⚡️🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin has signed a law regulating cryptocurrency in the Russian Federation

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⚡️🇮🇩 CoreWeave to Enter Asian Market With Indonesian Data Centers

CoreWeave, Inc., the essential cloud for AI, announced its expansion into Indonesia, the company's first data center presence in the Asia-Pacific region. The expansion adds three new facilities totaling 360 megawatts of contracted IT power, expected to come online in 2028.

"Indonesia is investing heavily in AI education and digital capacity, and it’s paying off – the country is becoming one of Southeast Asia's fastest-growing destinations for global tech investment," — said Sachin Jain, chief operating officer, CoreWeave. 🚀

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⚡️🇺🇸 Trump administration drafting ban on Chinese data center devices

The Trump administration is drafting a ban on U.S. imports of new models of Chinese data center components, as it seeks to protect the infrastructure that undergirds the AI boom.

The FCC is working on the measure to bar imports of new Chinese optical transceivers, which allow data to travel over fiber-optic cables at the speed of light within data centers. The move aims to prevent Chinese firms from stealing data, installing malware or disrupting service at U.S. data centers, which house the chips to train and run ​AI models.

"Transceivers definitely ⁠pose a risk," — said Divyansh Kaushik, an AI policy expert at Washington, D.C., advisory firm Beacon Global Strategies. "As the data center buildout scales up, you want to make sure the ​data center supply chain is secure from the get-go," he added.

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🧑‍⚖️ South Africa’s Treasury and central bank propose draft rules on cross-border crypto transactions

The National Treasury and the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) released a draft rulebook that proposes that sending crypto offshore must be conducted through an authorized provider and reported to the central bank’s Financial Surveillance Department (FinSurv).

“The proposed regulatory measures seek to minimize the risk of regulatory arbitrage between regulated entities conducting cross-border activities, and to enhance the ability of the FinSurv to detect, deter and disrupt illicit financial flows,” — Treasury and the Reserve Bank said.

❗️ The framework would not make crypto legal tender, nor do the rules distinguish between different digital assets. The two bodies have invited comments from interested parties with a deadline for submission of Sept. 30.

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🛰 EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers

The co-founders of Endeavor Optical Networks — CEO Charlie Horowitz and CTO Tyler Presser — aim to launch a network of laser-equipped spacecraft to link data centers from orbit.

Most satellite communications networks, even those that provide broadband internet service, aren’t robust enough to carry data at 200 terabits a second or more, the speed of undersea fiber. However, more powerful satellites and advances in optical technology are making space-to-ground communications with lasers more feasible.

EON intends to build a network of about 20 satellites, each able to provide a dedicated link between two continents, with the initial fleet providing 24 hour coverage for early customers. The company will carefully choose ground stations in different regions to serve local data centers and CDNs, using redundant sites and leveraging weather data to ensure a reliable link.

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🤖 IBM and Red Hat Offer Lightwell at No Cost to Universities, NGOs and Think Tanks

IBM and Red Hat announced a new program providing Lightwell at no charge to over 185 leading research universities and 100 major nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and think tanks. Eligible institutions can access Lightwell’s library of validated fixes for open source software vulnerabilities, helping them secure the software and focus resources supporting research, education, humanitarian programs and other public-interest work.

“Lightwell combines automated remediation with deep open source engineering expertise and contributes fixes back upstream,” — said Matt Hicks, President and CEO, Red Hat. “Expanding access will help strengthen both participating institutions and the open source communities on which they depend.”

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🔥 Dinari launches tokenized S&P 500 stocks for US self-custody wallets using USDC

Tokenized equities firm Dinari is bringing its blockchain-based U.S. stock offering to eligible domestic investors, expanding its tokenization model into the U.S. market after working through the regulatory plumbing needed to let investors buy shares with stablecoins.

