The day in tech.

Google released "Take notes for me" for Gemini in Google Meet, available to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers and eligible Workspace business customers. The feature transcribes conversations, creates summaries with action items, saves notes as Google Docs, and sends email recaps. Personal users need the $19.99 monthly Google AI Pro subscription.

Google removed the paywall on Gemini's personalized Nano Banana image generation, making it free for all eligible US users aged 13 and older. The feature, previously limited to Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers, draws on data from Google services like Gmail and Photos. Editing remains restricted to users 18 and older.

Alphabet shares rose 4% on its first day in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Verizon. Despite the gain, the stock is tracking for its worst month since February, with investors questioning AI spending returns, compute shortages, and researcher departures to rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI.

South Korea announced an 800 trillion won ($520 billion) public-private investment plan with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix to expand chipmaking capacity. Each company will build two new fabrication plants in the country's southwestern region. The government also plans to construct about $357 billion worth of AI data centers.

Tidal will block wholly AI-generated music from earning royalties and remove AI-generated music that impersonates artists. Starting July 15, the platform will label 100 percent AI-generated tracks. Tidal said it will not knowingly attribute royalties to music identified as wholly AI-generated.

The iPhone 18 will have a 6.3-inch LTPO OLED 120Hz display, while the iPhone 18e keeps a 6.12-inch LTPS OLED 60Hz panel without ProMotion or Always-On. The iPhone 18 base model is now expected to ship with 9GB of RAM, down from earlier rumors of 12GB.

The SEC obtained a $5.4 million final judgment against NanoBit, resolving allegations that the crypto platform was fake and misappropriated hundreds of thousands of dollars in investor funds.

Base44, the vibe coding platform acquired by Wix for $80 million, has started rolling out its own AI model called Base One. The fine-tuned open-source LLM is trained on tens of millions of real user interactions. Founder Maor Shlomo says owning the model enables optimizations on latency, cost, and efficiency.

Omen AI raised $31 million in Series A funding led by Nava Ventures to monitor liquid coolant in data centers. Its spectrometer detects bacterial contamination in real time, preventing costly downtime from flushing systems for five to six hours per rack.

The Magnificent Seven technology stocks lost $2.3 trillion in combined market value during a Wall Street rotation out of tech. The sell-off hit Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta, and Tesla as investors shifted capital to other sectors.