🤖 Chinese automaker Seres has unveiled its first humanoid robot Xiaosai for inspection and production roles.

The robot is designed with visual recognition, autonomous greeting, and voice interaction capabilities.

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🇺🇸 Illinois Gov. Pritzker signs 0.2% crypto tax

Governor JB Pritzker signed the Digital Asset Tax Act, enacting a 0.2% charge on the value of digital asset transactions or services provided to Illinois customers, as part of the state’s FY2027 budget planning.

❗️The tax is set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2027, and will primarily target service providers like exchanges, custodians, and brokers that must now collect and remit the tax, not unlike sales taxes.

Several industry groups, including the Crypto Council for Innovation, Digital Chamber, and Illinois Blockchain Association, alongside other crypto representatives, have strongly opposed the law.

"This will create an unprecedented tax regime that disproportionately burdens Illinois residents for simply using digital assets and will drive innovation and builders out of the state," — the CCI wrote on X.

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🧠 Your brain can keep improving into your 90s, study finds

"Every brain is as unique as a fingerprint and has potential for growth," — Lori Cook, director of clinical research at the Center for BrainHealth, said. "This study challenges the prevailing narrative of inevitable cognitive decline, suggesting instead that brain health can be proactively cultivated at any age."

A three-year study from The University of Texas at Dallas' Center for BrainHealth suggests that aging does not necessarily lead to cognitive decline. The research, published in Scientific Reports, a Nature journal, found that brain health and mental abilities can continue to improve throughout life, challenging common assumptions about aging.

The study analyzed data from 3,966 adults aged 19 to 94 who participated in The BrainHealth Project. Over three years, participants completed short daily training activities lasting five to 15 minutes. Researchers measured brain health using the BrainHealth Index, which evaluates clarity, emotional balance, and connectedness to people and purpose.

Results showed positive improvements across all age groups, including participants in their 80s. The strongest predictor of progress was engagement, while factors such as age, gender, and education level had little impact on whether individuals experienced gains in brain health.

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🤑 deJTRSY and deJAAA on Stellar are now available on Sushi, one of DeFi’s most established liquidity venues.

Stellar users can access tokenized US Treasuries and AAA-rated collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) via Sushi, broadening institutional exposure to blockchain-based yield products. On Sushi, deJTRSY and deJAAA can be traded, supplied as liquidity, and integrated across Stellar DeFi.

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💫 NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX

NASA has selected Relativity Space—a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year— to build a spacecraft to house a suite of scientific instruments, launch it into space, and fly it to Mars.

Aeolus, as the mission is dubbed, will contain four instruments to measure and image Mars from orbit, providing what NASA expects to be the first daily, global view of dust, winds, and temperature in its atmosphere. The agency said that data will make it safer for landers and, someday, astronauts, to visit the surface of the Red Planet.

“Public-private partnerships like this are a force multiplier for science,” — said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. 🤝

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⚡️Federal Reserve Board requests comment on proposal to require certain payment stablecoin issuers to maintain an effective customer identification program

The U.S. Federal Reserve, Treasury Department and other financial regulators are pushing a new stablecoin rule that treats issuers like other regulated financial firms when it comes to identifying their users, releasing their draft of the proposed rule on Thursday.

❗️These standards, according to the rule proposal, "must include reasonable procedures for:
🟠verifying the identity of any person seeking to open an account to the extent reasonable and practicable;
🟠maintaining records of the information used to verify a person’s identity, including name, address, and other identifying information;
🟠and determining whether the person appears on any lists of known or suspected terrorists or terrorist organizations provided to the financial institution by any government agency."

The Fed opened a 60-day public comment period alongside the other agencies in the joint effort, including the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., National Credit Union Administration and the Treasury Department's financial-crimes arm.

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🇰🇷🇺🇸Lee Says Korea-US Ties ‘Eternal’ as Trump Invites Him to Golf

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said his country’s relationship with the US is “solid and eternal” after he spoke with President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit in France.

“As we parted ways after lunch, he said again that we definitely play golf together. I thought he was just saying it in passing, but it seems I will have to make preparations,” — Lee said in a post on X on Thursday alongside a photo with Trump. “The South Korea-US relationship is solid and eternal.” 🤝

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https://x.com/xfinancebull/status/2067201086167941634?s=52

This is an excellent interview. I recommend everyone watches! Denelle Dixon is interviewing Sandy Kaul , the head of digital asset innovation at Franklin Templeton! Interestingly, she also sits on the board of the CFTC with regards to digital assets! As Emily and I have been saying for a long time, the CFTC will be the main oversight, regulatory body, not the SEC!

