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Queue raises funding to build fully autonomous pharmacies for hospitals and underserved communities. https://www.therobotreport.com/queue-raises-funding-fully-autonomous-pharmacy/

American grocery prices are rising 2x faster than overall inflation despite strong economic growth. https://www.bespacific.com/we-crunched-the-data-theres-a-grocery-price-emergency-in-america/

New research trains language models to self-explain their predictions, revealing how behavioral change occurs despite fixed supervision. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.32038v1

@AnthropicAI's Claude Sonnet 5 edges past Opus 4.8 on the GDPval-AA v2 knowledge test with a score of 1,618. https://the-decoder.com/anthropics-new-claude-sonnet-5-closes-the-gap-to-the-pricier-opus-model-series/

New paper from @danahboyd and others on avoiding accountability decoys in AI's political economy. https://www.bespacific.com/reckoning-with-the-political-economy-of-ai-avoiding-decoys-in-pursuit-of-accountability/

Trump’s drug war plan builds a national surveillance system using Americans’ medical data. https://www.bespacific.com/trump-wants-your-medical-data-for-his-drug-war/

Linq launches iMessage Apps with interactive cards for payments, tickets, flights, and games inside the chat. https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/30/linqs-imessage-apps/

Abu Dhabi’s MGX raises $49 billion for one of the largest AI funds ever, elevating the two-year-old firm to major investor status. Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-01/uae-abu-dhabi-s-mgx-raises-49-billion-for-one-of-the-biggest-ai-funds-ever