🇯🇵🤖 The hotels hiring robots to cut their wage bills

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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🇪🇺🇬🇱 EU Plans Major Greenland Investment Surge as Arctic Stakes Rise

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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🤖 OpenAI's Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki: "Based on internal results, I have a strong expectation that this speed of progress could be sustained into recursive self-improvement."

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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🤖 Quantum-proof platform aces US Army`s battlefield experiment, achieves TRL-7

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.

❗️The TRL-7 milestone arrives as federal agencies and defense components align with binding timelines under Executive Order 14412, which mandates the complete migration of High Value Assets (HVAs) and high-impact systems to PQC for key establishment by December 31, 2030, and digital signatures by December 31, 2031.

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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⚡️💸 DBS and Citi complete weekend USD payment via Swift’s Digital Ledger using tokenized deposits

DBS (D05) and Citi (C) completed the first cross-border USD payment over a weekend using tokenized deposits on Swift's Digital Ledger. The transaction, executed on Sept. 5 between DBS in Singapore and Citi's New York office, settled in minutes rather than the industry norm of up to two business days.

❗️It is the second confirmed live transaction on Swift's blockchain ledger, following HSBC and Standard Chartered's first live cross-border transfer in August.

The back-to-back tests come as Swift's $1.5 quadrillion network faces pressure from stablecoins and tokenized deposits that settle around the clock, raising the question of whether the 53-year-old messaging network can adapt fast enough to remain relevant. Swift rolled out its blockchain ledger in July with 17 banks.

"Processing a live transaction over a weekend demonstrates that always-on cross-border payments are already a reality," — said Mridula Iyer, Citi's head of services for Asia South.

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🇪🇺🛰 Europe’s Top Carriers in Talks for Satellite-to-Mobile Venture

A group of Europe’s biggest mobile operators are in early talks to create a consortium to bid on satellite spectrum and offer direct-to-mobile service, which would rival Elon Musk’s Starlink service on the continent.

Deutsche Telekom AG, Orange SA, Vodafone Group Plc and Telefonica SA would jointly bid for a share of airwaves that the European Union has proposed reserving for a local operator, a plan aimed at increasing sovereign satellite capabilities. No final decisions on the consortium or plans to bid have been made.

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🇰🇬 Kyrgyz President Advances Crypto and Blockchain Goals

Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov chaired the third meeting of the National Council for the Development of Virtual Assets and Blockchain Technologies on September 5, 2026. The Kyrgyz Republic is consistently improving its legislative framework and creating the necessary technological and financial infrastructure.

🔘A new digital platform was presented to digitize licensing and government oversight processes in the virtual asset sector. Participants explored the possibility of launching a digital som in a limited pilot environment.

🔘 The meeting also discussed the prospects for developing and using KGST, a stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the Kyrgyz som.

The National Agency for Virtual Assets and Blockchain Technologies (NAVA) was tasked with ensuring coordination of government agencies’ work on issues related to the development of virtual assets and blockchain technologies, including the implementation of projects and initiatives.

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Our Nation is entering a bold new era of American manufacturing, technological innovation, and economic prosperity — powered by the might of the American worker.

Today and every day, we commit to ensuring their hard work remains the driving force behind our Nation’s strength and prosperity and the foundation for an even greater future.

To workers across America, thank you! 🇺🇸

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💊 AI-Discovered Drug Reverses Aging Markers in Study

Insilico Medicine, a clinical-stage company focused on generative AI-driven drug discovery and development, announced the publication of a new study conducted in collaboration with an international team of scientists from Harvard Medical School, Stanford University, The Broad Institute, RWTH Aachen University, Peking University and Westlake University.

📝 Using longitudinal Olink proteomic data (CNCB OMIX accession: OMIX008341) collected during a Phase IIa clinical trial of rentosertib, researchers evaluated biological age using 6 internationally recognized, independently developed proteomic aging clocks.

🔜 All 6 models consistently indicated a reduction in predicted biological age among patients treated with rentosertib. In addition, the Forced Vital Capacity (FVC), the essential measure of lung function declining with age, showed promising dose-dependent reversal compared to placebo aligning with the proteomic aging clock age reversal.

❗️Recently published in Nature Biotechnology, the study represents the first clinical evaluation of a potentially first-in-class drug candidate featuring both an AI-discovered target with relevance to aging and disease biology and an AI-designed molecule, rather than a repurposed generic drug such as rapamycin or metformin.

The findings also provide a proof-of-concept framework for integrating aging biomarkers into standard clinical trials to accelerate the discovery of geroprotective drugs and longevity therapeutics. 🚀

The results will be presented by first author Alex Zhavoronkov, founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine, at the Nature conference: Redefining Healthcare in the Age of AI, to be held at Sorbonne University in Paris on September 8, 2026.

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🌍 Starlink works in the middle of the Arctic Ocean

24 hours of travel, four flights and one snowmobile to reach Ice Camp, 200 miles north of Alaska. And they still get online to stream on Starlink.

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Sep 4: Coindesk on 📱

NEW: StellarOrg's RWA market is up 360% this year, reaching $4B, and is now #1 across all blockchains in tokenized non-U.S. government debt.

Denelle Dixon says, "real-world assets do not just belong to the United States."