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โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Trump Plans to Cut Canadian Products Out of Government Contracts

President Donald Trump said he would direct the General Services Administration and USTR to remove Canadian-origin products from federal government contracts, hitting back at Ottawa over retaliatory tariffs and escalating the trade war between the two neighbors.

The moves will take place โ€œunless Canada restores full and fair reciprocity for American Farmers and Companies,โ€ Trump announced. Trump said the so-called Multiple Award Schedules are worth more than $50 billion each year.


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๐Ÿค‘ Stellar doesn't take Sundays off

Stellar processed over 11.6M transactions yesterday, reaching its highest daily throughput in the past week. Global payments run every day, and Stellar is built to keep up. ๐Ÿš€

No days off. No hours off. No minutes off. No seconds off.

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๐Ÿค– OpenAI Says It Has Solved a Millennium Prize Problem โ€” a Holy Grail of Math

OpenAI said that one of its internal models has solved the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, a fundamental question about the rules that describe how liquids and gases move.

For nearly a century, mathematicians have tried to determine whether smooth solutions to the equations describing three-dimensional fluid motion always remain smooth or if they ever break down.

To put it less mathematically: On paper, can water blow up?
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๐Ÿ“ OpenAI says its model found a scenario in which โ€œan initially smooth fluid at rest can develop a singularity in a finite time.โ€ In the proof, a spaghetti-like vortex gets smaller while spinning faster and faster, its speed growing without limit in what mathematicians call โ€œfinite-time blowup.โ€


OpenAI published its findings along with the 165-page proof and a formalization that verifies the argument step by step. The company says it took as many as 10,000 AI agents working together on the problem about 88 hours to find the solution.

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๐Ÿ›ก Ethereum makes quantum resistance a top priority with a 2029 deadline

The Ethereum Foundation has given itself until December 2029 to make Ethereum resistant to quantum computers across the parts of the network that process transactions, secure validators and store data.

๐Ÿ”˜The Foundationโ€™s Protocol cluster is planning for that 2030 threat horizon, but has locked in a 2029 completion target. That deadline stands at least until January 2027, when outside experts will reassess how fast quantum computing is actually moving.

๐Ÿ”˜The upcoming Hegotรก upgrade will not provide quantum resistance itself but is intended to keep five subsequent hard forks and related cryptographic changes on schedule.

Planned protections include new account and validator signature systems, a public-key registry and a fallback designed to keep Ethereum operating with reduced guarantees if quantum computers advance sooner than expected.

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๐Ÿค˜ Meta Debuts Muse AI Assistant for Personal Tasks and Organization

Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled a new AI agent designed to carry out tasks on a userโ€™s behalf, advancing Mark Zuckerbergโ€™s vision of a future where people each have a personalized AI assistant.

Called Muse, the new agent shares its name with the series of models Metaโ€™s AI lab is developing and can help automate a variety of tasks. Meta said the tool will assist with online shopping, buying movie tickets, scheduling appointments like tennis lessons or even filling out a permission slip for a class field trip.

The app will be released to US-based users on Tuesday.
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๐Ÿš˜ Tesla Reveals Unboxed Cybercab Production

Tesla shared detailed footage of its 'unboxed' manufacturing process, where major vehicle modules like the front, rear, battery pack, and sides assemble in parallel before joining in one final step. This streamlines automation & reduces the line size by half, unlocking much greater production capacity.

"We redesigned Cybercab production for production over 5 times faster than conventional automotive manufacturing!" โ€” Musk said.


The first real revolution in automotive manufacturing in over a century. ๐Ÿš€

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๐ŸŽฎ The White House depicted Trump as a hero from the iconic The Legend of Zelda video game series

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Uzbekistan begins government bond-backed stablecoin payment pilot

Uzbekistan has launched a pilot to test payments with a som-pegged stablecoin backed by government securities.

The National Agency for Prospective Projects (NAPP) had registered Humo Digital as a participant in a special regime jointly overseen with the central bank. The pilot will test the issuance, circulation and redemption of HUMO, with each token pegged to one Uzbek som.

NAPP said more than 20 merchants are prepared to test HUMO payments for goods and services. The project will also integrate participating banksโ€™ payment-processing and blockchain infrastructure. Asterium, a licensed crypto exchange, will serve as a project partner.

According to the Central Bank of Uzbekistan, the initial trial will run for 12 months, with the projectโ€™s total duration capped at three years. ๐Ÿš€

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๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ Google Picks Chilly Finland for โ‚ฌ13 Billion European AI Buildout

Alphabet Inc.โ€™s Google is spending โ‚ฌ13 billion ($15.1 billion) on AI infrastructure in Finland, its biggest European investment, as the Nordic countryโ€™s cold climate and carbon-free power make it a magnet for data center builders. Over the next 2 years, Google will build 3 new data centers and expand an existing facility in the southeastern city of Hamina.

