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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 Rubio says US-Iran peace deal could take ‘a few more days’

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
said Tuesday that the United States and Iran may require “a few more days” to reach an agreement to end the war between the two countries.

“The president’s expressed his desire to make [a deal] — he’s either going to make a good deal or no deal,”— Rubio told. “But that may take a little while, I mean, a few more days.”

“The straits need to be open, unimpeded, without tolls,” — Rubio said. “And obviously that needs to happen immediately as soon as anything’s agreed to.”


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🇰🇷 S. Korea to Deploy Locally Built Nuclear Submarine by Late-2030s

South Korea unveiled a roadmap to develop nuclear-powered submarines and deploy the first vessel by the late 2030s, as President Lee Jae Myung convened a new defense strategy council Tuesday focused on strengthening the nation’s military autonomy.

The Ministry of Defense released what it described as the country’s first comprehensive basic plan for nuclear-powered submarines under a project dubbed “Jangbogo-N.”

❗️The plan calls for domestic construction, the use of low-enriched uranium fuel and coordination with the US and the International Atomic Energy Agency on non-proliferation safeguards.

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🤝 Rubio Unveils Indo-Pacific Monitor Plan as Hormuz Crisis Deepens

The US, Japan, India and Australia on Tuesday launched a maritime surveillance initiative for the Indo-Pacific region, among other measures, as the countries’ foreign ministers gathered in New Delhi for a high-profile summit aimed at countering growing threats to commerce.

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🤑 XRP Ledger to delete NFT junk and patch key bugs in a new upgrade

XRP Ledger is slated to implement a major maintenance and bug-fixing upgrade Wednesday.

❗️If you run a node, a computer that helps verify transactions on the network, you need update to the latest version by the deadline, or face disconnection from the network entirely. For regular users who just hold XRP in a wallet or on an exchange, you don't need to do anything.

The upgrade, called the fixCleanup3_1_3 amendment, patches the following key bugs and inefficiencies that have built up over time.

🟠Removing expired NFT offers automatically

On the XRP Ledger, people create and trade non-fungible tokens, or digital collectible and gaming items. When a user lists an NFT for sale, it creates an "offer" on the network.

➡️ As of now, if an offer expires or just sits there without anyone accepting it, it stays on the ledger forever, taking up storage space. The impending fix will automatically delete such expired offers.

🟠Protecting restricted settings from accidental changes

The XRP Ledger offers "Permissioned Domains," or controlled environments where only approved accounts can access specific assets, order books, or services and change their special settings.

➡️ But, there was a bug where even if a transaction failed, it could still accidentally change these restricted settings.

🟠Enforcing limits on vault withdrawals

The XRP Ledger has "Vaults," which are secure storage containers for tokens. When you withdraw tokens from a vault to send them to another account, the receiving account has a limit on how many tokens it can accept, called a "trust line limit."

➡️ The bug: the system wasn't checking this limit when processing vault withdrawals. So you could potentially send more tokens than the receiving account could hold. The fix ensures the system now respects these limits, preventing overdrafts.

🟠Fixing loan accounting that wasn't updating

The impending fix ensures that when a loan's status changes, all the connected ledger entries update properly.

🟠Loan overpayment and safety check for LoanBrokers

If someone tries to overpay a loan that doesn’t allow overpayments, the system now returns a clear “no permission” error (tecNO_PERMISSION) instead of a generic invalid flag. This makes the rejection cleaner and easier for apps and users to understand.

➡️ Further, it adds a safety check for LoanBrokers, special entities that handle lending pools, to ensure the “CoverAvailable” amount they advertise exactly matches the actual assets sitting in their protected pseudo-account. This strengthens accounting accuracy and prevents any mismatch that could create confusion or risk in the lending system.

⚡️These measures will be activated on the ledger Wednesday.

❗️Validators and node operators need to upgrade their servers before activation or they'll get amendment-blocked and fall out of sync. A large portion of the network has reportedlty already updated.

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⚡️🇺🇸 Trump will make a rare trip to Camp David for a cabinet meeting on Wednesday

President Trump will make a rare trip to Camp David on Wednesday for a full cabinet meeting, with all members expected to attend, including outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

The session at the presidential retreat in rural Maryland comes as peace talks with Iran approach a critical phase. Officials plan to review recent administration successes in the economy and small business sector, highlights from the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, and foreign policy updates.

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🤖 BNP Paribas Works With Mistral to Prep for Mythos-Like AI Models

BNP Paribas SA is working with French AI startup Mistral AI and other partners to prepare for cybersecurity threats posed by new models such as Anthropic PBC’s Mythos.

“The focus has been a lot on is Mythos accessible or not accessible, but let’s not forget there are other models from other firms that exist,” — said BNP Chief Information Officer Marc Camus during a joint press conference with the startup on Tuesday in Paris.


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🇧🇲 Bermuda, the small island nation with huge crypto ambitions

Сraig Swan: "Bermuda's ambitions to become the world’s first economy to go fully onchain, a move will create amazing new opportunities for the country's citizens."


➡️ In an interview with CoinDesk in London, Swan, the CEO of Bermuda’s Money Authority (BMA), spoke of his tiny island nation’s huge plans.

“We carried out a huge event in Bermuda to educate our citizens on how to set up their crypto wallet, and we airdropped $100 in Circle’s stablecoin USDC, and showed them how to use it for purchases, transfer or send it to friends and family or convert it and even offramp it into fiat if they chose to,” — Swan said.


