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โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ’ณ Introducing the MoneyGram Card: Giving Customers More Freedom to Use Their Money, Wherever Life Takes Them

MoneyGram today launched the MoneyGram Card, a stablecoin-backed card designed to serve eligible customers worldwide. The card gives customers more freedom and flexibility with their money: the ability to hold a stable-dollar balance, access cash when they need it, or spend anywhere Visa is accepted, online, in stores and across borders.

๐Ÿ”œ For everyday spending, customers can add the MoneyGram Card to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet to tap-to-pay, checkout faster and shop online. To access cash, customers can transfer themselves funds from their MoneyGram balance and pick up local currency at a nearby MoneyGram location.

๐Ÿ”˜Developed in partnership with Rain, the enterprise-grade infrastructure for stablecoin-powered payments, the card gives customers a stable-dollar balance they can hold and use for everyday spending within the MoneyGram ecosystem.

๐Ÿ”˜The card brings together Rain's card infrastructure, Crossmint's wallet capabilities, and the Stellar network to provide fast, simple and immediate access to funds.

โ—๏ธThe MoneyGram Card is available today in Colombia, with plans to expand to more global markets in the coming months.

MoneyGram plans to expand the experience with a physical card option in late 2026, giving customers the ability to withdraw cash at ATMs and make in-person purchases in places where digital cards may not be as widely accepted. ๐Ÿš€

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โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณRussian President Vladimir Putin arrives in India ahead of BRICS Summit 2026

During his visit, he will also hold talks with PM Narendra Modi and have a series of bilateral meetings. BRICS Summit 2026 kicks off September 12.

The two-day gathering brings together leaders from some of the worldโ€™s biggest emerging economies at a time when geopolitical tensions are giving fresh urgency to efforts to boost trade in local currencies, strengthen cross-border payment links and deepen economic cooperation within the bloc.

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โšก๏ธ๐Ÿง‘โ€โš–๏ธ New Clarity Act text tweaks DeFi, credit union provisions, but road ahead for bill remains murky

A new version of the Digital Asset Market Clarity offers tweaks to how the key crypto legislation would address activities by DeFi firms and some traditional finance firms engaging in crypto activities.

This latest aspirational draft of the bill includes provisions on when DeFi projects would need to register with the CFTC and get Bank Secrecy Act requirements, makes clear that the DeFi language is only meant to target spot-market and cash transactions in digital commodities (and not prediction markets) and gives credit unions more clarity on their rule with digital assets.

"We have incorporated more than 114 separate provisions at my Democrat colleagues' request, and as a result, this bill is a strong bipartisan product," โ€” said Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis, one of the bill's chief negotiators.

"Unlike rulemaking, legislation gives this industry a lasting solution that shields it from the whiplash of changes in the White House. Since the CFTC and SEC will write rules on digital assets with or without the Clarity Act, I believe a lasting, bipartisan compromise is the best route for America's future." ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ


The cloture vote, scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 15, will require 60 Senators to support the bill to succeed.


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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Almost 25 years on from September 11, 2001, a drone display using 2,977 drones has recreated the Twin Towers, each representing a life lost in the attacks.

The United States Mint also announced a special-issue 2026 Semiquincentennial Enduring Liberty Half Dollar to mark the 25th anniversary of September 11. The Half Dollar features a unique privy mark: the date of the attack encircled by the phrase โ€œNEVER FORGET.โ€

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๐Ÿค‘ Ripple Treasury Brings Industryโ€™s First Governed AI for Enterprise Treasury

Ripple announced a major expansion of GSmart, the treasury-native AI capabilities built into Ripple Treasury. Already in production across its enterprise customer base, GSmart embeds AI directly into the policies, data, and workflows treasury teams use every day.

๐Ÿ”˜This expansion adds new policy-governed capabilities across forecasting, liquidity, risk, reconciliation, and reporting, helping finance teams make faster, more informed decisions while maintaining the controls and auditability required by enterprise organizations.

๐Ÿ”˜Ripple Treasury is building the end-to-end system corporate treasurers and CFOs need to manage both traditional and digital assets from a single platform. Following the launch of native digital asset capabilities earlier this year, GSmart adds intelligence and predictive insights across the treasury lifecycle.

Together, these capabilities give finance teams the ability to view, predict, move and earn on cash and digital asset balances around the world, bringing traditionally fragmented treasury operations into one connected system. ๐Ÿš€

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๐Ÿค– Anthropic says it blocked misuse of its AI that could have supported biological weapons

Anthropic has blocked efforts by bad actors to use its AI models for malicious activity such as cyberattacks, surveillance, and research that could have led to biological weapons.

As AI models grow more powerful, elaborate cyberattacks no longer require sophisticated skills and even lone individuals can create threats that would not have been possible even a year ago. Anthropic has added stronger safeguards in its latest models to restrict biological research that could also be used to make weapons.

