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SMB Cross-Border Payments Shift To FinTechs Without Leaving Banks

PYMNTS Intelligence said 36% of internationally active U.S. SMBs expect to use FinTechs or payment providers for cross-border transactions in 2026, up from 30% in 2025. The same report said 69% expect to use traditional banks, leaving banks dominant while SMBs add more payment options.

#cross border payments #SMBs #PYMNTS Intelligence

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Databricks LTAP Claim Faces One-Copy Questions Over Lakebase

Cloud & Data CentersNews

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Databricks LTAP Claim Faces One-Copy Questions Over Lakebase

Databricks says LTAP unifies transactional and analytical workloads around one authoritative storage layer for AI-agent-era applications. The technical dispute is whether Lakebase, Reyden and object storage amount to one operational copy or several internal representations that still need careful synchronisation.

#Databricks #LTAP #Lakebase

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Kyndryl Adds Microsoft Sovereign Cloud Services Without Naming Customers

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Kyndryl Adds Microsoft Sovereign Cloud Services Without Naming Customers

Kyndryl has expanded its sovereignty services with Microsoft cloud products for governments and regulated industries. Customers, contract values or country launch dates remain outside the public record.

#cloud sovereignty #data residency #Kyndryl

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SoftBank SB Neo Plans US AI Cloud On 10GW Pipeline

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SoftBank SB Neo Plans US AI Cloud On 10GW Pipeline

SoftBank Corp. and SoftBank Group are creating SB Neo to sell AI cloud services to US enterprises and hyperscalers. The venture is 51 percent owned by SoftBank Corp. SB Neo customers, financing terms or a first launch date for the US service remain outside the public record.

#AI cloud #neocloud #SoftBank

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Open USD Names 140-Plus Partners But Leaves Reserve Fees Undisclosed

Fintech & Digital PaymentsNews

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Open USD Names 140-Plus Partners But Leaves Reserve Fees Undisclosed

Open Standard says more than 140 partners including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Coinbase, Adyen and BNY are backing Open USD, while the public record still lacks reserve details, fee percentages, partner voting rules or first merchant deployments.

#fintech #digital payments #stablecoins

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AWS Closes Mechanical Turk To New Customers From July 30

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AWS Closes Mechanical Turk To New Customers From July 30

The Mechanical Turk website says AWS will stop accepting new Mechanical Turk customers from July 30, 2026, while existing users remain unaffected for now. The notice also applies to SageMaker tasks, but Amazon left the retirement plan and final shutdown date outside the notice.

#AWS #Mechanical Turk #SageMaker

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Amazon FTC Penalty Exposes India’s Identity-Theft Records Gap

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Amazon FTC Penalty Exposes India’s Identity-Theft Records Gap

The FTC fined Amazon $2.25 million after alleging the company failed to give identity-theft victims fraudulent-transaction records required under Section 609(e). India’s DPDPA 2023 and IT Act do not contain a direct equivalent, leaving platform-disclosure rights unresolved.

#platform regulation #identity theft #Amazon

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Meta Cloud Push Tests AI Data-Centre Spending Against 18% Cloud Margins

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Meta Cloud Push Tests AI Data-Centre Spending Against 18% Cloud Margins

Jim Cramer confirmed that Meta will sell excess compute capacity, and Meta's April earnings materials listed a 2026 capex high end of $145 billion after a $10 billion increase. The cloud plan gives investors a possible AI-infrastructure revenue line, but Google Cloud’s 18% margin remains the lower-margin benchmark.

#AI infrastructure #Meta #cloud margins

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Inception42 Launches Seraj Arabic AI Model With Microsoft And Core42

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Inception42 Launches Seraj Arabic AI Model With Microsoft And Core42

Customers, pricing, deployment dates or independent benchmark results remain outside the public record.

#Arabic AI #enterprise AI #Inception42

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UAE Doubles Retail T-Sukuk To Dh100 Million After Dh445 Million In Orders

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UAE Doubles Retail T-Sukuk To Dh100 Million After Dh445 Million In Orders

A Dh445 million order book pushed the UAE to double its sovereign retail T-sukuk offering to Dh100 million, the Ministry of Finance said. The Nasdaq Dubai listing opens a government-backed securities programme previously aimed at institutions to individual investors.

#sovereign sukuk #retail investors #Nasdaq Dubai

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Quantum Systems Raises $1.2 Billion As Defense AI Funding Jumps

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Quantum Systems Raises $1.2 Billion As Defense AI Funding Jumps

Quantum Systems raised $1.2 billion at an $8 billion post-money valuation, with Blackstone, Airbus and other investors backing autonomous systems for land, air and sea. According to Dealroom data, defense-tech funding has reached $17.4 billion so far this year.

#defense tech #AI software #autonomous systems

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Securitize Tokenizes $295 Million Of NYSE Stock As US Access Stays Limited

Crypto/Web3News

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Securitize Tokenizes $295 Million Of NYSE Stock As US Access Stays Limited

Securitize began trading on the New York Stock Exchange and issued tokenized versions of its own SECZ shares on Solana and Avalanche. The company said the tokens represent the same common stock, while access remains limited to eligible U.S. investors on its regulated platform.

#crypto #tokenized securities #Securitize

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