MAS Is Building an Institute to End the Pilot Era — Singapore's Bet That the Hard Part of Fintech Is Deployment
MAS announced on 25 June it will establish a Future of Finance Institute to move AI and tokenisation from experiments to...
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OpenAI Ships GPT-5.6 to Everyone — Three Tiers, One Generation, and a Government Preview It Doesn't Want to Repeat
GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna reached general availability on 9 July after a two-week preview staged at the US government'...
Medtronic Is Notifying 3.8 Million People of a Data Breach — Here's What It Means for Patients
Medtronic, the world's largest medical device maker, is notifying 3,834,294 people that a data breach of its corporate I...
Apple Loses Its EU Gatekeeper Fight — What the DMA Ruling Actually Changes for Developers
On 8 July 2026, the EU General Court dismissed Apple's challenges to its Digital Markets Act gatekeeper designation for...
Langflow Becomes the First AI-Agent Platform on CISA's Exploited-Vulnerability List
On 7 July 2026, CISA added an actively-exploited vulnerability in Langflow — a popular open-source framework for buildin...
Qualcomm-Tenstorrent: A Reported $8–10B Deal That Jim Keller Reportedly Denied
The Information reported on 15 June 2026, in an account relayed by Reuters, that Qualcomm was in talks to acquire Tensto...
China's Biren Raises ~$900M for AI Chips — a Sanctioned Challenger Betting Big Against Nvidia at Home
Shanghai Biren Technology is raising HK$7 billion (about US$892.5 million, roughly $900 million) through a placement of...
Igloo Buys Eazy Digital in Its Second Thailand Move in a Year — a Bet on Insurtech Consolidation
Singapore insurtech Igloo has acquired Eazy Digital, a Singapore-headquartered insurtech with operations across Thailand...
The FDA Is Reviewing 7 Peptides on 23–24 July — Here's What That Does and Doesn't Mean
The FDA's Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee will review seven peptides — BPC-157, KPV, TB-500, MOTS-c, Emideltide...
Wafr's $100M Cooling Raise Is Small — the AI Data-Centre Water Problem It Targets Is Not
Vancouver startup Wafr Technologies has raised $100 million from undisclosed private investors — toward a $300 million g...
Honeywell Spin-off Solstice to Buy Element Solutions for $14.5B, Betting on the Materials Layer of the AI Boom
Solstice Advanced Materials, the specialty-chemicals business spun off from Honeywell in October 2025, has agreed to acq...
OpenAI Reportedly Floats a 5% US Government Stake — and Reopens the Question of Public Ownership in AI Labs
The Financial Times reported on 2 July 2026 that OpenAI has proposed giving the US government an equity stake of around...
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