⚡️🇮🇷 Iran eases internet curbs for businesses as blackout enters third month

Iran's top security body has approved a temporary scheme for businesses to access the global internet with fewer restrictions after the authorities had imposed a blackout.

"The Supreme National Security Council approved the 'Internet Pro' scheme to preserve businesses ​during times of crisis," — said government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani.

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🤝 T-Mobile US Inc. is creating two joint ventures in fiber in an effort to bring high-speed internet to more US users.

The company will form a 50-50 partnership with private equity firm Oak Hill Capital to buy and combine GoNetspeed and Greenlight Networks — and a separate equal-share joint venture with Wren House to acquire i3 Broadband.

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🇺🇸 SEC, CFTC Chiefs Signal ‘New Day’ for U.S. Onshore Crypto, Tokenization and Future‑Proof Rules

SEC Chair Paul Atkins and CFTC Chair Mike Selig used back‑to‑back chats on the Nakamoto Stage at The Bitcoin 2026 Conference to signal a reset in Washington’s approach to digital assets, tokenization, and market structure. Atkins described it as “a new day at the SEC,” while Selig said regulators are “turning over a new page” and need to harmonize their efforts.

🟠Atkins: an “innovation exemption” is coming, designed to give crypto projects room to build within a defined regulatory lane instead of staying in a gray area or moving offshore.

🟠Atkins: legislators need to speak clearly on digital assets so there are durable rules and so entrepreneurs can pursue their goals in the U.S.

🟠Atkins: President Donald Trump’s GENIUS Act on stablecoins is an example of a principles‑based regulatory model that leaves room for innovation while drawing firm boundaries around risk.

🟠Atkins on the Clarity Act: there could be movement on that package in May, with the possibility of passage in June, but he cautioned that nothing is guaranteed.

🟠Atkins: crypto and blockchain technology are the most exciting aspect of the current transition. He highlighted the prospect of instantaneous settlement and said faster settlement can reduce risk in the financial system.

❗️Atkins previewed the agency’s next step: an initiative that will allow firms to experiment on‑chain with tokenized and securitized instruments over the next few weeks.

⚫️Selig: the CFTC is “turning over a new page” in its approach to digital assets and emphasized the need to harmonize the agency’s work with the SEC. Two agencies need a coordinated framework instead of overlapping or conflicting rules. 🤝

⚫️Selig: a coherent crypto market structure for digital assets should respect property rights and give market participants predictable rules, rather than drive activity into less regulated jurisdictions.

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🇭🇺 Hungary Ruling Party Leaders Reject Orban’s Resignation Offer

Viktor Orban, who led Fidesz to a landslide defeat two weeks ago that ended the party’s 16-year rule, has vowed to revive his nationalist movement while deciding against taking up his seat in parliament for the first time since 1990. The Fidesz leadership rejected it for now.

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🤝 Google Allows Pentagon to Use Its AI in Classified Military Work

Google has reached an agreement with the US Defense Department to allow its AI systems to be used for classified military work, according to a Pentagon official. It makes Google the third major AI company to reach such a deal in recent weeks, following OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI.

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🧠 BCI startup Neurable looks to license its ‘mind-reading’ tech for consumer wearables

Neurable specializes in “non-invasive” BCI. It works through a combination of EEG sensors and signal processing that can scan a user’s brain activity, analyze it with AI, and provide information about a person’s cognitive performance.

💡 The idea is that mind-reading tech (which can provide detailed data about how a person’s brain works while they’re engaged in various activities) could be integrated into wearables across a number of industries — including health and athletic products, productivity tools, and gaming.

“Through Neurable’s licensing platform, OEMs can directly integrate its AI-powered brain-sensing technology into existing hardware, such as headphones, hats, glasses, and headbands,” — the company said.

Neurable has already fostered partnerships with HP Inc.’s HyperX, a gaming brand, with which it created a headset designed to help gamers, and iMotions, a software platform that specializes in human behavior research, to assist with the company’s research initiatives.

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🇺🇸 State Dept. Finalizing Plan to Put Trump Picture on U.S. Passports

The State Department us cloze to finalizing a radical redesign of the U.S. passport to include a picture of President Donald Trump. The redesign is ostensibly part of a larger celebration of the 250th anniversary of American independence.

The State Department is planning a “limited run” of 25,000 Trump-emblazoned passports. As of now the new design is still awaiting approval.

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🤖 Gemini rolls out Agentic Trading allowing AI bots to directly manage crypto exchange trading accounts

Gemini is looking to make it easier for users to let AI guide their trades. The crypto exchange rolled out Agentic Trading, which lets users connect AI models like Claude and ChatGPT to their trading accounts.

"We believe we're at the beginning of a fundamental shift in how people interact with financial markets," — Gemini wrote. "Agentic trading isn't just a feature. It's a new paradigm where AI handles the execution, patterns, and discipline, while you focus on strategy and goals."

This will make it easier for AI to autonomously monitor markets, place trades, and even execute trades and manage risk based on predefined trading strategies. Gemini referred to the feature as “the first agentic trading tool to be available directly through a regulated US-based exchange.”

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🔰 US ends probe on Tesla Model Y vehicles without manufacturer action

The U.S. National Highway Traffic ​Safety Administration has closed a probe into ‌120,089 2023 Tesla Model Y vehicles without action from the carmaker.

