Darie Nani
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Artificial IntelligenceTaiwan Contract Manufacturer Wistron Opens First US Factory to Mass-Produce NVIDIA's Most Advanced AI Chips
The United States now has its first domestic production site for NVIDIA's GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip, but whether a single $700 million factory shifts the balance of American AI manufacturing depends on what comes next.
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Quantum Computing Firm Quantinuum and SoftBank Outline Enterprise Use Cases That Don't Require Fault-Tolerant Hardware
The white paper, published jointly by Colorado-based quantum computing company Quantinuum and Japanese telecoms and technology group SoftBank, maps two specific problem classes against Quantinuum's hardware roadmap and argues enterprises can build operational readiness now, before large-scale fault-tolerant systems exist.
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ByteDance, Huawei, and Unity Join 3D Data Standards Body as OpenUSD Pursues ISO Certification
The additions bring Chinese consumer and enterprise platforms into a coalition whose founding members include Apple, NVIDIA, and Pixar, with ISO accreditation now in progress for a specification increasingly treated as infrastructure for AI and robotics workflows.
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StartupsMembers
3D Generative AI Startup Meshy Raises $400 Million at a $1.5 Billion Valuation
The Silicon Valley company has built 12 million users and 12x year-over-year ARR growth by moving AI-generated 3D models from screen-ready to production-ready, and now holds the largest funding round in the category.
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BusinessGarmin Acquires TrainingPeaks and TrainHeroic in Fitness Ecosystem Play
Coaches and athletes who depend on TrainingPeaks alongside their Garmin devices will now find both under a single corporate roof, raising questions about third-party integrations and the future of the platforms as standalone tools.
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Tax Software Platform TaxAct Launches Claude Connector via MCP to Deliver Guidance Inside AI Conversations
The integration, built on Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, reflects a pattern emerging across regulated financial tools: connecting foundation models to proprietary knowledge bases rather than building AI from scratch.
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Biocomputing Startup Intactis Bio Seeks $5 Million for a Processor Built on Living Neurons
The Salt Lake City company, based in Recursion Pharmaceuticals' startup accelerator and backed by about $1 million in early funding, says stem-cell-derived neurons can run AI workloads at a fraction of silicon's energy cost.
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FinTechMembers
Institutional Digital Asset Platform Talos Connects Kalshi Prediction Markets to Professional Trading Infrastructure
The integration gives hedge funds and market makers a path to prediction market exposure without adding a separate system, a sign of how quickly the asset class is maturing for professional use.
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Cybersecurity Startup American Binary Becomes First VPN Provider to Have All Post-Quantum Security Properties Independently Verified
Independent cryptographers have formally verified every security property of American Binary's MaxKyber VPN protocol against the NSA's CNSA 2.0 standard, a depth of scrutiny that no other VPN product, classical or post-quantum, has previously undergone.
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Canadian Crypto ETF Manager Purpose Investments Adds Anchorage Digital Bank as Third Sub-Custodian
The move spreads custodial risk across three independent institutions for the first time in the Canadian market, a structure the firm argues should become the baseline for funds holding digital assets on behalf of investors.
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Science & TechBreach Tracker ITRC Reports Data Compromises on Pace for Record Fourth Straight Year, With Insider Threats Surging Sevenfold
A single breach of the Canvas education platform generated 275 million victim notices, accounting for 58 percent of the 471 million notices issued across all sectors in the first half of 2026.
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Artificial IntelligenceMembers
Only a Quarter of HR Teams Comfortable With Agentic AI, Culture Amp Finds
Even as HR leaders claim more ownership of AI strategy, their confidence that the technology will deliver meaningful value has fallen sharply over the past year, pointing to a gap between adoption activity and substantive results.
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MarketsMembers
Wealth Manager Warns US Citizens in Canada of Trump Account Tax Traps
A gap in the Canada-US Tax Treaty could leave Americans north of the border paying annual Canadian tax on savings vehicles Washington designed to be tax-advantaged, according to cross-border advisory firm Cardinal Point.
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BlockchainMembers
Canton Creator Digital Asset Expands $355M Round With Shinhan and Standard Chartered
The additions bring South Korea’s largest banking group and Standard Chartered’s venture arm into a fundraise already anchored by a16z crypto, as regulated institutions seek shared blockchain infrastructure that preserves privacy and compliance requirements.
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Nordic Asset Manager Alfakraft and Crypto Specialist Bitwise Partner to Build Regulated Digital Asset Funds in Luxembourg
The two firms will develop institutionally structured investment vehicles through Luxembourg's fund framework, targeting European pension funds, insurers and foundations that have so far found the regulated product shelf for digital assets too thin.
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FinTechMembers
Fintech Bank Augustus Raises $180 Million to Build Federal Dollar Infrastructure for Global Fintechs
Augustus, which holds a conditional OCC national bank charter, is positioning a federally regulated API layer as the missing link between international financial institutions and direct dollar settlement.
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BusinessMembers
One in Four UK Businesses Hit by Supply Chain Cyber Attacks as Half Continue Using Risky Suppliers
Annual research from business continuity specialist Databarracks reveals that organisations knowingly accepting supplier security risks are four times more likely to suffer a supply chain incident, exposing the limits of compliance questionnaires as a resilience tool.
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Aircraft Lessor AerCap and Air France KLM's Maintenance Arm Form Spare Jet Engine Venture as Repair Backlog Deepens
The 50/50 venture pools around 40 spare LEAP engines, which power new narrow-body jets, with deliveries running to 2032 as annual engine overhauls are forecast to climb from 600-800 today to more than 5,000 by 2040.
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FinTechMembers
Fintech Startup Natural Raises $30 Million to Build Payments Infrastructure for AI Agents
The Series A, led by Kirsten Green at Forerunner Ventures, takes the year-old company past $40 million raised, with six products already live including FDIC-insured wallets for AI agents.
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Hong Kong-Listed OSL's USDGO Stablecoin Crosses $1 Billion as Institutional Cross-Border Payments Shift On-Chain
The tenfold jump from $100 million came in three months, making USDGO the sixth-largest stablecoin globally, with reserves held in cash, US Treasuries and tokenized funds from BlackRock and Goldman Sachs.
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Artificial Intelligence, StartupsEx-Tencent Games CTO Joins Indian Studio Betting on AI in Video Games
Cedrick Collomb, former global technology chief at Tencent Games, has become chief technology officer of Liquidnitro Games, a two-year-old Hyderabad studio using AI to make small development teams more ambitious.
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Artificial Intelligence, StartupsAI Construction Startup Cascade Raises $3.5M to Predict Projects Before They Go to Bid
The New York company reads bond filings and permits to spot building work before an RFP exists, and says it has surfaced more than $10 billion in project opportunities for its clients.
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BusinessMembers
Riyadh Air Orders 28 More Boeing 787 Dreamliners and Adds the Larger 787-10 Variant
Saudi Arabia's newest national carrier firms up 28 more 787 Dreamliners, introduces the larger 787-10 variant, and grows its total order book to 67 aircraft.
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FinTechMembers
FinHarbor Launches AI Co-Investigator for AML Compliance as EU AI Act Transparency Deadline Approaches
FinHarbor releases a self-hosted AI compliance module for AML investigations with mandatory human sign-off, designed to meet EU AI Act transparency requirements ahead of the 2 August 2026 deadline.
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