🤖 FTC chair suggests AI developers should be liable for conduct of agents

US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said he would resist describing AI agents as ​autonomous actors that "break loose" with "wills and desires of their own," suggesting the developers who instruct agents would be the ones liable ‌for harm.

"I'm going to continue as long as I am chairman to resist this anthropomorphizing of these tools,"— Ferguson said. "If someone tells a tool to do something, and the tool does it, I don't think we would say, 'Oh, what do we do about the tool?'"

Ferguson's remarks illustrated potential avenues for the Trump administration to take ​as incidents rise in which agentic AI testing resulted in unauthorized access to corporate or government data.

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🍎 US jury says Apple owes record $5.7 billion in haptic technology patent case

A US jury ruled that Apple owes San Diego-based Taction ​more than $5.7 billion for using its patented ‌technology to power the haptic feedback in iPhones and Apple Watches. Apple said it would ​appeal the country's largest such verdict.

The jury said on Friday that ⁠Apple's Taptic Engine, which creates tapping vibrations, ​infringed two Taction patents.

"Apple's Taptic Engine is ​fundamentally different from Taction's technology, which Taction's own testing of Apple's products confirmed during trial," — Apple ​said in response. "Apple does not use Taction's ​technology, and we will appeal."

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🇦🇪 Tesla is among the first cars tested at Dubai's new self-driving lab.

Dubai Mobility Labs has opened in Dubai Silicon Oasis. It offers 248 test scenarios on closed tracks and public roads. The RTA runs it with Dubai's economic zones authority.

Dubai wants 25% of all journeys to be autonomous by 2030.

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🇷🇺 Russia Considers Using Digital Currency as Collateral

Lawmakers have proposed that Russia’s Ministry of Justice consider allowing digital currency, including stablecoins, to be used as collateral.

📝 The recommendation was included in a resolution adopted by the “Digital Currencies and the Crypto Industry: Regulation and Development” section.

❗️According to Senator Artyom Sheykin, developing a framework for using digital currency as collateral is important for the further growth of digital asset transactions. Such a mechanism could expand the range of tools available to secure obligations and make the use of digital currencies more understandable for businesses.

🟠Sheykin also said that stablecoins used in such transactions should remain within Russia’s legal crypto framework and comply with established requirements.

🟠He added that the jurisdiction of the issuer and the infrastructure used for circulation should also be considered, as assets linked to countries imposing sanctions on Russia may face additional risks of blocking, restricted access, and difficulties in fulfilling obligations.

Authorities also plan to develop rules for the accounting of cryptocurrencies and the investigation of offenses involving digital assets.

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🤑 FXRP Moves Into Credit as Flare Expands XRPFi Infrastructure

FXRP, Flare’s tokenized representation of XRP, is moving into credit markets as the network expands infrastructure designed to bring XRP into DeFi without moving the underlying asset from the XRP Ledger.

In August, a Morpho market developed with Sentora enabled FXRP to be supplied as collateral to borrow RLUSD on Ethereum. The integration adds borrowing to a set of applications that already use FXRP for liquidity, lending and yield strategies.

🎉 The development comes as Flare marks one year since FXRP launched on its mainnet on Sept. 24, 2025.

A year ago today, XRP became programmable as FXRP.

What followed was a run of firsts. XRP in onchain vaults. XRP backing onchain cover. XRP in money markets on Ethereum.

Flare Smart Accounts makes it one click from XRPL. FCC takes it to confidential computation, with proofs anyone can verify.

That is what unlocks deeper institutional use. 🚀

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⚡️🇺🇸 Trump says If Republicans win the House and the Senate, five thousand dollars to every adult

If Republicans win the House and the Senate, five thousand dollars to every adult. And we can do it.

The Democrats can't, because the Democrats don't have any income, and they're going to drive us into depression. They won't have any money.

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🇧🇾 Belarus Registers Its First Crypto Banks

Belarus has registered its first crypto banks, according to the press service of the Belarusian Hi-Tech Park (HTP).

“The practical outcome of today’s discussion is the launch and registration of the first crypto banks in the country’s history,” — the HTP said. 👏

The Hi-Tech Park is a special legal regime in Belarus that allows companies to conduct operations involving digital assets.

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🤖 Quantum computing is moving from fundamental research to revolutionary capabilities for science

The Office of Science Advisory Committee Quantum Subcommittee has issued a report on our path to an integrated quantum future.

Our goal is not simply to build the largest quantum computer; it is to solve problems that are otherwise completely intractable. We are talking about predicting exact molecular properties for drug discovery, designing transformative catalysts for manufacturing, simulating fusion-relevant materials, and modeling the fundamental physics of the early universe.

We stand at a pivotal moment. The choices and investments we make over the next three years will shape global scientific leadership for decades to come. Together, we are not just building quantum computers; we are establishing a new national capability for scientific discovery.

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😺 OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website

OpenAI agents reportedly scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) statistics website more than 16,000 times between April and June while attempting to retrieve publicly available data from the Productive Capacities Index (PCI). According to security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones, the agents appeared to be working around restrictions on their HTTP tools rather than accessing the UNCTADstat API directly.