As they go through the interview, they cover so many things we have been saying are coming, and what benefits the people will see! Sandy states that the entire financial system will adopt Stellar technology! lol

A few topics of interest are how settlement of securities went from T +1 to 15 seconds on Stellar! How smart contracts can eliminate huge infrastructure and cost. How settlement costs on trades will go down to almost 0! She used the example of 50,000 transactions cost $75,000 in settlement costs under the traditional infrastructure. On Stellar it cost $1.13! Lololol

Those expenses, usually get taken out of the fund, so those savings actually go directly back to the people, which is awesome! As Emily and I discussed on our first couple of live streams together, when investing in funds, the fees are so astronomical overtime that the fund company keeps 66% of the profits and people don’t even know it!.

Now imagine that not only settlement fees drop, but also trading fee fees, management fees, custodial fees all drop astronomically! That would literally triple what an investor would get in returns! In fact, they would keep almost all of the money from the investment, reducing these companies simply to ones who facilitate transactions!

They talk about how easy it will be to transfer securities from one person to another without having to wait weeks, they talk about how they are able to update records second by second, which allowed them to pay interest on the fund intraday, which greatly benefits, the consumer!

Maybe you guys are not aware of it, but if you liquidate a money market in the middle of the day under the current system, you don’t get any interest at all for that day! Another way to screw people! But with Stellar, people get paid up to the minute they liquidate! That’s really significant!

They also illustrate how clueless the SEC was throughout this process and how little they know about blockchain! I would bet that almost everybody on QSI knows more than they do!

They talked about how people will have access to investments. Only the rich people or institutions were able to invest in. They talked about financial inclusivity. There’s so much good information here, but the main thing is they validate everything we’ve been saying for the last couple of years! The big changes are coming people! Get excited! lol 😂😂😂

🤝 Meta Strikes New AI Computing Deals With Data Center Firm Crusoe

Meta Platforms Inc. has secured new agreements to get AI computing power from data center developer Crusoe at two data centers, bolstering the infrastructure it needs to support an ambitious AI expansion. Those operations are located in Childress, Texas, and Warrenton, Missouri.

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🤖 US quantum computer demonstrates 99.9975% fidelity, paves the way for a fault-tolerant future

Sandia National Laboratories and tech company Quantinuum published a paper in Nature reporting the performance of the company's 98-qubit commercial system, Helios, which debuted last year.

In operations that involved only one or two qubits, or quantum bits, the system demonstrated very high fidelity—99.9975% and 99.921%, respectively. The results establish Helios as the company's largest and most reliable quantum computer to date. 🏆

"As a national resource, we are committed to accelerating quantum computing technology in support of economic and national security," — Sandia senior manager Mike Descour said.

Sandia assesses emerging opportunities and threats stemming from quantum information science for the U.S. government. These areas include cryptography, pharmaceutical research, energy science, advanced sensing and communications, all of which are key to national security.

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🧑‍⚖️ Bernie Sanders’ New AI Bill Would Pay Americans $1,000 a Year

Bernie Sanders is making the case that since modern AI systems were built using the intellectual and creative outputs of all of humanity, the revenues they generate should go directly to the people—not just to a small cohort of tech moguls.

📑 On Thursday, Senator Sanders—an Independent from Vermont—introduced a bill which, if passed, would create a sovereign wealth fund for the United States’ AI industry. The fund would be valued at roughly $7 trillion, a number derived from the current valuation of the country’s top AI labs, and would give the American public a 50% public stake in those companies.

⤴️As a result, taxpayers would receive an annual payment of $1,000 through the fund.

That amount “will probably go up as AI becomes more prosperous,” — Senator Sanders said. The fund could also eventually funnel “significant amounts of money … into social programs, making sure that all Americans have healthcare, education, decent housing, and other basic necessities of life.”

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🤑 Cross-chain swaps on Stellar are live on Sushi.

XLM and USDC on Stellar are now available for cross-chain swap across 40+ chains, same Sushi experience.

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❤️ Microsoft found malware that hijacks crypto wallets and spreads through USB sticks

The malware dubbed a “crypto clipper,” has been spreading via infected USB drives to target Windows users’ crypto wallets since February, according to Microsoft.

❗️Once installed through a malicious .lnk shortcut file, the worm known as Trojan:Win32/CryptoBandits monitors the clipboard for seed phrases, private keys and recipient addresses, exfiltrates data over the Tor network, and can silently swap in attacker-controlled wallet addresses. The malware propagates by replacing documents on clean USB drives with identically named shortcuts.

Microsoft recommends disabling AutoRun for removable media, blocking .lnk file execution on USB drives via group policy and restricting script hosts such as wscript.exe and cscript.exe. Microsoft Defender customers can also run hunting queries to check for related activity, including connections to a local Tor proxy on port 9050.

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