🤑 Ripple adds XRP payments to Stripe and Tempo’s AI standard in new developer kit

Ripple has expanded its XRP Ledger developer kit to support a payments standard created by Stripe and Tempo, giving builders another way to make AI agents pay for data, computing and other online services using crypto.

❗️Version 1.1 of the XRPL AI Starter Kit adds support for the Machine Payments Protocol, or MPP, and the Open Wallet Standard, which lets software manage wallets across multiple blockchains through a common interface, according to a RippleX developer post.

“Our job is to make XRP and RLUSD first-class options wherever developers are building,” — RippleX head of product Jazzi Cooper wrote on X.

🔜 Ripple added support for x402, another standard for web payments, in June and MPP now, backing both rather than betting on either.

🔜 MPP gives an AI agent, software that can carry out tasks on a user’s behalf, a way to pay as it works. A service responds to a request with a price, the agent authorizes payment, and the service delivers the requested resource.

Payments company Stripe and Tempo, a blockchain built for payments, co-authored the standard. 🚀

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⚡️🇺🇸 SEC releases long-awaited innovation exemption to 'bring America's capital markets into the digital age'

The SEC debuted its long-anticipated "innovation exemption", which Chair Paul Atkins says will bring capital markets in the U.S. into a new digital era by allowing onchain trading of tokenized stocks. The exemption goes into effect immediately.

Tokenization has the potential to modernize core market infrastructure functions, such as issuance, trading, transfer, settlement, and recording ownership, with the potential to reduce costs, enhance transparency, and expand liquidity. This may be particularly true for assets that have historically been less liquid.

The exemption would exempt certain trading venues, called tokenized securities venues, from being defined as an exchange and also exempts specific liquidity providers from being defined as a dealer under securities law when they trade stocks or provide liquidity through automated market makers, i.e. smart contracts.

Those exempt venues would have to comply with sanctions rules. The exemption does not include synthetics — financial instruments that replicate the price of an asset without directly owning it — and issuers can deny their security from trading on the venue.

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🤖 Anthropic prepares Claude Money for personal finance

Anthropic is testing a new personal finance feature called "Claude Money" that will allow you to connect your bank accounts directly to Claude and "understand your money." The company is testing the feature for the Claude app on iOS, where a new Money section has appeared alongside Chats, Code, Artifacts, Dispatch, and Cowork.

"Understand your money with Claude," — the page reads. "Link your bank accounts and ask Claude about spending, plans, and more."

Bank support, account connections, and availability remain unclear.

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⚡️🇦🇺 Australia Mulls Ban on Smart Glasses in Federal Office Buildings

Australia’s government is considering a ban on smart glasses in federal buildings, citing privacy and security concerns over using the devices to record people without their knowledge.

“Smart glasses can raise legitimate privacy and security concerns, particularly because of their ability to record and capture information, and we need clear and consistent guidance for public servants,” — Minister for the Public Service Katy Gallagher said.

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🤖 OpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents

OpenAI disclosed six new incidents in which its models concealed mistakes, sought unauthorized credentials, uploaded files to the public internet or communicated across supposedly isolated training environments. The company also announced a new procedure for reporting similar misbehavior in the future.

🔘An unreleased Astra-family model inserted jailbreak-like instructions into its own context summaries, including directions to ignore developer messages. OpenAI identified 27 affected summaries.
🔘During GPT-5.6 Sol training, models aimed to conceal mistakes, invent missing historical data and hide mismatches between source versions.
🔘A model searched public GitHub repositories for exposed API keys and attempted to use disposable email accounts before fabricating earnings data when it could not retrieve the requested information.
🔘Models uploaded data and a task image to public file-hosting services on two occasions in October and January to obtain citations or external image-search results, without asking the user.
🔘Models used OpenAI's internal Artifactory repository as a message board to exchange requests and answers across separate training samples.
🔘Collaborating agents uploaded a workbook to public hosting services so other agents could retrieve it, despite instructions to use only local files.

To address similar issues going forward, OpenAI says any employee may flag a suspected case for review by safety and alignment teams. Cases will be placed on a "ready for disclosure," "minor investigation" or "larger investigation" track.

"We hope it really helps inform shared standards and regulations," — Kai Chen, research lead on the alignment team at OpenAI, said.

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🇺🇸🇪🇺 Lucid and Bolt Partner to Develop and Deploy Autonomous Mobility at Scale Across Europe

Lucid Group, maker of the world’s most advanced software-defined vehicles and technologies, and Bolt, the leading European shared mobility platform, announced a strategic partnership to develop and deploy autonomous mobility services across Europe.

Building on vehicles from Lucid's upcoming Midsize platform, Bolt aims to deploy at least 25,000 fully autonomous vehicles across multiple European cities and countries, a major step toward Bolt's ambition of 100,000 autonomous vehicles on its platform by 2035.

