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Meta shares rose 2.1% as investors reacted to the company’s major legal settlement
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) is surging on Wednesday as investors are reacting to a new legal settlement as a major cut to the company’s risk. META was up 2.1% at press time after a wild session. Shares jumped more than 4% soon after the opening bell, then reversed and fell 1.4%, before moving back into...
Wed, Aug 26
IBM completes HRL Laboratories buyout to speed its quantum roadmap
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has closed its acquisition of HRL Laboratories and plans to involve the lab in speeding up a quantum-computing project. IBM is expecting that the project will deliver a working fault-tolerant machine before the end of the decade. IBM acquired HRL Laboratories for its quantum computing project IBM has announced the completion of...
Wed, Aug 26
Code for Siri AI shows up on Apple TV hardware that cannot run it
An Apple Intelligence Report menu appeared in the tvOS 27 and HomePod 27 betas, though no current Apple TV or HomePod can run the feature.
Wed, Aug 26
Storm's acquittal motion has sat undecided for a year while his retrial slips to 2027
Roman Storm says court records show Chainalysis ran a Tornado Cash relayer for fees in 2022 while helping prosecutors build the case against him.
Wed, Aug 26
Revolut's euro token comes from a Stripe subsidiary, not Revolut
Revolut began a phased EURR rollout to about 2 million customers in Denmark, Poland and Portugal, with the euro token issued by Stripe-owned Bridge.
Wed, Aug 26
Korean banks are wiring stablecoin rails before the law lets them issue
Shinhan agreed to test stablecoin issuance and redemption on Visa's platform, its second stablecoin partnership in four months as Korea drafts issuance rules.
Wed, Aug 26
Only offline digital euro payments stay between payer and payee
Piero Cipollone says the Eurosystem cannot identify digital euro users online, though the banks processing payments still can for anti-money-laundering checks.
Wed, Aug 26
JPMorgan says it may consider launching a stablecoin
The largest U.S. bank, JPMorgan Chase, is open to launching a stablecoin, according to a spokesperson. The bank recently held preliminary conversations about whether it could launch its own stablecoin, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. At the moment, JPMorgan has no active plan to launch a stablecoin, but...
Wed, Aug 26
Investors bet on a ‘ChatGPT moment’ for robots as Generalist hits $3B valuation
Some venture investors are betting robotics is nearing its own “ChatGPT moment,” when machines can handle a wide range of tasks without being trained for each one. The latest sign is Generalist, a two-year-old startup developing a single AI model for different kinds of robots. The company has reached a $3 billion valuation after raising...
Wed, Aug 26
KiiChain Integrates TRON to Expand 24/7 On-Chain FX and Stablecoin Payments
Bogota, Colombia, August 26, 2026 — KiiChain, the on-chain FX orchestration layer powering global payments and liquidity, today announced its integration of the TRON network to expand its 24/7 foreign exchange infrastructure and stablecoin payment capabilities across global markets. The TRON network is governed through the TRON DAO governance mechanism, with the TRON DAO community...
Wed, Aug 26
Senior police officers in Russia sentenced for stealing crypto exchange Garantex money
High-ranking Russian law enforcement officers have received lengthy sentences for embezzling large amounts of money from clients of the notorious cryptocurrency exchange Garantex. The convicted officials, former employees of the Moscow police, had been charged with a number of serious crimes that resulted in the loss of millions of rubles’ worth of customer funds. Russian...
Wed, Aug 26
Claude's shared memory has no wall between chat and Cowork
Anthropic merged Claude chat and Cowork memory into one store and set it to skip health, politics, and gender identity unless users opt in.
Wed, Aug 26
Dallas Fed warns of tokenized deposits impact on bank lending
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas warned that each new entry into the recently popular tokenized deposits sheds from banks’ ability to fund loans for households and businesses when it weighed in on the stablecoins vs. tokenized deposits debate. The paper by the Dallas apex bank returned three key areas where tokenized deposits will impact...
Wed, Aug 26
China's Z.ai emerges as creator of mysterious Ox Alpha model
Chinese lab Z.ai has been identified as the company behind Ox Alpha, the anonymous coding model. The model drew millions of developer queries on OpenRouter over the past week. Who created Ox Alpha? The Chinese lab called Z.ai has been credited with the creation of Ox Alpha, a coding model that has exploded in popularity...
Wed, Aug 26
It’s Nvidia Day: Watch the biggest company on earth report earnings live at the bell
Nvidia reports after Wednesday’s closing bell, with Wall Street expecting $2.09 EPS and $92.2 billion in Q2 revenue. The stock has fallen the day after each of Nvidia’s last four earnings reports, even when the company beat or met the big numbers, so expectations are brutally high. Wall Street expects $103.7 billion in Q3 sales,...
Wed, Aug 26
Moonshot AI wants to claim 30% revenue from U.S. cloud giants
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI is reportedly in talks with U.S. cloud giants, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, in a licensing arrangement that could include charging the companies as much as 30% of their revenue from reselling its open-weight Kimi K3 model. Moonshot AI has already been in the news over a requirement that applies to...
Wed, Aug 26
Circle’s $5B USDC mint puts stablecoin demand back in focus
Circle minted around $5 billion worth of USDC over the past week, according to on-chain data. This comes in when the demand for dollar-backed stablecoins continues to grow. The surge in issuance has caught traders’ attention because large USDC mints can signal that more liquidity is preparing to enter crypto markets. However, the process of gross...
Wed, Aug 26
DeepSeek reveals 10X revenue growth ahead of $74B valuation funding round
DeepSeek gained fresh momentum for its pre-IPO funding round at an estimated 500 billion yuan ($74 billion) valuation when its revenue report for 2026 up to July landed at 475 million yuan ($70.7 million). The ten times revenue boost on what the Chinese AI startup earned in all of 2025 is the latest disruptive info...
Wed, Aug 26
Russia rolls out digital ruble on Sept. 1, keeps crypto payments banned
On the 1st of September, major telecom firms and e-commerce businesses in Russia will introduce the digital ruble which will be a step further in promoting the state-supported currency in daily transactions while preventing the adoption of cryptocurrencies. Moscow takes a solid stance in the world of cryptocurrencies. The country allows investment and transactions involving...
Wed, Aug 26
OpenAI executive exodus stokes overvaluation fears ahead of its IPO
OpenAI has had at least 14 executive departures in 2026 which adds to the worry if the tech firm can justify its valuation of almost $1 trillion ahead of its planned IPO. Reports suggest that the departures of 13 executives took place before August 21, with all key functions affected. This includes operations, revenue, product,...
Wed, Aug 26
