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On 1 July 2026 India’s IT Ministry served Meta-owned WhatsApp a legal notice giving it three days to justify its new username feature and forbidding any launch in India until government security concerns over scams and impersonation are resolved.
EU’s Copernicus data show June 2026 sea-surface temperatures rose another 0.18 °C above the previous June record, signalling a new peak in the planet’s heat absorption.
A cluster of June 30 announcements and surveys shows companies rolling back AI-driven layoffs while launching new governance layers to rein in cost overruns and accuracy risks, marking a decisive shift from pure automation hype to controlled, human-supervised deployment.
Commerce withdrew its 12 June export-control order on 30 June, letting Anthropic relaunch Fable 5 to the public and Mythos 5 to vetted U.S. users beginning 1 July 2026.
On 29 June 2026, President Lee Jae-Myung enlisted Samsung and SK Hynix to spend KRW 800 trillion on four new fabs in the under-developed southwest, the keystone of a KRW 576 billion state-backed, trillion-won programme to dominate AI semiconductors, data centres and robotics.
Between 20-29 June 2026, a stagnant ‘Omega-block’ sent temperatures above 41 °C in at least five EU states, causing more than 1,300 excess deaths and forcing emergency rail, power and public-health shutdowns across the continent.
On 29 June 2026 Delhi approved an EV Policy effective 1 July that invests ₹15,000 crore and legally ends new petrol/CNG two-wheeler registrations by April 2028 while granting 100 % road-tax and registration fee exemption to electric vehicles priced up to ₹30 lakh.
Between 21 and 28 June 2026, an unprecedented early-summer heatwave pushed European temperatures past 40 °C, prompting the WHO on 28-29 June to report over 1,300 excess deaths and warn that such ‘once-in-a-generation’ events are now nearly annual.
Preliminary data released 28-29 June show France suffered roughly 1,000 more deaths than normal between 24-26 June 2026 when a continent-wide heatwave smashed temperature records.
On 28 June 2026 Europe’s heat-dome intensified, with Germany registering a provisional all-time high of 41.7 °C while the WHO confirmed more than 1,300 excess deaths since the heat spell began on 21 June.
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