generators that tap temperature gradients for power.

    Porous silicon nanowire arrays have already shown higher efficiency than any previous nanostructured silicon thermoelectric at 801°F, according to a 2024 report for the California Energy Commission.

    Bulk silicon once posted a meager figure of merit near 0.01, yet early nanowire experiments boosted that number up to 0.6, roughly matching bismuth telluride, the industry’s workhorse material.

    Berkeley Lab’s porous carpets have since multiplied the figure of merit eighteenfold, suggesting that interference‑tuned carrier paths could raise it even further by trimming parasitic heat flow.

    A switchable junction between hot and cold ends could throttle charge flow on the fly, matching output to load conditions without external electronics.

    That adaptive behavior is attractive for industrial waste‑heat recovery, where temperatures and demand vary minute by minute.

    Uses in memory and quantum tech

    Because the molecule mimics the lattice that hosts spin‑based qubits, symmetry‑controlled interference may serve future quantum‑information hardware.

    In principle, the same silicon cage could ferry spin or valley states protected from decoherence by the selection rules that make interference possible, dodging many of the troubles that plague superconducting circuits.

    Industry can test the chemistry inside familiar clean‑room lines, because the cluster is built from the element fabs already master.

    A cross‑bar memory woven from such switches would store data at densities far beyond what FinFETs allow, without rewriting fabrication playbooks from scratch.

    Scaling silicon switches

    Su’s lab is already tweaking the cage with different linkers to raise the on-off ratio and studying whether flexible leads can turn the molecule into a piezoresistive sensor that toggles under strain.

    Colleagues in device physics are evaluating whether the molecule’s switching noise stays low enough for logic thresholds at room temperature.

    The bigger challenge lies in wiring billions of identical silicon clusters onto substrates while preserving their three‑dimensional orientation.

    Directed self‑assembly and DNA‑templated placement are among the approaches on the table, and progress there will decide whether molecular interference moves from the benchtop to production.

    The study is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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  • News – 300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Found in China – Archaeology Magazine

    1. News – 300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Found in China  Archaeology Magazine
    2. Archaeologists Determine Ancient Origins of Cache of 35 Wooden Tools Found in China  Yahoo
    3. Ancient wooden tools, from long before Homo sapiens emerged, discovered in China  The Brighter Side of News
    4. 300,000-year-old wooden tools found in China reveal early humans’ plant-based diet and cognitive abilities in East Asia  Archaeology News Online Magazine
    5. 300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Discovered in China  SciTechDaily

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  • Staff who could have cut Bob Vylan feed were at Glastonbury, BBC boss says

    Staff who could have cut Bob Vylan feed were at Glastonbury, BBC boss says

    BBC employees with the authority to cut the live stream of Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury performance were among 550 members of staff at the festival, director general Tim Davie has said.

    Ending the broadcast “was an option open to those on the ground on the day”, Davie wrote in a letter to the Commons’ culture select committee.

    The punk duo led a chant of “death, death to the IDF [Israel Defence Forces]” and made other derogatory comments during the performance, prompting apologies from the BBC and Glastonbury, as well as triggering a police investigation.

    BBC News understands a small number of senior staff were told to step back from their day-to-day duties on music and live events as a result.

    The corporation has previously admitted failings after it emerged the band were deemed “high risk” prior to their performance.

    While the feed was monitored and warnings appeared on screen, the broadcast – which went out on iPlayer – was not stopped after the band’s comments were made.

    BBC chairman Samir Shah has said the decision not to pull the live feed was “unquestionably an error of judgement” after strong criticism of the corporation’s handling of the incident.

    In a letter responding to questions submitted by Dame Caroline Dinenage, chairwoman of the Commons’ culture, media and sport committee, Davie disclosed how many BBC employees were at the festival.

    He wrote: “There were 550 personnel working for the BBC at Glastonbury.

    “Of these 328 were working for BBC Studios (camera crew, rigging, technical and production roles), 35 providing coverage for BBC News, and 187 other BBC public service, working across a wide range of roles, including technical crew, producers, presenters, engineers, runners, commissioners and compliance staff.”

    Answering whether any had the ability to end the broadcast, Davie said: “Yes, there were individuals present at Glastonbury who had the authority to cut the livestream after appropriate consideration.

    “Those individuals had access to advice and support offsite should they have considered it necessary.”

    He did not specify how many of those present had the authority to pull the live stream, but said those capable of issuing “editorial policy support” would be deployed to music festivals and events in the future.

