🤝 Google in Talks to Use SpaceX to Launch Space Data Centers

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is in talks with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch the search company’s orbital data centers. Google is also exploring deals with other launch providers.

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⚡️🇪🇺 EU in Talks to Join US-Led Alliance to Secure Tech Supply Chains

The European Commission, the bloc’s executive arm, is exploring participation in the so-called Pax Silica alliance, though discussions on the terms are ongoing.

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🤑 Stellar to Power Bermuda's Plan to Become World's First Fully Onchain Economy

Today, the Stellar Development Foundation and the Government of Bermuda announced that Bermuda will begin moving key payment and financial-services activity onchain onto the Stellar network. 🤝

🟠The announcement is the first operational milestone since Bermuda announced at the World Economic Forum in January 2026 that the Island plans to become the world's first fully onchain national economy.

✅ The announcement builds on the regulatory foundation Bermuda established with the Digital Asset Business Act of 2018, one of the world's earliest comprehensive digital-asset regimes.

⚫️Government agencies expect to pilot stablecoin-based payments, financial institutions will be able to integrate tokenization tools, and residents can participate in nationwide digital literacy programs, laying the foundation for a more inclusive, competitive, and resilient national economy. Assets may also be used for government payment systems related to social service disbursements.

"The use of digital dollars can change that, and the Stellar network’s capacity to support public sector initiatives are what make it possible to deliver this responsibly and at the scale Bermuda requires," — said The Hon. E. David Burt, JP, MP, Premier of Bermuda.

❗️Stellar is the only blockchain purpose-built for regulated financial services. Public, configurable, and global by design, Stellar pairs a permissionless network with the asset controls institutions require — settling payments in seconds at fractions of a U.S. cent.

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🌐 Threads tests a Meta AI integration that works similarly to Grok

Threads is testing a Meta AI integration that works similarly to X’s Grok. Users with a public account will be able to mention Meta AI in a post or a reply to get more context. The feature is currenty in beta testing in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Argentina, and Singapore.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇨🇳 US President Donald Trump said he would prioritize trade discussions during his summit with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping

“We’re going to be talking to President Xi about a lot of things. I would say, more than anything, trade,” — Trump said at the White House as he departed for the highly anticipated meeting in Beijing.

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🛒 Amazon launches 30-minute delivery across the U.S.

The online retailer announced the launch of its 30-minute delivery option, dubbed “Amazon Now,” in dozens of U.S. cities. This ultra-fast delivery option will allow customers to shop across “thousands” of items, Amazon says, including fresh groceries, household essentials, and other locally relevant items.

At launch, Amazon Now will be widely available in Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Philadelphia, and Seattle, and is expanding to Austin, Denver, Houston, Minneapolis, Orlando, Oklahoma City, and Phoenix. By year-end, Amazon expects to bring the service to tens of millions of customers in these and other cities, as the rollout continues across the U.S.

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🇦🇪 Crypto.com Receives UAE Stored Value Facilities License to Enable Virtual Asset Payments for Government Services

Crypto.com today announced that its UAE entity, Foris DAX Middle East FZE, has been granted a Stored Value Facilities (SVF) license by the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE), making it the first Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) in the Emirates to receive this license.

“To be the first VASP to receive this license is an incredible achievement and proves our strong commitment to compliance and to advancing the regulated digital assets ecosystem in the UAE,” — said Eric Anziani, President and COO of Crypto.com.

Having secured an SVF license, Crypto.com can now activate its partnership with the Dubai Department of Finance, which will provide residents in the UAE with the ability to pay Government fees with virtual assets. 🤝

All financial settlements will be conducted in UAE dirhams or CBUAE-approved dirham backed stablecoins exclusively through the SVF framework, allowing secure payments and supporting the advancement of the Dubai Cashless Strategy.

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🤖 New self-refueling underwater batteries use marine microbes to generate electricity

The Michigan Tech-led team is testing microbial fuel cells, or MFCs, that use bacteria to convert dissolved organic material and microscopic marine biomass into electrical current. Researchers say the technology could eventually support naval defense sensors, ecological monitoring systems, and underwater acoustic networks.

“There are increasing deployments of all kinds of sensors in the marine environment for observing ecological conditions, organism migrations, and acoustics relevant to naval defense,” — said Amy Marcarelli, distinguished professor of biological sciences at Michigan Tech.

