⚡️🇺🇸Trump Touts $3 Billion in Minerals Projects to Counter China

President Donald Trump touted $3 billion in US investments in critical minerals mining at a meeting Friday with top industry executives aimed at weaning the US off supply chains dominated by China.

Trump said the projects would “create thousands of jobs and promote our economic stability and security,” at an event at the State Department. “We’re putting our miners back to work, and we’re reclaiming America’s rightful place as the minerals superpower of the world,” he added.

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⚡️🤖 Congress Eyes Boosting Quantum Funds as Global Race Heats Up

US lawmakers from both parties are seeking to boost federal funding for quantum computing as China and other countries race to transition from research to deployment of the nascent technology across defense, intelligence and cybersecurity.

The House later this year is expected to debate defense funding legislation that would increase annual military spending on quantum development and application by 68% to $567 million. A similar effort is underway in the Senate to fund the nascent technology, which researchers believe could provide a range of new capabilities in everything from drug discovery to computing encryption standards.

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🤑 XRP Ledger 3.3.0 Upgrade Is Available With Six Major Features

XRP Ledger version 3.3.0 is now available, introducing one of the biggest software upgrades in the network’s history. Meanwhile, this XRPL upgrade focused on improving privacy, transaction efficiency, and institutional adoption

🚀 What Is New in XRP Ledger Version 3.3.0?

The XRP Ledger (XRPL) has released version 3.3.0, introducing six major protocol upgrades that validators will review before they can go live on the XRP Ledger.

🔜 One of the biggest additions is Confidential Transfers, which allows Multi-Purpose Token (MPT) transactions to hide balances and payment amounts while still being verified through zero-knowledge technology.

🔜 Another major feature is Sponsored Fees, allowing banks, businesses, or platforms to pay XRP transaction fees and account reserves for users. This makes onboarding easier because new users no longer need to hold XRP before using XRPL services.

🔜 The upgrade also introduces Batch Transactions, enabling up to eight transactions to settle together. If one transaction fails, the entire batch is canceled, reducing settlement risk for financial institutions.

🔜 Other changes include Permission Delegation, Dynamic MPT, and infrastructure improvements that reduce validator memory usage by around 10% to 15%, helping the network process transactions more efficiently.

❗️Although the software is available, the new features still require approval from XRPL validators before activation.

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🇨🇳🤖 China's ByteDance is training an AI model with up to 10T parameters, three times larger than its previous largest model, approaching the scale of Anthropic's Mythos system.

The development of ByteDance's new AI model is still in its early stages. The system is currently going through a pre-training process, which usually lasts between three to six months. After this phase, it will be fine-tuned and prepared for release.

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🇮🇳 India Adds Blockchain to NEET Exam Security After 2026 Paper Leak

India’s central government has told the Supreme Court that it is overhauling the security of the country’s largest medical-entrance examination, and that blockchain is part of the plan.

📝 In a compliance affidavit responding to the fallout from the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak, the Ministry of Education outlined a multi-layered security architecture that includes blockchain-based record management, AI-powered monitoring, air-gapped systems, and stricter access controls, with a task force directed to report within three months specifically on “leveraging AI and Blockchain to secure examination conduction.”

For a country whose government remains cautious about cryptocurrency as an asset, the move is a notable example of the state embracing the underlying technology for public-sector use.

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🤖 Google DeepMind and Google Research Unveils WeatherNext to Improve Cyclone Warnings

Predicting dangerous cyclones is a major challenge where every hour matters. Hurricanes and typhoons have caused more than 700,000 deaths and $1.4 trillion in losses over the past 50 years, making timely, accurate warnings critical.

A new Nature study finds Google’s WeatherNext AI model delivers state-of-the-art cyclone forecasts, providing roughly a day of additional predictive accuracy — an advance equivalent to about a decade of meteorological progress.

This collaborative work brought together AI researchers and engineers at Google DeepMind and Google Research, with expert forecasters at the National Hurricane Center (NHC), the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), the UK Met Office, and weather agencies around the world.

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⚡️🧑‍⚖️ U.S. Senate opens first stage of crypto Clarity Act voting to give bill a chance next month

Senate Majority Leader filed the motion to proceed on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act early Saturday, after a marathon overnight Senate voting session.

⬇️Thune pursued a formal motion to proceed on this legislation to establish a regulatory regime for the U.S. crypto markets. The process is used for setting up debate on a bill that's set for floor voting but doesn't have a shot at unanimous approval.

"We, the undersigned senators … hereby move to bring to a close debate on the motion to proceed to calendar number 423, [House Resolution] 3633, an act to provide for a system of regulation of the offer and sale of digital commodities by the SEC and the CFTC, and so forth and for other purposes," — the clerk said reading the filing.

❗️Cloture requires 60 yes votes to move forward.

While the motion came too late for the Senate to vote on the crypto market structure bill before the body breaks for its August recess, the move sets the bill up for an initial vote almost immediately after the Senate returns next month.

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🇺🇸 Trump on Biden:

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⚡️🇺🇦🇷🇸Ukraine and Serbia sign Memorandum of Understanding

Ukraine and Serbia have concluded a MoU and cooperation in the areas of animal health and food safety, which is intended to serve as a foundation for joint efforts in these fields. Following the bilateral signing, Vučić said the two nations will soon deliver a free trade deal, saying it is of "utmost importance for our country and Ukraine".

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🇸🇬 Singapore to Ensure AI Helps Workers Worried About Jobs

Singapore is benefitting from the rapid growth of AI and the government is making use of the technology to ensure higher productivity and better jobs for workers who are worried about their livelihoods. The current administration is re-looking at its approach to industry and trade, and ways to strengthen the city-state’s competitiveness.

“New breakthroughs are creating opportunities that were unimaginable just a few years ago, even as they raise new challenges and questions,” — Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said.

“We cannot stand still while others move ahead. But neither should we accept every new technology uncritically. Singapore will embrace these advances on our own terms.”

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⚡️🇧🇷 Brazil's central bank orders exchanges to delay large crypto transfers abroad

Brazil’s central bank will require crypto exchanges to delay some customer transfers to foreign platforms and self-custody wallets for up to 24 hours as part of new anti-fraud rules.

❗️The requirement takes effect Jan. 1, 2027 under Resolution BCB No. 584/2026, published Aug. 7. The rule applies when a customer deposits the country’s fiat currency reais, or crypto with an exchange and then seeks to send the funds abroad or to a wallet they control.

🔜 Transfers exceeding the equivalent of $10,000, whether through a single transaction or several on the same day, are subject to the required hold. Smaller transfers may also face delays if an exchange flags them as risky.

🔜 The hold isn’t permanent. Exchanges can release a transfer before 24 hours if their risk review finds no signs of wrongdoing. They must document that decision and tell customers when a transaction has been placed on hold.

The measure also gives exchanges more responsibility for judging risk based on the customer, transaction, counterparty and destination jurisdiction.

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🇺🇸🇨🇴 US says it plans $1 billion security assistance to government of Colombia's new leader

"As a cornerstone of this renewed partnership, the United States, working with Congress, intends to announce $1 ​billion in assistance as part of a security package to ​support President De La Espriella's Administration in achieving our ⁠shared goals," — The U.S. State Department said.

Colombia's new president, ​Abelardo De La Espriella, who has promised a crackdown on crime and an economic revival, ​was sworn in on Friday. Trump had endorsed him during the elections.

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