Intesi Group of Italy and iGrant of Sweden launched the EUDI Wallet Business Wallet, a cross-border platform that combines qualified electronic signatures with Qualified Electronic Attribute Attestations for legally binding transactions. Google and Germany’s Sparkasse announced a first-of-its-kind online age-verification service that uses Google Wallet’s Credential Manager API with zero-knowledge cryptography to enable one-click age…
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A global research team led by Japan’s NICT demonstrated 1.02 Pb/s transmission over 1,808 km using a 19-core fiber and custom optical amplifiers. NICT, ASTRODESIGN, and Fujikura deployed a multi-core fiber system with eight 4-core fibers (32 cores total) enabling uncompressed 8K video across a 300 m link at about 70 Gbps per stream. In…
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Circle Internet Financial’s NYSE IPO on June 5 priced at $31 per share, opened at $69, surged about 800% to over $270 within two weeks, pushing Circle’s market cap above $60 billion and the deal was oversubscribed roughly 25×. Coinbase and Kraken secured MiCA licenses to operate across all 27 EU member states (Luxembourg for…
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On June 19, 2025 UK RegTech firm CUBE announced the acquisition of Acin, its fourth deal since 2023, folding Acin’s controls benchmarking network into CUBE’s platform to form an end-to-end link from regulations to risk controls for about 1,000 institutional clients in 20+ countries with 700 staff, backed by Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi, J.P. Morgan,…
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In June 2025 Genoa, Italy was selected to host Project Hafnia, an AI-driven traffic management platform by Milestone Systems in partnership with NVIDIA, using a digital twin of the city via NVIDIA Omniverse to train vision AI models for real-time congestion mitigation. Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority signed a 42-month SaaS contract to deploy Iteris…
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In the United States, more than 777 FDA-cleared AI devices are in clinical use for medical imaging, slashing scan times and flagging urgent cases. Microsoft’s MAI-DxO AI system achieves up to 85.5% diagnostic accuracy, vastly outperforming doctors at about 20%. Chugai Pharmaceutical and Gero announced a $1B+ collaboration to discover targets for age-related diseases using…
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Deloitte forecasts global data center electricity use will nearly double from about 536 TWh in 2025 to over 1,000 TWh by 2030. S&P Global projects U.S. data center power demand rising about 12% annually through 2030, with roughly 60% of new demand potentially met by natural gas. Germany passed the Energy Efficiency Act (EnEFG) requiring…
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In June 2025, Austrian startup Revo Foods partnered with Slovenia’s Juicy Marbles to debut a 3D-printed plant-based fish fillet called “Kinda Cod,” leveraging mycoprotein and high-throughput 3D printing, and it launched direct-to-consumer in the US via Juicy Marbles’ online store with UK and EU rollout planned. In April 2025, Bel Group teamed with Standing Ovation…
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In 2025, Amazon Web Services announced a $10 billion investment in North Carolina to build an AI-focused data center campus in Richmond County, creating 500 jobs. AWS plans new data centers in Chile, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, and Taiwan, with CEO Matt Garman calling the expansion pace “breakneck” to support AI workloads. Alibaba Cloud opened…
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Major News Developments in AgriTech (June–July 2025) Innovations and Technology Deployments (AI, Drones, IoT, Robotics) In mid-2025, numerous precision agriculture technologies moved from concept to field deployment. Automation and robotics saw significant strides: major manufacturers and startups alike introduced autonomous farm machinery to tackle labor shortages and improve accuracy. Kubota’s partnership with Agtonomy will outfit…
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