🤝 Broadcom, Apple Extend Tie-Up to 2031 With New Custom Chips

Broadcom Inc. will provide new custom chips to Apple Inc. in an expanded partnership that now runs through 2031. Under the new agreement, the companies will partner on ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) silicon.

These types of chips will be found in “multiple generations of Apple products,” according to a Broadcom filing on Monday.

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🇷🇺🏦 Russia's largest bank plans crypto wallet launch as Moscow clears market path

Russia's largest bank Sberbank plans to launch a crypto wallet and digital depository by December, pending passage of new digital asset legislation expected to take effect September 1, according to Bank of Russia First Deputy Chairman Vladimir Chistyukhin.

❗️The new services will be added to its Sberbank Online and SberInvestments platforms after Russia adopts its bill “On Digital Currency and Digital Rights,” according to Kirill Tsarev, first deputy chairman of the bank's management board.

➡️ The wallet would give Sberbank clients access to authorized cryptocurrencies inside the bank’s own apps. Sberbank also plans to build a digital depository for storing and accounting for the tokens.

The legislation creates licenses for firms to engage in crypto trading, custody, digital-to-fiat exchange and cross-border settlements. 🚀

‼️ Non-qualified investors will be allowed to trade under testing requirements and limits capped at roughly 300,000 rubles (around $3,800) per year, while market participants will have until July 1, 2027, to enter the official registry.

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🤑 Denelle Dixon discusses what's new on the Stellar network, and what's coming 🚀

The baby steps are behind us. We're accelerating to a new level where assets, technology, and payments come together onchain to deliver better everyday financial services to users.

📱 Watch the full video on YouTube

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🤖 Oak Ridge National Lab, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM Achieve First-Known Computations of Fusion Materials on a Quantum Computer

A team of scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Cleveland Clinic, and IBM have calculated nine molecular configurations of a promising material to produce fuel for fusion energy – the first-known instance of such computations on quantum computers.

📄 Such calculations, demonstrated in a new paper published on arXiv, are computationally challenging for classical computers to scale when working alone. They are a fundamental step towards optimizing the production and extraction of tritium – an extremely rare material in nature that is necessary to produce fusion energy with most of the proposed machines.

Ensuring adequate supplies of tritium has long been a barrier to realizing the promise of clean and abundant energy from fusion power plants, and solving this issue is a key objective of the United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) Genesis Mission. 🎯

“Bringing quantum, AI, and classical computing together is essential to tackling our society's most fundamental scientific challenges – unlocking capabilities which none of these paradigms can access alone," said Jerry Chow, CTO of Quantum-Centric Supercomputing at IBM. 🤝

“These results add to mounting evidence that quantum-centric supercomputing is now a practical scientific tool for problems that have long challenged chemists, engineers, and materials scientists. As quantum computers scale, the path ahead is promising."

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🔥 Elon Musk’s xAI has officially rebranded to SpaceXAI

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🇮🇩 Indonesia Mulls 0% Income Tax to Draw Money to New Financial Hub

Indonesia is planning sweeping tax incentives for a proposed international financial center, including an effective 0% income tax rate for some businesses and foreign finance experts.

The bill to create the Indonesia International Financial Center, discussed Monday at a public hearing between lawmakers and legal and economic experts, would offer a 100% corporate income tax reduction for businesses operating in the zone, along with a full income tax break for foreign financial-sector experts.

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🤖 Chinese smart chip maps brain structures up to 478x faster than NVIDIA A100 GPU

Chinese researchers have developed a memory chip that can model complex brain structures in real time, a breakthrough they say could improve brain disease diagnosis, brain-computer interfaces, and surgical navigation.

The 40-nanometer chip, created by researchers from Peking University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, integrates an artificial neural network into its hardware. It reconstructs the brain’s intricate folded surface in less than half a second. The researchers reported that the chip is 50 to 478 times faster than systems powered by Nvidia’s A100 graphics processing unit for this task.

Faster processing could make advanced brain modelling more practical in hospitals, where clinicians often need results quickly to support diagnosis and treatment decisions.

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🤖 Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Developing Own AI Chip

DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip, a ​push that could reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei chips, which it has depended on to train and run its globally popular models. The chip is designed ‌for inference — the stage of AI computing in which a trained model generates responses for users — rather than for training new models.

If successful, DeepSeek's expansion into semiconductor development would mark a major strategic shift for a company widely hailed in China as the country's AI champion, potentially adding to challenges faced by Chinese tech giant Huawei.

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🇧🇾 Belarus’ Hi-Tech Park working on new business types to add to cryptocurrency legislation

The Hi-Tech Park is working on introducing new types of activities into cryptocurrency legislation, according to Advisor of the Secretariat of the HTP Supervisory Board Filipp Petkevich.

➡️Filipp Petkevich noted that Belarus has created a comprehensive infrastructure so that any user can buy and sell cryptocurrencies, and derive a profit and income legally – taking into account the current restrictions that are separate for legal persons and natural persons.

