Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Indirect talks between US and Iranian officials restart in Doha on Wednesday, focused on unfreezing at least $6 billion in Iranian assets. Tehran is holding firm: no face-to-face negotiations until hostilities end in Lebanon and the money moves. US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are already in Qatar handling the groundwork.
A federal financial disclosure filing reveals Donald Trump made more than $1 billion from cryptocurrency ventures in his first year back in office, dwarfing income from real estate holdings that took decades to build. The haul includes hundreds of millions from the sale of Trump-branded crypto tokens, alongside smaller earnings from Bibles, watches, and perfume. The filing puts his total reported crypto income at $1.4 billion.
The US Commerce Department has reversed its export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, weeks after abruptly suspending foreign access over hacking concerns. The models — among the most capable AI tools currently available — can now be re-released globally. Separately, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a new autonomous research product aimed at pharmaceutical and biotech users.
The Supreme Court's current term has handed Trump a mixed verdict — delivering major wins on executive authority while also ruling against him on key issues including birthright citizenship. The pattern signals the court is willing to expand presidential power structurally while still enforcing constitutional limits case by case. The birthright citizenship ruling was the final major decision of the term.
A coast-to-coast computer outage hit Boeing's commercial and military factories on the last day of Q2 — the single most important day of the quarter for deliveries and financial results. Final aircraft inspections were stalled and some handovers to customers could not be completed, threatening to dent the company's quarterly numbers. Production sites from Washington state to Florida were all affected.
