🤝 Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi eye standardizing next-gen part to cut costs

Honda Motor, Nissan Motor and Mitsubishi Motors have entered final talks about standardizing electronic control units (ECUs) for their next-generation vehicles. This alliance aims to help Japanese automakers compete with China’s rapid advancements and lower prices.

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🔥 Asset management giant Invesco files for tokenized fund targeting stablecoin reserve market

Asset manager, Invesco is preparing to launch a tokenized fund to serve the fast-growing stablecoin market, the latest sign that traditional asset managers are racing to manage the reserves backing digital dollars.

➡️ The firm — which has more than $2.5 trillion in AUM — filed with the SEC to register the Invesco Stablecoin Reserves Onchain Fund, which will invest in cash and short-term U.S. Treasury securities. The proposed portfolio aligns with the reserve requirements outlined in the GENIUS Act, the U.S. law governing payment stablecoins.

The filing named tokenization specialist Superstate as sub-transfer agent. Superstate will maintain a blockchain-integrated shareholder registry, combining traditional fund records with onchain tokens representing ownership. The filing said the fund will operate on a public blockchain, though it does not yet identify the network.

❗️Invesco's move is another sign of asset managers increasingly chasing a new business opportunity created by stablecoins.

That move placed Invesco alongside firms such as BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and Fidelity that have embraced tokenized money market funds as a way to modernize how traditional assets are issued, transferred and settled using blockchain rails.

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🤖 BMW’s smart factory in US gets Figure 03 humanoid robot for advanced logistics work

BMW Group has expanded its use of Physical AI in manufacturing by introducing the next-generation Figure 03 humanoid robot at its Spartanburg plant in the US. Building on the successful deployment of Figure 02, the new robot will handle complex sequencing tasks in logistics as part of the automaker’s push toward AI-driven production.

“Our 11-month deployment of Figure 02 proved that humanoids are no longer lab experiments – they can be a valuable asset in establishing a flexible, reliable manufacturing workforce,” said Brett Adcock, Founder and CEO of Figure AI

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🇺🇸 The California billionaire tax is headed to the ballot.

The proposed tax measure, which would require billionaires to pay a one-time tax equal to 5% of their net worth, will appear on the ballot in November after opponents, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, failed to cut a deal with the union behind it before the June 25 deadline.

Now the 200-plus billionaires in California — which has more of them than any other state and most countries — are facing the reality that the tax could become law.

The so-called billionaire tax is among the highest-profile ballot efforts in the US this year taking aim at rising wealth disparities, and is set to be one of the state’s most contentious ballot initiatives. It has already spurred tech moguls to pour millions of dollars into attempts to stop the proposal.

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⚡️🇦🇹 Austria Lobbies EU to Host Anthropic After US Access Curbs

Austria is pushing the European Union to consider hosting Anthropic PBC within its borders to counter US efforts to block foreigners from using its most advanced AI models.

Member states should explore “the strategic establishment and participation of Anthropic within the European Union,” Austrian State Secretary for Digitalization Alexander Pröll said in a letter to European Commission Executive Vice President Henna Virkkunen.

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🇺🇾 Uruguay will become Tesla's third market in South America

Tesla entered Chile in 2024 and Colombia in 2025. Regulators in Uruguay have already approved the Model 3 and Model Y for sale. Those cars will ship in from Tesla's Shanghai factory.

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🤖 AI Startup Firmus to Build Indonesia Data Center With Nvidia

Firmus Technologies Pty Ltd. will build its first data center project in Indonesia as part of a partnership with US chip giant Nvidia Corp., which the Australian artificial intelligence infrastructure firm said is expected to win it as much as $30 billion in committed offtake agreements in its first six years.

Firmus and Singapore-based DayOne will develop a 360 megawatt Nvidia DSX AI Factory campus in Batam, Indonesia, an island just off the coast of Singapore, as part of an eight-year partnership with Nvidia, the company said.

#BRICS

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🇮🇩🤑 Ripple's RLUSD Stablecoin Launches on FLOQ in Indonesia

“RLUSD is a meaningful addition to the digital asset ecosystem in Indonesia. We’re proud to bring RLUSD to a licensed platform and to work alongside Ripple to support responsible adoption across the market,” Yudhono Rawis, Founder and CEO of FLOQ.

Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin has been listed on Indonesia's FLOQ digital asset platform, providing over 1.8 million registered users access to this digital dollar-pegged asset, significantly enhancing its market presence in Southeast Asia.

