🚗 Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short
Ford executives said they have hired 350 veteran engineers — some of them were former employees, while others had been working at suppliers — after AI and automated systems failed to deliver the desired quality level.
This doesn’t mean Ford is abandoning its AI plans entirely. Instead, it’s using the rehired employees — referred to as “gray beard” engineers — to train younger staff and reprogram AI tools.
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Ford executives said they have hired 350 veteran engineers — some of them were former employees, while others had been working at suppliers — after AI and automated systems failed to deliver the desired quality level.
The company’s CEO Kumar Galhotra said that Ford had been “relying more and more on automated quality systems” with disappointing results. So the company “brought back technical specialists,” and those specialists “hunt for failure points before a part ever reaches the plant floor.”
This doesn’t mean Ford is abandoning its AI plans entirely. Instead, it’s using the rehired employees — referred to as “gray beard” engineers — to train younger staff and reprogram AI tools.
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Why does driving eventually feel effortless, while learning to drive demands total concentration? A new study from Georgetown University suggests the answer lies in the brain’s ability to rewire itself, shifting well-practiced skills into different neural circuits so they can be performed with less conscious effort.
“We measure before and after training, so we can see that extensive training essentially put a category-selective area in the temporal lobe that was not there before. Experience remodels the brain to bypass that frontal bottleneck. The prefrontal cortex then stays free for whatever else you want to do, increasing your capacity,” Riesenhuber explained.
Moving a learned skill into the temporal cortex, while freeing the prefrontal cortex, may allow the brain to use established knowledge as a base for learning something new.
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Xi said China and Belarus "must maintain strategic communication, promote the continuous advancement of bilateral relations at a high level and better benefit the peoples of both countries," the ministry said on its website.
China is willing to continue providing assistance within its capacity for Belarus' development and construction.
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Scrapping the 7% tax on power generation will help lower electricity bills for households and businesses while encouraging the shift from fossil fuels to clean-energy, the government said. The tax will be phased out by 2028.
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Ripple has proposed an XRPL Lending Protocol that would let institutions borrow against on-chain assets while keeping credit decisions off the blockchain.
The protocol has two parts. A Single Asset Vault pools a single asset, and the lending layer turns that pooled money into loans with set terms. Both are still proposals, defined in technical drafts known as XLS-65 and XLS-66, and remain subject to approval by the validators who run the network.
Aimed at institutional use and competing with protocols like Aave and Compound, Ripple argues its fixed, network-level rules offer more predictable risk than crypto-native governance models.
The XRPL Lending Protocol (XLS-65, XLS-66) proposals are subject to validator approval in the coming weeks. Infrastructure providers and developers can begin integrating and testing on a testnet from Monday.
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China has announced a formal plan to integrate AI across all levels of schooling, aligning its education system with President Xi Jinping’s campaign to dominate advanced technologies. The State Council released a five-year blueprint on Monday including a plan to make AI a core capability for every student, echoing Xi’s earlier call to cultivate high-tech talent.
The plan urges efforts to “promote AI education throughout all educational stages, improve students’ AI literacy and enhance their ability to identify and solve problems”.
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Governor Gavin Newsom today announced that the state has entered into a partnership with leading California-based AI company Anthropic, a first-of-its-kind collaboration that will help support state workers and responsibly adopt AI to make state services more effective, user-friendly, and efficient.
"This partnership is about using technology the California way: responsibly, transparently, and in service of people. AI should not replace the human work of government; it should help our workers move faster, solve problems more effectively, and deliver better results for Californians," Governor Gavin Newsom
Through the agreement, state agencies may access Anthropic’s AI productivity assistant, Claude, at a 50% discounted price, coupled with free workforce training as well as expert GenAI technical assistance and workflow input from Anthropic developers. The agreement also provides the same discounted offer for California’s local governments, including cities and counties.
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The DTCC, NYSE, and Securitize offering tokenized RWA this year will mark the official launch of blockchain technology in regulated markets. Securitize also announced its integration with the XRP Ledger on September 23, 2025.
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Google will start offering specialist AI models from software company SandboxAQ through its cloud service, expanding enterprise and research access to technology designed to accelerate drug discovery, materials science and semiconductor manufacturing.
Google will add SandboxAQ’s so-called large quantitative models to its cloud marketplace, allowing researchers to combine Google’s Gemini language models with AI systems trained on scientific equations and laboratory data. Unlike large language models, which excel at generating text, large quantitative models are trained on numerical data to help solve problems in chemistry, biology and physics.
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Money has come a long way since the first uses of shells or coins millennia ago. Today, it may be considered our most used technology, as most people use digitally recorded money. Our Analyze This video explains tokenization and why programmable money is useful.
Stellar is one of three models aimed at reducing global FX fragmentation through a private settlement asset and marketplace.
Ripple has been building this infrastructure on XRPL for years.
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⚡️🇺🇸 Kids’ safety package wins House approval
The House overwhelmingly passed legislation Monday night designed to provide greater protections to children online. The vote was 267-117, enough to pass the legislation, known as the KIDS Act H.R. 7757 (119).
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The House overwhelmingly passed legislation Monday night designed to provide greater protections to children online. The vote was 267-117, enough to pass the legislation, known as the KIDS Act H.R. 7757 (119).
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NY, the world's largest custody bank overseeing $59 trillion in assets, is deepening its ties with Circle (CRCL) as the Wall Street bank ramps up its stablecoin services.
The move expands BNY's role in the USDC ecosystem. The bank already serves as the primary custodian of the reserves backing the stablecoin. The new offering lets institutions manage both their cash and digital assets through a single platform.
"As digital assets become increasingly integrated into financial markets, institutions need infrastructure that seamlessly works across traditional and blockchain-based systems," said Carolyn Weinberg, chief product and innovation officer at BNY.
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The XRP Ledger Foundation has partnered with VS1 Finance to create an open-source reference application aimed at simplifying the creation of compliant lending services while reducing development costs, thereby facilitating the establishment of regulated lending platforms on the XRP Ledger by financial institutions.
VS1 Finance is preparing to issue tokenized corporate bonds within the National Bank of Georgia's regulatory sandbox, with insights gained from this initiative expected to influence the compliance architecture of the lending framework, further enhancing the XRP Ledger's institutional infrastructure.
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Today, Open Standard announces Open USD, a new stablecoin for global money movement.
→ Build for scale. Businesses can mint and redeem Open USD at no cost and with no artificial limits on volume.
→ Earn by default. Partners receive all of the earnings from Open USD’s reserves, less a small management fee to cover Open USD’s operational costs.
→ Govern collaboratively. Open USD will be operated by Open Standard, an independent company with a board made up of Open USD’s partners, ensuring decisions are made for the collective interest, not a single entity.
"Existing stablecoins have great strengths, but to use them at scale, businesses need something that’s open, low-cost, high-throughput, broadly accessible, and aligned to their interests. We’re thrilled to bring together over 140 businesses to launch Open USD. It’s a stablecoin built for the internet economy, designed by the businesses growing it," said Zach Abrams, Founding CEO of Open Standard.
Designed with businesses in mind, Open USD is built to scale: open, low-cost, high-throughput, and broadly accessible. Open USD will be live later this year.
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Tesla has begun testing a production version of its Cybercab that has two seats, but no steering wheel or pedals, in Austin, Texas. For now, the testing is being done with a safety monitor in the right passenger seat, according to a video posted on X.
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