“Legislation introducing a new type of activity – a crypto bank – is about to come into force. This is a new entity combining an HTP crypto-resident and a bank under the control of the National Bank,” he said.

‼️ On 16 January, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed Decree No. 19, authorising the operation of crypto banks and regulating activities involving digital tokens. From 18 July 2026, the use of digital assets for settlements between residents and non-residents is officially permitted in the Republic of Belarus.

➡️ The further development and discussion of the legislation include the introduction of new types of activities, which were previously unavailable.

❗️“As of today we are discussing the so-called copytrading when a user can copy the transactions of another user, trust management, airdrops, and many other things we are discussing,” Filipp Petkevich remarked.

😄According to the advisor, this industry is notable for the fact that the interests of the state and the law-abiding user are aligned.

“Both the state and users are interested in having more ways to legally and safely invest their funds, use technology innovations while reducing the risk of falling victim to scammers to an absolute minimum,” he stated.

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🤑 Ripple's Stuart Alderoty urges US Congress to create clear crypto regulations to boost growth and competitiveness.

Stuart Alderoty, Ripple executive and National Cryptocurrency Association (NCA) president, is pressing US lawmakers to stop sidelining the crypto industry and establish clear regulatory frameworks.

➡️The current regulatory uncertainty harms the US's global competitiveness and stifles innovation by forcing companies to operate in legal gray zones or move offshore, aсcording to Alderoty. He emphasizes that clear rules would protect consumers, support smaller startups, and unlock economic growth.

❗️His case rests on data from the NCA. According to the NCA's 2026 State of Crypto Holders Report, more than 67 million Americans now own cryptocurrency, an increase of 12 million from 2025. The holder base now spans working and middle-class households, not just wealthy early adopters.

Alderoty calls for serious engagement between policymakers and the crypto sector to ensure the US remains a leader in the digital economy. His remarks come as lawmakers continue debating the CLARITY Act. 🚀

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⚡️Meta Debuts New AI Image-Generation Model Inside Chatbot, Instagram

Meta Platforms Inc. debuted a new image-generation AI model, its first such release since the company spent billions to rebuild its AI lab under Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang a year ago.

The model, called Muse Image, is rolling out Tuesday inside the Meta AI chatbot. It will also be embedded in Instagram and WhatsApp. People can use it to generate images based on text prompts or by asking it to alter existing pictures. Advertisers, too, will soon have access to the model to create marketing materials.

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🔥 SEC Unveils Sweeping 2026 Agenda to Reshape Crypto and Capital Markets

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is laying the groundwork for cryptocurrency rulemaking before the end of the year, with a blueprint to modify its rules for exchanges and broker dealers.

❗️On Tuesday, the SEC released its 2026 Regulatory Agenda, which includes proposed changes from reducing compliance burdens for emerging companies to allowing companies to file reports twice a year to one of the agency's biggest regulatory priorities — crypto.

🟠The SEC is considering proposing to amend a rule that requires brokers to maintain a minimum amount of liquid capital as well as another designed to protect customer assets if a broker becomes insolvent. The agency is also seeking to modify recordkeeping rules for broker dealers, with all three aimed at addressing "the application of these rules to crypto assets," the agency said.

🟠The SEC is also considering proposing new changes to its exchange rules.

"The proposed rules may provide greater certainty to the market, facilitate capital formation, and accommodate innovation within the crypto asset markets while, at the same time, ensuring that investors are adequately protected and provided with the information they need to make informed investment decisions," the agency said in the agenda.

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🤑 The Zipper Upgrade (Protocol 27) is almost here 🚀

‼️Tomorrow, July 8 at 1pm ET (17:00 UTC), Stellar validators vote on whether to upgrade Mainnet to Zipper.

⬇️ But before that happens, here's what you should know:

🟠With Zipper, custom accounts can delegate authentication to other addresses as a first-class protocol mechanism (CAP-0071-01). Every delegated signer bundles into a single authorization entry, so transactions shrink and simulation no longer takes multiple passes.

🟠If you've built smart accounts on Soroban, you know the old way: one auth entry per signer, manual payload construction, simulation gymnastics.🔣Zipper replaces all of it with two host functions and one new credential type.

🟠The payoff is what becomes practical to ship: social recovery, delegated signing keys, modular multisig. This is also foundational for CAP-0072,🔣which brings contract-based authentication to classic G-accounts (in a future protocol).

🟠Zipper also introduces SOROBAN_CREDENTIALS_ADDRESS_V2, which binds the signer's address into the signature payload and closes a narrow replay vector. The current credential type stays valid until Protocol 28, so you have a full cycle to migrate.

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🤖 Samsung Mass Produces Storage Drives for Nvidia’s Vera Rubin

Samsung Electronics Co. has begun mass production of its most advanced data center storage drive, which is set for use inside Nvidia Corp.’s upcoming Vera Rubin platform. The product — the PM1763 enterprise solid-state drive — was unveiled at Nvidia’s GTC conference earlier this year.

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