    During the duo’s set, singer Pascal Robinson-Foster, who performs under the stage name Bobby Vylan, also made a speech about a record label boss he used to work for.

    That boss would “speak very strongly about his support for Israel”, and had put his name to a letter urging Glastonbury to cancel Irish-language rap trio Kneecap’s performance, the musician said.

    The singer said: “Who do I see on that list of names but that bald-headed [expletive] I used to work for? We’ve done it all, all right – from working in bars to working for [expletive] Zionists.”

    After the media coverage of their set, Bob Vylan said in a statement: “We are not for the death of Jews, Arabs or any other race or group of people. We are for the dismantling of a violent military machine”.

    Avon and Somerset Police have launched a criminal investigation into the band’s comments.

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  • Kevin Hart, Tom Segura In Talks; WME Consulting

    Kevin Hart, Tom Segura In Talks; WME Consulting

    EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED with more details: Kevin Hart, Tom Segura, Pete Davidson, Russell Peters, Jim Jefferies, Whitney Cummings, Zarna Garg, and Jessica Kirson are in talks to perform at the inaugural Riyadh Comedy Festival, taking place in the Saudi Arabian capital this fall, sources tell Deadline.

    Reps for the stand-ups couldn’t be reached for comment. While no deals have been finalized, reps for WME, which is consulting on the festival, confirmed ongoing discussions with several top-tier acts.

    Turki Alalshikh, chairman of Saudi Arabia‘s General Entertainment Authority, announced the festival on X in May, writing, “The best 50 stand-up comedians in the world are coming to the Riyadh Comedy Festival from September 26 to October 10.” (View the post below.)

    Sources said the festival will feature multi-comic showcases and solo shows, along with special programming. WME became involved through its relationship with TKO — the sports-focused company borne from former WME parent company Endeavor — which has produced events in Saudi via WWE and UFC. The agency is working with Saudi’s General Entertainment Authority, as well as Sela, the largest live-events company in the kingdom, to get the festival off the ground. Sela will produce alongside Bruce Hills, a legendary comedy producer who spent nearly four decades at Just for Laughs, helping to turn it into the largest and most prestigious comedy festival in the world.

    A source familiar with comedy touring noted that there’s big money to be made by comics in the Middle East — up to millions, or tens of millions, depending on the profile of the artist. They said many top stand-ups are happy to be “wined and dined” by the Saudi government, which has come to recognize the power of comics as the “cultural icons” of our time.

    Of course, there are also significant drawbacks — or at least factors to consider — in performing in the Middle East. For starters, Saudi Arabia is known for limiting freedom of expression when it comes to the arts — typically dictating on the offer sheet, per multiple agents, what cannot be said on topics like religion, sex and the Saudi royal family.

    While the kingdom is known for its discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community, sources were particularly curious as to how many female comics will be appearing, given that they’d have to perform under the constraints of Sharia law in a country considered even more conservative than the likes of Abu Dhabi or Dubai. Sources said organizers are currently in talks with Cummings, Garg, and Kirson, among others.

    Given WME’s extensive roster of talent, expect a strong showing from its comedians; Hart, Davidson and Segura are each with the agency. You’ll also see comics like Peters, who has worked in the Middle East for years, though it’s unclear what the balance will look like between international headliners and local acts.

    It is also unclear how many marquee names not repped by WME would make the trek to Saudi Arabia; at least one top comedian that fills arenas has declined to attend, sources said.

    There has been a shift in recent years in terms of top talent’s willingness to show face in Saudi as the stigma of doing so has dissipated over time. Both Hart and Peters have performed there recently, with the likes of Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias and the Wayans Brothers also making appearances. WWE has been hosting female wresting events in Saudi Arabia since 2019, and Live Nation is now active there in managing operations for Maraya, the world’s largest mirrored structure and one of the kingdom’s largest venues.

    Perhaps the biggest showing of Hollywood star power in Saudi Arabia has come via the Red Sea Film Festival, which since 2021 has attracted female A-listers like Gwyneth Paltrow, Viola Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Erivo and Michelle Yeoh alongside the likes of Baz Luhrmann, Spike Lee and Will Smith — with at least some reportedly receiving substantial payments for their appearances.

    Word of developments around the Riyadh Comedy Festival comes following March’s revelation that TKO, the parent company of UFC and WWE, had set a multi-year partnership with Alalshikh and Sela to establish a new boxing promotion.

