The Philippines, United Arab Emirates and Indonesia will start talks about joining a regional trade bloc, the next step for the three in efforts to expand free-trade ties.
Senior officials from the 12-nation Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership will being preparatory discussions with the three nations, according to a joint statement from the 12-nation bloc released by Singapore on Friday. The grouping originally began as a US initiative in the Asia-Pacific, but the US quit in 2017, with Japan, Canada, Australia and now the UK the largest members.
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Boeing Co. secured an order from China Southern Airlines Co. valued at $3.62 billion, marking an important win for the US manufacturer after seeing orders dry up from Asiaโs largest aviation market in the past decade. China Southern agreed to buy Boeing freighter aircraft, including two 777F and five 777-8F models, while securing options to purchase three additional Boeing 777-8F aircraft, according to a company filing on Friday.
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At the second Pax Silica Summit held in Washington on Thursday, 35 nations signed the Joint Statement on AI Opportunity, aligning behind a pro-growth, pro-innovation regulatory approach for the AI era.
"A future where we ACCELERATE INNOVATION AND PRIVATE INVESTMENT is welcomed. Together, we aspire to build an AI future that serves our peoples, strengthens our economies, and empowers entrepreneurship, innovation, and the rule of law," said Jacob Helberg, US Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs.๐ค
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President Donald Trump threatened to impose 100% tariffs on goods imported from countries that impose digital services taxes, escalating pressure on European nations that just ratified a trade pact with the US.
โNumerous European Countries have been discussing the imminent implementation of a Digital Services Tax on American Companies,โ Trump said in a social media post Friday. โPlease let this statement serve to represent that any Country that imposes such a Tax will immediately be met with a 100% TARIFF on any and all Goods sent to the United States of America.โ
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AllUnity and Zebec announced the launch of an EURAU-based employee benefits and enterprise payments program on the Stellar network. The pilot program aims to expand payroll and workforce payments in AllUnity's regulated euro stablecoin across its ecosystem, including its major enterprise clients and partners.
"Regulated stablecoins are increasingly moving from financial infrastructure to real world business applications," said Simon Babakhani, CEO of Zebec Network.
โThis pilot brings together EURAU, the payment infrastructure of the Stellar network, and Zebec's payroll platform to support employee benefits, contractor payments, and workforce disbursements in an enterprise environment. With initiatives like global remittances, tokenized assets, and institutional market infrastructure, Stellar has become one of the most important networks for connecting stablecoins to real world financial activity," Simon Babakhani added.๐
The Zebec payroll infrastructure is designed to scale, ready to support EURAU streaming across the AllUnity ecosystem, and includes a growing network of enterprise and institutional participants spanning financial services, fintech, and corporate sectors across Europe.
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Elon Musk received a regulatory greenlight to acquire startup Mesh Optical Technologies, a company founded by former SpaceX engineers working on optical data center communication technology. Mesh is developing optical transceivers that rely on light to send and receive information between data centers, which the company says are more power efficient and lower latency than existing options.
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Researchers at the University of Melbourne and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia have teamed up with the Japanese National Institute for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) to develop advanced manufacturing methods to convert low-value diamond dust into high-performance materials for quantum technologies.
Teaming with QST, Japan, allows Australian researchers to access capabilities and test new fabrication approaches, while ensuring technological sovereignty when the quantum era dawns. If the approach can be scaled, it will help Australia turn its diamond dust into high-performance quantum materials for a futuristic tomorrow.
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The Trump administration on Friday partially rescinded its export ban on Anthropicโs most advanced AI model โ de-escalating a confrontation that has caused confusion across the American AI industry.
The action paves the way for the company to restore access to its Mythos 5 models to a list of more than 100 โtrusted partnersโ including companies and federal agencies approved by the government. But a second advanced Anthropic model, called Fable 5, remains blocked by an export ban that the administration had imposed June 12.
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The Trump administration on Friday partially rescinded its export ban on Anthropicโs most advanced AI model โ de-escalating a confrontation that has caused confusion across the American AI industry.
โIn just two weeks, we have worked diligently to ensure America remains the global leader in AI while safeguarding our security,โ said Benno Kass, a Commerce Department spokesperson.
The action paves the way for the company to restore access to its Mythos 5 models to a list of more than 100 โtrusted partnersโ including companies and federal agencies approved by the government. But a second advanced Anthropic model, called Fable 5, remains blocked by an export ban that the administration had imposed June 12.
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SpaceX and Charter Communications Inc. have held executive-level talks about partnering on a consumer mobile phone offering. Charter, the largest home internet provider in the US, could run some of SpaceXโs phone traffic through its ground-based internet infrastructure, much as it does with its Spectrum Mobile offering presently.
