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Revolut Adds VARA Crypto Approval To UAE Payments Licences

PYMNTS reported that Revolut received in-principle VARA approval for a UAE VASP licence, weeks after Central Bank of the UAE payment licences. PYMNTS said final approval is still required, with the UAE launch date, crypto pricing and first customer numbers outside the public record.

#Revolut #VARA #UAE crypto licence

July 16, 2026Read More →

US Export-Control Shift Opens UAE AI Chip Access, DCD Reports

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US Export-Control Shift Opens UAE AI Chip Access, DCD Reports

Data Center Dynamics reported that the US government has moved the UAE into a lower-restriction export-control category, giving UAE companies broader access to advanced AI chips from Nvidia and AMD. The account names G42 and hyperscaler data-centre projects, but it does not list chip volumes, approved licences or specific UAE projects.

#UAE AI chips #G42 #Nvidia

July 16, 2026Read More →

Cadence Adds AuraStack AI Agent For PCB And Advanced Packaging Design

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Cadence Adds AuraStack AI Agent For PCB And Advanced Packaging Design

The Register reported that Cadence Design Systems introduced AuraStack, an agentic AI system for PCB and advanced packaging workflows. Cadence cited a 15x productivity claim and named Nvidia among customers, but The Register did not include pricing, availability dates, full customer names or independent benchmark results.

#Cadence Design Systems #AuraStack #PCB design

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OpenAI Backs State AI Safety Baseline As Federal Cyber Tests Near

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OpenAI Backs State AI Safety Baseline As Federal Cyber Tests Near

OpenAI said California, New York and Illinois have advanced frontier AI safety legislation with shared disclosure, incident-reporting and audit elements, while a federal cyber-testing framework is still targeted for early August.

#OpenAI #AI safety #frontier AI regulation

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Intel Ships Panther Lake Chips Built With ASML High NA EUV

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Intel Ships Panther Lake Chips Built With ASML High NA EUV

Intel has shipped selected Panther Lake processors made on Intel 18A with ASML High NA EUV lithography, Interesting Engineering reported, giving Intel production data while customer names, shipment volumes and wider node timing remain undisclosed.

#Intel #ASML #High NA EUV

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Thinking Machines Releases Inkling Open-Weights Model With 975 Billion Parameters

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Thinking Machines Releases Inkling Open-Weights Model With 975 Billion Parameters

SiliconANGLE reported that Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling, its first foundation model, with full open weights and fine-tuning through Tinker. The account cited 975 billion total parameters, about 41 billion active parameters per average prompt and training on about 45 trillion tokens, while leaving customer deployments and independent benchmark validation undisclosed.

#Thinking Machines #Inkling #open weights

July 16, 2026Read More →

OpenAI Keeps GPT-Red Attack Model Private After Prompt-Injection Tests

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OpenAI Keeps GPT-Red Attack Model Private After Prompt-Injection Tests

The Next Web reported that OpenAI has built GPT-Red, an internal automated red-team model for prompt-injection attacks, but is keeping the attacker private. The report cited attack success rates above 90% against an older GPT-5 and below 23% against GPT-5.6, while noting that human testers still catch cases GPT-Red misses.

#OpenAI #GPT Red #prompt injection

July 16, 2026Read More →

Nokia And NVIDIA Push AI-RAN Roadmap Toward 2027 Field Tests

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Nokia And NVIDIA Push AI-RAN Roadmap Toward 2027 Field Tests

Nokia announced an AI-native RAN platform with NVIDIA Aerial integration and claimed demonstrated spectral-efficiency gains of more than 20%, while its larger 50% and 100% capacity targets remain tied to 2027 and 2028 roadmap milestones.

#telecom #Nokia #Nvidia

July 16, 2026Read More →

OpenAI Adds Usage Analytics And Spend Controls For ChatGPT Work

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OpenAI Adds Usage Analytics And Spend Controls For ChatGPT Work

OpenAI said GPT-5.6 uses 54% fewer output tokens and 57% less time per task in a named coding-agent index, while its enterprise guidance tells ChatGPT Work admins to manage AI spend by accepted outcomes, usage analytics and governance controls rather than token price alone.

#OpenAI #ChatGPT Work #GPT 5.6

July 15, 2026Read More →

IMEC Outlines CMOS 2.0 Path As AI Compute Demand Rises

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IMEC Outlines CMOS 2.0 Path As AI Compute Demand Rises

CommonWealth Magazine English reported that IMEC's new CEO Patrick Vandenameele outlined semiconductor roadmap work tied to AI inference demand, CMOS 2.0 stacking, memory placement and optical interconnects. CommonWealth reported that Vandenameele estimated a 150-fold workload increase as AI shifts from training to inference, while TSMC's Kevin Zhang pointed to nanosheet, CFET and 3D stacking work.

#IMEC #TSMC #semiconductors

July 15, 2026Read More →

Allstate Says Broadcom Ordered Four Audits After VMware Exit

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Allstate Says Broadcom Ordered Four Audits After VMware Exit

Ars Technica reported that a June filing accused Broadcom of starting four audits after Allstate chose not to renew VMware and CA contracts. VMware and CA have separate cases against the insurer, while the filings leave its current virtualisation stack and production impact undisclosed.

#Broadcom #VMware #Allstate

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Oracle Adds AI-Native Builder For Fusion Agentic Applications

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Oracle Adds AI-Native Builder For Fusion Agentic Applications

Yahoo Tech, republishing Verdict, said Oracle introduced an AI-native builder inside AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications. Oracle said the builder supports no-code, low-code and pro-code work, runs inside Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, and can extend over 1,000 existing AI agents and 22 Fusion Agentic Applications.

#Oracle #AI Agent Studio #Fusion Applications

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