    WME seems a natural fit as consultant to the comedy festival given its expertise in packaging live events of all kinds including comedy tours, as well as a history of business dealings in the Middle East. Amid Saudi Vision 2030, a strategic plan launched by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that focused on transforming Saudi’s society and economy, diversifying the latter beyond oil, with a focus on sectors like tourism and entertainment, Saudi’s Public Investment Fund committed $400 million for a minority stake in Endeavor in 2018. The deal was abruptly reversed months later following the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, with then-Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel (who is also TKO CEO) returning the money.

    Amid Endeavor’s efforts to distance itself from Saudi Arabia, WWE in 2018 entered a entered a lucrative 10-year partnership with Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority for live wrestling events. In 2023, Endeavor acquired WWE and formed TKO, with plenty of activity following for TKO in the kingdom.

    Although the Riyadh Comedy Festival marks a new level of investment in comedy for Saudi Arabia, the region is no stranger to high-profile comedy events. Abu Dhabi’s Comedy Season, which this year featured Hart, Dave Chappelle, Trevor Noah and Bill Burr, and Jordan’s Amman Stand-up Comedy Festival are among others attracting top talent. Dubai’s Comedy Festival, meanwhile, will see Segura perform, along with comics like Akaash Singh and Morgan Jay, in October.

    As a disclosure, Deadline’s parent company, Penske Media Corporation received $200 million from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund in 2018. The deal included a minority equity stake in PMC and a $25 million joint venture focused on the Middle East and North Africa region.

    Hart is also repped by 3 Arts and Schreck Rose Dapello; Davidson by Ayala Cohen Management and Granderson Des Rochers; and Segura by Mosaic and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Jefferies is repped by GetComedy, UTA, and Brillstein Entertainment Partners; Peters by UTA, Seven Summits Pictures & Management, Jacobson, Russell, Saltz, and attorney Mark A. Feigenbaum.

    This story originated as part of Deadline’s new Comedy Means Business newsletter. Sign up here.


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  • Study shows favorable outcomes with guideline-based treatment for localized prostate cancer

    Study shows favorable outcomes with guideline-based treatment for localized prostate cancer

    Study findings published in the Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) showed encouraging long-term survival outcomes following NCCN guideline-recommended treatment for nonmetastatic prostate cancer.1

    Among patients with low-risk disease, the 15-year prostate cancer mortality was 5.5%.

    Overall, data showed that for patients with low- to intermediate-risk prostate cancer, the risk of prostate cancer mortality was 6 times lower than the risk of mortality from other causes. Further, in patients with high-risk prostate cancer, the risk of prostate cancer mortality was still 2 times lower than the risk of mortality from other causes.

    “Our data support adherence to guideline recommendations for treatment of prostate cancer,” said lead author Pietro Scilipoti, MD, of Uppsala University in Sweden and IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital in Italy, in a news release on the findings.2 “If guideline-recommended treatment is used, most people with prostate cancer will live for many years after diagnosis. That includes active surveillance as an excellent treatment strategy for appropriately selected people.”

    In total, the study included data from 135,636 patients in Sweden who had nonmetastatic prostate cancer and a life expectancy greater than 3 years. Among these patients, 62,839 (46%) received treatment in accordance with NCCN guidelines.

    The median age of patients was 67 years (IQR, 62 to 73), and the median life expectancy was 18 years (IQR, 13 to 22). Overall, 42% of patients received radical prostatectomy, 22% received radiotherapy with or without androgen deprivation therapy, and 20% underwent active surveillance.

    Among patients with low-risk disease, the 15-year prostate cancer mortality was 5.5% (95% CI, 4.8 to 6.2), and mortality from other causes was 37% (95% CI, 35 to 39). Among patients with very high-risk prostate cancer, the 15-year mortality rate was 22% (95% CI, 21 to 24) for prostate cancer and 36% (95% CI, 34 to 38) from other causes.

    The estimated 30-year mortality rate among patients with low-risk prostate cancer was 12% (95% CI, 10 to 14) from prostate cancer and 77% (95% CI, 74 to 80) from other causes. For patients with high-risk prostate cancer, mortality was 20% (95% CI, 18 to 22) from prostate cancer and 67% (95% CI, 61 to 73) from other causes. Among those with very high-risk prostate cancer, prostate cancer mortality was 30% (95% CI, 29 to 32), and mortality from other causes was 63% (95% CI, 59 to 67).

    Data also showed that mortality from prostate cancer and from other causes varied according to life expectancy within each risk category. For example, for those with low-risk disease and a life expectancy greater than 15 years, 15-year prostate cancer mortality was 2.5%, and mortality from other causes was 20%. In patients with low-risk disease and a life expectancy less than 10 years, 15-year prostate cancer mortality was 10%, and mortality from other causes was 81%.