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Researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) have created a skin-like computing patch that can process health data using AI directly on the body. Unlike conventional wearable devices, the patch performs AI calculations in milliseconds without needing to send information over a wireless connection, enabling near-instant medical insights and highly accurate heart monitoring.
โItโs helping people have a personal, instantaneous doctor integrated into their devices,โ said Sihong Wang, an associate professor of molecular engineering at UChicago PME. โInstead of sending data away to a remote server, we can begin making sense of it right where life is happening."
A neural network encoded within the array analyzed vital signs and personal health information, including cholesterol levels, blood sugar, maximum heart rate, and ECG measurements, to estimate heart attack risk. The system achieved an accuracy rate of 83.5%. The new study was published in Nature Electronics.
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The DTCC just confirmed its tokenization service soft launch will occur via a ONE-DAY event for test cases on July 15th, operating across TWO blockchains with traditional assets to showcase interoperability.
This is not a pilot test but a full scale implementation of all the post trade inventory, roughly $150 trillion! There only a few blockchains participating so it likely means many trillions of dollars coming onto the Stellar Blockchain and digitized assets. XLM is expected to become part of this by mid-2027.
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๐This Sodium Battery From China Matched Tesla in a Surprising Head-to-Head Test
A commercially available sodium-ion battery from Hina, already used in cars and large-scale energy storage systems in China, has achieved manufacturing quality and performance levels comparable to Teslaโs lithium-ion batteries, according to research published in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports Physical Science.
Sodium offers several potential advantages over lithium because it is far more abundant and easier to source worldwide. The study also found that sodium-ion batteries maintain strong performance under heavy loads in cold conditions, making them promising candidates for stationary energy storage as well as vehicles operating in colder climates.
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A commercially available sodium-ion battery from Hina, already used in cars and large-scale energy storage systems in China, has achieved manufacturing quality and performance levels comparable to Teslaโs lithium-ion batteries, according to research published in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports Physical Science.
Sodium offers several potential advantages over lithium because it is far more abundant and easier to source worldwide. The study also found that sodium-ion batteries maintain strong performance under heavy loads in cold conditions, making them promising candidates for stationary energy storage as well as vehicles operating in colder climates.
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For NASAโs next generation of deep space exploration missions, spacecraft may need to refuel in Earth orbit before pushing farther into the solar system. Engineers from NASAโs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and L3Harris con-duct operational testing on a developmental cryocoupler, a vital technology for future in-orbit spacecraft refueling.
Cryocouplers would allow spacecraft to connect to future orbital propellant depots, which would serve as the gas stations of space. The technology comes with the challenge of reliably transferring cryogenic, or super-cold, fluids without losing propellant or performance.
โThese propellant transfers are essential for the kinds of missions NASA wants to fly in the future, so developing a coupler that can handle ultra-cold propellants is a critical step toward making that capability real,โ said Travis Belcher, cryocoupler project manager at NASAโs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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IBM joined OpenAIโs Daybreak Cyber Partner Program to launch a security solution that uses advanced AI models to detect code vulnerabilities and help companies fix them before they become problems.
The application security service builds on Project Lightwell, an initiative IBM launched last month to secure open source software used across enterprise supply chains. IBM and Red Hat have committed $5 billion to fund the project, which deploys engineers and AI tools to patch, validate, and manage open source code.
OpenAIโs models will work alongside other AI systems within Project Lightwell for code review and remediation tasks. IBM has described the initiative as an enterprise security clearinghouse staffed by a global engineering team.
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โก๏ธ๐ท๐ธ Serbian President Vucic says he will resign within weeks
Serbia's president Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday he will resign โwithin weeks and the country will hold early presidential and parliamentary elections.
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Serbia's president Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday he will resign โwithin weeks and the country will hold early presidential and parliamentary elections.
"I will be president for only a couple of weeks, and then I will resign," โVucic, in power for 13 years, said. Vucic's second and final mandate was due to expire in mid-2027.
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For decades, magnons have shown enormous promise for quantum technologies, but one critical limitation has kept them from practical use: they disappear almost as soon as they form. Now, an international team of physicists led by Andrii Chumak at the University of Vienna has increased magnon lifetimes by nearly two orders of magnitude, from just a few hundred nanoseconds to as long as 18 microseconds, almost 100 times longer than any previously observed value.
Magnons are quasiparticles that represent a wave of coordinated electron spin flips in a magnetic material.
Magnons begin to resemble long-lived, dependable carriers of quantum information, similar in function to the superconducting qubits used in many leading quantum processors today. The breakthrough could ultimately help enable highly compact quantum computers, potentially no larger than a 1-cent coin. The findings were published in Science Advances.
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