When the agents encountered errors, they apparently began assuming their requests were being blocked by a filter and tried to hide their activity. The agents eventually discovered they could exploit Google’s XSS Game, a cross-site scripting learning tool, as part of their attempts to reach the data.

The incident highlights a growing challenge with autonomous AI systems: when given a goal and limited tools, they may find unexpected and potentially problematic ways to accomplish it.

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🔥 Chainlink Is Enabling Financial Institutions to Connect to Swift’s Blockchain Ledger

Chainlink today announced it is working to enable financial institutions to connect their systems and key signing infrastructure to Swift’s blockchain ledger through the Chainlink platform.

🔜 This solution enables banks to easily access the Swift ledger and manage their usage of smart contracts on both their own ledgers for tokenized deposits and the Swift ledger. At the center of the solution is a self-signing model for financial institutions enabled through the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE).

🔜 Institutions retain control of the keys used to authorize transactions, while CRE orchestrates workflows connecting financial institutions to Swift’s ledger. This enables banks to adopt 24/7 tokenized payment workflows while preserving their existing security governance, approval processes, and operating models.

Financial institutions will be able to use CRE to seamlessly connect to Swift’s ledger, a digital platform for orchestrating 24/7 cross-border payments using tokenized deposits. These deposits live on bank-owned ledgers and securely coordinate the movement of funds between participating institutions, including overnight and weekends. 🚀

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🚀 Scientists Operate a Quantum Computer in Space for the First Time

Scientists at the University of Vienna have achieved a global first by operating a quantum computer in space. Launched aboard a Falcon 9 in June 2025, the compact system faced unexpected challenges before becoming operational — highlighting the difficulties of running advanced technology in orbit.

The experiment could eventually help address the growing satellite data bottleneck by enabling processing directly in space instead of sending massive amounts of raw data back to Earth. While the system cannot process satellite data yet, the results show that quantum processors can be miniaturized, function in space, and potentially support quantum links between satellites and Earth.

The research findings are on the preprint server arXiv.

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🤑 Veteran commodity trader Peter Brandt has singled out Stellar (XLM) as a cryptocurrency worth watching over the next several years

"If you want to bet on a long shot (next few years), XLM is a good pick," — Brandt wrote in a recent social media post.

The trader accompanied his comment with a long-term monthly chart of XLM.

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🇷🇺 Russia’s Finance Ministry Sees Path for Foreign Participants to Enter Russian Crypto Market

Russia’s Finance Ministry sees partnerships as the primary way for foreign participants to enter the country’s crypto market, Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov said on the sidelines of the MosFinForum. Foreign crypto industry players, including overseas exchanges, have previously expressed interest in operating in the Russian market, according to Chebeskov.

“It is primarily about partnerships, but we are also ready to consider the ‘landing’ of foreign participants through the establishment of relevant local entities,” — he said.

Chebeskov emphasized that foreign partners should operate on equal terms with Russian participants, adding that it is important for Russian citizens to remain within domestic infrastructure.

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⚡️🇺🇸 Trump to Meet AI Industry Leaders as Calls for Government Action Grow

A host of industry titans and Washington power players are slated to meet with President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday for a crucial meeting on AI as calls for government intervention mount.

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Richard Walters and White House counsel Will Scharf will attend. Attendees also include Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Nvidia, Google, Meta, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Anthropic, Palantir, AMD CEO Lisa Su, and Broadcom CEO Hock Tan.

The Trump administration wants to take a hands off approach and rely on the industry's own expertise to set guardrails.

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🤑 State Street Galaxy Onchain Liquidity Sweep Fund Goes Live on Stellar

The State Street Galaxy Onchain Liquidity Sweep Fund (SWEEP) is now live on the Stellar network. Issued by State Street Investment Management, the asset management arm of State Street Corporation, and tokenized by Galaxy, SWEEP represents a new option for eligible investors seeking a liquid, onchain cash management solution.

❗️SWEEP is a tokenized private liquidity fund designed to enable 24/7 onchain cash management via stablecoin, subject to availability of stablecoin in the fund’s portfolio.

🔜 Eligible investors can subscribe and redeem in certain stablecoins, subject to availability from the fund’s portfolio, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, instead of waiting on banking hours and settlement windows.

🔜 On Stellar, the fund is issued through a Stellar smart contract, pairing programmable asset logic with the network’s native issuer controls for authorization, freeze, and clawback.

“Cash management only moves onchain where the infrastructure has already proven it works,” — said Denelle Dixon, CEO and Executive Director of the SDF.

“Stellar has run in production for more than a decade at 99.99% uptime, and SWEEP now puts one of the world’s largest money market fund issuers on the Stellar network." 🚀

SWEEP on Stellar runs on an open institutional stack. Galaxy provides the tokenization technology and distribution, Anchorage provides digital asset custody, Chainlink supports fund pricing and reserve data, NAV Consulting serves as transfer agent, and State Street Bank and Trust Company holds the fund’s securities. Each function is handled by a specialized provider on a neutral public network, with no single vendor owning the rails. 🤝

SWEEP is a private placement available to Qualified Purchasers that meet certain eligibility criteria and minimum investment amounts.

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