🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the upcoming BRICS summit in India, September 2026

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⚡️Donald J. Trump thanks Iran for reopening the Strait of Hormuz

Trump, for some reason, referred to the Strait of Hormuz as the “Strait of Iran.” 😁

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▪️ Netflix plans to add a vertical video feed, use AI for recommendations

Netflix is going to launch a TikTok-like vertical video feed within its apps this month, and plans to use AI broadly for content creation and recommendations. Users will get a scrollable discovery feed full of short clips and trailers right on the home screen. Netflix has been testing this since early 2025.

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⚡️🇺🇸 US Mineral Stockpile to Be Open to All Traders, Ex-Im Bank Says

A $12 billion critical minerals stockpile Project Vault being developed by the US Export-Import Bank will be open to all trading companies, rather than just those named as suppliers when the initiative was launched in February.

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💫 NASA Begins Implementation for ESA’s Rosalind Franklin Mission to Mars

NASA has given approval for the agency’s Rosalind Franklin Support and Augmentation (ROSA) project to begin implementation. It'll be the first Mars rover to search for signs of past or present life under the Red Planet’s surface.

NASA has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket to launch the Rosalind Franklin mission from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission is targeting opportunities to launch no earlier than late 2028.

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⚡️🤑 XRP is live on Solana

Growing demand for XRP is driving liquidity cross-chain — opening new paths across ecosystems and expanding the overall market. 🎉

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🆕 Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals

Anthropic announced that it’s launching Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude. Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily.

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🤑 Yardstick (Protocol 26) is now live on Testnet!

❗️Make sure to upgrade to the latest version of Stellar SDKs before the Mainnet vote on May 6th 🗳

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❤️ Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings Meeting platform.

Zoom has announced a partnership with World, Sam Altman’s human ID verification company, to ensure that the people attending meetings are actually human and not AI-generated imposters. Deepfake video-call fraud represents a serious risk for businesses, especially those that regularly conduct high-value transactions over video.

World ID Deep Face tech takes a three-pronged approach to verifying that a participant is a real person. It cross-references a signed image taken at the time of the user’s registration through World’s Orb device, a real-time face scan from the user’s device, and a live video frame visible to other meeting participants. It only verifies someone when all three things match, at which point a “Verified Human” badge appears on that participant’s title.

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🇺🇸🤝 Anthropic and Trump: Is a truce near? White House and Anthropic CEO discuss working together

The Trump administration and Anthropic's CEO discussed working together for the ‌first time since a dispute earlier this year. The meeting was productive and constructive. They discussed how "can work together on key shared priorities such as cybersecurity, ​America's lead in the AI race, and AI safety."

"We discussed opportunities for collaboration, ​as well as shared approaches and protocols to address the challenges associated with scaling this technology," — the White House said.

The Trump administration, central bankers across the globe and industries are racing to get up to speed on Anthropic's new model Mythos ​and its ability to make complex cyberattacks both easier and quicker to execute. The two sides also talked about balancing innovation and safety.

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🤑🤑 XRP ETFs: The Institutional Era Has Begun ⚡️

For years, institutional interest in XRP was expressed through OTC desks, private placements, and the kind of quiet conviction that rarely makes headlines. That chapter is over. 📖🔚

📈 In the space of a few months at the end of 2025, XRP became one of the most actively adopted digital assets in the regulated Spot ETF market, attracting capital from some of the most influential names in traditional finance and cementing its place in the institutional allocation conversation.

📚 This is the story of how that happened, what the numbers say, and why it matters for the future of XRP and the broader onchain economy.

What Comes Next? 🧐

➡️ The XRP ETF market is still young. Seven U.S. spot ETFs with $1.53 billion in AUM and 773 million XRP tokens in custody represents meaningful progress, but the category has plenty of room to grow. 🤩

➡️ The product landscape will also continue to evolve. ARK Invest has allocated nearly 20% of its CoinDesk 20 ETF to XRP, making it the third-largest holding. International markets are moving too, Hong Kong, Canada, and European exchanges are broadening the global footprint of regulated XRP products. 🌎💫

💎 And as the XRP Ledger's technical roadmap advances through 2026, confidential multi-purpose tokens for institutional collateral management, native lending protocols, and formal protocol verification, the asset's utility proposition for institutions grows more compelling.

📖✍️ The story is still being written. What's clear is that XRP is no longer knocking on the door of institutional finance. It's arrived. ✅

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⚡️🇺🇸🇨🇺 A diplomatic breakthrough: The US and Cuba held secret talks in Havana for the first time in 10 years.

Representatives of the US State Department visited Havana on April 10. They met with Cuban officials, including Raul Rodriguez Castro, the grandson of Raul Castro.

The U.S. officials impressed on the Castro regime that "the Cuban economy is in free fall and that the island's ruling elites have a small window to make key U.S. backed reforms before circumstances irreversibly worsen." The U.S. delegation also offered to help restore internet services by setting up Starlink satellite services.

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🚀🇺🇸 Trump: "We will return American astronauts to the moon, and we will plant our flag some day soon on Mars."

In addition, Trump mentioned that the UFO review uncovered 'interesting' documents, adding that an ‌initial tranche of records is expected to be released soon.

"We found many very interesting documents, I must say, and the first releases will ​begin very, very soon so you can go out ​and see if that phenomena is correct," — Trump said.

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🇯🇵 Sony to get up to $380 million image sensor factory Japan subsidy

The Japanese government will provide ​subsidies of up to ‌60 billion yen ($380 million) to Sony for an ​image sensor plant ​in the western Japanese prefecture ⁠of Kumamoto. Sony is a ​leading manufacturer ​of ⁠image sensors used in smartphones.

"Image sensors will be indispensable for autonomous driving and physical ​AI and we hope ​a stable supply of image ‌sensors... ⁠will be secured," — industry ​minister Ryosei Akazawa said.

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✈️🇺🇸 The US FAA has brought in Palantir Technologies Inc., Thales SA and Air Space Intelligence Inc. to compete on a new AI tool for air traffic management.

The move is part of a broader push to modernize the nation’s aging air traffic control system, an effort will make the skies safer and reduce technology outages.

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