🤖 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? 🤔

⚡️🤑 Matrixdock Gold XAUm is now live on Stellar, bringing institutional-grade physically-backed gold to the network

Matrixdock, Asia's leading Real-World Asset (RWA) tokenization platform, today announced the expansion of its flagship tokenized gold product, XAUm, to the Stellar network, extending institutional-grade access to physical gold through Stellar. 🎉

❗️Backed 1:1 by 99.99% pure LBMA-accredited gold, audited by Bureau Veritas, and redeemable for physical gold, XAUm bridges the trust of gold to a broader blockchain ecosystem.

XAUm has grown to rank among the top 4 tokenized gold products globally and Asia's largest, with over 88,000 unique on-chain addresses and 730,000 lifetime transactions across its ecosystem.

“Bringing XAUm to Stellar gives institutions and treasuries access to an asset that strengthens the network's foundation for real-world finance,” said Raja Chakravorti, Stellar Development Foundation Chief Business Officer.

Another step in building the reserve layer for on-chain finance. Physical integrity. Digital utility. 🚀

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🇺🇸 $500 million AI jobs push launches with bipartisan backing

A bipartisan group launched Thursday with $500 million in funding from tech and other interests to help American workers adapt to AI — marking one of the largest private efforts yet to address growing public anxiety about the technology’s potential to trigger widespread job losses.

The effort is led by two former governors, Democrat Gina Raimondo and Republican Eric Holcomb. Named RAISE US, the nonprofit will work with corporate donors including Anthropic, OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, Bank of America, General Motors and pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly to design and implement programs to retrain workers for new roles, as a way to deter layoffs.

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🤑 Onchain privacy means giving developers the tools to build tooling for institutions.

X-Ray established support for two key primitives and provided the foundation for creating privacy solutions without compromising transparency.

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🤖 IBM Debuts World’s First Sub-1 Nanometer Chip Technology

IBM today unveiled a major semiconductor breakthrough with the introduction of the world’s first sub-1 nanometer (nm) chip technology, featuring a revolutionary transistor architecture at the 0.7 nm, or 7 angstrom node. The achievement marks a landmark moment for an industry facing the physical limits of traditional chip scaling. Semiconductors play critical roles in everything from computing, to appliances, to communication devices, transportation systems, and critical infrastructure.

IBM’s new sub-1 nm chip packs nearly 100 billion transistors onto a chip the size of a fingernail, nearly twice the density of IBM’s 2 nm chip, unveiled in 2021. Enabled by a series of structural and material innovations, including IBM’s groundbreaking three-dimensional nanostack architecture, the technology demonstrates how continued gains in performance and efficiency remain possible even as chip features approach atomic dimensions.

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⚡️📱 Musk Starts Expanding X Payments to More Users After Delay

Elon Musk is expanding access to digital payment venture X Money to a subset of premium users on social network X, part of his bid to turn the platform into an “everything app.” The company on Thursday released the banking tool built inside X to more US users.

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🤖 US Invests $250 Million in Billionaire’s Startup for Chip Making

I-Pulse Inc. will receive $250 million in US funding for semiconductor and pulsed-power development as the venture co-founded by Robert Friedland joins American efforts to reduce reliance on foreign-chip supply chains.

The company, which has laboratories in New Mexico, was granted the award by the Department of Commerce’s CHIPS program to develop semiconductor components for a geothermal drilling technique that uses surges of high-power electricity, according to a company statement.

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⚡️🇺🇸 Trump Plans First Flight on Qatar-Gifted Air Force One Next Week

Donald Trump is expected to take his first trip on the new US presidential plane gifted by the Qatari government when he travels to an event in North Dakota on July 1, according to White House officials.

The inaugural trip aboard the Boeing Co. 747-8 will take the president to a dedication ceremony for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library — one of a series of events steeped in Americana that the president is holding next week to mark the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations.

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🛰 With Fundación los 8 Valores, 1,600 students, teachers, and families in Chocó, one of Colombia’s most geographically isolated and economically disadvantaged regions, are now connected by Starlink's high-speed internet and are able to access educational tools and new opportunities previously out of reach

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