President Trump posted on his social media site that a meeting between U.S. and Chinese officials went well and that a deal was reached regarding “a ‘certain’ company that young people in our Country very much wanted to save,” the AP reports.

He didn’t provide any details on the deal, only that younger Americans “will be very happy!”

Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) said that amid efforts to foster bipartisan discourse, the internet “is driving extremism in our country,” CBS News reports.

“Social media is a cancer, and I would urge people to log off, turn off, and touch grass.”

— Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R), at a press conference.

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) vowed to use “congressional authority” to “cancel” anyone who celebrated the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Said Higgins: “I’m going to lean forward in this fight, demanding that big tech have zero tolerance for violent political hate content, the user to be banned from ALL PLATFORMS FOREVER.”

He added: “I’m also going after their business licenses and permitting, their businesses will be blacklisted aggressively, they should be kicked from every school, and their drivers licenses should be revoked.”

“There’s rich, there’s very rich, there’s incomprehensibly rich, and then there’s the day Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison is poised to have,” Axios reports.

“After Oracle offered a growth forecast that stunned investors, Ellison is poised to make more Wednesday than any human being likely has ever made in one day.”

“Trump 2.0 is taking it easy on Big Tech, despite some forecasts that he would wield an antitrust anvil,” Axios reports.

“The slackness is sparking a wave of large U.S. tech mergers, with dollar volume up 52% from this time last year.”

“I wasn’t ready to do our announcement. I wasn’t sure what number you wanted to go with.”

— Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, caught on a hot mic talking to President Trump after saying his company would invest $600 billion dollars in the U.S.

Wired: “Within hours, the platform was flooded with wild claims about the shooter and her motivation, with everyone from Elon Musk, the site’s owner, to the head of the FBI and left-wing activists posting half-baked allegations blaming anti-Christian hate, transgender genocide, and white supremacy. Many of the posts racked up millions of views per X’s public metrics.”

“While other social media platforms were also used to share unfounded claims about the shooter’s motivations, X, under Musk, has become the perfect platform to supercharge the spread of dangerous disinformation during breaking news events.”

“Silicon Valley corporations and investors, emboldened by President Trump’s embrace of the technology and crypto industries, have pledged up to $200 million to two new super PACs that are aimed at forcing out politicians whom they see as insufficiently supportive of the push into artificial intelligence,” the New York Times reports.

“After several disappointing failures, SpaceX’s Starship — the mammoth rocket that Elon Musk hopes to use to take people to Mars — made it all the way up to space and all the way back down to Earth during a 10th test flight,” the New York Times reports.

“The largely successful mission was a likely relief to both SpaceX and NASA, suggesting that the development program is back on track. NASA is counting on Starship as the lander to put its astronauts on the moon in the coming years.”

Reuters: SpaceX’s Starship deploys first mock Starlink satellites on 10th test flight.

New York Times: “Members of the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded a copy of a crucial Social Security database in June to a vulnerable cloud server, putting the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans at risk of being leaked or hacked, according to a whistle-blower complaint filed by the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer.”

“The database contains records of all Social Security numbers issued by the federal government. It includes individuals’ full names, addresses and birth dates, among other details that could be used to steal their identities, making it one of the nation’s most sensitive repositories of personal information.”