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Google says PyTorch workloads on Google Cloud can train faster with a new gcsfs integration for Rapid Buckets, a Colossus-backed storage path designed to reduce data-loading and checkpoint bottlenecks.
Spotify says a new Verified by Spotify badge will roll out over the coming weeks to reviewed artist profiles, while AI-generated or AI-persona artist profiles are not eligible at launch.
Coinbase Asset Management said a new stablecoin fund called CUSHY will launch with an onchain share class using Superstate's FundOS platform.
MARA said it will acquire Long Ridge Energy & Power for roughly $1.5 billion, adding a gas plant and Ohio campus it plans to expand for AI and critical IT workloads.
AllUnity said its MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin EURAU is expanding to Solana and additional DEX venues, with Flowdesk providing liquidity for new cross-chain trading pools.
Wasabi Protocol told users not to interact with its contracts after Blockaid disclosed an ongoing admin-key exploit affecting Wasabi vaults and LongPool on Ethereum and Base.
Reuters, Bloomberg, and TechCrunch all point to the same unannounced SoftBank plan: a new U.S. company called Roze focused on AI robotics and data center buildout.
Mayo Clinic says its REDMOD model found pancreatic cancer signals on routine CT scans a median of 16 months before diagnosis, but the system is still headed for prospective clinical testing.
Alphabet said Google Cloud passed $20 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, but near-term compute limits kept the business from meeting all demand.
Parallel Web Systems says it has raised a $100 million Series B led by Sequoia, valuing the AI web-search infrastructure startup at $2 billion.
Meta has begun offering select creators in Colombia and the Philippines USDC payouts to third-party wallets on Solana and Polygon.
Visa added five more blockchains to its stablecoin settlement pilot, bringing the network count to nine as annualized volume reached a $7 billion run rate.
Securitize and Computershare say U.S.-listed companies can now issue issuer-sponsored tokenized shares alongside traditional stock, with Computershare handling transfer-agent duties and corporate actions.
Quip Network says its new Arch-based wallet gives Bitcoin holders a way to adopt WOTS+-style post-quantum protection without waiting for a soft fork.
Scout AI says it has raised a $100 million Series A to expand Fury, its model stack for coordinating unmanned military systems across air and ground operations.
GM says model-year 2022 and newer vehicles with Google built-in will receive Gemini through over-the-air updates, expanding the assistant to roughly 4 million eligible cars in the U.S.
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model for document, screen, audio, and video workloads that the company says can reduce the number of models needed inside agent systems.
PocketOS founder Jeremy Crane says a Cursor agent running Claude Opus 4.6 deleted the company's production database through Railway's API, prompting Railway to patch a legacy delete path.
AWS and OpenAI have put OpenAI models, Codex, and a new managed agent service into Amazon Bedrock in limited preview for enterprise customers.
Amazon has updated its Hear the highlights feature with a live AI Q&A mode that lets U.S. shoppers ask product questions by text or voice while listening to audio summaries.
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, a 30B-class open multimodal model aimed at the perception layer of agent workflows across video, audio, documents, and text.
Galaxy Digital says it has delivered the first Helios data hall to CoreWeave and started recognizing lease revenue, turning its Texas campus into a live AI infrastructure business while Q1 crypto weakness still drove a $216 million net loss.
Google's latest AI Edge Gallery release adds Gemma 3 1B NPU support on supported Qualcomm Android phones, extending its LiteRT push for faster local inference.
Israel's capital markets regulator has approved a limited launch of BILS, a shekel-backed stablecoin from Bits of Gold, under strict reserve, reporting, and supervision requirements.
Google has introduced Agents CLI, a command-line tool and skill bundle for coding assistants that scaffold, evaluate, and deploy agents on Google Cloud.
Western Union said its USDPT stablecoin is expected to launch next month, starting as an internal settlement rail for agents rather than as a consumer token.
Aave service providers have proposed a 25,000 ETH treasury contribution to the rsETH recovery effort, while Arbitrum governance weighs releasing another 30,765.67 ETH frozen after the exploit.
Western Union says its USDPT stablecoin is nearing launch and will first be used to settle with agents as an alternative to parts of the SWIFT-based banking flow behind its remittance network.
Former DeepMind reinforcement learning lead David Silver has launched Ineffable Intelligence with a $1.1 billion seed round backed by Sequoia, Lightspeed, and UK public investors.
Solana says Anza and Firedancer independently converged on Falcon signatures, giving the network a more concrete post-quantum migration path without triggering immediate protocol changes.
China's top economic planner has ordered the parties behind Meta's planned Manus acquisition to withdraw the deal, escalating scrutiny of cross-border AI transactions.
The EU's 20th sanctions package against Russia adds a sector-wide ban on Russia-based crypto platforms and explicitly targets the RUBx stablecoin and digital ruble support.
Paul Sztorc is proposing an August Bitcoin fork called eCash that would add Drivechains and pre-assign part of the new chain's Satoshi-linked balances to early backers.
Anthropic's Project Deal experiment put Claude agents in a weeklong internal marketplace, where they negotiated 186 real transactions and exposed measurable gaps between stronger and weaker models.
Vercel has added GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro to AI Gateway, giving teams a managed path to route OpenAI's latest coding- and agent-focused models through the same control layer they already use for monitoring, retries, and failover.
Cohere says it plans to acquire Aleph Alpha, pairing its enterprise AI stack with the German firm's public-sector and regulated-market footprint in Europe.
TechCrunch and a GlobeNewswire-distributed company announcement say ComfyUI has raised $30 million at a $500 million valuation as demand grows for more controllable AI media workflows.
Google and Anthropic said Google will invest $10 billion up front, with up to $30 billion more tied to milestones, extending a partnership that already includes large TPU compute commitments.
The Ethereum Foundation said it sold 10,000 ETH to BitMine in an over-the-counter deal worth about $23.9 million to help fund research, ecosystem development, and grants.
Meta says it will deploy AWS Graviton processors at scale, starting with tens of millions of cores for CPU-heavy agentic AI workloads.
NVIDIA says more than 10,000 employees are already using GPT-5.5-powered Codex, offering a concrete look at how a large company is packaging coding agents for internal use.
Vercel has added DeepSeek V4 Pro and Flash to AI Gateway, giving developers a same-day path to route the new 1M-context models through Vercel's unified control layer.
Morgan Stanley Investment Management has launched a government money market fund tailored to payment stablecoin issuers seeking an eligible reserve vehicle.
Wisconsin filed three lawsuits arguing sports-related event contracts offered by prediction market platforms amount to illegal gambling under state law.
Google's AI Edge Gallery 1.0.12 adds an NPU mode for Gemma 3 1B on supported Qualcomm phones, giving developers a simpler way to test LiteRT-backed local inference.
Sierra said it has acquired Paris-based Fragment, a YC-backed startup focused on AI-assisted operations software, as the enterprise agent company expands further into Europe.
Aave says service providers are coordinating a DeFi United relief effort to restore rsETH backing, starting with a Lido proposal for up to 2,500 stETH and a separate 5,000 ETH pledge from Stani Kulechov.
OpenAI has started rolling out GPT-5.5 to paid ChatGPT and Codex users, positioning the model as a stronger tool for coding, computer use, and research-heavy work.
Era says it is building the intelligence layer for physical devices, and TechCrunch reports the startup has raised $11 million to date.
Tether said it froze more than $344 million in USDT across two Tron wallets in coordination with OFAC and U.S. law enforcement after authorities flagged the addresses.