    “This study offers a big sigh of relief for many men facing a prostate cancer diagnosis,” concluded Ahmad Shabsigh, MD, of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, Member of the NCCN Guidelines Panel for Prostate Cancer, in the news release.2 “It reveals that with NCCN Guidelines-recommended treatment, you’re significantly more likely to die from something else—up to 6 times more likely, in fact—even if your cancer is high-risk. This holds true even when looking at data from a different health care system, like Sweden’s. What’s truly striking is that for patients with low-risk prostate cancer, many of whom were on active surveillance, the 30-year mortality risk from the cancer itself was only about 11%. It really underscores the power of evidence-based treatment plans and the importance of focusing on a person’s overall health, not just their cancer.”

    REFERENCES

    1. Scilipoti P, Bratt O, Garmo H, et al. Long-term outcomes after guideline-recommended treatment of men with prostate cancer. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2025;23(7):e257022. doi:10.6004/jnccn.2025.7022

    2. New research in JNCCN offers reassurance about localized prostate cancer prognosis. News release. National Comprehensive Cancer Network. July 8, 2025. Accessed July 14, 2025. https://www.newswise.com/articles/new-research-in-jnccn-offers-reassurance-about-localized-prostate-cancer-prognosis

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  • BBC Gaza documentary narrated by Hamas official’s son breached editorial guidelines, review says

    BBC Gaza documentary narrated by Hamas official’s son breached editorial guidelines, review says

    The BBC has been under intense scrutiny for its coverage touching on the war in Gaza. File
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    Britain’s media regulator said Monday (July 14, 2025) it will investigate a BBC documentary about children’s lives in Gaza, after a review concluded that the narrator’s father has Hamas links and the programme therefore breached editorial guidelines on accuracy.

    The broadcaster removed the programme, “Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone,” from its streaming service in February after it emerged that the 13-year-old narrator, Abdullah, is the son of Ayman Alyazouri, who has worked as Hamas’s deputy minister of agriculture.

    Ofcom, the media regulator, said that it was launching an investigation under rules that state factual programmes must not materially mislead the audience.

    That came after a review by the broadcaster found that the independent production company that made the programme didn’t share the background information regarding the narrator’s father with the BBC. It said that the production company, Hoyo Films, bears most responsibility for the failure, though it didn’t “intentionally” mislead the BBC.

    The review, conducted by the corporation’s director of editorial complaints, found no other breaches of editorial guidelines, including impartiality. There was no evidence of “outside interests” impacting on the programme, it said.

    Earlier this year, U.K. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy questioned why no one at the BBC had lost their job over the programme’s airing.

    The broadcaster’s Director-General Tim Davie had told lawmakers that the BBC received hundreds of complaints alleging that the documentary was biased against Israel — as well as hundreds more criticising the programme’s removal from its streaming service.

    Directors Ken Loach and Mike Leigh and actor Riz Ahmed were among 500 media figures who signed a letter published by Artists for Palestine U.K. saying a “political” campaign to discredit the program risked dehumanizing Palestinian voices in the media.

    Davie said that the report identified “a significant failing” in relation to accuracy in the documentary. Hoyo Films apologized for the mistake. Both firms said they would prevent similar errors in the future.

    Separately, more than 100 BBC journalists wrote a letter to Davie earlier this month criticizing its decision not to air another documentary, “Gaza: Medics Under Fire.” They expressed concerns that the broadcaster wasn’t reporting “’without fear or favour’ when it comes to Israel.” The decision suggested that the BBC was an “organization that is crippled by the fear of being perceived as critical of the Israeli government,” that letter said.

    The BBC has been under intense scrutiny for its coverage touching on the war in Gaza. Last month, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and others condemned the broadcaster for livestreaming a performance by rap punk duo Bob Vylan, who led crowds at Glastonbury Festival in chanting “death” to the Israeli military.

    The Israel-Hamas war started after the militant group led an attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 hostage. Most of the hostages have been released in earlier ceasefires. Israel’s offensive in Gaza has killed more than 58,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

    The ministry, under Gaza’s Hamas-run government, doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants in its count. The UN and other international organisations see its figures as the most reliable statistics on war casualties.

    Published – July 15, 2025 12:41 am IST

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  • Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI granted up to $200 million for AI work from Defense Department

    Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI granted up to $200 million for AI work from Defense Department

    The U.S. Department of Defense on Monday said it’s granting contract awards of up to $200 million for artificial intelligence development at Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI.

