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Europe returns into AI headlines as Mistral funding, ASML chip giant partnerships close
Europe made its latest attempt to reclaim AI prominence as France’s Mistral AI closed a €3 billion ($3.5 billion) funding round that pushed its valuation past €21 billion on the same day that the continent’s most valuable firm, Dutch equipment maker ASML, unveiled fresh arrangements with chip-manufacturing giants, Samsung and TSMC. Both moves line up...
Tue, Sep 8
CZ bets on-chain IPOs could disrupt Wall Street
In his latest post on X, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao noted that IPOs would inevitably move on-chain. His remarks come as Wall Street experiences an unprecedented boom in tokenized real-world assets. For instance, Binance’s bStocks platform reached a market capitalization of over $500 million on July 29, less than seven weeks after its June 11...
Tue, Sep 8
LG ships its Texas-mandated tracking opt-out switched off by default
LG's Texas privacy settlement required informed consent, but a Gamers Nexus investigation found the opt-out toggle ships disabled by default.
Tue, Sep 8
China's own military researchers say armed robot soldiers are 5 to 10 years away
A review of 100+ Chinese military documents found the PLA testing humanoid robots for combat, with usable systems years away.
Tue, Sep 8
Huawei’s new chip shows China’s plan to route around the lithography gap
Huawei introduced a new smartphone chip, claiming it uses no technology from the United States, showcasing the company’s strategy to close the gap between China and the rest of the world in chip production, despite limited access to the industry’s most advanced technologies. The introduction of the Kirin 950 Pro is important not so much...
Tue, Sep 8
AfD state-election win raises pressure on Germany’s Bitcoin tax fight
The crypto-tax discussion in Germany has become significantly more political. The right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has made headlines with its call to maintain the low 12-month tax that Bitcoin enjoys, secured a victory in the recent state election in Saxony-Anhalt. While the outcome in the state does not trigger any changes to...
Tue, Sep 8
Patagonia emerges as AI data centers chase power and land
Given that established data center locations are becoming limited in terms of energy and land availability, Argentina’s Patagonia is now looking more strategic than distant. As noted in Reuters’ investigation on September 7, developers are considering Neuquén and Chubut for large data centers that can use cold climate, hydroelectric power, and wind along with solar...
Tue, Sep 8
WhatsApp lets five outside AI agents into chats, each unencrypted by design
WhatsApp is testing third-party AI agents that connect via an API key but skip end-to-end encryption.
Tue, Sep 8
Brazil's banks sell crypto to clients while keeping it off their books
Brazil’s biggest banks are bringing cryptocurrency into their consumer platforms; however, Banco Central do Brasil documents indicate that Brazilian banks had zero virtual assets held on their balance sheets as of March 2026. This distinction is important as Brazil is essentially evaluating if banks can offer crypto products and services to clients without exposing themselves...
Tue, Sep 8
Pachocki wants AI to slow down, but OpenAI's own numbers say otherwise
OpenAI's own data shows 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday, undercutting its chief scientist's call to slow down AI development.
Tue, Sep 8
Capital B's biggest bitcoin buy in a year rides on Adam Back's $8.8 million bet
Capital B bought 376 BTC for $29.4 million after Blockstream's Adam Back invested $8.8 million, lifting its treasury to 3,521 BTC.
Mon, Sep 7
Liquid recovers 3,400 BTC, but its peg-out gap exposes bridge accounting risk
The Liquid Network was able to recover a significant portion of the Bitcoin (BTC) taken from its federation wallet over the weekend. However, this does not get rid of the more serious point. The problem of the event is that the peg-out can take place via the expected authorization route even if the L-BTC involved...
Mon, Sep 7
DBS and Citi settle a weekend Singapore-New York dollar payment in minutes
DBS and Citi settled the first weekend dollar payment between Singapore and New York in minutes using tokenized deposits over Swift's Digital Ledger.
Mon, Sep 7
Harmony proposes sunsetting its layer-1 blockchain and reissuing ONE token on Ethereum
Harmony has presented the idea of ceasing operations of its layer-1 blockchain and transferring ONE to Ethereum due to the concern that threats posed by state-sponsored hackers and AI agents have become overwhelming for the company to counter alone. The proposal assigns a cost to what independent chains normally take care of on their own:...
Mon, Sep 7
Ethereum Foundation outlines Hegotá priorities with grades for all 62 EIP proposals
The Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol cluster has published a single graded ranking of every one of the 62 EIPs proposed for Hegotá, the network upgrade slated to follow Glamsterdam. It is the first time the group has spoken with one voice on a fork instead of leaving each team to post its own opinions. The list...
Mon, Sep 7
Best Internet for RV and Van Life in 2026: Satellite, Cellular and What Actually Works Off-Grid
When you want to pick the best internet service for your RV van and search it up on the internet, you’ll get tangled up in different answers with super conviction. However, the question you’re asking is wrong. It’s not the service itself, but where that service is getting its signals from. It will either be...
Mon, Sep 7
UNC’s endowment returned more than 30%, helped by its early SpaceX investment
The University of North Carolina endowment made more than 30% in the year through June, and a huge part of that came from a SpaceX investment it made years before the company went public. Before the listing, that one position had grown to around 10% of the nearly $15 billion managed by UNC Management Company....
Mon, Sep 7
Bitcoin slips below $80,000 as stocks mostly hold their ground
Bitcoin slipped about 1% below $80,000 after gaining more than 20% in August, with $82,000 still blocking its way higher and the 50-week moving average near $81,000 sitting overhead. Oil jumped to six-week highs after the US and Iran traded strikes, with Brent at $97.73 and WTI at $93.10 as Middle East tensions climbed. European...
Mon, Sep 7
Hunter Biden to launch LAPTOP meme, stokes Trump family rivalry with airdrop plans
Hunter Biden is part of the founding team behind a new meme coin called LAPTOP, set to go live on the Coinbase-built Base network on Sept. 9 with one billion tokens. A portion of the supply is reportedly reserved for traders who lost money on President Donald Trump’s TRUMP coin. Cashing in on TRUMP losses...
Mon, Sep 7
Huawei, Xiaomi launch new foldable phones just before Apple event
Huawei and Xiaomi both launched new foldable smartphones for their Chinese consumers this week, both coming just days before Apple’s September 9 event. Apple is widely expected to unveil its first foldable iPhone at this event. Huawei unveiled the Mate XT2 in China on Monday, with sales set to begin September 10. Xiaomi followed later...
Mon, Sep 7
