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 →

SEMQ Tests Aim To Cut AI Memory Overhead Without Named Customers

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SEMQ Tests Aim To Cut AI Memory Overhead Without Named Customers

SEMQ Group is pitching symbolic embedding multi-quantization as a way to preserve retrieval and classification behavior while lowering AI semantic-state overhead, but its public evidence remains benchmark-led and customer names are undisclosed.

#semantic embeddings #AI memory #SEMQ

July 1, 2026Read More →

Google Says AI Demand Is Outrunning Grid Decarbonisation

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Google Says AI Demand Is Outrunning Grid Decarbonisation

Google said its electricity demand climbed 37% in 2025 and has grown more than 250% since 2019 as AI and cloud infrastructure expanded. The company also cited 1 GW of demand-response capacity and more than 12 GW of new clean generation deals, but did not disclose what share of its total computing load can shift during grid stress.

#AI infrastructure #data centers #Google

July 1, 2026Read More →

Oxmiq Raises $35 Million For GPU IP And AI Factory Design

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Oxmiq Raises $35 Million For GPU IP And AI Factory Design

EE Times reported that Oxmiq Labs raised $35 million in Series A funding, taking total funding to $60 million, and is expanding from GPU IP toward data-centre-scale hardware, orchestration software and AI factory design. Raja Koduri described customer-funded custom silicon and a 2-GW AM Intelligence Labs deployment, but Oxmiq did not name the other large customers or production contracts.

#AI infrastructure #GPU IP #custom silicon

July 1, 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 →

Unit 42 Finds 13,229 Malicious URLs In AI Phantom-Domain Study

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Unit 42 Finds 13,229 Malicious URLs In AI Phantom-Domain Study

Unit 42 said its phantom-squatting research generated 685,339 prompts across 913 brands and produced 2.1 million unique URLs, including 13,229 malicious URLs and about 250,000 unique phantom domains. The vendor research did not disclose the brand list, affected customer names or named domains tied to data loss.

#cybersecurity #AI security #Unit 42

July 1, 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 →

OCC Public Denials Raise Charter Risk For Fintech Applicants

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OCC Public Denials Raise Charter Risk For Fintech Applicants

The OCC plans to publish charter denial decisions, giving fintech and digital-banking applicants clearer examples of why filings fail. The guidance also raises the reputational cost of applying before governance, compliance and risk systems are ready.

#fintech charters #OCC #digital banking

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 →

MGX Raises $49bn Fund As Abu Dhabi AI Capital Targets Compute Assets

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MGX Raises $49bn Fund As Abu Dhabi AI Capital Targets Compute Assets

MGX closed its first AI-focused fund at $49 billion, above its $45 billion target, as the Abu Dhabi firm ties sovereign capital to semiconductors, data centres and AI platforms. The company has not disclosed Fund I's investor list, stake sizes or customer capacity commitments.

#AI infrastructure #sovereign funds #MGX

July 1, 2026Read More →

Heat Failures Put Data Centres, Telecoms Cabinets And Power Networks Under Strain

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Heat Failures Put Data Centres, Telecoms Cabinets And Power Networks Under Strain

Extreme heat is testing the physical systems behind digital services, from power transformers and telecoms cabinets to hospital data centres. BBC evidence from France and the UK shows outages at 40C, data-centre temperatures of 50.3C and rail cabinets that can exceed 70C, while no single national heat-proofing standard is named.

#digital infrastructure #heatwaves #data centres

July 1, 2026Read More →

Qualcomm AI250 Stacks DRAM Over Compute But Leaves FLOPS Undisclosed

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Qualcomm AI250 Stacks DRAM Over Compute But Leaves FLOPS Undisclosed

Qualcomm is pitching high-bandwidth compute for AI inference, with AI250 cards claiming 768 GB of memory and 133 TB/s of effective bandwidth, but the company has not disclosed peak FLOPS or named customers.

#AI accelerators #near memory compute #Qualcomm

July 1, 2026Read More →