⚡️🇺🇸 The U.S. House Financial Services Committee announced on Tuesday that it will hold a hearing on the CLARITY Act on July 17 in New York.

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🔥 New DeFi Education Fund coalition seeks to harden crypto against cybersecurity threats

The DeFi Education Fund is launching a cryptocurrency cybersecurity coalition as part of a wider effort to bolster its defense against bad actors across the blockchain.

❗️On Tuesday, the DeFi Education Fund alongside the Security Alliance (SEAL) and Asymmetric Research debuted the Open Protocol Security Coalition, or OPSeC, which it says will hold educational events geared toward lawmakers, as crypto bills make their way through Washington.

⬇️ Many best practices and resources exist, but the new coalition will strengthen those, said Amanda Tuminelli, CEO and Chief Legal Officer of DeFi Education Fund, in a statement.

"OPSeC is about amplifying access to these resources and bringing together industry experts so that we can ensure that security remains at the forefront of onchain software development and that teams of every size have access to excellent cybersecurity tools," Tuminelli said.

"The DEF team is honored to play a role in amplifying the amazing cybersecurity expertise that already exists, and we look forward to introducing policymakers to OPSeC team members and resources."

🎯 OPSeC says its first goal is to create a free "central hub" that will include resources and best practices.

Organizations that join OPSeC will also sign a pledge to commit "cybersecurity resources to the coalition effort," in part through tapping team members to share best practices and bringing forth new ideas. 🚀

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💊 Pathway Labs Announces World's First FDA Clearance for Multicondition AI in Cardiology

Pathway Labs announced its public launch of EchoNext, the world's first FDA-approved AI detection tool that reads standard 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECGs) to flag high risk structural heart diseases for patients. Receiving FDA clearance for six indications, Pathway Labs also announced its partnership with OpenEvidence to make EchoNext available on the AI platform regularly used by over half of US clinicians.

EchoNext detects heart conditions that clinicians cannot, including right and left-sided heart failure, valve disease, severe hypertrophy compatible with infiltrative cardiomyopathy, and pulmonary hypertension, enabling earlier detection of diseases that usually go undetected until a patient is already symptomatic. The model was trained on more than 700,000 ECG-echocardiogram pairs across NewYork-Presbyterian's healthcare system and identified structural heart disease more accurately than cardiologists, including cardiologists using AI assistance.

EchoNext has shown robust performance in a range of studies representing over 20 hospitals and 500,000 patients in the United States and Canada.

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🇨🇳🤖 The fourth China International Supply Chain Expo kicked off this week in Beijing and features its first-ever AI zone.

The event brings together companies such as Nvidia, Intel and Alibaba, alongside displays of robots, processors and AI-powered consumer products.

#BRICS

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🔥 Fed Governor Waller: "dollar backed stablecoins may create a new channel linking global liquidity demand directly to US Treasury markets".

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🇳🇱 The Netherlands joins Pax Silica alliance and boosts cooperation on AI and chips

Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Sjoerd Sjoerdsma announced that the Netherlands is joining the Pax Silica alliance. Mr Sjoerdsma signed the declaration formalising the Netherlands’ membership of the alliance in the presence of US Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg.

"The Netherlands plays a unique, leading role in the global chip industry. Pax Silica presents opportunities for the Dutch economy and will strengthen the Netherlands’ trading position," said Mr Sjoerdsma commented.

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🇺🇸 US President Donald Trump has ordered the Department of Justice to look into gasoline prices, which he says aren’t falling fast enough.

“The big Oil Companies are not dropping their price at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower prices they are paying for Oil,” he said in a post on Truth Social. “Gasoline prices better start going down a lot faster than what I’m seeing!”

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🔋 CATL Sees Its Sodium Batteries in at Least 10,000 EVs This Year

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. expects 10,000 to 20,000 electric vehicles to carry its sodium-ion batteries this year, a senior official for the Chinese company said. CATL has developed the batteries to perform in temperatures as low as -20C or -30C.

“We came up with a novel design which can perform at that kind of extreme condition,” he said at the World Economic Forum in the Chinese city of Dalian.

