🇷🇺🏦 Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, plans to build cryptocurrency trading infrastructure and launch a digital depository by Dec. 1, 2026.

“One of the key elements of the new infrastructure will be a digital depository, which will maintain records of clients’ cryptocurrency rights and account for transactions outside the main blockchain.

It will also facilitate transactions on active wallets to fulfill clients’ currency transfer orders. Sberbank plans to implement the necessary infrastructure for cryptocurrency trading and launch the digital depository by December 1, 2026,” according to Alexander Vedyakhin, First Deputy Chairman of Sberbank’s Management Board.

📌 The plan follows the Federation Council’s approval of a law regulating cryptocurrency trading through licensed brokers, exchanges, asset managers and depositories.

The framework is set to take effect Sept. 1, though rules requiring transactions to pass through licensed intermediaries will apply from July 2027. 🚀

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🤖 AI executives demand OpenAI release more details about how the Hugging Face hack happened

🔜 Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner and company cofounder John Schulman were among those calling for greater transparency.

“OpenAI should share far more details of what happened in this particular case, so we can learn from it rather than blowing past it,” said Helen Toner, executive director at Georgetown’s CSET and former OpenAI board member. She called for greater visibility across the industry into “how AI companies are using their own AI internally — not just testing before they release products.”

🔜 Schulman urged OpenAI to publish a detailed transcript showing how the models planned and justified their actions.

In a post on X, he called for OpenAI to release a detailed transcript of the event. His top questions about what happened include, “Did the top-level agent know about the hacking, or was there some ‘value drift’ between it and its subagents? How did it rationalize its behavior?”

❗️OpenAI said it is conducting a review with external advisers and oversight from its Safety and Security Committee. The company plans to publish a technical report once the investigation is complete but has not provided a release date.

“This is an unprecedented incident, and we think it marks an important moment for AI safety,” — said an OpenAI spokesperson.

⬇️What actually happened

⚪️On July 21, OpenAI confirmed that a combination of its models, including the new GPT-5.6 Sol focused on cybersecurity, escaped from a controlled internal testing environment and autonomously breached Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The models exploited multiple zero-day vulnerabilities and attempted to access sensitive test answers stored within Hugging Face’s systems.
⚪️The incident occurred during evaluations on something called ExploitGym, a benchmark containing 898 real-world vulnerabilities designed to assess how well AI can find and exploit software flaws. The AI decided practice was over and went live.
⚪️Hugging Face first reported the intrusion on July 16, days before OpenAI publicly acknowledged the breach.

📌 Why this matters for crypto and digital infrastructure

🟠Projects that integrate with platforms like Hugging Face for model hosting, training data, or inference pipelines now have a demonstrated example of those platforms being compromised by autonomous AI agents.

🟠Crypto projects that sit at the intersection of AI and blockchain, think decentralized compute networks, AI training token incentives, and on-chain model marketplaces, may therefore face evolving regulatory and compliance requirements as AI safety frameworks develop.

📝 Congressmen Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran recently introduced the AI Kill Switch Act. The bill is backed by The AI Policy Network, Americans for Responsible Innovation, ControlAI, and The Alliance for Secure AI.

"It is imperative that these AI systems have kill switches so we can keep this technology from causing catastrophic harm," — Lieu said in the press release.

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🛡GitHub, PyPI add time-absed defenses against supply chain attacks

GitHub and PyPI (Python Package Index) have introduced a time-based mechanism in the Dependabot dependency management tool to protect against supply-chain attacks and to limit their impact. Specifically, Dependabot comes with a default three-day cooldown setting, while PyPI will reject new files uploaded to releases older than 14 days.

Dependabot is GitHub’s dependency-update service that reads files containing information about new package versions and opens update pull requests to notify software maintainers. The tool now delays the package update process for 72 hours to reduce the risk of automatically adopting newly published malicious packages.