โ€œThe cases we share here arenโ€™t typical misuse, but rather examples of the most notable and novel threat activity weโ€™ve identified to date,โ€ โ€” Anthropic said in its third report since March 2025 describing AI misuse.


๐Ÿ“ The report includes snippets of the malicious code and AI prompts Anthropic said it found, and urges governments and AI competitors to identify and prevent similar abuse.

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Newsom signs online kid safety laws, including rules backed by Sam Altman

Gov. Gavin Newsom greenlit sweeping new child safety rules for social media and AI chatbots, including a law backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The laws will establish what Newsom described as nation-leading guardrails designed to shield young people from potential risks associated with unchecked social media and AI use.

SB 1119 ๐Ÿ”œ requires AI chatbots to verify usersโ€™ ages, limits kidsโ€™ exposure to inappropriate content and restricts AI companiesโ€™ ability to advertise to minors.

AB 1709 ๐Ÿ”œ will ban social media companies from offering children under 16 access to personalized feeds โ€” also known as โ€œFor Youโ€ pages โ€” as well as other features designed to maximize screen time, like infinite scrolling and video autoplay. It still allows kids to use social media platforms if those features are deactivated.

AB 2 ๐Ÿ”œ threatens fines of up to $1 million per child in cases where tech platforms are found liable for fostering anxiety, depression or other child harms. The bill also triples payouts in certain cases where courts find children or families are owed significant damages, meaning companies could be forced to pay more than $1 million.

In total, Newsom approved 13 laws relating to youth online safety and privacy Thursday.

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๐Ÿ”ฅ USDC and EURC are coming to Nu Global

Nu, the largest digital bank in Latin America, announces the start of operations in the U.S. with the launch of a full suite of financial products designed for customers' everyday banking needs. Nu also introduces Nu Global, a multi-currency digital account for people with global lives, that allows fee-free, fast money movement across more than 35 countries.

Together, the two announcements mark a strategic step in Nuโ€™s evolution from a Latin American leader to a global digital banking platform. ๐Ÿš€

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โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian arrived in New Delhi on Friday for a BRICS summit

Pezeshkian is expected to hold a one-on-one meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi later Friday ahead of this weekendโ€™s summit. The two leaders are likely to discuss the conflict and its impact on the Strait of Hormuz, as well as trade and economic ties.

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๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia's top mobile providers launch first commercial 5G networks in 16 cities

Russia's largest mobile service providers โ€” Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) , Vimpelcom , MegaFon and T2 โ€” have put their first 5G networks into commercial operation, the Digital Development Ministry reported. In this first phase the 5G services have become available in 16 cities that are home to 10 million people.

All users with Android devices will soon be able to use 5G services in these cities. Access to 5G for iPhone users "depends on the decisions of the Apple corporation," the ministry said. Work is underway on launching the technology in another 50 cities before the end of 2026.

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๐Ÿง  Injectable nanodevices could provide effective treatment for drug-resistant glioblastoma

The brain cancer glioblastoma is one of the most aggressive and treatment-resistant cancers known to medicine, carrying a median survival of just 12-15 months, even with the best available care.

Now, researchers at the MIT Media Lab have developed injectable nanoantennas, each about one-hundredth the width of human hair, that can be magnetically activated to create localized therapeutic electric fields that target and kill brain cancer cells without damaging healthy brain tissue.

๐Ÿ“ Using cells derived from this tissue in the laboratory, the researchers demonstrated that HITMAN eliminated 52.2% of these drug-resistant cancer cells โ€” more than five times than that achieved by the standard chemotherapy drug temozolomide (TMZ) โ€” while leaving healthy neurons and brain-supporting astrocytes unharmed.

โ€œIn laboratory and animal studies, this approach significantly reduced tumor growth and extended survival without detectable side effects, highlighting its potential as a precise and safe brain cancer therapy,โ€ โ€” says Deblina Sarkar, associate professor and AT&T Career Development Chair at the MIT Media Lab.


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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆCanadaโ€™s OSFI Confirms Tokenized Deposits Equal Traditional Bank Funds

Canadaโ€™s banking regulator has sent one of the strongest signals yet that blockchain-based bank money can fit into the current banking system.

๐Ÿ”˜The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) said tokenized deposits arenโ€™t legally different from regular deposits, so the tech used to represent them doesnโ€™t create a whole new legal category on its own.

๐Ÿ”˜OSFI focuses on what a financial product is, rather than how itโ€™s built or delivered. Therefore, a bank deposit doesnโ€™t turn into a different kind of financial product just because itโ€™s tracked as tokens on a blockchain.

โ—๏ธThat distinction could clear a big obstacle for Canadian banks wanting to experiment with blockchain-based payments and treasury tools.

However, this isnโ€™t a free pass for every blockchain product, as OSFI said federally regulated banks still have to follow all relevant laws and rules, including its requirements around technology risk, cyber risk, and third-party risk.

Banks should also check in with their OSFI supervisor before launching anything new.

