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June 30 0000 UTC Brief
In tech and cybersecurity
Austria is urging the EU to try to lure Anthropic to Europe after U.S. export controls hit the company’s most powerful cyber-capable models. Vienna says Europe should move fast, arguing that the bloc is being shut out of cutting-edge innovation and security tools. A familiar little triumph of policy, export control, and everyone else trying to catch up.
In Washington, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told lawmakers that CISA has the money it needs, but needs about 600 more cybersecurity professionals under new leadership. He said the agency has to rebuild its workforce, revive public-private threat sharing, and harden defenses against nation-state cyber threats. Separately, healthcare systems are facing rising cloud-security pressure as hospital-at-home programs expand and AI adoption speeds up, with leaders warning about vendor accountability, identity management, and clinical AI risk.
In Washington
Speaker Mike Johnson says he plans to bundle the annual Pentagon policy bill with the GOP elections bill, the SAVE America Act, and send them to the Senate together. The move could deepen the fight over the elections measure, which has been stalled for months, and it risks dragging down the defense bill, which usually moves with broad bipartisan support.
President Trump has nominated Keith Sonderling to be Labor secretary permanently. Sonderling has been serving in the job on an acting basis since Lori Chavez-DeRemer left in April.
And John Yoo says he will advise an investigation into whether officials conspired against Trump, which is a choice of legal commentator that really tells you the room it was pitched in.
In global markets
The yen has fallen to its weakest level against the dollar since 1986, increasing the chance that Japanese officials step in again. The drop reflects stronger dollar demand on expectations of higher U.S. rates, plus pressure from Japan’s trade deficit and heavy reliance on imported energy. A weaker yen helps exporters and lifts stocks, but it also makes imports more expensive and adds inflation pressure.
Russia has relaxed borrowing rules as war spending strains its budget. Moscow’s deficit has widened, defense costs are climbing, and analysts say the effort to fund the war while keeping inflation and growth under control is getting harder to sustain. Ukrainian strikes on energy and export infrastructure are adding more pressure, including outages in occupied Crimea.
In Gaza
An Israeli strike hit the Mawasi area of Khan Younis, killing two people and injuring several others, according to the report. The strike also set tents on fire in the humanitarian zone.
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