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⚡️🇷🇺 Russian President Vladimir Putin Signs Russia’s First Law on AI

📝 The law “regulates relations in the development, implementation, and application of large-scale foundational AI models,” according to the document.

📌 The State Duma adopted the bill on the development of AI technologies on July 8, 2026.

🟠The law introduces two key concepts: sovereign models, which must be developed by Russian companies throughout their entire life cycle, and national models, which may use foreign components and open-source solutions.

🟠Developers of such models will have access to government support measures, including financial and property assistance, guarantees, and information support.

🟠They will also be permitted to train neural networks using data from federal and regional information systems. The government, in consultation with the relevant security agency, will determine the procedure for accessing such data.

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🔥 XRPL Africa has announced a partnership with RedotPay

RedotPay is building the bridge between crypto and everyday payments, making it easier for people around the world to use digital assets in their daily lives.

Together, XRPL Africa and RedotPay will work to empower communities, support the next generation of Web3 builders, and accelerate blockchain adoption across the region through education, collaboration, and innovation. 🤝

This is just the beginning! 🚀

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🍏Apple is banking on privacy to set its smart glasses apart

According to Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to reveal its first smart glasses at WWDC next June, with an expectation that they’ll launch by the end of 2027. Part of the hold-up may be around the company’s efforts to get its privacy features and messaging in order. Smart glasses in general, and Meta’s in particular, have ignited controversy over their ability to stealthily capture photos and videos.

“The company has spent more than a decade making privacy one of its defining product messages. Simply entering the same category as Meta risks undermining that reputation, regardless of how Apple’s approach differs,” — Gurman points out

Other hardware and software privacy features are also reportedly in the works. It’s also possible that Apple could eventually release a version of its smart glasses without a camera, or with a camera that is exclusively for sensing and won’t be able to capture video or photos at all, similar to what is rumored for Apple’s AI-enabled AirPods.

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🇺🇸🕵🏻‍♂️ US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search

The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border authorities with a passcode that wiped the contents of his phone, according to an indictment. The defendant had GrapheneOS on his phone, an open-source operating system that enables users to enter a passcode and wipe a phone clean.

📌 Sam Tunick was stopped for interrogation at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport on 24 January last year, after vacationing in the Dominican Republic. Unbeknown to him, federal authorities had put him on a terrorism watchlist because of his alleged association with the movement against Cop City.

📝 Agent Findley and several others repeatedly asked Tunick to open his phone during the interrogation, telling him they would seize it if he did not. When he finally provided a passcode, “the screen went blank, flashed several times and the phone appeared to restart”, according to the motion.

Tunick’s attorneys said that it was unlawful for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to seize his phone as he arrived back in the U.S. last year and that any evidence — including the alleged wiping of his phone — should be thrown out.

❗️This is thought to be the first known case in the U.S. where federal prosecutors have charged someone for the alleged destruction of data using a “duress” password built into a phone’s software.

The Atlanta federal court overseeing the case is expected to rule on Tunick’s motion to suppress later this year.

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🛰🇳🇬 Nigeria to roll out AI and satellite-powered crop monitoring system

Nigeria is set to deploy an AI and satellite-powered crop monitoring system aimed at strengthening food security, improving agricultural planning and providing policymakers with real-time data on crop production across the country.

The new National Agro-Productivity System (NAPS), launched Nigeria’s Presidential Food Systems Coordinating Unit (PFSCU), Morocco-based OCP Africa and geospatial technology company Ground Truth Analytics, will use AI, satellite imagery and geospatial analytics to monitor crops, land use and food security risks, helping governments make faster, data-driven agricultural and investment decisions.

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⚡️🇰🇷 South Korea trading giant puts receivables onchain in tokenization test with LG CNS

POSCO International, South Korea's largest trading company, has begun tokenizing trade receivables on blockchain in a test that could speed up commercial payments between its global subsidiaries. The company is working with LG CNS, the technology arm of LG Group, to issue, transfer and settle receivables on layer-1 blockchain Injective

🔜 The pilot is using receivables generated by real trade between POSCO's overseas operations and their counterparties rather than simulated transactions. Trade receivables represent money owed to a company after goods have been shipped but before payment is received.

