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💻 Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees as AI leads to efficiency push

Microsoft is offering buyouts to a wide swath of employees as it strives to balance a costly AI infrastructure build-out with capital efficiency. The software maker announced a new voluntary exit offer for certain workers in the U.S., Canada, India and the United Kingdom at its experience level of 70 or below.

Around 60,000 people are eligible. The effort affects about 27% of Microsoft’s total workforce of 223,000 people.

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🇨🇦 Canada opens consultation on draft stablecoin rules, maintains ban on yields

The Canadian government started a 60-day public consultation on draft stablecoin regulations, which maintain a ban on yield payments and require non-bank issuers to deposit their reserves with Canadian financial institutions.

🗓 The consultation, which ends Dec. 23, comes as the country's banking industry presses for a ban on yield payouts, echoing concerns voiced in the U.S. that customers could move their money out of bank accounts, leaving traditional financial institutions with less to lend.

❗️The government passed the Stablecoin Act earlier this year.

The draft regulations are “required to bring the SCA into force and would prescribe the elements needed for issuers to register with the Bank of Canada,” the government said.


Some crypto exchanges in Canada, however, are already paying rewards to stablecoin holders. ➡️Coinbase Canada received permission from the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) this year to offer yields on eligible tokens, provided it warned customers about the risks and made clear the funds are not covered by deposit insurance.

➡️ The federal fiat-pegged rule proposals would prohibit stablecoin issuers from paying interest, including through third parties, to encourage customers to hold their tokens. It would still allow rewards linked to transactions.

➡️ Under the draft rules, non-bank stablecoin issuers would have to hold reserves equal to the value of their circulating fiat-pegged tokens. They would have to place those reserves with qualified Canadian financial institutions, including banks, credit unions and trust companies.

➡️ Customers would have to be able to exchange their stablecoins for regular currency within three business days, with redemption fees capped at 1%.

The stablecoin framework is expected to come into effect toward the end of 2027.

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🍎 Apple responds to user reports of broken iPhone Duo screens on new foldable phone

Apple’s first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, hit store shelves on Friday. But some customers who were lucky enough to get the $1,999-and-up phone on its first weekend have been reporting a pretty big problem: the inner screen of the phone can break, showing horizontal bright lines emanating from the phone’s hinge.

Apple on Monday said it was aware of the issue, which it said affected a “small number” of phones, and that it would replace the devices under its AppleCare warranty.

“We are aware of an issue impacting the inner display on a small number of iPhone Duo units,” — an Apple representative said.

“If users experience issues with their iPhone Duo display, they should contact AppleCare for a replacement.”


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🇨🇳 Chinese Team Claims World Record with 3.2 Petabits-Per-Second Optical Fiber Speed

A Chinese team has claimed a new world record for real-time data transfer speeds over a 24-core optical fiber cable, reaching 3.2 petabits per second — fast enough to download more than 20,000 4K movies in just one second. 🤯

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🤖 Scientists overcome a hidden obstacle to more powerful quantum computers

Silicon spin qubits could play a major role in the future of quantum computing because they can be produced using the same semiconductor manufacturing methods that make today's computer chips. However, researchers have faced a significant challenge.

When multiple silicon qubits are controlled at the same time, their operations tend to become less accurate. Building practical, large quantum computers will require scientists to control many qubits simultaneously while keeping errors to a minimum.

📝 Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and their collaborators have now made important progress toward solving this problem. In a study published in Nature Physics, the team demonstrated highly accurate control of several silicon spin qubits operating simultaneously.

Their experiments used an array of five qubits connected to a shared microwave control line. By identifying a major cause of errors during simultaneous operation, the scientists developed a technique to reduce those errors and maintain precision.

"This shows that high-fidelity control can be maintained even when several qubits are operated at the same time and represents an important step toward scaling up silicon-based quantum processors," — Leon Camenzind, a RIKEN research scientist, said.


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🤑 Ripple Receives Final OCC Approval to Establish National Trust Bank

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
announced that Ripple has been granted final approval for chartering Ripple National Trust Bank (RNTB), a federally supervised national trust bank.

