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SpaceX And Orbital File 100,000-Satellite Plans At FCC

SpaceX and Orbital Compute have filed separate FCC plans for 100,000 satellites each, with SpaceX targeting Starlink Gen 3 broadband and Orbital proposing space-based AI data-centre capacity. The filings do not include approvals, named customers, launch cadence or final commercial timetables.

#orbital data centres #Starlink Gen 3 #SpaceX

July 9, 2026Read More →

Rapidus Targets 2027 2nm Fab Ramp Without Volume Customer

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Rapidus Targets 2027 2nm Fab Ramp Without Volume Customer

Rapidus has EUV equipment running at its Chitose fab and plans 2nm mass production in 2027, but Tom’s Hardware reported that the Japanese chipmaker still lacks a committed high-volume customer.

#Rapidus #2nm chips #Japan semiconductors

July 9, 2026Read More →

Sony Wins OCC Conditional Trust Charter For Stablecoin Unit

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Sony Wins OCC Conditional Trust Charter For Stablecoin Unit

Sony disclosed that the OCC has conditionally approved a U.S. national trust bank for Connectia Trust, a Sony Financial Group subsidiary that would issue and manage dollar-denominated stablecoins. Sony said the unit will be capitalised at $40 million, while trade groups and consumer advocates objected to the charter path.

#Sony Financial Group #Connectia Trust #OCC trust charter

July 9, 2026Read More →

Mastercard Says 77% Of Saudi SMEs Accept Online Payments

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Mastercard Says 77% Of Saudi SMEs Accept Online Payments

Mastercard research says 75% of Saudi SME leaders remain confident despite a fall from a 92% benchmark, while 77% accept online payments and the Saudi sample size is not disclosed.

#Saudi SMEs #digital payments #Mastercard

July 8, 2026Read More →

Naver And KAI Sign Defence AI MOU Without Weapons-Control Timeline

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Naver And KAI Sign Defence AI MOU Without Weapons-Control Timeline

Naver, Naver Cloud and KAI signed a defence AI MOU for sovereign models and physical AI combat platforms, The public record still lacks budget, deployment timing, test results or weapons-control approvals.

#Naver #KAI #Naver Cloud

July 8, 2026Read More →

Elisa Claims AI Automation Cut Network Incidents By More Than 80%

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Elisa Claims AI Automation Cut Network Incidents By More Than 80%

RCR Wireless News reported that Elisa says AI-powered automation has reduced customer-impacting network incidents by more than 80% and pushed preventive actions to 99%, while Open RAN remains outside the current deployment plan.

#Elisa #AI network automation #5G Standalone

July 8, 2026Read More →

Infrastructure Captures 82% Of Generative AI Value As Applications Lag

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Infrastructure Captures 82% Of Generative AI Value As Applications Lag

AI Times Korea cited Exponential View data showing 82% of measured AI-economy value going to cloud, GPU and inference infrastructure in Q1 2026, while foundation-model companies accounted for 11% and applications 7%.

#AI infrastructure #Exponential View #generative AI revenue

July 8, 2026Read More →

Klarna Seeks U.S. Industrial Bank Charter As Partner-Bank Model Faces Review

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Klarna Seeks U.S. Industrial Bank Charter As Partner-Bank Model Faces Review

Banking Dive reported that Klarna applied for a U.S. industrial bank charter after the company said it had extended $91.3 billion in credit to U.S. consumers; the application still needs FDIC and Utah approval.

#Klarna #industrial bank charter #FDIC

July 8, 2026Read More →

SambaNova Raises $1 Billion For AI Inference Hardware Without IPO Timing

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SambaNova Raises $1 Billion For AI Inference Hardware Without IPO Timing

TechCrunch reported that SambaNova Systems raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation, named JPMorganChase as an inference-infrastructure partner and did not give IPO timing or SN50 customer shipment dates beyond the second half of 2026.

#SambaNova Systems #AI inference hardware #SN50

July 8, 2026Read More →

FuriosaAI Starts RNGD Accelerator Deployment At Equinix Lisbon Datacenter

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FuriosaAI Starts RNGD Accelerator Deployment At Equinix Lisbon Datacenter

FuriosaAI has begun deploying its RNGD AI accelerators at Equinix’s LS2 datacenter in Lisbon as the South Korean chip startup looks for European sovereign AI demand. The company describes 48 GB of HBM3, 1.5 TB/s memory bandwidth and 512 teraFLOPS of dense FP8 performance per card, but its Broadcom-linked next-generation accelerator still depends on HBM4 and HBM4e timing.

#FuriosaAI #RNGD accelerator #Equinix LS2

July 8, 2026Read More →

Kraken Targets European Banking Licence In 10-Year Licence Push

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Kraken Targets European Banking Licence In 10-Year Licence Push

Kraken is pursuing a full European banking licence with Lithuania as the focus jurisdiction, according to a person familiar with the plans. CEO Arjun Sethi said Kraken’s parent company aims to acquire licences over the next 10 years, while Kraken declined to comment and Lithuania’s central bank said licensing processes are confidential.

#Kraken #European banking licence #Bank of Lithuania

July 8, 2026Read More →

Meta Muse Image Uses Public Instagram Posts Unless Users Opt Out

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Meta Muse Image Uses Public Instagram Posts Unless Users Opt Out

Meta has launched Muse Image with Instagram integration that allows public profile photos and videos to be used in AI image generations by default. Users can switch off sharing in Instagram settings, but Meta says existing AI images made with their content will not be deleted and users will not be notified when someone creates them.

#Meta Muse Image #Instagram AI opt out #public Instagram accounts

July 8, 2026Read More →