The researchers have already completed a 30-day underwater deployment in Chesapeake Bay, where prototype systems continued producing electricity while fully submerged.

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🇷🇺🇵🇰Russia and Pakistan are set to sign an agreement to simplify visa procedures for their citizens

“We will sign an agreement on simplifying the issuance of visas for citizens of both countries,” — Pakistan’s Ambassador to Russia Faisal Niaz Tirmizi said.

Two countries are also preparing to sign an agreement on cultural cooperation, along with a trade and economic cooperation agreement covering the next five years.

“We will sign agreements on Russian investments in the medical sector and in the industrial sector of Pakistan,” — he said.

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🇨🇳 China unveils 220-pound robot ‘construction worker’ to use human tools on moon

China has announced that its planned Chang’e-8 mission will feature a new robotic “Moon mechanic.” This robot, the team behind it explains, will act like a construction worker to help assemble and lug equipment around once deployed.

Developed by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), the robot weighs around 220 pounds (100kg) and has 4 wheels to move across the rough Lunar surface. Unlike previous moon rover-type robots, this new one comes with a pair of robotic arms for handling and manipulating tools.

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🇺🇬 Uganda’s Octogenarian Leader Museveni Sworn In for Seventh Term

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni was sworn in for another five-year term, retaining his position at the helm of the East African nation as it gears up to become an oil producer.

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🇬🇧 UK Approves Early Power-Project Funding in Race for Grid Parts

The UK approved more early construction funding for power-grid projects, as part of efforts to boost renewables generation and secure equipment amid supply-chain snarls and competition from other nations.

Energy regulator Ofgem granted such funding for power lines and upgrades at some transmission projects in Scotland, taking the number approved in its fast-track grid pipeline to 26, it said in a statement Tuesday. That allows companies to get a head start in locking in things like heavy duty cables and substation equipment, where global bottlenecks have threatened timelines.

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🤝 NASA partners with Microchip to build next-generation spaceflight chips with 100x the power of current offerings

NASA has announced that it has just partnered with Microchip Technology Inc. to build next-generation chips that will power its spacecraft. This project, dubbed High-Performance Spaceflight Computing, aims to build a system-on-a-chip (SoC) that will deliver 100 times the computing capacity of current processors designed for spaceflight.

The space agency said that it will come in two flavors — a radiation-hardened version for geosynchronous, deep-space, and long-duration missions and a radiation-tolerant version for low Earth orbit satellites. The former is primarily aimed at supporting missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, while the latter is tailored for commercial applications.

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 Nvidia’s CEO Joins Trump in China With AI in the Spotlight

Nvidia Corp. co-founder Jensen Huang joined US President Donald Trump on his visit to China as a last-minute addition, thrusting AI and technology into the spotlight before a high-stakes Beijing summit.

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🇺🇸 Court Halts Order Finding New Trump Tariffs Unlawful for Now

A federal appeals court has temporarily paused a ruling that declared President Donald Trump’s latest global tariffs unlawful, as the judges weigh the administration’s request to allow officials to keep collecting the levies while the legal fight continues.

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a brief order entering what’s known as an administrative stay, and set a fast schedule for both sides to file briefs on the administration’s request to leave the tariffs intact while it appeals. The small businesses and Democratic state officials who sued are due to respond in a week.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇨🇳 President Donald J. Trump lands for a landmark summit with China, greeted by Vice President Han Zheng during a welcome ceremony.

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⚡️🇺🇳 Gulf States to Win NATO Summit Invites

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is planning to invite representative from four Gulf states to the summit in Ankara with the Iran war and the transatlantic rift likely to loom large over the talks.

The countries — Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — are all members of the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative, a partnership between NATO and non-members in the broader Middle East.

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⚖️ Anthropic Expands Push Into Legal Industry With New AI Tools

Anthropic PBC is taking steps to help legal professionals carry out more tasks using its Claude chatbot. Anthropic announced a dozen new tools, or plugins, intended for attorneys, law students and others in the legal sector. One feature, called “commercial counsel,” is meant to take on work like reviewing vendor agreements; another tool is intended to help with studying for the bar exam.

The company also announced ways to connect its Claude chatbot with software from other firms that are commonly used in law, such as DocuSign Inc. and Thomson Reuters Corp., as well as Harvey, a competing AI legal service. The legal features will be available to paying customers through Claude Cowork, a general-purpose AI agent meant for office work, and through third-party services built on Claude.

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