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Source: Butterfly Effect, the startup behind Manus, has shut down its entire China-based team to minimize geopolitical risks associated with its ties to China (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/startup-behi…

Startup Behind Manus AI Agent Shuts Down China Team
The startup behind Manus, an artificial intelligence agent that went viral earlier this year and got financial backing from Benchmark, has shut down its entire China-based team, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. It’s the latest sign that Manus, whose biggest target market is the U.S., wants to minimize geopolitical risks associated with China ties. Butterfly Effect, the

Questions But Not Chaos at the USA #Copyright Office https://illusionofmore.com/questions-but-not-chaos-at-the-copyri…

Questions But Not Chaos at the Copyright Office - The Illusion of More
Yes, the details are hard to follow through the fog, but I would not describe the Copyright Office as being in a state of chaos.

Judge orders Trump administration to stop immigration arrests in Southern California without probable cause (Kaanita Iyer/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/11/politics/california-immigration-arrests-probable-cause
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p114#a250711p114

House committee sets CISA budget cut at $135M, not Trump’s $495M
https://cyberscoop.com/cisa-budget-135m-dhs-2026-house-appropriations/

House committee sets CISA budget cut at $135M, not Trump’s $495M
A House panel approved a fiscal 2026 funding bill Monday that would cut the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency by $135 million from fiscal 2025, significantly less than the Trump administration’s proposed $495 million.

Huh? https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/issues/1198

Support Atom Over XMPP · Issue #1198 · cheeaun/phanpy
Problem I have XMPP is also a publishing platform. The largest HTML-based platforms to utilize Atom Over XMPP are Libervia and Movim, and I also maintain a couple of projects that are called Blasta...

Chime priced its US IPO at $27 a share, above the expected range, raising ~$700M and another $165M from shares sold by investors, valuing the company at $11.6B (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/11/chime-ipo-fintech.html

Chime prices IPO at $27 per share, valuing fintech company at $11.6 billion ahead of Nasdaq debut
Chime's debut set for Thursday follows recent listings from eToro and Circle, with investors watching closely to gauge broader appetite for fintech offerings.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/politics/chinese-hackers-suspected-law-firm-hack Chinese hackers hacked into the most powerful telecom and communications law firm in DC and maybe the world. Founded by former FCC chairman and true gentleman Dick Wiley.

Chinese hackers suspected in breach of powerful DC law firm
Suspected Chinese hackers have broken into the email accounts of attorneys and advisers at a powerful Washington, DC, law firm in an apparent intelligence-gathering operation, the firm, Wiley Rein, told clients this week in a memo reviewed by CNN.

A look at Apple's vision for Apple TV and its film business, as Tim Cook says the company's $200M bet on the F1 movie is about more than selling iPhones (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/f1-apple…

'F1' and Apple's Movie Strategy: Inside Tim Cook, Lewis Hamilton's Big Bet
Apple CEO Tim Cook pulls back the curtain on the tech giant's film and television strategy, including spending millions on 'F1.

Medium CEO says the company has been profitable since August 2024 and details its financial turnaround after losing $2.6M per month in 2022 (Tony Stubblebine/The Coach Life)
https://medium.com/the-coach-life/fell-in-a-hole-got-out-381356ec8d7f

The UK passes the Data (Use and Access) Bill, criticized by creatives, without an amendment to force companies to declare using copyrighted material to train AI (Zoe Kleinman/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8e6z590wweo

Data bill opposed by Sir Elton John and Dua Lipa finally passes
Leading artists said the bill needed to be changed to protect them from having their work copied by AI.