✅ The approval marks the culmination of RNTB’s organization process following conditional OCC approval in December 2025 and reinforces the company's longstanding commitment to building digital asset infrastructure within the regulated financial system.

➡️ RNTB's approved activities include managing the segregated reserves supporting Ripple USD (RLUSD), acting as collateral trustee of the reserves for the benefit of RLUSD holders, and providing fiduciary digital asset custody services.

➡️ RLUSD will continue to be issued by Standard Custody & Trust Company (SCTC), Ripple's New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS)-regulated limited purpose trust company.

➡️ RNTB adds federal OCC supervision to the regulatory infrastructure supporting RLUSD, reinforcing Ripple's commitment to building digital asset products within rigorous state and federal regulatory frameworks.

“For years, we’ve said crypto and banks work better together. Final approval for Ripple National Trust Bank is what that looks like in practice,” — said Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple.

“We’ve spent over a decade building regulated financial infrastructure that institutions can actually use at scale. A national trust charter gives us an even stronger foundation for RLUSD and the institutional products we’re building across payments, custody and capital markets.”


Ripple will continue to work closely with the OCC, NYDFS, and other regulators as RNTB begins operations and as the U.S. implements the regulatory framework established by the GENIUS Act. 🚀

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⚔️ Alibaba wins injunction against Pentagon contract restrictions tied to China blacklist

A US federal judge on Monday granted Alibaba Group Holding's request for a preliminary injunction, ordering the US government not to deny Pentagon ​contracts to companies because they, their parent companies or subsidiaries do business with firms that engage in ‌lobbying activities for the e-commerce giant.

Alibaba sued the US government in June after the Pentagon added it to a list of companies allegedly aiding China's military, alongside internet search provider Baidu, EV maker BYD and other major Chinese manufacturing and technology firms.

Monday's ruling means Alibaba will be able ​to retain US lobbyists who also represent Pentagon contractors.

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⚡️🤑 Nasdaq-100 comes onchain as Janus Henderson and Centrifuge launch first licensed fund

Janus Henderson is launching the first-ever licensed tokenized fund tracking the Nasdaq-100 Index, marking Wall Street’s latest push to bring traditional assets onto the digital ledger that underpins cryptocurrencies.

Janus will manage the new fund, which will trade under the ticker “JQQQ” and run on technology provided by the tokenization firm Centrifuge. It is initially available to eligible non-U.S. professional investors on the Stellar network, a blockchain focused on tokenized assets. The fund has a minimum investment of $100,000.

“Bringing the Nasdaq-100 onchain with Janus Henderson and Centrifuge shows how far tokenization has come, from cash-equivalent assets to the benchmarks that define global equity markets,” — said Denelle Dixon, CEO & Executive Director of the Stellar Development Foundation.

“Stellar was purpose-built for regulated finance, and we expect many more products like this to follow.” 🚀


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⚡️💻 Anduril and Qualcomm Plan to Build Laptop With US Supply Chain

Defense tech startup Anduril Industries Inc. has joined forces with chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. to produce laptops that are designed and assembled in the US, an attempt to rebuild a manufacturing process that has largely moved overseas.

The companies unveiled a new product line on Tuesday called BlueChip intended to supply “America’s most critical industries — including government, defense, first responders and public safety,” according to a statement.


The eventual goal is to establish an “end-to-end American supply chain” for the laptops and, more broadly, to rebuild US computer manufacturing, the companies said. 🇺🇸

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⚡️🇺🇸 Trump says he will ban term artificial intelligence

In short order, we will be officially BANNING the term, “AI/Artificial Intelligence,” in all relevant documents, and everything else, due to its inaccuracy.


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🤑🤑 What Links State Street to Stellar, Ripple and Hedera

State Street is one of the world’s largest custodial banks. It manages trillions in assets. And it is quietly building a tokenization infrastructure that runs across three distinct blockchain networks. Notably, Stellar, Ripple and Hedera are in the picture.

❗️Crypto researcher SMQKE published documentation connecting State Street to the XRP Ledger, Stellar’s XLM network, and Hedera’s HBAR network.

