🇸🇾 World Bank Authorizes $100 Million to Rebuild Syrian Financial Network

The World Bank has authorized a $100 million grant to overhaul Syria’s isolated and cash-dependent financial system. The International Development Association funds are earmarked for modernizing core digital payment infrastructure and regulatory frameworks.

Following 14 years of intense conflict, the Syrian economy remains severely disconnected from international trade channels. Central Bank of Syria operations will receive specific technology and cybersecurity upgrades to enable international financial reconnection.

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⚡️🇺🇸 Trump signs order to limit childhood vaccines and split MMR shots

President Donald Trump has signed an order that calls for fewer childhood vaccines and also recommends splitting the mumps, measles and rubella (MMR) shots.

Only six of the 17 vaccines routinely recommended for all children in the US would continue to have full recommendations: measles, mumps, rubella (MMR), diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTaP), polio, Hib, pneumococcal disease, HPV and varicella.

"We're reducing them,"— Trump said. "It's not only that you're doing fewer vaccines, or jabs, as they say, but you're doing them in a series of visits to the doctor."

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🤑 Builders are choosing Stellar as the network for the next big thing

Open source technology leaves the field wide open for the creation of tools and products that have yet to be invented.

"But also I think that we all need intellectual humility to understand that there are use cases that we don't know yet.

One of the things that we are most proud of the last year at Stellar is that we have now almost 4,000 active developers out there, not Stellar employees, open developers who are building stuff in the ecosystem.

🏆 Stellar is now the second chain in the world by number of monthly active developers. There's Ethereum, there's Stellar, and then there is everybody else," — said José Fernández da Pont, President & Chief Growth Officer, SDF.

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🇬🇧 Robinhood brings crypto trading to UK in AI-powered all-in-one app

The all-in-one Robinhood app will bring U.K. customers access to over 50 cryptos including Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Hyperliquid, accessed via Bitstamp, the exchange Robinhood acquired in 2025.

The trading firm is also introducing “Robinhood Cortex Digests for Crypto,” a generative AI-powered widget that analyses breaking news, market data, technical indicators and Robinhood's proprietary insights.

“A new wave of UK investors sees digital assets as an important part of a diversified portfolio,” — said Jordan Sinclair, President of Robinhood U.K. Ltd and GM of Bitstamp UK Ltd.

“With today’s launch, we’re taking another major step toward becoming the all-in-one investment platform for the UK.”

It will begin rolling out to eligible U.K. customers this week. 🚀

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🤖 The Hottest New AI Chatbot Is Just a Guy Answering Your Questions

What if, instead of typing the next question you have into Claude or ChatGPT, you asked a random guy instead? 🤔

That’s the idea behind ChatTJB. It’s the creation of 32-year-old Tucker Bryant, a public speaker, artist, and former project manager at Google. A San Francisco billboard describes ChatTJB as “the leading chat interface powered by AI.” In this case, though, AI stands for “average individual.”

Bryant launched ChatTJB back in April, but it didn’t take off until July 27, when his $6,000 billboard went up in San Francisco. News coverage soon followed. As of August 6, he says, ChatTJB has received over 30,000 queries. At its peak, he says, he was receiving about 5,000 prompts per hour.

Bryant says that he “first and foremost” considers ChatTJB to be an art project, not just a funny bit or a social experiment. Over the past couple of days, he has drawn a frog eating spaghetti, San Francisco mayor David Lurie as Godzilla, and two black cats eating grass on a table, among other things. The written requests have been diverse.

“The way I'm interpreting it is that the value for them is just getting a human to bounce those questions off of, as opposed to getting super expert advice,” Bryant says. “It's very tender to see.”

“I really just want people to have an opportunity to take a second look at both their own relationship to technology as well as the world's relationship to technology,” he says.

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🤖 Anthropic Partners With Macquarie Asset Management and GIC to Build Data Centers for Claude

The new entity, called Theseus Infrastructure, will serve as a vehicle to develop AI computing sites “with an initial focus” in the US. Macquarie and GIC pledged to fund a bulk of the equity for each project, while Anthropic committed to covering any consumer electricity price hikes from the facilities.

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🇪🇺 Europe expands its Starlink rival to 348 satellites as IRIS² moves into implementation

The European Commission and the SpaceRISE consortium signed an implementation agreement on August 7 to roll out Europe’s IRIS² satellite constellation, moving the project from the planning and negotiation stage into full-scale deployment. The agreement adds 66 satellites to the planned constellation, bringing the total to 348 with first launches targeted for 2029.

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💫 NASA Tests 5× More Powerful Electric Thruster — A Potential Game-Changer for Mars Missions

NASA recently completed testing of a lithium-fed electromagnetic thruster, reaching 5x more power than today's electric propulsion systems. Paired with a nuclear power source, this tech could slash travel time to Mars! 🚀

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