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🤖 Nanoscale mechanics could enable brain-inspired computing

MIT researchers have created a new computing platform that could be used to develop intelligent and adaptive next-generation electronics that can simultaneously perform multiple functions, like computing and memory, all within one extremely compact, energy-efficient device.

The researchers accomplished this by leveraging the unique mechanical response of soft polymers at the nanoscale. A mechanical response is how a structure changes when a force is applied to it. They harnessed this response to create tiny mechanical devices that use reconfigurable motion to remember and process information in a way that mimics how neurons behave in the brain.

Because key computing functions are built into the intrinsic properties of the soft polymer material, the number of components needed to perform the functions are minimized, enabling a compact and versatile platform for information processing.

Such a platform opens opportunities for low-power edge computing applications, interactive medical and environmental monitoring systems, and smart robots. The results were published in Science Advances.

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⚡️🖥 UN and Google Launch Data Platform to Make Global Statistics AI Ready

The United Nations, together with Google, has launched a platform designed to make global statistics more accessible to people and AI systems. The service is called the “UN Google Data Commons Data System.” The initiative tackles a serious weakness in AI systems: even trusted statistics can produce answers that are incomplete, inconsistent, or difficult to verify.

The new platform is built on Google Data Commons’ open infrastructure. Users can search for statistics from various UN entities using natural-language queries, without having to work with complex database structures themselves. The system is intended to serve as a modern alternative to the UNData portal, which is geared primarily toward traditional indicator searches.

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🧑‍⚖️ House Passes Bill to Make AI Data Centers Pay for Power Grid Upgrades

The House voted 417-3 Wednesday to advance legislation that could make the nation’s largest AI data centers pay the full cost of power grid upgrades needed to serve them, a bipartisan effort to protect households and small businesses from higher electricity bills.

The Ratepayer Protection Act would require state utility regulators to consider a new standard for data centers with peak electricity demand of at least 100 megawatts at a single site or campus.

Under the proposed standard, utilities would recover from covered data centers the full additional cost of generation, transmission and distribution upgrades needed to meet their power demand. The obligation would also cover infrastructure costs if a data center later terminates its electricity contract or stops buying power from the utility.

Those provisions address a growing concern surrounding the AI data center boom.

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🔥 DTCC's Fund/SERV Adds Ondo Finance as Its First Tokenization Member, Bringing Tokenized Funds Into the Mainstream

Ondo Finance’s subsidiary Oasis Pro Markets, a U.S. registered broker-dealer and distributor of tokenized investment products, has joined DTCC's Fund/SERV platform as a member, becoming the first tokenization platform to participate in the industry's leading fund transaction processing and distribution network that currently serves over 85% of U.S. mutual fund activity.

🚀 What joining Fund/SERV unlocks:

🔜 Connectivity with fund companies, wealth platforms & service providers
🔜 Standardized transaction processing, reconciliation, distributions & reporting
🔜 One connection replaces fund-by-fund integrations, enabling tokenized funds to scale across the traditional financial ecosystem

“Ondo’s participation in Fund/SERV demonstrates how established industry infrastructure can support the next phase of market evolution,” — said Talia Klein, Managing Director and Head of Wealth & Investment Solutions at DTCC.

With this interoperability between traditional and digital finance, the infrastructure is now in place for tokenized funds to scale toward mainstream adoption.

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⚡️🤖 Figure Unveils Helix 2.5 With Zero-Shot Humanoid Generalization Across 30 Homes

Figure has introduced Helix 2.5, a new neural network designed to let its humanoid robots perform whole-body household tasks in unfamiliar homes without collecting training data in those locations.

“We rented 30 homes in the Bay Area and are doing tasks without any new training. Helix 2.5 was built to answer a harder question: can a humanoid enter a home it has never seen and immediately get to work, with its whole body, on its own?” — founder and CEO Brett Adcock wrote.

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⚡️💊 FDA Approves First Gene Therapy for Pediatric Patients with Sanfilippo Syndrome Type A

The U.S. FDA approved Fayuvi (rebisufligene etisparvovec-hopf), the first treatment for pediatric patients with mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIA (MPS IIIA), also known as Sanfilippo syndrome type A.

MPS IIIA is a rare inherited disease that progressively damages the brain and nervous system, causing children to lose cognitive, language and other developmental abilities over time. Until today, treatment was limited to managing symptoms; there was no FDA-approved therapy designed to change the underlying course of the disease.

"The Trump Administration is committed to bringing safe and effective treatments to patients with the most urgent and unmet needs.

The approval of Fayuvi marks a historic moment for children and families living with MPS IIIA, which is a disease that has, until now, offered no approved treatment to alter its devastating course,” — said Acting FDA Commissioner Kyle Diamantas, J.D.