📝 The documentation comes from two sources. The first is a table detailing tokenized money market fund issuers and their blockchain selections. The second is a BCG analysis slide from October 2021 identifying State Street as a notable partner of Securrency.

Securrency is a tokenization platform headquartered in Washington, D.C. It raised $49.4 million in funding and operates across Ethereum, Stellar, Ripple, Gochain, and EOS. State Street is listed as one of its notable partners in the BCG analysis.

That partnership is significant. Securrency’s blockchain stack includes both the XRP Ledger and the Stellar network. Notably, Securrency has previously been highlighted as a potential path for XRP into the DTCC. State Street’s relationship with the platform connects the bank directly to both assets’ underlying infrastructure. 🤝

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⚡️🇺🇸Trump Says U.S. Will Receive First 1 Million Barrels of Venezuelan Crude Oil

I am traveling to Corpus Christi, Texas to a PACKED Rally, where the United States of America will receive ONE MILLION BARRELS of VENEZUELAN OIL as a result of our Highly Successful Military Operation, followed by the Biggest Oil Deal in the History of the World.

Thanks to our renewed relationship with Venezuela, which has turned out to be a truly excellent one, the Oil is being provided to the United States at NO cost to the American Taxpayer. This is just the first shipment of BILLIONS of Barrels to come.


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🤑 Ripple and Robinhood Partner to Power the Next Generation of Finance

Ripple and Robinhood, a global leader in financial services, today announced a strategic partnership that provides one of the industry’s largest consumer and institutional trading platforms with a single, trusted entry point to Ripple’s infrastructure across stablecoins, institutional markets and treasury management.

❗️Ripple USD (RLUSD) will be a key stablecoin across Robinhood’s digital asset ecosystem, expanding access to the enterprise-grade stablecoin for both retail and institutional use.

👉 RLUSD is live today on Robinhood Chain and Bitstamp by Robinhood, and is expected to be available later this year in the Robinhood app.

👉 Robinhood will leverage RLUSD on the XRPL for institutional settlement, extending the stablecoin’s utility across Bitstamp by Robinhood’s growing institutional business.

👉 The relationship also spans Robinhood’s own financial operations: the company will integrate Ripple Treasury to modernize and automate its global treasury operations, including cash and liquidity management, cash flow forecasting, payments, risk management and intercompany netting.

👉 The partnership also extends across institutional markets through Ripple Prime, building on an existing relationship between the companies across financing, liquidity and market access.

“From bringing RLUSD to retail and institutional markets to helping Robinhood manage its own treasury operations, this partnership reflects growing institutional demand for integrated solutions that support customer-facing offerings and core financial operations,” — said Monica Long, president of Ripple.


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⚡️🇺🇸🇻🇪 President Trump says Venezuela could become the 51st US state

Maybe someday soon it will become a prosperous 51st state.

Let's make it the 51st state, and instead of a president, we'll have an election for governor.


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🤖 OpenAI announces its AI models have made new major scientific discoveries

OpenAI has announced three AI-generated discoveries in mathematics, computer science and physics, with independent experts set to review the findings.

🔘In mathematics, AI has reportedly proved the local smoothing conjecture, resolving two longstanding problems known as the Kakeya and Stein restriction conjectures.

🔘In computer science, a new proof challenges the Exponential Time Hypothesis. Both results have been released publicly alongside formal verifications in Lean.

🔘The physics breakthrough concerns existence proofs for four-dimensional quantum field theories, including QCD and Yang–Mills. Nobel laureate David Gross will help oversee the review.

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🤑 The first blockchain-native Nasdaq-100 fund is built on Stellar

🔥 Centrifuge CEO Bhaji Illuminati on why this matters:

We are very excited to announce that we launched the NASDAQ 100 with Stellar. So this is the first time that there's an on-chain DeFi strategy for the NASDAQ 100.

What that means is that anyone within the Stellar ecosystem can access one of the best and most well known tech indices.

We are unique in that we're building this strategy fully natively on-chain. So we're not just wrapping an ETF or buying the ETF, we're actually creating a new fund structure.


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