The introduction of XRP/RLUSD trading pairs on the Gate platform broadens liquidity channels, promotes global stablecoin adoption, and drives innovation and efficiency in cross-border transactions. 🚀

Indonesia is positioning early. RLUSD goes global 🌏

#Stellar #BRICS

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📱🇻🇪Venezuela is restoring access to X, allowing millions to use the app without a VPN.

X had been blocked since 2024 under Maduro’s regime. Venezuela’s main ISPs, including the state-owned CANTV, have begun progressively lifting the block following the earthquakes.

Millions of people can once again share and access real-time updates without relying on a VPN.

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⚔️ China’s Z.ai Has Matched Anthropic in Cybersecurity, Resetting AI Race

China’s Zhipu AI (Z.ai) released its open-weight GLM-5.2, and security researchers have claimed that it matches Mythos in certain bug-finding and cybersecurity scenarios. While GLM lags behind models from Anthropic and OpenAI in other, more general tasks, it seems that China has dramatically reduced the gap in the capabilities between its models and those of the US.

Because GLM is an open-weight model, it can be downloaded and run by anyone on readily available hardware. That gives it great flexibility and allows power users deep access, but it also makes it ripe for abuse by bad actors who can run it with little oversight.

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🤖 IBM, Red Hat, and Deloitte Announce Lightwell Collaboration to Help Strengthen Open Source Software Supply Chain Trust

Deloitte, IBM, and Red Hat announced a collaboration to help protect the software supply chain against increasingly automated cyber threats. Deloitte joins the initiative as an integration collaborator for Lightwell, bringing its broader secured software supply chain architecture and cyber risk services to the large-scale enterprise open source security model deployed by IBM and Red Hat.

❗️Through this collaboration, the three organizations will coordinate across the software lifecycle to help clients manage security threats:

🟠Continuous Visibility & Discovery: Continuously mapping and scanning first-party, open source, and third-party software to identify exactly what code exists, where it runs, and which critical business functions it supports.

🟠Contextual Prioritization: Separating active threats from noise by analyzing severity, exposure, threat-chaining, and exploitability to inform operational decisions.

🟠Machine-Speed Remediation: Combining Red Hat and IBM’s automated patch validation with Deloitte’s orchestration services to rapidly coordinate, test, and deploy validated fixes into production repositories, limiting disruption. To achieve this, Deloitte will maintain a bench of Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) to support ongoing remediation and maintenance of client applications.

🟠Ecosystem Trust & Compliance: Through the collaboration, the organizations will help enterprises manage upstream open source and vendor relationships, including pre-disclosure vulnerability handovers, while delivering continuous, evidence-based reporting for boards, auditors, and regulators.

“Exploits don't wait for manual patching processes, and neither can enterprise response,” said Adnan Amjad, Deloitte’s US Cyber leader.

“Together, we're enabling clients to operate at machine speed to identify, validate, and remediate vulnerabilities. This collaboration is about building the operational resilience needed to maintain trust across increasingly complex software ecosystems — creating systems that can withstand and neutralize risk without disrupting the business,” added Adnan Amjad.

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🧠 Scientists Discover the Brain Can Rewire Itself To Truly Multitask

Why does driving eventually feel effortless, while learning to drive demands total concentration? A new study from Georgetown University suggests the answer lies in the brain’s ability to rewire itself, shifting well-practiced skills into different neural circuits so they can be performed with less conscious effort.

⬇️ Under the right conditions, people may be capable of genuine multitasking rather than simply switching attention rapidly between tasks.

⚪️For the new study, participants learned to sort morphed images of cars into two groups by noticing small visual differences. Over 5 to 10 weeks, they completed more than 30,000 trials through a phone app that turned the sorting task into a game. Before and after training, the researchers scanned participants’ brains using fMRI and EEG.

⚪️At first, once participants had learned the sorting task, it activated the prefrontal cortex. That brain region supports executive function and deliberate thinking, but it is generally limited in how many tasks it can manage at once.

❗️After weeks of practice, brain scans showed a shift. The sorting process had moved into the temporal cortex, a region involved in memory encoding and the recognition of complex objects.

“We measure before and after training, so we can see that extensive training essentially put a category-selective area in the temporal lobe that was not there before. Experience remodels the brain to bypass that frontal bottleneck. The prefrontal cortex then stays free for whatever else you want to do, increasing your capacity,” Riesenhuber explained.

Moving a learned skill into the temporal cortex, while freeing the prefrontal cortex, may allow the brain to use established knowledge as a base for learning something new. 📚

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