💠 Tesla Robotaxi has officially launched in Tampa and Orlando, making the service available in seven areas across the U.S.

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🤖 Intel and Fortinet Collaborate to Advance Cybersecurity Innovation and Strengthen Global Supply Chain Resilience

Intel Corporation and Fortinet announced a strategic collaboration to advance cybersecurity innovation and strengthen global supply chain resilience. Together, Fortinet’s purpose-built ASIC expertise and Intel’s leading design, packaging, and manufacturing capabilities will support the development of Fortinet Security Processor 6.

The companies will explore additional opportunities to further deepen collaboration across semiconductor technology, manufacturing, and the infrastructure underpinning future cybersecurity innovation. This work is expected to advance Fortinet’s long-term ASIC roadmap, support greater performance and service richness, and strengthen supply chain assurance for customers worldwide.

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🤖 Sony and Mitsubishi Set Up AI Vision Joint Venture for Factories

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and Sony Group Corp. said they will set up a joint venture to provide factory automation services by combining their expertise in AI and image sensors.

The joint venture, Advanced Vision Solutions, will begin operations in October, with Mitsubishi holding a 60% stake and Sony with 40%. The move comes just a week after Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang urged Japan to go all-in on the coming physical AI boom.

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💊 ‘Cochlear implant for blindness’ debuts in Europe, could launch in U.S. in 2027

Europeans can now receive a device that can partially restore their vision loss. Science Corporation announced that European regulators had approved the commercial sale of the startup’s retinal implant that improves eyesight for patients with age-related macular degeneration in their central vision, enough to read books and road signs more clearly.

“We have a cochlear implant for vision now,” — said Science founder and CEO Max Hodak.

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⚡️🇨🇳🇪🇺China and the EU have renewed a 2025–2027 joint research agreement

China's Ministry of Science and Technology and the European Commission have signed a new round of joint research funding agreements to tackle global challenges, such as climate change, and provide scientific and technological solutions to promote carbon neutrality and green and low-carbon development.

Under the agreements, China and the EU will jointly fund collaborative research projects between 2025 and 2027 under two major initiatives on "Food, Agriculture and Biosolutions" and "Climate Change and Biodiversity."

The initiatives will support cooperation among universities, research institutes and enterprises from both sides to carry out practical research and development projects.

#BRICS

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⚡️🧑‍⚖️ Republicans Release New Crypto Bill Text as Senate Eyes Vote Next Week

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is planning a vote on President Donald Trump’s landmark crypto market structure legislation as soon as next week.

❗️Senate Republicans circulated new text of a landmark cryptocurrency bill, unveiling changes to the so-called Clarity Act.

The final working draft of the Clarity Act has emerged days after talks with President Donald Trump led to a deal on how Republicans would address the effort's biggest remaining hurdle.

📌 That section would limit the president and other senior government officials from direct crypto ties, with the restriction currently set to expire in 2029 and the Department of Justice tasked with policing related ethics complaints.

🟠The overall bill text is reflective of work in two relevant Senate committees — Banking and Agriculture — plus the addition of a lot of new language meant to ensure the safety of digital assets users and investors.

‼️One thing that may land as a significant relief for the DeFi corner of the industry is that the section known as the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act remains intact, meaning developers that don't control users' assets won't be treated under the regulatory regime as "money transmitters," with all the compliance burdens that would come with that.

The Senate is expected to need at least 10 Democrats to approve the final bill before it can become law, because of the chamber's requirement for 60 yes votes on most legislation.

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🔥 The next big AI trade could be crypto and blockchain

Investors looking for the next AI trade should consider blockchain networks and crypto assets as autonomous AI agents begin transacting with one another, according to Franklin Templeton's Sandy Kaul.

⬇️Kaul said agentic AI will require low-cost, programmable payment rails for machine-to-machine micropayments, making blockchains better suited than traditional financial networks.

Enabling machine-to-machine transactions requires secure, autonomous, verifiable, and high throughput record-keeping. Legacy credit card and banking infrastructures are unsuited for agentic micropayments due to their fee structures.

Agentic AI will likely need to rely on crypto technologies and blockchains to enable their activities as these rails are ideally suited for these use cases.

📌 Indeed, blockchains and crypto technologies are likely to become the foundational delivery layer for these transactions based on the following attributes:

→ Autonomous Contract Creation / Fulfillment;
→ Decentralized Identity Verification;
→ Auditability;
→ Access to Decentralized Computing & Data;
→ Speed and Fulfillment.

🔜 Her thesis aligns with Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire's view that AI agents and blockchain are converging into a single economic system where software can transact, coordinate and exchange value autonomously.

Unlike generative AI, which creates text, images or code in response to prompts, agentic AI is built to complete tasks with little human input.🔣An AI agent could book travel, compare prices, buy computing power, retrieve data or manage software workflows on a user's behalf.

That shift is already beginning. 🚀

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🤖 OpenAI Plans to Spend Over $30 Billion on Georgia Data Center

OpenAI plans to spend tens of billions of dollars on a massive new data center near Savannah, Georgia. The startup has contracted with Georgia Power Co. and secured 3.2 gigawatts of energy for the data center complex in Effingham County, potentially setting the facility up to rank among OpenAI’s largest to date. Several hundred megawatts are expected to come online starting in 2028, with the rest of development extending through 2032.

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🤖 US pursues utility-scale quantum computers with new $125M DARPA validation deal

PsiQuantum has signed a $125 million agreement with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the quantum ​computing startup's largest U.S. government award to date. The deal falls ‌under DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, which aims to determine whether it is possible to build an industrially useful quantum computer by 2033.

PsiQuantum ⁠Chief Executive Victor Peng said the DARPA vetting will help ​the industry work out "what's real and what's not." He said PsiQuantum's ​first commercial-scale machine should be running around 2030.

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