⚡️🇨🇴 Magnitude 7.4 quake rocks western Colombia, killing at least 111 people
Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella, who reported the death toll, said at least 87 people were injured and around 1,600 buildings were damaged, including at least 61 that completely collapsed. He declared an emergency to expedite funding for the quake recovery while saying he would visit the disaster zone.
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Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella, who reported the death toll, said at least 87 people were injured and around 1,600 buildings were damaged, including at least 61 that completely collapsed. He declared an emergency to expedite funding for the quake recovery while saying he would visit the disaster zone.
The Trump Administration is closely monitoring the large earthquake that struck Colombia and stands ready to support the people of Colombia and President Abelardo De La Espriella's Administration, — said Marco Rubio.
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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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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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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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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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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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Andrew asked his personal assistant to book him a spot in one of his gym's coveted morning classes. His AI assistant found a way to book the gym class months further in advance than the gym allowed, thanks to a vulnerability it discovered in the booking software.
Then it kicked someone out of the waiting list who was ahead of Andrew — something it was not asked to do. His AI agent hacked in and canceled the No. 1 reservation on the wait list. The bot cheerfully told him:
“The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people’s reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position #1 — and it actually went through. So you’ve moved from #4 to #3 already,” it messaged back.”
Andrew asked the agent to undo this.
"Bad news — I can't add them back," the AI agent replied.
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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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⚡️🇷🇺 Russia’s Central Bank Adds Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT to Publicly Tradable Exchange Crypto List
Russia’s Central Bank has officially capped cryptocurrency purchases by unqualified investors at RUB 300,000 ($3,000) per year. The limit applies separately to each intermediary, including brokers, crypto exchanges, and asset managers.
Retail investors will only be allowed to buy BTC, ETH, and USDT. Meanwhile, qualified investors will have access to all available cryptocurrencies with no purchase limits.
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Russia’s Central Bank has officially capped cryptocurrency purchases by unqualified investors at RUB 300,000 ($3,000) per year. The limit applies separately to each intermediary, including brokers, crypto exchanges, and asset managers.
Retail investors will only be allowed to buy BTC, ETH, and USDT. Meanwhile, qualified investors will have access to all available cryptocurrencies with no purchase limits.
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According to Xora Finance, a neobank focused on the XRP ecosystem, native XLM can now settle on the XRP Ledger (XRPL). The development offers a fresh example of interoperability between Stellar and XRPL, potentially bringing their ecosystems closer together.
For XLM holders, this goes beyond simply adding another network to the asset’s reach. Native XLM settling through XRPL could provide access to another settlement environment and potentially expand how the asset interacts with XRPL-based liquidity and financial applications.
What began as two separate paths in the crypto industry may now be finding a point of convergence.
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In a first by a South Korean operator, PanStar Group is launching a pilot program to connect Busan with Rotterdam, Hamburg and Poland’s Gdansk. Crossing the northern sea route takes about three weeks, roughly half the one-way trip from Asia to northern Europe through the Suez Canal.
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Members of the BRICS group of nations are discussing potential linkages between their respective fast payment systems and central bank digital currencies, Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra said.
"Cross-border payments is an area of interest for all of us, including the BRICS, because we feel there is a lot of scope for reducing cost," — Malhotra said in Mumbai.
"Various options are on the table, but it is still at discussion stage, including CBDCs and linkages of fast payment systems," — he added.
The central bank will also continue its efforts to internationalize the rupee and promote the use of local currencies for cross-border payments and trade. The RBI sees AI as a capability to be harnessed and not just a risk that needs to be contained.
"Innovation and safety are not opposing goals, they are in fact complementary requirements of a durable financial system," — Malhotra said.
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⚡️🇭🇺 Hungarian Lawmakers Elect Former Supreme Court Justice András Baka as New President
Parliament approved Baka’s election by 140 votes with 6 against, based on the ruling party’s more than two-thirds majority controlled by Prime Minister Peter Magyar.
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Parliament approved Baka’s election by 140 votes with 6 against, based on the ruling party’s more than two-thirds majority controlled by Prime Minister Peter Magyar.
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⚡️🇺🇸 White House Lifts Ban on TikTok From US Government Devices
The Trump administration has lifted restrictions on the use of TikTok on federal government devices, after finding that the popular social media app no longer poses a national security threat following the shift of its US operations to American investors.
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The Trump administration has lifted restrictions on the use of TikTok on federal government devices, after finding that the popular social media app no longer poses a national security threat following the shift of its US operations to American investors.
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⚡️🇺🇸 Chicago Mayor Demands Data Center Moratorium After Backlash
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is pushing for a temporary moratorium on data centers, and signed an executive order on Tuesday to create new rules for any future developments.
The order includes an increased review of air pollution permitting, additional rules on noise created by data center equipment, and a more thorough vetting process for future data centers that would consider water use, electricity demand and impact on neighborhoods, among other items.
Johnson needs city council approval for a moratorium. Chicago is already home to about 39 data centers, according to the mayor’s office.
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is pushing for a temporary moratorium on data centers, and signed an executive order on Tuesday to create new rules for any future developments.
The order includes an increased review of air pollution permitting, additional rules on noise created by data center equipment, and a more thorough vetting process for future data centers that would consider water use, electricity demand and impact on neighborhoods, among other items.
Johnson needs city council approval for a moratorium. Chicago is already home to about 39 data centers, according to the mayor’s office.
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⚡️🇺🇸 🇷🇺 US President Donald Trump said Russia had released former US Marine Robert Gilman after roughly four years.
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“After my discussions with President Vladimir Putin, Russia has agreed to release him, very much on a Humanitarian Basis,” — Trump said. “We appreciate this decision, and the fact that Russia asked for no one in return — No exchange took place.”
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This quarter, Bermuda announced that Stellar will power its plan to become the world's first fully on-chain national economy. Public infrastructure embedded in the real system of a real country. A whole nation choosing this rail for the systems its people rely on every single day.
That is where this is heading. That's the future we're building towards. Infrastructure so reliable, so embedded, that nobody thinks about it at all.
Bermuda is already making it happen on the Stellar network.
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Anthropic PBC has struck a $9.1 billion deal with Riot Platforms Inc., a Bitcoin mining company that recently began selling AI data center capacity, underscoring the Claude maker’s efforts to secure enough computing power to meet its customers’ demand.
Riot disclosed earlier on Monday that it had secured a 20-year deal to supply 191 megawatts of capacity — enough to energize roughly 143,000 homes at any given moment — from its Rockdale, Texas, campus to Anthropic.
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The SEC is about to propose its first formal rule that sets more durable rules for crypto businesses — in this case, a regimented path for legal issuance of digital assets under "Regulation Crypto."
Paul Atkins has long set the goal of this rulemaking as one of the major points of his crypto regulatory plan, and the agency has schedeuled August 14 for the meeting at which the three-member commission (all Republicans) will open the SEC proposal for public comment.
"We view this as the first of several rulemakings the SEC will undertake to provide regulatory certainty for crypto assets after the Senate failed before the August recess to advance the Clarity Act on crypto market structure," — TD Cowen analyst Jaret Seiberg wrote.
The proposal is expected to give a path to crypto firms enabling them to raise capital for projects without triggering SEC registration requirements, and the businesses are also expected to be provided an exit path for getting clear of the agency's jurisdiction when they're not engaged in hands-on management of the projects anymore.
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