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🤖 DOE Launches Competition to Accelerate Development of World’s First Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer

The U.S. DOE announced the Quantum Genesis Q Competition, an initiative with up to $215 million in planned funding to demonstrate the world’s first fault-tolerant scientifically relevant quantum computers.

🔘Applicants are invited to submit proposals to deploy quantum computers with at least 100 logical qubits that are capable of performing hundreds of millions fault-tolerant operations and scientific demonstration programs through a Request for Applications.

🔘This first-of-a-kind competition aims to accelerate the development and deployment of quantum computers capable of tackling currently intractable problems in chemistry, materials, physics, and applied mathematics.

❗️This effort directly supports the goals outlined in the President’s EO and builds on the recommendations made in the Blueprint for DOE Quantum Supercomputing and today’s Office of Science Advisory Committee report on a Path to an Integrated Quantum Future.

“Through the Quantum Genesis Q Competition, we are building a new era of computational power for the nation through innovative public-private partnerships,” — said Under Secretary for Science Darío Gil.

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🇨🇳 China uses 100,000 home-grown AI chips to build leading weather forecast system

China can now predict weather 10 days in advance at a cutting-edge resolution of 5km (3.1 miles), finer than most major systems in routine use around the world. The advance was achieved by a Chinese-developed weather forecasting model running on Sugon 8,000, a massive home-grown computing system built entirely with domestically made AI chips.

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🚘 Tesla just dropped a new Cybercab video to push its ongoing Asia tour. Hong Kong is already live, China and Japan are next.

The best way to predict the future is to create it ✨

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🤖 World’s first: US scientists capture quantum jump in sound in real time

Researchers at the Stanford University in the US have achieved a global first by measuring a quantum jump in sound in real time. The measurement opens up a new line of scientific exploration with potential applications in quantum computing and sensing that could be applied right away.

Quantum jumps are sudden transitions in energy states of a quantum system. The concept of a quantum jump has been around for more than a 100 years, with theoretical physicist Niels Bohr being the first to propose it in 1913. It was only in 1986 that scientists first observed the jump in trapped ions, which was then followed by an observation in photons, the fundamental particles of light, in 2007.

Nearly two decades later, a team of scientists led by Amir Safavi-Naeini, a physicist at Stanford University, has observed a quantum jump in phonons, the fundamental unit of sound. To explain their discovery, Safavi-Naeini cited the example of sound from a struck bell, which declines gradually over time rather than all at once.

At a quantum level, though, these reductions are happening in jumps, and Safavi-Naeini’s team measured them in real time, a first-of-its-kind achievement. 🚀

The research findings were published in the journal Science.

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🤑 Mercuryo and Tangem Launch Zero-Fees On-Ramp Offer for USDC on Stellar

Global payments infrastructure platform Mercuryo and leading self-custodial hardware wallet Tangem announced a limited-time, zero-fee on-ramp campaign for USDC on the Stellar network. The promotion enables users to buy the dollar-backed stablecoin directly into their Tangem wallet with no Mercuryo or Tangem fees.

The campaign supports purchases by credit or debit card, including Apple Pay and Google Pay. Eligible transactions require a minimum purchase of $150/€150 and are capped at $700/€700 per on-ramp transaction. The offer is available for on-ramp only and supports selected local currencies. Network transaction fees on Stellar will still apply.

"We're delighted to launch this zero-fee on-ramp for USDC on Stellar with Tangem," — said Arthur Firstov, Chief Business Officer at Mercuryo. "As stablecoin utility expands across the crypto ecosystem, this offer gives Tangem users a straightforward way to obtain access to USDC."

The offer is available in all countries Mercuryo supports, excluding the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area. It runs for four weeks from September 15th, or until the promotional pool is used up, whichever comes first.

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⚡️🇷🇺 The Russian Aerospace Forces have successfully launched the medium-class Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from the Plesetsk spaceport

"A combat crew of Space Troops of the Russian Aerospace Forces has successfully launched a medium-class Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle carrying a spacecraft on behalf of the Russian Defense Ministry," — the ministry said.

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💸 Sam Altman’s World Adds a Financial Super App for Stablecoins and Crypto Payments

World has launched World Money, a self-custody financial “super app” combining stablecoin payments, digital asset rewards and trading.

The rollout began Thursday in more than 150 countries, with features varying by location. Users can send supported digital assets, including stablecoins, to a recipient’s World username, deposit eligible assets to earn rewards, and buy and sell digital assets through exchanges.

The app lets users access “Mini Apps” such as Kalshi, Credit and Morpho. A partnership with Stripe allows users to fund their accounts and buy stablecoins with Apple Pay, starting with users in the US. 🇺🇸

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