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DIFC Data Protection Consultation Puts AI Governance Into Dubai’s Finance Rulebook

DIFC is consulting on amendments to its Data Protection Regulations that would sharpen AI-system safety, certification and Autonomous Systems Officer rules for firms in the Dubai financial centre.

#DIFC #AI governance #data protection

June 23, 2026Read More →

JUPITER Turns Europe’s Exascale Supercomputer Into A Scientific AI Test Bed

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JUPITER Turns Europe’s Exascale Supercomputer Into A Scientific AI Test Bed

JUPITER is running projects in brain mapping, climate simulation, wireless AI and quantum-computer simulation, showing how exascale systems are becoming shared infrastructure for scientific AI.

#exascale computing #scientific AI #JUPITER

June 23, 2026Read More →

Eco Wave Links Shoreline Power To The Energy Strain Behind AI Infrastructure

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Eco Wave Links Shoreline Power To The Energy Strain Behind AI Infrastructure

Eco Wave Power is using NVIDIA AI infrastructure and digital twins to model wave-energy equipment near ports and industrial zones, where future AI facilities may face grid and permitting limits.

#energy #AI infrastructure #wave energy

June 23, 2026Read More →

NVIDIA’s NAIRR Support Shows Public AI Research Needs Dedicated Compute

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NVIDIA’s NAIRR Support Shows Public AI Research Needs Dedicated Compute

NVIDIA says the NAIRR pilot has supported more than 700 projects, showing how public research access to DGX infrastructure is becoming part of the AI compute debate.

#AI infrastructure #public research #NAIRR

June 23, 2026Read More →

Groq Raises $650 Million As Its AI Chip Story Turns Toward Neocloud Scale

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Groq Raises $650 Million As Its AI Chip Story Turns Toward Neocloud Scale

Groq announced a $650 million round after Nvidia licensed its technology and hired senior leaders, leaving the AI chip company to rebuild around a neocloud business spanning 13 data centers.

#semiconductors #AI chips #AI inference

June 23, 2026Read More →

DIFC Report Puts AI Banking Resilience Ahead Of Legacy Scale

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DIFC Report Puts AI Banking Resilience Ahead Of Legacy Scale

DIFC’s Future of Finance report says AI-driven challenger banks are exposing traditional banking models, with industry profit pools at risk of falling by USD 170bn by 2030 without decisive transformation.

#fintech #DIFC #AI banking

June 23, 2026Read More →

xAI Turbine Fight Turns AI Data Centers Into A National Security Case

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xAI Turbine Fight Turns AI Data Centers Into A National Security Case

The US Justice Department urged a federal court to dismiss a Memphis lawsuit over xAI gas turbines, arguing that power for Grok is tied to national and military interests.

#xAI #Grok #AI infrastructure

June 23, 2026Read More →

Microsoft’s 2GW Texas Campus Puts AI Data Centers Into The Gas-Power Debate

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Microsoft’s 2GW Texas Campus Puts AI Data Centers Into The Gas-Power Debate

Microsoft is planning a 2GW data center campus in Pecos, Texas, with Chevron supplying up to 2.67GW of behind-the-meter power under a 20-year PPA.

#Microsoft #Chevron #Project Kirby

June 23, 2026Read More →

PLDT Puts Philippine Data Centers Into A REIT IPO Pipeline

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PLDT Puts Philippine Data Centers Into A REIT IPO Pipeline

PLDT’s Vitro unit has filed a REIT plan for eight Philippine data centers totaling 24MW, with the proposed IPO targeting ₱24.2 billion.

#PLDT #Vitro REIT #data center REIT

June 23, 2026Read More →

Samsung UFS 5.0 Turns Phone Storage Into An On-Device AI Constraint

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Samsung UFS 5.0 Turns Phone Storage Into An On-Device AI Constraint

Samsung says its UFS 5.0 storage reaches 10.8 GB/s read speed, improves power efficiency by more than 40% and will enter mass production in the fourth quarter of this year.

#semiconductors #mobile memory #on device AI

June 23, 2026Read More →

Meta Leads CRED’s $900 Mn Round As India Fintech Prepares For IPO Path

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Meta Leads CRED’s $900 Mn Round As India Fintech Prepares For IPO Path

CRED raised $900 Mn in a Series H round led by Meta, with founder Kunal Shah moving to lead WhatsApp and Miten Sampat becoming interim CEO.

#Indian fintech #IPO pipeline #CRED

June 22, 2026Read More →

Bank Of England Drops Stablecoin Holding Caps For A £40 Billion Issuer Guardrail

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Bank Of England Drops Stablecoin Holding Caps For A £40 Billion Issuer Guardrail

The Bank of England draft systemic stablecoin rules replace temporary holding limits with an initial £40 billion issuance guardrail and raise the short-term government debt backing share to 70%.

#stablecoins #payments regulation #Bank of England

June 22, 2026Read More →