The UAE Central Bank fined a foreign bank branch Dh20 million and its compliance head Dh300,000 after finding significant, repeated AML/CFT failures, extending the country’s financial-sector enforcement push.

#AML compliance #UAE Central Bank #foreign bank branch

June 25, 2026Read More →

Qualcomm Names Meta As First Dragonfly Data Center CPU Customer

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Qualcomm Names Meta As First Dragonfly Data Center CPU Customer

Qualcomm said Meta will use its Dragonfly C1000 data center CPU when production starts in 2028, while the chipmaker raised its fiscal 2029 non-handset revenue projection to $40 billion.

#chips compute #data center CPUs #Qualcomm

June 25, 2026Read More →

AMD And Rackspace Set 30 MW AI Compute Plan For Regulated Workloads

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AMD And Rackspace Set 30 MW AI Compute Plan For Regulated Workloads

AMD and Rackspace Technology signed a definitive agreement for an initial 30 MW of AMD-based compute across Rackspace global data centers, with deployments planned from late 2026 through 2028.

#AI compute #Rackspace Technology #AMD

June 25, 2026Read More →

First Street Puts Climate Risk Into Data Center Site Selection

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First Street Puts Climate Risk Into Data Center Site Selection

First Street says 79% of global data center capacity is exposed to significant acute climate hazards, adding flood, wind, wildfire, heat and water stress to AI infrastructure underwriting.

#data center climate risk #AI infrastructure #First Street

June 25, 2026Read More →

Agility Robotics SPAC Deal Puts Digit Orders Under Public-Market Review

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Agility Robotics SPAC Deal Puts Digit Orders Under Public-Market Review

Agility Robotics agreed to merge with Churchill Capital Corp XI at a $2.5 billion pre-money equity value, putting contracted Digit v5 orders and unresolved closing conditions in front of public investors.

#humanoid robotics #physical AI #Agility Robotics

June 25, 2026Read More →

Circle And INFINIOS Put Stablecoin Rails Into Middle East Payments

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Circle And INFINIOS Put Stablecoin Rails Into Middle East Payments

Circle and Bahrain-based INFINIOS signed an agreement to connect USDC, EURC and onchain payment APIs with payment, treasury and settlement tools for Middle East businesses and financial institutions.

#stablecoins #digital payments #INFINIOS

June 25, 2026Read More →

US Bill Would Make Large Data Centers Pay For Grid Upgrades

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US Bill Would Make Large Data Centers Pay For Grid Upgrades

The Ratepayer Protection Act would push US data centers of 100MW or more to cover generation, transmission and connection costs, moving AI power demand into a federal ratepayer fight.

#data center energy #grid costs #Ratepayer Protection Act

June 24, 2026Read More →

Pinecone And Tiger Data Target AI Agent Costs In The Data Layer

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Pinecone And Tiger Data Target AI Agent Costs In The Data Layer

Pinecone and Tiger Data are pitching data infrastructure as a way to control agentic AI costs, as IDC says 79 percent of organizations are already funding or running agentic AI work.

#agentic AI #Pinecone #Tiger Data

June 24, 2026Read More →

MoEngage Buys Aampe To Move Marketing AI Into Customer-Level Agents

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MoEngage Buys Aampe To Move Marketing AI Into Customer-Level Agents

MoEngage has acquired San Francisco-based Aampe in an all-cash deal, adding customer-level AI agents after a $280 million financing and recent multimillion-dollar Salesforce migration wins.

#enterprise software #marketing automation #MoEngage

June 24, 2026Read More →

Digi Power X Lands $19.6 Million Blackwell Capacity Deal

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Digi Power X Lands $19.6 Million Blackwell Capacity Deal

Digi Power X signed a $19.6 million, 24-month agreement with SubQ AI for bare metal Nvidia Blackwell GPU capacity, but did not identify which data center will host the deployment.

#AI infrastructure #bare metal GPUs #Digi Power X

June 24, 2026Read More →

JLL Roundtable Links AI Adoption To Finance Discipline

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JLL Roundtable Links AI Adoption To Finance Discipline

Finance and business leaders at a JLL roundtable said AI is already changing customer service, coding, hiring and healthcare work, while putting pressure on teams to prove profitability and data quality.

#enterprise AI #startup finance #JLL

June 24, 2026Read More →

CBRE Data Center Report Puts AI Demand Against Grid Limits

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CBRE Data Center Report Puts AI Demand Against Grid Limits

CBRE found that global data center supply expanded in the first quarter of 2026, but AI startups, neoclouds and hyperscalers kept vacancy tight as power availability and grid constraints slowed development.

#data center demand #AI infrastructure #CBRE

June 24, 2026Read More →