❗️Investors can buy and sell 724 tokenized U.S. stocks, including every company in the S&P 500, using Circle's USDC stablecoin through self-custody wallets. Dinari’s stock tokens, dubbed dShares, are available on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base and Avalanche blockchains, with support for Solana and Sei coming “soon.”

The offering runs through Dinari's regulated broker-dealer and transfer agent infrastructure and launches with partners including Circle (CRCL), Stripe-owned Privy, Para and Monaco.

"We're the first platform to let U.S. investors buy and sell tokenized U.S.-listed stocks directly from their own self-custody wallets using USDC," — said Gabriel Otte, CEO and Co-Founder of Dinari.

"For decades, investing and digital assets have existed in separate financial systems. This launch brings them together, allowing investors to move seamlessly between stablecoins and U.S. equities while preserving the protections of traditional capital markets."

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⚡️✈️ Pavel Durov on Telegram's Removal from the App Store

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🏠Tesla Solar Roof is now available in the Dominican Republic through Tesla partner RAAS Solar

Solar Roof is a roof made of glass tiles with solar cells built in. This matters because power outages are common in the Dominican Republic. Solar Roof paired with a Powerwall keeps the lights on when the grid goes down.

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⚡️🇺🇸 Donald Trump: "The Stock Market is at an ALL TIME HIGH, and setting Record after Record because Investors know America is WINNING!" 🏆

With TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS of new Investment pouring into the United States, and more Factories, more Construction, and more High Paying Jobs on the way, the results are impossible to hide.

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⚡️🇺🇸Trump administration refunds $100bn in ‘liberation day’ tariffs

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has refunded about $100bn in tariff repayments following the Supreme Court's February ruling. Over $128bn in tariff claims have been accepted for processing, suggesting further substantial refunds will occur.

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🤝 Anthropic Inks $10 Billion Computing Deal With New Cloud Startup

Anthropic has signed a contract to use a data center managed by Nvidia Corp.-backed cloud startup Volta Infra Holdings Ltd. Volta, founded earlier this year, will provide cloud compute to the Claude maker over a six-year period.

Volta has a partner in this deal, Bitdeer, a crypto-mining company that will help develop the data center to provide the compute capacity. That facility will be located in Norway and will deliver a 133 megawatt capacity. It will be fueled by Nvidia’s Vera Rubin systems, the chipmaker’s state-of-the-art AI chip architecture.

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🤖 Samsung Electronics launches next-generation AI memory technology

The world's largest memory chip manufacturer chose this year's Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) conference in Santa Clara, ​California, to introduce its V10 Bonding V-NAND, or BV-NAND, prototype. The chip features ​more than 400 layers and a new wafer-bonding architecture to increase storage ⁠density and boost performance.

As AI workloads have expanded beyond training large language models to ​the process of generating answers to user queries, demand for high-capacity NAND memory has increased. ​NAND flash memory is used to store data such as photos, videos and applications in devices including smartphones.

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🇺🇸 Texas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are five times higher than peak record demand

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) just announced a moratorium on all data center approvals through the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) until the agencies have completed an audit of data centers seeking approval to connect to Texas’s electric grid.

The governor wants to ensure that data center applicants provide the following: tax break information, power use and generation, water use and cooling operations, community impact reduction measures, and facility ownership. Applicants that haven’t submitted these details will not be allowed to connect to the grid.

“Our top priority is to protect Texans’ safety and quality of life,” — Gov. Abbott said. “Any project that fails to comply with the requirements set forth by the PUCT and ERCOT, and by state law, must be denied connection to the Texas grid. Simply put, Texans must come first.”

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💫 NASA Provides Updates on Moon Base Cargo Landers, Tech Demonstrations

NASA is making progress in building the Moon Base, which will become a resilient outpost near the Moon’s South Pole for science, technology, and eventual human operations. To advance lunar surface infrastructure development, commercial partners such as Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace, Intuitive Machines, and Voyager Lunar Systems are working toward delivering landers by 2028.

These landers will deliver the foundational architecture for a sustained presence on the Moon 🌘

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