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Lava Tokenization Sandbox Gives Electric Blue the Infrastructure for a €500M Rollout in Germany

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by on July 30, 2026 at 12:20 am
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The energy firm is the first live test case for Lava Network’s tokenization sandbox, which says it has fielded 40-plus institutional applications since June. Germany has a battery problem. Last year, the country curtailed more than 2,700 GWh of solar generation and spent 573 hours with negative electricity prices, the telltale sign of a grid […]

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The US just banned ‘foreign’ robots and inverters, and it means China

Jul29
by on July 29, 2026 at 12:02 am
Posted In: artificial intelligence, robots

The United States has moved to block new imports of foreign-made robots and power inverters. Officials fear a hostile power could spy through them, or switch them off from afar. The order never says China. It does not need to. The Federal Communications Commission added two categories to its Covered List on Tuesday, as first […]

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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says the company has never called for banning open-weight AI models

Jul28
by on July 28, 2026 at 12:06 am
Posted In: artificial intelligence

Dario Amodei published Anthropic’s formal position on open-weights models on Sunday, breaking a silence that had drawn accusations that the company wanted to ban open-weight AI to protect its business. “Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models,” Amodei wrote. “Open-weights models that don’t have dangerous capabilities are a public good.” The post […]

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What OpenAI will show the White House this week

Jul26
by on July 26, 2026 at 6:03 pm
Posted In: artificial intelligence, OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman heads to Washington this week to brief the Trump administration on the company’s most powerful AI model yet, pushing for speedy approval of a system that has already demonstrated it can solve problems humans could not and breach another company’s infrastructure without being told to, Axios reported on Saturday. The visit […]

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Canon registered three new cameras. One may be a digital tribute to the legendary AE-1.

Jul25
by on July 25, 2026 at 5:14 pm
Posted In: Apps, photography

Canon has registered three new cameras with wireless certification agencies, a step that typically signals imminent announcements. Rumours point to updates across Canon’s mid-range mirrorless lineup: the EOS R8 II, EOS R7 II, and EOS R10 II. All three are expected in the second half of 2026. The most interesting is the R8 II, which […]

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