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Japan's SBI Holdings is making a significant bet on Solana, pivoting its blockchain initiative toward the layer-one network for tokenization and stablecoin issuance. The Solana Foundation has now joined the SBI Solana Global joint venture, signaling that institutional finance and crypto infrastructure are continuing to find common ground — with real organizational weight behind it.
Shifting to the question of who controls the cultural record, AI companies are reportedly offering museums financial lifelines at a moment when many institutions are genuinely struggling. But as the Financial Times explores, those partnerships come with a question worth sitting with: what exactly are these companies getting in exchange? Data, imagery, provenance — the details matter enormously.
And on the hardware front, UK shoppers have a window of opportunity as Currys is discounting a range of business laptops by up to six hundred pounds. The standout is Microsoft's Surface Laptop with a Snapdragon X Elite processor, dropping from fifteen hundred ninety-nine to nine hundred ninety-nine pounds — a meaningful saving on a machine built around Microsoft's Copilot AI ambitions.
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