The experiment was designed to onboard local vendors and the public simultaneously, Swan added. Attendees were able to immediately test the ecosystem at an on-site marketplace, using their newly minted stablecoins to purchase goods, while payment processors like MoneyGram provided immediate conversion back into paper currency.

❗️The BMA and the government of Bermuda are already scaling the infrastructure to prepare it for the blockchain. The island nation has amended its legislation to officially accept digital assets for public taxes, starting with its highest-volume public sector.

“We are starting at a high-volume area," — Swan explained. "Starting with the Department of Motor Vehicles, because most people have a car or licenses. We are going to cast that across the government itself."


🤑 Bermuda also recently announced a major partnership with Stellar for the upcoming rollout of its official Bermuda digital dollar, a sovereign-grade stablecoin.

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⚡️🇩🇪🇨🇦 Germany, Canada to Sign Major LNG Deal as Europe Seeks Energy Security

Canada is set to announce a deal to supply Germany with liquefied natural gas from a planned export facility on the coast of British Columbia. The gas will be shipped from the Ksi Lisims project, a C$10 billion ($7.3 billion) floating export facility that has already received regulatory approval.

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🤑 Ripple has been named one of Fortune Magazine's Best Workplaces in the Bay Area for 2026

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🤖 Pope Leo demands AI rules to ‘safeguard humanity’ — before it’s too late

In an authoritative papal document known as an encyclical — Leo warned AI could exacerbate inequality, deepen social fragmentation and weaken moral responsibility if not constrained by ethical limits and democratic oversight. The pontiff called on countries to intervene and regulate AI to “safeguard humanity,” and urged global leaders to act before the technology outruns political control.

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🇸🇬🇰🇵 Singapore’s Top Envoy Heads to North Korea in Rare Visit

Singapore’s top diplomat is making a rare visit to North Korea as part of a regional tour that includes stops in China and South Korea as the city-state seeks to boost diplomatic engagement amid intensifying geopolitical tensions.

Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan is visiting North Korea from Tuesday as part of a five-day trip from May 24 to May 28, according to Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His last official visit to the isolated state came ahead of a summit in 2018 between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

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⚡️🇺🇸 Mamdani pledges housing ‘transformation’ to tackle central affordability challenge

Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a wide-ranging housing plan Tuesday that he said will usher in the “largest municipal housing transformation this country has ever seen.”

While the plan lays out ambitious targets that would surpass past mayors if achieved — including the planned creation and preservation of a combined 400,000 affordable homes over a decade — it also illustrates how Mamdani is not reinventing the wheel on many housing issues, but rather leaning into or expanding policies pursued by his predecessors.

➡️The plan seeks to tackle a range of coinciding crises: the severe shortage of available housing; a public housing system that’s crumbling and facing massive capital needs; and a rental housing stock that is experiencing growing distress as operating costs skyrocket.

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⚡️🇺🇸 Trump about Cabinet Meeting in the White House

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⚡️🇺🇸 President Donald Trump met Tuesday with Flávio Bolsonaro, the leading challenger in Brazil’s looming presidential election.

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⚡️🇺🇸 Trump says crypto is "a major Industry, and we must protect it," and calls America the "Crypto Capital of the World."

It is critically important that the CFTC’s exclusive authority over Prediction Markets is maintained, and that they will thrive. Under my leadership, we are setting “rules of the road” that are the Gold Standard for the States.

Likewise, and even more importantly, where we are currently the Crypto (Bitcoin, etc.) Capital of the World, other Countries are trying diligently to replace us in that capacity, but we won’t let that happen. It is a major Industry, and we must protect it.


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🏎 Volvo Poised to Avoid US Ban on Connected Cars Linked to China

The Trump administration is set to allow Volvo Car AB to continue operating in the US after a ban on connected vehicles and related technology from China takes effect. The administration and the automaker majority-owned by China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group have reached an agreement to address national security concerns and spare the manufacturer from the ban aimed at Chinese carmakers.

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🤑 XRPL could close its biggest DeFi gap if new AMM amendment passes

A new draft amendment, “AMM Swappable Curves,” would upgrade the XRP Ledger’s automated market maker by adding three new curve types — constant product, concentrated liquidity and StableSwap — with a programmable Smart AMM to follow.

➡️ AMMs refer to automated market makers, a type of decentralized exchange where trades happen against a pool of deposited tokens rather than between buyers and sellers.

The change is designed to let liquidity providers choose how their pools price assets, improving capital efficiency for both volatile pairs and near-1:1 assets like stablecoins, while leaving existing pools on the current constant product model.

❗️The proposal was authored by XRL core developers Denis Angell and Roman Thpt and would require a separate amendment vote before activation. For now it is still in draft.

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🌍 SpaceX wins $2.29 billion Space Force contract for data network

The U.S. Space Force awarded SpaceX a $2.29 billion contract to develop the Space Data Network Backbone, a satellite constellation for secure and high-speed global data transport in military operations. This low Earth orbit system will provide high-capacity data transport for the Joint Force and must deliver a fully operational prototype by the end of 2027.

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💊 Insilico Taps US Partner to Build AI Model for Human Longevity

Hong Kong AI drug discovery firm Insilico Medicine Cayman TopCo is stepping up the quest to harness AI to extend human life. The company is working with a US partner to develop what they expect to be among the first AI foundation models dedicated to human longevity science.

The venture with closely held Human Life Foundation Models Inc. aims to build an AI system that can identify disease risks earlier and accelerate the discovery of therapies.

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✈️ Starlink will deliver fast, reliable internet onboard American Air, making every flight more enjoyable

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