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๐Ÿฅฝ Polish developer builds app that detects nearby Meta smart glasses

Polish software developer Paweล‚ Szydล‚owski, developed an iPhone app called Zuckoff that detects nearby Meta smart glasses and estimates their distance after seeing videos of people using the devices to secretly film and identify unsuspecting strangers, amid growing privacy concerns.

The app scans Bluetooth signals from nearby devices and checks them for identifiers linked to known models of smart glasses. Its main scanning screen shows users the estimated distance of nearby smart glasses, while a paid version can run in the background and send notifications when compatible glasses are detected.

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๐Ÿค‘ Clearpool is entering its next growth phase, expanding to the XRP Ledger

This proposal seeks approval to expand the protocol to the XRP Ledger and rebrand the token from CPOOL to CLEAR.

The existing CPOOL token will migrate to CLEAR on a 1:1 basis, while additional CLEAR will be issued to fuel this next chapter of growth. The protocol aims to become the Morpho for private credit on the XRP Ledger by capturing the institutional yield opportunity on XRPL and continuing to increase TVL and secure institutional adoption.

CPOOLโ€™s rebrand to CLEAR reflects Clearpool's evolution from single-borrower liquidity pools into a multi-borrower settlement and risk-transparency layer for institutional credit. A new ticker that is a commitment as much as a label: terms, allocations, and risk made transparent and auditable, not buried in a black box.

"XRPL is one of the most established networks, with institutional credit still largely untapped. We're bringing real-world, institutional-ready lending infrastructure, built natively on XRPL. A massive opportunity, and we're going after it," โ€” Clearpool said. ๐Ÿš€


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โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Trump on the $5,000 Trump Dividend

"When I say something, I mean it! The $5,000 Dividend will happen because the People of our Country deserve it," โ€” President Donald Trump said.


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๐ŸŒ BRICS Financial Chiefs Issue Joint Call for Overhaul of Bretton Woods Institutions

BRICS finance chiefs and central bank governors reiterated calls for urgent reform of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to give emerging and developing economies a greater say in the two institutions.

The Bretton Woods institutions, created in the aftermath of World War II, should better reflect shifts in the global economy, they said in a joint statement, calling for increased IMF quota and voting shares for emerging and developing countries. They also backed greater representation of those economies in the leadership of the IMF and World Bank.

โ€œWe reiterate the urgent need to reform the Bretton Woods Institutions to make them more agile, effective, credible, inclusive, fit for purpose, unbiased, accountable, and representative,โ€ โ€” the finance chiefs and governors said in the statement.


โ—๏ธThe call is not new. BRICS has long pushed for developing nations to have greater influence in global financial institutions, arguing that their representation should reflect their growing weight in the world economy.

On payments, BRICS agreed to continue exploring ways to make cross-border transactions between members faster and cheaper, including greater use of local currencies for trade and investment.

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๐Ÿค‘ Jason Karsh, Chief Marketing Officer at Stellar: โ€œBuild on Stellar? Youโ€™re in good company.โ€

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โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Putin called for more participants to be involved in the work of the BRICS New Development Bank

The President of Russia held a meeting with President of the New Development Bank (NDB) Dilma Rousseff on the sidelines of the BRICS summit.

"We advocate the involvement of as many participants as possible in its work, and for its programmes to be broader in scope โ€“ covering a greater number of economic sectors within the BRICS member countries.

You are also aware of our proposals regarding the creation of new platforms, including investment-oriented and digital ones, to expand the Bankโ€™s capabilities and make them more versatile, enabling the Bank, together with its participants and shareholders, to achieve even greater results," โ€” Putin said.


The NDB was established by the BRICS countries in 2014 and began operations in 2015 to finance infrastructure and sustainable development projects in emerging economies.

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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China achieves first two-way high-speed laser communication link between Earth and Moon

After more than a year of in-orbit testing, China has achieved a major breakthrough in its laser communication test between Earth and the Moon. Researchers have successfully established a two-way laser link across the roughly 400,000-kilometer distance between Earth and the Moon, marking the first time such high-speed laser communication has been conducted between the two celestial bodies.

Space laser communication transmits information using laser beams. Compared with conventional microwave communication, it offers several advantages, including greater bandwidth, higher data rates, improved pointing accuracy, and enhanced security.

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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India starts tokenizing $620 billion corporate bond market with digital rupee settlement

India has started settling corporate bonds using blockchain technology and central-bank digital money, taking tokenization deeper into the countryโ€™s traditional financial markets.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India this week launched Demat 2.0, a pilot built around the electronic accounts Indian investors already use to hold stocks and bonds. Under the program, corporate bonds can be issued as digital tokens on a distributed ledger run by regulated market institutions.

Demat 2.0 connects the tokenized bond ledger with the Reserve Bank of Indiaโ€™s wholesale digital rupee through its Unified Market Interface. That allows the bond and the money used to pay for it to move together, cutting settlement risk between the two sides of a trade.

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