California's legislature has approved a first-of-its-kind state law setting rules for how lawyers are permitted to use generative AI in their work. Both chambers in the California legislature approved the current version of the measure. The bill, SB 574, now goes to Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom to sign or veto.
Under California's measure, a lawyer "shall not delegate the practice of law" to generative AI. Lawyers would be required to take "reasonable steps" to verify the accuracy of all materials produced using AI, including case citations, and correct any false or hallucinated output in any AI-generated material they use.
Lawyers also would be required to disclose the use of AI for documents submitted in court and would be barred from entering confidential or other nonpublic information into certain generative AI systems. Arbitrators under the bill also could not delegate any decision-making to an AI tool.
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In blockchain networks, transactions must be proposed, validated, and committed to the chain through a consensus protocol, a process by which independent, potentially unreliable nodes agree on a single, coherent system state.
The strategy we present is an addition/augmentation approach, in which new edges are added based on different constructions.
While this paper focuses on the XRP Ledger, these results suggest promising avenues for applying augmentation strategies to other decentralized networks and for studying their effects on robustness.
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Nuvanté Technologies Ltd, a digital money clearing infrastructure company, has announced that in August 2026 it developed a prototype for stablecoin clearing tested in the Bank of England Synchronisation Lab, built on the Stellar network.
Nuvanté’s participation in the Lab focused on multi-money issuance and redemption, including stablecoin-to-stablecoin and stablecoin-to-fiat flows. The project used the Stellar network to support the movement and orchestration of digital money.
“Stablecoins are becoming core payment infrastructure, but the market still lacks neutral clearing rails that allow issuers, banks and payment firms to exchange digital money safely and efficiently,” — said Michael Chapman, Founder and CEO of Nuvanté.
“Through our work in the Bank of England Synchronisation Lab, we demonstrated how regulated stablecoin clearing, interoperability and synchronised settlement could operate in a central-bank settlement environment.”
“As stablecoins continue to scale the market needs safe, trusted and interoperable settlement infrastructure. The Stellar network was built for regulated finance and Nuvanté’s work in the Bank of England Synchronisation Lab is the kind of real-world financial use case the network was designed to support."
The announcement comes as the Bank of England continues to progress its RTGS roadmap, including the development of synchronisation capabilities designed to extend atomic settlement in central bank money to a wider set of asset markets and transaction types.
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The Defense Innovation Unit and Honeywell have successfully flown an aircraft for more than four hours from Seattle to Alaska over the Pacific without GPS, using quantum magnetic navigation. The groundbreaking flight test was a success for MagNav, DIU's magnetic navigation program, and is a critical advancement for the future of aviation and national security.
The MagNav program launched in spring 2024 under the name "Transition of Quantum Sensing." MagNav systems use quantum sensors to read the Earth's natural magnetic field, turning the planet's crust into an invisible, unjammable map that allows pilots to navigate safely regardless of weather, time of day or GPS availability.
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The reception workers at the Henn na – or “Weird” – Hotel gaze blankly at guests. Some of the uncanny staff members look like Japanese women. Others are talking Velociraptors. All of them are robots.
In fact, the novelty Tokyo hotel is known for being the first in the world to be “run by” machines. They speak different languages and carry out front-of-house tasks such as greetings, check-in and tourist information. Bosses have claimed the robots could eventually yield savings of 75% on labour costs.
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leye, who is visiting Greenland on Sunday and Monday, has said the bloc is preparing a "massive European investment surge" aimed in part at strengthening Arctic security. The European Commission has proposed allocating €530 million to Greenland under the EU budget covering 2028 to 2034.
The Commission has linked the proposal directly to Greenland’s "growing geostrategic importance in the Arctic." Von der Leyen is also expected to sign a joint declaration between the EU and Greenland on Monday. An additional €200 million in funding is set to be announced during the visit.
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In 'An Alien Mind,' Pachocki argues that rapid AI capability gains are outrunning current alignment and monitoring tools, urging voluntary slowdowns and global coordination until safety standards solidify.
"And I believe that international coordination on future AI development needs to become a top priority for governments around the world.
Machine intelligence playing a larger and larger role in its own development process is a natural conclusion of sustained technological progress. If AI progress continues, machine recursive self-improvement (RSI) will be at the very core of future scientific discovery🚀 ," — Pachocki said.