    The DoD’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office said the awards will help the agency accelerate its adoption of “advanced AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges.” The companies will work to develop AI agents across several mission areas at the agency.

    “The adoption of AI is transforming the Department’s ability to support our warfighters and maintain strategic advantage over our adversaries,” Doug Matty, the DoD’s chief digital and AI officer, said in a release.

    Elon Musk’s xAI also announced Grok for Government on Monday, which is a suite of products that make the company’s models available to U.S. government customers. The products are available through the General Services Administration (GSA) schedule, which allows federal government departments, agencies, or offices to purchase them, according to a post on X.

    OpenAI was previously awarded a year-long $200 million contract from the DoD in 2024, shortly after it said it would collaborate with defense technology startup Anduril to deploy advanced AI systems for “national security missions.”

    In June, the company launched OpenAI for Government for U.S. federal, state, and local government workers.

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  • Wimbledon champs Iga Swiatek, Jannik Sinner share a sweet dance

    Wimbledon champs Iga Swiatek, Jannik Sinner share a sweet dance

    After their commanding wins on Centre Court this past weekend, newly crowned Wimbledon champions Iga Swiatek and Jannik Sinner donned their formalwear at the inaugural Champions Dinner and graced the attendees with a celebratory dance.

    It was brief but sweet, complete with a twirl, as the adoring crowd emphatically cheered the winners as they seemed to embrace the moment and enjoy sharing it together. 

    Swiatek, who steamrolled 13th-seeded Amanda Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 to capture her sixth Grand Slam title and first Wimbledon, looked stunning and playful in her Stella McCartney lilac gown. Sinner, who overcame two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz in four hard-fought sets to claim his first title at the All England Club and fourth major overall, looked similarly at ease in his custom Gucci suit.

    It was the perfect ending to a memorable weekend for the eighth-seeded 24-year-old, who became the first Polish woman to win Wimbledon after going more than a year without a title of any kind. She was clinical and utterly dominant throughout the fortnight, dropping just one set (to American Caty McNally, in the second round) and concluding her triumph with three consecutive bagels and 20 consecutive games won.

    She was predictably (and admiringly) candid after the match, admitting that she didn’t see this kind of dominant effort coming, especially considering she had never won a grass-court title, let alone Wimbledon. 

    “For sure this title surprised me,” she told wtatennis.com after the final. “I’ve got to say that winning Wimbledon was last on my bucket list, because I just thought it was going to be the hardest one, the most tricky one. It means for me I should always believe, because if I could just adjust my game to grass, I think anything is possible.”

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  • ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Soundtrack Hits New Peak at No. 2 on Albums Chart

    ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Soundtrack Hits New Peak at No. 2 on Albums Chart

    Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation’s “KPop Demon Hunters,” an animated feature about fictional girl group Huntrix, claims the No. 2 spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart this week. The film and its soundtrack have been surprise hits, with Huntrix’s “Golden” single also peaking at No. 6 on the Hot 100 this week.

    Huntrix claims the highest-charting soundtrack of 2025 so far, earning 75,000 equivalent album units — a new pinnacle — in its third week on the albums chart, per Luminate. “Golden” is in the top 10 of the Hot 100 with 18.8 million streams and 950,000 in airplay audience impressions. and 3,000 sold. The entire “Demon Hunters” soundtrack logged 96 million on-demand official streams — the biggest streaming week for a soundtrack in more three years.

    In the 2020s, only three other soundtracks have reached the top two on the Billboard 200: “Wicked,” which debuted and peaked at No. 2 in 2024; “Barbie,” also No. 2 debut and peak, in 2023; and “Encanto,” which spent nine weeks at No. 1 in 2022.

    “Demon Hunters” premiered on June 20 in a limited theatrical release in the United States, and on Netflix, alongside its soundtrack. In the tracking week ending July 6. It debuted on the list at No. 8 and climbed to No. 3 in its second week on the chart with its biggest impact on streaming.

    The Billboard 200 is led by Morgan Wallen’s “I’m the Problem,” which reaches a major milestone of having spent its first two months on the Billboard 200 at No. 1. Notably, Wallen claims two other spots in the top 10 with “One Thing at a Time” at No. 3, despite its initial debut (also at No. 1) happening in March 2023, and his “Dangerous: The Double Album” at No. 6.

    Bad Bunny’s “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” moves up to No. 16 to No. 7 just in time for the start of his 30-date residency in Puerto Rico. Elsewhere, SZA’s chart-topping “SOS” is a No. 4; Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet” is at No. 5; and Karol G’s “Tropicoqueta” is at No. 8.

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