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👉 Issue #41 of QX Snapshots is out!





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Highlights:


⛓ [𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧] Canton of Zurich Launches Digital Bond with Wholesale CBDC; Global Blockchain Business Council Unveils GSMI 4.0; European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) 2024 focus. The Canton of Zurich has issued a CHF 100 million digital bond through the SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), settled using a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) from the Swiss National Bank (SNB).


▶ [𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧] UK Fund Tokenisation - A Blueprint for Implementation.


🤖 [𝐀𝐈] OpenAI Q* Breakthrough in Artificial General Intelligence; EU AI Act development; Inflection 2 Release; Google Bard can now let you chat with YouTube videos. According to a report by Reuters, OpenAI has achieved a secret breakthrough called Q* (pronounced Q-Star) in its quest for artificial general intelligence (AGI). Meanwhile, Inflection AI announced Inflection-2, a new 175 billion parameter language model.


▶ [𝐀𝐈] Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason.


🎆 [𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲] Europe Hosts Quantum Technologies Conference; UK Invests £2.5 Billion in National Quantum Strategy; MIT Sloan Develops Framework for Quantum Computing in Enterprises.


▶[𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲] Quantum Finance with the Sergio Gago.


💻 [𝐈𝐨𝐓] Ericsson, Vodafone, and Qualcomm Showcase Europe's First 5G RedCap Data Call. Ericsson, Vodafone, and Qualcomm have demonstrated Europe's first 5G Reduced Capability (RedCap) data call in Ciudad Real, Spain, using Ericsson's RedCap RAN software on Vodafone's 5G network. This technology, New Radio Light (NR-Light), enables simpler, low-power, low-bandwidth devices like smartwatches and IoT devices to connect efficiently to 5G networks.


▶ [𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡] Broadcom Seals $69 Billion VMware Deal. Broadcom has completed its $69 billion acquisition of cloud-computing firm VMware after receiving regulatory approval from China, the last major market needed.

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