He draws from internal results expecting continued fast progress toward recursive self-improvement, where AI drives its own advances, and notes that methods like chain-of-thought reasoning are losing reliability as models grow smarter.
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Thank you for being a guiding light and for turning a simple vision into a global community where everyone has a place to learn, grow, and belong.
May the light you’ve created shine brighter than ever — and may we all help carry it forward.
Wishing you the most wonderful birthday!
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🧗🏻♀️Climbers rescued after using AI to plan 8-hour mountain hike and getting stuck for days
As per Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office, the three hikers set off three men summited the mountain on Sunday, August 31, and required help from the sheriff’s office during their descent as one of them suffered an injury and they ran out of phone battery. The group also went off-course from where they’d been instructed, using sight and a Garmin watch to navigate instead.
The Sheriff’s Office and US Forest Service warned hikers against relying on AI and hiking apps to plan their treks, urging people to contact them.
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As per Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office, the three hikers set off three men summited the mountain on Sunday, August 31, and required help from the sheriff’s office during their descent as one of them suffered an injury and they ran out of phone battery. The group also went off-course from where they’d been instructed, using sight and a Garmin watch to navigate instead.
“This was a critical misstep, as they were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required, especially when their planned 8-hour ascent became a multi-day ordeal.”
The Sheriff’s Office and US Forest Service warned hikers against relying on AI and hiking apps to plan their treks, urging people to contact them.
“We relied too much on AI rather than our own critical thinking,” — the hikers told the Forest Service, also admitting they’d used YouTube videos as a form of recon.
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🚘 Carmakers Have a New Idea to Boost EV Range: Add a Gas Engine
The auto industry has a new solution to Americans’ fear that electric vehicles will run out of juice: a gasoline engine. Hyundai, Ford Motor and Jeep parent Stellantis are among the first U.S.-market automakers planning to roll out a new kind of plug-in vehicle called an extended-range EV.
It is a fully electric car with the security blanket of a gas-powered generator to charge the battery, if needed — ensuring you won’t end up stranded as long as a gas station is nearby.
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The auto industry has a new solution to Americans’ fear that electric vehicles will run out of juice: a gasoline engine. Hyundai, Ford Motor and Jeep parent Stellantis are among the first U.S.-market automakers planning to roll out a new kind of plug-in vehicle called an extended-range EV.
It is a fully electric car with the security blanket of a gas-powered generator to charge the battery, if needed — ensuring you won’t end up stranded as long as a gas station is nearby.
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The US Army has tested a quantum-resistant cybersecurity platform under live battlefield conditions, demonstrating its ability to protect tactical communications from emerging quantum threats.
QuSecure’s QuProtect R3 was deployed during Project Convergence Capstone 6 (PCC6), an annual Army experiment held at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California. Operated by soldiers during the exercise, the system provided secure communications, cryptographic agility, and an inventory of cryptographic assets used across tactical mission systems.
Led by Joey Lupo (Product Manager) and Brian Cunningham (EVP of Growth and Strategy), QuSecure confirms that the QuProtect R3 platform is immediately available for TLS modernization, cryptographic inventorying, and PQC deployment across federal agencies, military branches, and commercial critical infrastructure.
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🧬 Life uses 4 DNA letters. Scientists just made 8 work
All known life on Earth relies on the same four-letter genetic alphabet. Researchers at the University of California San Diego have now shown that one of biology's most important enzymes can accurately read and transcribe a much larger version containing 8 genetic letters.
The finding suggests that cells can use their existing molecular machinery to handle synthetic genetic information. That marks an important step toward a long-standing goal in synthetic biology: expanding the language of DNA beyond the 4 letters found in nature. In the future, such systems could help scientists engineer biological machinery that carries out new functions or produces compounds that do not naturally exist.
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All known life on Earth relies on the same four-letter genetic alphabet. Researchers at the University of California San Diego have now shown that one of biology's most important enzymes can accurately read and transcribe a much larger version containing 8 genetic letters.
The finding suggests that cells can use their existing molecular machinery to handle synthetic genetic information. That marks an important step toward a long-standing goal in synthetic biology: expanding the language of DNA beyond the 4 letters found in nature. In the future, such systems could help scientists engineer biological machinery that carries out new functions or produces compounds that do not naturally exist.
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