Shionogi has secured approvals for cefiderocol in 27 countries, but the antibiotic’s narrow use case shows why resistant-infection drugs remain a difficult business.

#healthtech #antibiotic resistance #Shionogi

June 21, 2026Read More →

Cloudflare Sets September Deadline For Mixed-Use AI Crawlers

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Cloudflare Sets September Deadline For Mixed-Use AI Crawlers

Cloudflare plans to block mixed-use crawlers from ad-supported pages by default from September 15, 2026, unless site owners change the setting. The policy pushes AI companies to separate search access from agent and training uses while Cloudflare expands publisher payment tools.

#AI crawlers #publisher content #Cloudflare

July 2, 2026Read More →

Starlink Discounts Memphis Plans Around xAI Data Centre Dispute

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Starlink Discounts Memphis Plans Around xAI Data Centre Dispute

SpaceX is offering Starlink discounts near xAI’s Colossus data centres in Memphis and Southaven, while lawsuits and permit disputes keep attention on power, noise and pollution claims around the AI site.

#AI data centers #Starlink #SpaceX

July 2, 2026Read More →

Memory Prices Push US PC Shipments Down 7%

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Memory Prices Push US PC Shipments Down 7%

Omdia data cited by Tom Hardware showed US PC shipments fell to 15.8 million units in the first quarter of 2026, as memory and storage chip shortages hit entry-level laptops and pushed the market toward a forecast 14.4% contraction.

#memory chips #PC shipments #Omdia

July 2, 2026Read More →

Qatar Funds Turksat Satellite As 50Gbps Capacity Stays At Turkish Orbital Slot

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Qatar Funds Turksat Satellite As 50Gbps Capacity Stays At Turkish Orbital Slot

Turksat and Qatar's Es'hailSat signed a satellite partnership funded by Qatar, with Turkey keeping the 50 degrees east orbital and frequency rights while the project leaves cost, launch timing and customers undisclosed.

#satellite broadband #Es’hailSat #Turksat

July 1, 2026Read More →

WhatsApp Usernames Hide Phone Numbers But Scam Risk Remains

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WhatsApp Usernames Hide Phone Numbers But Scam Risk Remains

WhatsApp is rolling out usernames and optional keys to reduce phone-number exposure, but security researchers warn that impersonation and social-engineering scams can move to handles, profile images and trusted-looking accounts.

#cybersecurity #WhatsApp #usernames

July 2, 2026Read More →

GM Battery Pilot Line Puts Lower-Cost EV Chemistry on a 2028 Clock

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GM Battery Pilot Line Puts Lower-Cost EV Chemistry on a 2028 Clock

General Motors is using a new Battery Cell Development Center near Detroit to move lower-cost EV battery chemistry from research into production planning. The 500,000-square-foot facility supports GM’s $900 million EV battery push and is tied to a plan to cut EV costs by nearly 10%. The practical question is whether LMR battery cells can scale through the pilot line before GM targets vehicles on the road by 2028.

#devices consumer tech #GM #EV batteries

June 6, 2026Read More →

Robinhood Opens Arbitrum Chain As Stock Tokens Go Live In 120 Countries

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Robinhood Opens Arbitrum Chain As Stock Tokens Go Live In 120 Countries

Robinhood has launched the public mainnet for Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 blockchain built on Arbitrum, and made Stock Tokens available through Robinhood Wallet in more than 120 countries. The company also introduced Robinhood Earn with an estimated 7% yield on USDG, but jurisdictional availability and control settings remain central limits.

#crypto web3 #Robinhood Chain #tokenised stocks

July 2, 2026Read More →

Recykal's $23 Mn Bridge Round Tests Circular-Economy Scale-Up

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Recykal's $23 Mn Bridge Round Tests Circular-Economy Scale-Up

Recykal raised $23 Mn to expand recycling software, its recyclable-materials marketplace, deposit-return deployments and international growth while investors watch whether revenue growth can support that wider operating load.

#startups #cleantech #circular economy

June 21, 2026Read More →

Springboards Tests Qwen 3 Model Against Repetitive LLM Answers

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Springboards Tests Qwen 3 Model Against Repetitive LLM Answers

Australian startup Springboards has built Flint on Alibaba’s Qwen 3 to produce more varied answers to open-ended prompts. MIT Technology Review’s article pairs the company’s claim with a NeurIPS-winning homogeneity paper and user cautions that the prototype still fails under pressure.

#large language models #Qwen 3 #Springboards

July 2, 2026Read More →

Nvidia Names $500 Billion US AI Infrastructure Plan But Leaves Timing Open

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Nvidia Names $500 Billion US AI Infrastructure Plan But Leaves Timing Open

Nvidia says it and partners including TSMC, Foxconn, Wistron, Corning, Lumentum, Coherent and Amkor plan up to $500 billion of US AI infrastructure production. The account comes from Nvidia's own company blog; it names factories, suppliers and job figures, but gives no full production timetable for the programme.

#AI infrastructure #Blackwell #Nvidia

July 2, 2026Read More →

AMD Drops HBM For LPDDR5X In Versal Memory Package Shift

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AMD Drops HBM For LPDDR5X In Versal Memory Package Shift

AMD is moving its Versal Premium Gen 2 memory-on-package adaptive SoCs from HBM to LPDDR5X after HBM2e supply limits forced the earlier Versal HBM family toward discontinuation.

#AMD #Versal Premium Gen 2 #LPDDR5X

July 2, 2026Read More →