Databricks says LTAP unifies transactional and analytical workloads around one authoritative storage layer for AI-agent-era applications. The technical dispute is whether Lakebase, Reyden and object storage amount to one operational copy or several internal representations that still need careful synchronisation.

#Databricks #LTAP #Lakebase

July 3, 2026Read More →

SpaceXAI Prices Grok 4.5 Below Frontier AI Rivals

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SpaceXAI Prices Grok 4.5 Below Frontier AI Rivals

SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 with company pricing of $2 per 1 million input tokens and $6 per 1 million output tokens, below several named frontier AI rivals. The company did not publish independent benchmark validation, customer adoption data or enterprise deployment terms.

#SpaceXAI #Grok 4.5 #frontier AI models

July 9, 2026Read More →

SpaceX And Orbital File 100,000-Satellite Plans At FCC

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SpaceX And Orbital File 100,000-Satellite Plans At FCC

SpaceX and Orbital Compute have filed separate FCC plans for 100,000 satellites each, with SpaceX targeting Starlink Gen 3 broadband and Orbital proposing space-based AI data-centre capacity. The filings do not include approvals, named customers, launch cadence or final commercial timetables.

#orbital data centres #Starlink Gen 3 #SpaceX

July 9, 2026Read More →

Rapidus Targets 2027 2nm Fab Ramp Without Volume Customer

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Rapidus Targets 2027 2nm Fab Ramp Without Volume Customer

Rapidus has EUV equipment running at its Chitose fab and plans 2nm mass production in 2027, but Tom's Hardware reported that the Japanese chipmaker still lacks a committed high-volume customer.

#Rapidus #2nm chips #Japan semiconductors

July 9, 2026Read More →

Telstra Outage Stops 300 Triple Zero Calls In Australia

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Telstra Outage Stops 300 Triple Zero Calls In Australia

A Telstra outage in Australia disrupted mobile voice and data services and stopped 300 triple zero emergency calls, according to Light Reading. Telstra said just under 90% of calls and data services had been restored after 12 hours, but the report did not include total affected users, the full systems involved or any new redundancy plan.

#Telstra outage #Triple Zero #Australia telecom

July 9, 2026Read More →

Sysdig Says AI Ransomware Still Needed Human Setup

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Sysdig Says AI Ransomware Still Needed Human Setup

Sysdig described JadePuffer as agentic ransomware, but Michael Clark said a human still chose the victim, provisioned infrastructure and supplied database credentials before the AI agent executed the attack.

#cybersecurity #agentic ransomware #Sysdig

July 7, 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 →

Sony Wins OCC Conditional Trust Charter For Stablecoin Unit

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Sony Wins OCC Conditional Trust Charter For Stablecoin Unit

Sony disclosed that the OCC has conditionally approved a U.S. national trust bank for Connectia Trust, a Sony Financial Group subsidiary that would issue and manage dollar-denominated stablecoins. Sony said the unit will be capitalised at $40 million, while trade groups and consumer advocates objected to the charter path.

#Sony Financial Group #Connectia Trust #OCC trust charter

July 9, 2026Read More →

Open USD Names 140-Plus Partners But Leaves Reserve Fees Undisclosed

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Open USD Names 140-Plus Partners But Leaves Reserve Fees Undisclosed

Open Standard says more than 140 partners including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Coinbase, Adyen and BNY are backing Open USD, but the consortium has not disclosed reserve details, fee percentages, partner voting rules or first merchant deployments.

#fintech #digital payments #stablecoins

July 3, 2026Read More →

Naver And KAI Sign Defence AI MOU Without Weapons-Control Timeline

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Naver And KAI Sign Defence AI MOU Without Weapons-Control Timeline

Naver, Naver Cloud and KAI signed a defence AI MOU for sovereign models and physical AI combat platforms, but the companies did not disclose budget, deployment timing, test results or weapons-control approvals.

#Naver #KAI #Naver Cloud

July 8, 2026Read More →

AI Times Says Infrastructure Captures 82% Of Generative AI Value

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AI Times Says Infrastructure Captures 82% Of Generative AI Value

AI Times Korea cited Exponential View data showing 82% of measured AI-economy value going to cloud, GPU and inference infrastructure in Q1 2026, while foundation-model companies accounted for 11% and applications 7%.

#AI infrastructure #Exponential View #generative AI revenue

July 8, 2026Read More →

SambaNova Raises $1 Billion For AI Inference Hardware Without IPO Timing

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SambaNova Raises $1 Billion For AI Inference Hardware Without IPO Timing

TechCrunch reported that SambaNova Systems raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation, named JPMorganChase as an inference-infrastructure partner and did not give IPO timing or SN50 customer shipment dates beyond the second half of 2026.

#SambaNova Systems #AI inference hardware #SN50

July 8, 2026Read More →