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AliExpress Hit With Record €550m EU Fine Over Illegal Goods

SBI Takes Majority Control Of Coinhako After MAS Approval

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AliExpress Hit With Record €550m EU Fine Over Illegal Goods

BBC reported that the European Commission imposed a record €550m Digital Services Act penalty on AliExpress and ordered the Alibaba-owned marketplace to file a corrective action plan by 20 October.

#Digital Services Act #AliExpress #Alibaba

July 21, 2026Read More →

SBI Takes Majority Control Of Coinhako After MAS Approval

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SBI Takes Majority Control Of Coinhako After MAS Approval

e27 reported that SBI Holdings acquired a majority stake in Singapore crypto exchange Coinhako after MAS approval, using a capital injection and share purchase to turn the platform into a consolidated subsidiary. Financial terms and product timelines were not disclosed.

#SBI Holdings #Coinhako #MAS

July 21, 2026Read More →

Coratia Gets Rs 66 Crore Navy Order For Underwater Robots

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Coratia Gets Rs 66 Crore Navy Order For Underwater Robots

YourStory reported that Coratia Technologies has a Rs 66 crore Indian Navy contract for indigenous underwater ROVs, moving the Odisha startup from inspection prototypes toward defence delivery.

#Coratia Technologies #Indian Navy #underwater robots

July 21, 2026Read More →

Bank Of Korea Expands CBDC Pilot To Nine Banks In September

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Bank Of Korea Expands CBDC Pilot To Nine Banks In September

CoinDesk reported that the Bank of Korea will move its CBDC programme into September real-transaction testing with nine participating banks, using BOK infrastructure while lenders issue and manage deposit tokens.

#Bank of Korea #CBDC #deposit tokens

July 20, 2026Read More →

Denmark Grid Plan Gives Hospitals Priority Over Datacentres

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Denmark Grid Plan Gives Hospitals Priority Over Datacentres

Denmark's emergency grid proposal would move hospitals, defence and emergency services ahead of most datacentre projects in the electricity-connection queue as applications rise far beyond peak national load.

#Denmark datacentres #Energinet #grid connection queue

July 20, 2026Read More →

IBM Study Finds UAE AI Vendor Switching Risk

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IBM Study Finds UAE AI Vendor Switching Risk

Middle East AI News, citing IBM Institute for Business Value data, said 88 per cent of surveyed UAE executives would struggle to switch their primary AI vendor or model, while 96 per cent did not fully understand dependencies across vendors, models and infrastructure.

#UAE AI adoption #AI sovereignty #vendor lock in

July 20, 2026Read More →

France And Germany Name Arcadia As Starting Point For Sovereign Military AI

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France And Germany Name Arcadia As Starting Point For Sovereign Military AI

TNW reported that France and Germany pledged to examine a European sovereign digital backbone for military AI, using France's Arcadia as the starting point after both countries moved intelligence services away from Palantir.

#sovereign AI #military AI #Arcadia

July 19, 2026Read More →

Meta Smart Glasses Face Privacy Backlash As Courtroom Bans Spread

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Meta Smart Glasses Face Privacy Backlash As Courtroom Bans Spread

Yahoo Tech reported that backlash against AI-enabled smart glasses is growing as Meta expands camera-equipped eyewear, with courthouse bans, facial-recognition concerns and cloud-review warnings shaping the privacy debate.

#smart glasses #Meta #privacy

July 19, 2026Read More →

Nebius Raises $775M Secured Debt Facility For GPU Cloud Buildout

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Nebius Raises $775M Secured Debt Facility For GPU Cloud Buildout

Nebius said its first senior secured debt facility is backed by deployed GPU infrastructure and contracted cash flows, with the $775 million financing priced at SOFR + 2.50% and maturing on October 31, 2030.

#Nebius GPU debt #AI infrastructure financing #Microsoft cloud contract

July 19, 2026Read More →

White House Pushes New Gatekeeping Role For Frontier AI Model Access

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White House Pushes New Gatekeeping Role For Frontier AI Model Access

CNBC reported that the Trump administration is pressing deeper into access decisions for frontier AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic, while a White House official said release timing and scope remain company decisions.

#frontier AI models #White House AI policy #OpenAI GPT 5.6

July 18, 2026Read More →

Apple And US DOJ Discuss Settlement In 2024 iPhone Antitrust Suit

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Apple And US DOJ Discuss Settlement In 2024 iPhone Antitrust Suit

AppleInsider reported that Apple and the US Justice Department are in early settlement discussions over the 2024 iPhone antitrust lawsuit, while any agreement, trial path and final court order remain unresolved.

#Apple antitrust #US Department of Justice #iPhone App Store

July 18, 2026Read More →

European Commission Sets Android AI And Search Data Measures For Google

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European Commission Sets Android AI And Search Data Measures For Google

The European Commission has issued Digital Markets Act specification measures requiring Google to open Android AI interoperability and anonymised Google Search data access. The Register reported that search data sharing begins in January 2027, while the AI interoperability measures apply from July 2027 unless legal scrutiny changes the timetable.

#Google DMA #Android AI interoperability #Google Search data

July 18, 2026Read More →