The agency had opened the ​preliminary evaluation in early 2023 after two ​reports that the steering wheel of the ⁠car could detach from the steering column due ​to a missing retaining bolt. Tesla had confirmed both ​vehicles were delivered without a retaining bolt and had fixed the cars under warranty.

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🇨🇳 China's cyberspace regulator warns ByteDance apps, website over AI-content labelling

China's cyberspace administrator has ordered ByteDance's video editing ​apps Jianying and Maoxiang, and ‌website Jimeng AI, to comply with rules on labelling AI-generated content. The ⁠three platforms didn't effectively ​implement required AI content identification ​measures and have violated the country's cybersecurity law and relevant rules.

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💊 FDA Plans to Speed Up Drug Trials With Real-Time Data, AI

The US Food and Drug Administration plans to cut the time it takes drug companies to test new medicines by getting more visibility into clinical trials as they’re underway.

The proposal could shave off “months, if not years” off of drug development times, the agency’s Chief AI Officer Jeremy Walsh said. Under the plan, the FDA will monitor high-level signals about whether experimental drugs work and are safe in real time, though it won’t collect all patient-level data.

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🇷🇺🇨🇬 Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks with Republic of the Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso

The two leaders are expected to discuss a wide range of issues related to the further development of bilateral relations in various fields, including energy, transport, trade and investment, as well as exchange views on current developments on the regional and international agendas.

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🏛 Meta Accused of Failing to Keep Children Off Instagram and Facebook in Europe

Meta has failed to implement needed safeguards to keep children under the age of 13 off Instagram and Facebook in violation of a European Union online safety law. Meta Platforms must do more to block children under 13 from accessing the social networks, EU regulators said.

Meta does not have an adequate system to identify and remove the accounts of the children who flout the social media giant’s age limits, the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, said in a preliminary ruling. Without changes, Meta could face fines and other penalties.

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🇨🇦 Canada moves to ban crypto ATMs, labeling them as 'primary method' for fraud

In the country's spring economic update, the government said that it is proposing to ban crypto ATMs, describing them as a "primary method for scammers to defraud victims and for criminals to place their cash proceeds of crime." The government didn't elaborate further on the proposal or a timeline in the document.

Canada is home to roughly 4,000 crypto ATMs — one of the highest concentrations in the world — yet the sector operates without industry-specific regulations. Despite the proposed ban, Canadians can still buy crypto assets from legitimate brick-and-mortar money services businesses.

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🤑 Stellar Development Foundation’s CMO on Why Stablecoins Are the Gateway to Tokenizing Everything

❔Why it matters: Crypto still suffers from a branding gap despite growing institutional adoption, according to Stellar CMO Jason Karsh.

⚫️Karsh said the industry leans too heavily on “esoteric words and verbiage” that alienate everyday users.
⚫️He argued crypto “peaked in public” too early due to speculative mania, distorting its real potential.
⚫️The bigger opportunity: rebuilding global financial rails to move and store value more efficiently.

⭐️ The big picture: Stellar is positioning itself at the center of tokenization and cross-border payments as institutions enter crypto.

🟠The network has focused on payments and real-world financial use cases since launching in 2014.
🟠That long-term approach is now paying off as regulators warm to stablecoins and tokenized assets.
🟠Karsh said the goal is to eventually move “trillions” of dollars on-chain, beyond early pilot programs.

⚡️ What’s next: Karsh expects growth to come from replacing legacy financial systems with blockchain rails. He predicts both humans and AI agents will drive transaction growth. Near-term success depends on onboarding “100 million humans” first.

📱 Watch the full video on YouTube

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🇨🇳 China’s LineShine Supercomputer To Hit 2 ExaFlops With 47,000 CPUs and Zero Reliance on Foreign Chips

China has unveiled its new supercomputer, called LineShine, the fastest domestic supercomputer project. It'll be built in two phases and will deliver over 2 ExaFlops of compute. Currently, the world's fastest supercomputer is the AMD-based El Capitan, which has a peak compute of 2.8 Exaflops.

The entire system will house a total of 92 compute cabinets with a total of 47,000 CPUs, 36 network cabinets with large-scale expansion to hundreds of thousands of nodes, a million-port interconnect, and will all be assembled as China's largest supercomputing storage base. All of the tech inside the supercomputer will be domestically produced with zero reliance on international vendors.

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🎉 Celebrating 20 years of Google Translate and… the launch of a top-requested feature!

Google Translate has added a new feature that lets users practice their pronunciation and enunciation of words and phrases in different languages. The feature is rolling out in the U.S. and India, and currently supports English, Spanish, and Hindi.

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🤑 ChainPatrol: Proud to protect Stellar 🛡

Delivering 24/7 threat detection and proactive defense against scams, phishing, and impersonation attacks, protecting the Stellar Development Foundation and its global ecosystem 🔐

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🇺🇸 IBM to Add 750 Jobs in AI, Quantum Computing at Chicago Tech Hub

International Business Machines Corp. is deepening its bet on the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park in Chicago, with plans to add 750 jobs over the next five years.

“IBM’s investment in Illinois is a powerful vote of confidence in our state’s growing technology and quantum ecosystem and the world-class workforce that powers it,” — said Governor JB Pritzker.

The positions will be focused AI, quantum computing, cybersecurity and data science, according to the statement from the company and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker. IBM, which will get $19 million from a state tax-credit program, said it would also establish the FutureNow Chicago center at the tech hub.

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