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๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ 37 European Banks Plan MiCA-Compliant Euro Stablecoin on Ethereum

A consortium of 37 European banks across 15 countries is preparing to launch a euro stablecoin on Ethereumโ€™s public blockchain, adding a bank-backed digital asset to an established onchain ecosystem.

Known as Qivalis, the initiative is being developed under the European Unionโ€™s MiCA framework. The stablecoin is planned to maintain a 1:1 value with the euro, but Qivalis has not yet launched and remains subject to regulatory approval in the Netherlands.

Qivalis has not yet provided details on which applications or institutions will support the stablecoin after launch. The project is targeting a launch in the second half of 2026.

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๐Ÿค‘ U.S. Bank takes next step towards launching its stablecoin with cross-border payment test

U.S. Bancorp's (USB) U.S. Bank is laying the groundwork to put its own stablecoin to work, completing a live cross-border payment and weighing broader uses across its payments and treasury business.

โ—๏ธThe Minneapolis-based lender completed a transaction with USBDC, its proprietary U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, between U.S. Bank entities in North America and Europe.

๐Ÿ”œ The pilot tested minting and redeeming USBDC as well as freezing and clawing back tokens. It also validated the bank's internally developed Digital Asset Platform, which connects blockchain networks with its finance, compliance, risk and operations systems.

โ€œThis live pilot demonstrates our ability to accelerate global cash management and money movement capabilities," โ€” said Gunjan Kedia, chairman and CEO at U.S. Bank.


๐Ÿ”œ The transaction ran on the Stellar blockchain, following the November announcement to experiment with custom stablecoin issuance with Stellar Development Foundation.

U.S. Bank said it is exploring several uses for USBDC, including cross-border treasury operations, liquidity management and moving collateral. The bank did not say when the stablecoin could become available to clients or give a timeline for a broader commercial rollout. ๐Ÿš€

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โšก๏ธ๐ŸŽ From iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro, and iPhone 18 Pro Max to Apple Watch Series 12, Apple Watch Ultra 4, and AirPods 5. Here's a look at all of the latest announcements dropping today

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โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is calling on the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act

In July, I called on the Senate to advance the Clarity Act โ€” a bill to establish a comprehensive regulatory framework for digital assets and upgrade our ability to prevent bad actors from exploiting these critical technologies.

When the Senate returns from August recess, I strongly urge everyone to remain at the negotiating table, agree to the motion to proceed, and continue the legislative process. Failing to do so would send a troubling signal to our allies and adversaries alike that America is unwilling to lead on the future of digital assets and willing to forgo enhanced national security tools to combat their misuse.


๐Ÿง‘โ€โš–๏ธ The Senate is set to vote on the CLARITY Act as early as September 15

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๐Ÿง  Atlas Launches Wearable EEG Device for Continuous Brain Monitoring

Atlas has launched a wearable EEG device that sticks behind the ear with an adhesive pad and continuously monitors brain activity throughout the day.

The Atlas 1.0 combines electroencephalography, electrodermal activity tracking, movement sensing, and speech pattern analysis โ€” feeding all signals to an AI system that assesses your level of focus, stress, and mental energy across different activities like meetings, family dinners, or workouts.

Over months of use, the companion app builds a personal map of when you perform best and under what conditions โ€” helping you identify the people, habits, and environments that drive or drain your attention. Atlas says its algorithms are trained on a dataset of more than 500,000 real-life brain recordings.

Deliveries begin in Q1 2027. ๐Ÿš€

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๐Ÿค‘ Zebec and MoneyGram Expand Enterprise Payroll with Global Fiat Off-Ramp Access on the Stellar Network

Zebec Network, Stellar and MoneyGram announced the integration of MoneyGram Ramps into Zebecโ€™s enterprise payroll platform. MoneyGram is the first fiat off-ramp through Zebecโ€™s Stellar network payroll experience, connecting employees and contractors to cash for everyday transactions through MoneyGramโ€™s global payments network.

๐Ÿ”œ Zebecโ€™s native deployment on the Stellar network enables employers to stream employee and contractor payments in stablecoins.

๐Ÿ”œ Recipients can receive funds into digital wallets as payroll accrues and retain or transfer digital value, spend through supported Zebec card products, or access funds across the globe in local currency through participating MoneyGram locations, subject to availability and applicable law.

๐Ÿ”œ MoneyGram Ramps enables supported wallets and applications to facilitate USDC cash-in and cash-out on the Stellar network.

