A dangerous heatwave has hit Western Europe, with the UK recording its highest ever June temperature at 36.1 °C. Studies confirm that as temperatures rise, people become more irritable and violent, and firefighters find it harder to focus immediately after heat exposure. Rising temperatures can also have disastrous outcomes for children and people with mental health disorders. Separately, the Trump administration has asked OpenAI to limit its next model release, wanting to vet the first GPT 5.6 users before a wider launch; OpenAI said each initial partner will be government-approved, marking the first time a US firm has been told to restrict an AI model before release. Apple and Xbox have hiked prices, with some MacBooks, iPads, and Xboxes going up by over 20%, blaming AI-driven chip costs. Colossal and the US are building an endangered species "biovault" to cryptopreserve over 2,300 plant and animal samples. The US has banned Polestar from selling its EVs due to anti-China rules, as the Sweden-based company is majority-owned by China's Geely. China is betting on humanoids to beat its demographic decline, wanting the robots to narrow the labour gap. The "fingerprints" of a black hole's event horizon have been detected by studying ripples in space-time.