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Trump signed a downsized AI executive order with voluntary 30-day pre-release model review and cybersecurity clearinghouse, down from the 90-day mandatory draft scrapped in May.

Polish PM Tusk announces a sovereignty test for state tech procurement and annual IT independence reports, warning foreign AI dependency threatens security and economy.

RogueDB offers a fully managed, API-driven database that removes configuration and tuning overhead, aiming to give startup engineering teams more time to build products instead of maintaining infrastructure.

The EU's 20 billion euro plan for five AI data centres faces delays and funding gaps, with bidding pushed to July, interest narrowing from 70 companies to 10, and consortia reconsidering.

Microsoft's Majorana 2 qubits last 20 seconds vs microseconds for rivals, built with agentic AI. The company now targets a scalable quantum computer by 2029.

Perplexity AI built a real-time routing system that splits AI workloads between PCs and cloud servers, announced at Computex alongside Intel as revenue hits $500M.

Microsoft's Project Solara is a new platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps. Two concept designs, a badge and desk device, are piloting with Best Buy, CVS, Levi's, and Target.

Attackers bypassed Dashlane's 2FA on fewer than 20 accounts by brute-forcing numeric codes, downloading encrypted password vaults. Zero-knowledge encryption protects data if master passwords are strong.

OpenAI turns Codex into an enterprise platform with hosted web apps, 62 business app plugins, and 110 skills. Non-developers are 20% of 5M weekly users, growing 3x faster.

German fusion startup Focused Energy raised $240M Series A led by utility RWE to build a laser-powered reactor based on the NIF's net energy gain breakthrough.