#BRICS

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⚡️🤑 SDF Becomes Founding Contributor to Legal Context Protocol

As AI agents start moving money at scale, enforceable terms and a clear path to recourse can't be bolted on after the fact. They have to be there from the start. SDF is proud to be a founding contributor to the Legal Context Protocol, a new open standard from ADRorg and industry leaders that brings trust, consent, and dispute resolution to agentic commerce. 🚀

The American Arbitration Association (AAA), together with Integra Ledger, and a coalition of industry leaders, today launched the Legal Context Protocol (LCP), a new open standard that makes legal terms, consent, and dispute resolution discoverable and verifiable when AI agents transact on behalf of people and organizations.

Joining the AAA and Integra Ledger as founding contributors are Google, IBM, Circle, Wayfair, Stellar Development Foundation, Ava Labs Inc., UiPath, Cardano, Hedera, Crossmint, Pinata, Aptos Foundation, Baselayer, Trinsic, First Person Cooperative, Sei Labs, and Mysten Labs, the original contributor to Sui.

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⚡️🇺🇸 Trump Cancels Signing Of Major Housing Bill

President Donald Trump abruptly canceled a bill signing for major bipartisan legislation on housing affordability, saying he wouldn’t back the law until Congress passes his elections bill. Trump was scheduled to sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing bill on Wednesday afternoon, which passed both chambers with wide bipartisan support.

“Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency,” Trump said in a post to Truth Social.

Trump announced the cancellation as Speaker Mike Johnson and top House leaders held a news conference touting the bill. The bill is the product of almost a year of back-and-forth between all four congressional corners and aims to increase affordability by boosting housing supply and home ownership.

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😺 OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

On Wednesday, OpenAI unveiled its first custom-built inference processor, designed and manufactured in collaboration with Broadcom. Named Jalapeño, the new processor was designed specifically for the unique needs of OpenAI’s inference systems. OpenAI’s own AI models assisted in the development of the chip, the company said.

While the chip is still being tested, OpenAI says early results show significantly better performance-per-watt than current state-of-the-art alternatives.

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🤖 Qualcomm Says Data Center Chips to Produce ‘Billions’ in ’27

Qualcomm Inc. said its expansion into chips for data centers will produce “billions” in revenue in the fiscal year that begins in October, suggesting the company is gaining a foothold in the booming market for AI gear.

The mobile phone chipmaker also announced Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to use the company’s new data center processor in its infrastructure. The parent of Instagram and Facebook will use Qualcomm’s Dragonfly C1000 chip and succeeding generations in its facilities, San Diego, California-based Qualcomm said Wednesday at a company event in New York. The microprocessor will be available in 2028.

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🇵🇷 Starlink will help power emergency communications across all 78 Puerto Rico municipalities.

It was announced by Puerto Rico Governor Jenniffer González Colón. Puerto Rico will equip emergency management offices with Starlink satellite internet. It's designed to keep communications online during hurricanes, disasters, and emergencies.

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⚔️ Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of ‘Illicitly’ Accessing AI Models

Anthropic PBC accused Chinese technology giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. of waging a large-scale effort to “illicitly” access its Claude artificial intelligence model using thousands of fraudulent accounts.

Anthropic claimed that a campaign by operators linked to Alibaba’s Qwen AI lab targeted Claude’s most prized capabilities, including software engineering and agentic reasoning, according to a letter that the AI startup sent to several US senators and White House officials. The company said it was the biggest attempt so far by a Chinese company to piggyback on the work of top US labs.

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🛰 Elon MuskSpaceX’s newest Starmind will make earth data centers obsolete

Elon Musk confirmed that Starmind will be the official name of SpaceX’s planned AI satellite constellation, following a trademark filing by xAI that surfaced earlier this week. Starmind is what’s being described to the FCC as a constellation of up to one million AI satellites.

Starmind is something completely different, and tather than moving data, its satellites would compute data through artificial intelligence and directly in orbit using onboard processors powered by large solar arrays. Where a Starlink satellite is essentially a very fast pipe, a Starmind satellite is a server.

The practical implication is that Starmind would allow AI models to run inference, process queries, and generate outputs from space, then beam results down to users anywhere on Earth within milliseconds, and without the data ever needing to travel to a terrestrial data center.

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DOE is investing to accelerate fault‑tolerant quantum computing through Quantum Genesis. While networks like Stellar are investing to absorb that shock by moving to quantum‑resistant cryptography on roughly the same timeline. QPP aims to have all Stellar accounts able to add quantum‑safe signers by end of 2027, with enterprise wallets starting as early as 2026. So is Stellar aligning its migration window with the expected inflection point in real‑world quantum capability? 🤔