โ—๏ธThrough MoneyGramโ€™s vast network of retail locations, users can convert eligible digital-dollar balances into local currency at participating locations in more than 170 countries and territories without requiring a traditional bank account.

โ€œThe Stellar network provides the payments infrastructure, MoneyGram extends that infrastructure into local fiat access, and Zebec brings the employer and recipient experience together,โ€ โ€” said Simon Babakhani, CEO of Zebec Network.


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โค๏ธ Teachers union reaches AI privacy deal with Microsoft

The American Federation of Teachers and Microsoft have reached an agreement establishing privacy and safety protections for the use of AI in schools. The AI privacy standard consists of 10 legally enforceable protections, including an agreement by the tech giant to not use student or teacher data to train or improve an AI model, with the exception of โ€œnarrow safety and securityโ€ circumstances.

The standard bars Microsoft from tracking students and prohibits its AI from making decisions in schools without human oversight. It also requires the company to be transparent with educators and parents on how its tools work.

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๐Ÿ›ฐ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ท Starlink with Capital Humano and ENACOM will provide 6,000 kits to rural schools in Argentina, giving thousands of students and teachers fast, reliable internet

Teachers can build lesson plans with digital resources, while students can join online classes, use digital libraries, and learn through a variety of tools that were not accessible before.

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๐Ÿ•ต๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธ LG accused of tracking its smart TV users, scanning home networks, and recording conversations

An investigation by YouTube channel Gamers Nexus has found that LG's smart OLED TVs track users' viewing patterns across streaming platforms, cable, and local media. The televisions also reportedly scan users' home Wi-Fi network, collect information about connected devices without permission, and transmit the data to LG Ad Solutions to push targeted advertising.

The investigators found that LG was using Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technology to track not only users' viewing habits but also any content played through the TVs' HDMI, USB, RJ45, optical, RCA, and coaxial ports. However, LG has strongly denied recent claims that its smart TVs constantly log and upload data, record audio while in standby, while confirming they scan local area networks for other devices, a feature common in smart TVs and media devices.

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โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Trump Promises $5,000 Payment to US Adults if GOP Wins Midterms

President Donald Trump floated a dividend for American voters if his party wins the upcoming November midterm elections, promising a $5,000 payment to each US citizen adult if Republicans keep control of the House and Senate.

โ€œIt will be called the Trump dividend,โ€ โ€” the president said at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas. โ€œNow all we have to do is win.โ€


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๐Ÿค– Bitcoin and Ethereum race quantum clock as U.S. backs $300 million hardware push

Bitcoin and Ethereum developers are accelerating work to protect their networks from a future quantum computer capable of breaking the cryptography that guards crypto wallets, just as Washington starts putting serious money behind the machines that could one day do it.

๐Ÿ”˜The U.S. Commerce Department finalized a CHIPS Act award worth up to $100 million each for Rigetti, D-Wave and Quantinuum, while taking minority stakes in the three quantum-computing companies. The money is aimed at scaling hardware, manufacturing and error-correction systems needed for larger, fault-tolerant machines.

๐Ÿ”˜It comes as Ethereum's protocol team has set December 2029 as a self-imposed deadline for making the base layer quantum-resistant across execution, consensus and data, planning as if the so-called โ€œQ-dayโ€ could arrive as early as 2030.

๐Ÿ”˜Bitcoin has no equivalent network-wide deadline, but work has accelerated this year around Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP)-360, which proposes a post-quantum output type, and BIP-361, which lays out a phased migration away from today's ECDSA and Schnorr signatures. Bitcoin researchers and institutions have similarly discussed 2029 as the window by which a credible migration path needs to be in place.

๐Ÿ”œ Google Quantum AI estimated earlier this year that attacking 256-bit elliptic-curve cryptography could require fewer than 1,200 error-corrected qubits, or the smallest unit of information in quantum computing.

๐Ÿ”œ IBM nevertheless plans to deliver Starling, a fault-tolerant machine capable of running 100 million gates on 200 logical qubits, in 2029. Quantinuum is targeting hundreds of logical qubits around the same period.

While those figures cannot be compared directly with Google's attack estimate, they show why protocol developers don't want to wait until a cryptographically relevant machine already exists.

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๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ Anthropic Gives EU Access to Mythos Months After Modelโ€™s Release

Anthropic PBC has handed the European Unionโ€™s cybersecurity agency access to its powerful Mythos AI model, more than three months after first signaling the bloc would be given access.

โ€œFollowing our constructive engagement with Anthropic, we can confirm that the EUโ€™s cybersecurity agency ENISA has been granted access to Mythos 5 and is testing it now,โ€ โ€” Thomas Regnier, a spokesperson for the EUโ€™s executive branch, the European Commission, said.


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