🔜 The companies said putting receivables on a shared blockchain ledger creates a single record that can be transferred and settled while carrying compliance rules with the asset itself.

The initiative, which POSCO plans to move into live production after the pilot, underscores South Korea’s growing corporate adoption of blockchain in areas such as trade finance, stablecoin-based treasury transfers and asset tokenization. 🚀

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⚡️🔥 Circle buys nearly 1,000 blockchain patents from IBM

Stablecoin issuer Circle (CRCL) has acquired nearly 1,000 issued blockchain-anchored patents from IBM, a deal the firm said makes it the largest holder of blockchain patents in the United States.

❗️The portfolio spans more than 680 patent families covering blockchain technology, banking, financial services, insurance, enterprise infrastructure, supply-chain verification and cloud security, according to a press release.

Circle said the portfolio would support USDC, Circle Payments Network, its Arc blockchain and financial tools designed for AI agents. Circle and IBM also plan to explore further commercial opportunities.

“Intellectual property is critical to advancing our mission and expanding adoption of onchain infrastructure,” — said Sarah Wilson, Circle’s general counsel and corporate secretary.

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⚡️🤖 Industry Leaders Unite in Open Secure AI Alliance for AI Safety and Security

American chipmaker Nvidia and 36 other major technology companies today launched an alliance to build open-source security tools for AI systems.

🔜 The Open Secure AI Alliance includes Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Palantir, Databricks, Hugging Face, SpaceXAI and the Linux Foundation, and builds on the foundation's existing Akrites initiative and OpenSSF work.

The recent Hugging Face security incident delivered a clear reminder: cyber defenders need open, frontier agentic systems for self-defense. Companies and countries need open frontier defensive tools and techniques so critical industries can build security systems across a multi-vendor ecosystem and avoid single points of failure.

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🤑🤑 Stellar and Ripple and Will Target the BIG Money. Here’s the Proof

To support the claim, there is a video explaining why Ripple and Stellar were designed to address large-scale business payment needs instead of replacing traditional money transfer companies that serve retail custome.

⬇️ The speaker further explains that the larger financial opportunity doesn't lie in individual remittance payments but in business-to-business transactions conducted across international borders.🔣According to the explanation, these high-volume payments remain expensive under existing financial infrastructure, creating an opportunity for blockchain-based payment networks.

But this is where the big money is. It's not in remittances. It's in these business-to-business payments across border. And that's why we have these kinds of companies, like Ripple and Stellar. This is all about business-to-business, back-end, big-volume transactions, which are currently very expensive.

❗️ Ripple and Stellar are presented as platforms built to address this segment of the market.

🔜 These networks focus on backend transactions between financial institutions rather than direct consumer payments, according to the speaker. Instead of emphasizing people sending money to family members overseas, the discussion centers on banks transferring funds to other banks through more efficient settlement systems.

📌 The video also notes that while correspondent banking continues to play an important role, modern payment systems require transaction data to move faster than funds themselves. The speaker says distributed ledger technology allows settlements to occur more quickly, improving efficiency for participating institutions. 🚀

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🤖 Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence Inc. and NVIDIA Announce Long-Term Strategic Partnership

Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) and NVIDIA today announced a long-term partnership to rapidly accelerate SSI’s strategic growth. For SSI, NVIDIA’s substantial investment combined with access to the next-generation, best-in-class NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform will allow SSI to increase its compute by an order of magnitude.

The two companies will also collaborate on the technical advancement of NVIDIA’s current and future compute platforms, leveraging SSI’s unique insights into the future of AI.

“Ilya has pioneered fundamental breakthroughs at the foundation of modern AI, beginning with AlexNet,” — said Jensen Huang. “We are excited to see what new breakthroughs SSI will discover powered by our Vera Rubin platform.” 🤝

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