🤖 Two-armed robot throws, catches, and hits balls like a baseball champ

A new two-armed robot developed by the Robotics and AI Institute (RAI) has demonstrated its ability to throw, catch, and hit balls with coordinated, human-like movements, offering a different approach to a longstanding challenge in robotics: interacting with objects dynamically rather than simply moving them from one place to another.

Called AthenaZero, the robotic system was designed to replicate some of the mechanical properties that let humans perform rapid, forceful, and delicate movements. The robot completed three baseball-inspired tasks involving throwing balls, catching them, and hitting them with a bat.

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🇷🇺 Russia’s largest bank Sberbank secures approval to trade crypto

Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, has received approval to exchange cryptocurrencies, advancing Moscow’s effort to bring crypto trading and custody into its regulated financial system.

❗️The Bank of Russia added Sberbank to its register of cryptocurrency exchange providers. The bank had already joined the digital depository register earlier this month, giving it a role in recording clients’ crypto holdings.

There are now 9 organizations on the exchange register, including VTB and T-Invest Lab. 🚀

👉 Registered crypto dealers can buy and sell cryptocurrencies using their own funds outside organized exchanges, while depositories record ownership and transfers, according to the central bank.

👉 The combination provides a route to offer both trading and custody-related services for Sberbank, having also started working on a crypto wallet earlier this year.

The bank is already testing trades in BTC, ETH, USDT and other major tokens in its app. Sberbank plans to launch its first products on December 1.

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 Visa Approved to Prepare Domestic Payments Business in China

Visa announced that it has received approval of its Application to Prepare from the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), which allows the company to begin formal preparations to establish a domestic bankcard clearing institution in China.

“We greatly appreciate the important role of the leaders of the United States and China in pursuing a constructive and strategically stable relationship between the world’s largest economies,” — Visa Chief Executive Officer Ryan McInerney said.

This marks an important milestone toward the company serving China’s domestic payments market. 🚀

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🇦🇺 Anthropic Hunts for Australia Data Center Deals

Anthropic PBC is looking to invest in data centers in Australia as the AI company scales up its build-out across the world and expands capacity within the country.

The firm is most interested in facilities in regional areas or brownfield sites, Jeff Bleich, international special envoy at Anthropic, said at the Australian Financial Review’s Energy and Climate summit in Sydney. Several projects have been pitched to the company by state premiers.

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🤑 Stellar’s $3.5 Billion RWA Surge Leaves XRP Ledger, Solana and Avalanche Playing Catch-Up

Stellar (XLM) is making a strong case in the RWA tokenization market after the total value of tokenized assets on its network climbed to a record $3.5 billion.

❗️As a result, Stellar has elbowed out competitors such as Solana, the XRP Ledger, and Avalanche, as competition for institutional adoption reaches fever pitch.

According to data from RWA Foundation and Token Terminal, net inflows into Stellar-based investment funds reached $17.1 million, outperforming Ethereum’s $16 million and Polygon’s $5.9 million.

👇What do these latest figures show?

👉 They show Stellar’s growing activity as financial institutions and investors explore blockchain-based investment products.

👉 The network’s expansion has been particularly striking over the past year. Stellar’s total RWA value has increased by approximately 360%, rising from $895 million a year ago to $3.5 billion.

More notably, this growth has helped propel the blockchain to third place globally in RWAs under management, behind only Ethereum and BNB Chain. 🏆

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🔐'123456' password linked to Denmark data breach affecting 8.8M people

At least 3 accounts at Pays ApS, a small Danish IT company, are linked to a major breach of the country’s civil registration system.

The compromised access allegedly allowed a hacker to retrieve information associated with approximately 8.8 million Danish Central Person Register (CPR) numbers, potentially exposing personal data on a substantial share of Denmark’s population.

Reportedly, the company’s admins used the password “123456,” a password ranked as the most common and least secure password in the world. 😁

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⚡️🤑 Broadening access to XRPL, from everyday payments to agentic commerce

We’re partnering with Ripple to bring Privy wallets to the XRPL, making it easier for developers to build payments and agentic experiences on the network. 🚀

💸 The XRPL is a decentralized Layer 1 blockchain built for moving and exchanging digital assets, with fast settlement, low transaction costs, and support for assets ranging from stablecoins to tokenized RWAs. Over more than 14 years, the network has grown to more than 8 million funded accounts and $1 trillion in value moved.

❗️With Privy, developers will be able to create and manage XRPL wallets programmatically, sign transactions, and build experiences using XRP, RLUSD, and other digital assets on XRPL.

For payments companies and fintechs, embedded wallets make it possible to offer stablecoin payments without requiring users to manage keys themselves. Server-side wallets can also give agents a way to hold and transact with funds, including through x402 payments.

👇Developers building on XRPL with Privy will be able to:

👉 Create and manage XRPL wallets programmatically through Privy
👉 Sign XRPL transactions using Privy’s wallet infrastructure
👉 Build with XRP, RLUSD, and other digital assets on XRPL
👉 Enable x402 payments for agentic commerce
👉 Give users ownership and portability with private key and seed phrase export

“Stablecoins are changing how money moves, and XRPL has been building for payments from the start. We’re excited to make Privy wallets available to developers building on XRPL, from global payments to agentic commerce, and whatever comes next,” — Henri Stern, Cofounder and CEO of Privy.

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🧬 DNA recording system reveals how a single cell becomes a body

Scientists have reconstructed a detailed family tree of cells in a developing mouse embryo, tracing their ancestry from the first division of a fertilized egg through 13.5 days of development. The breakthrough uses DNA Typewriter, a DNA-based recording technology developed by Dr. Jay Shendure and Junhong Choi, which stores a record of cellular history directly in DNA.

The research reveals how early cells multiply, specialize, and contribute to the formation of organs and tissues. The findings, published in Science on October 8, 2026, provide an unprecedented map of how a complex mammalian body develops from a single cell.

This technology could help researchers understand the origins of birth defects, genetic disorders, neurodevelopmental conditions, and cancer. It may also advance stem cell engineering and regenerative medicine by helping scientists guide cells toward specific identities for future therapies. 🚀

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📱 Apple releases HomeView smart home hub with screen as showcase for Siri AI

Apple launched a raft of smart products, including an iPad-like device dubbed the HomeView. It will feature a 7-inch screen and face recognition and will help users control doorbells, thermostats and smart locks.

The HomeView device starts shipping on Nov. 13.

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🇺🇸 First Lady Melania Trump Launches 2027 Presidential SI Challenge and Establishes First Lady Seal of SI Readiness

First Lady Melania Trump launched her 2027 Presidential SI Challenge and established a new First Lady Seal of AI Readiness — inviting K-12 students, educators, and schools across America to participate in the nationwide initiative.

“America’s next groundbreaking idea is already sitting in a classroom,” — said Mrs. Trump. “We must give our children the knowledge, tools, and opportunities to bring those ideas to life.”

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🧑‍⚖️ CFTC Moves to Build a New Regulatory Framework for Crypto Markets

The CFTC has begun developing a regulatory framework for crypto markets, seeking public input on how existing commodity laws should apply to leveraged retail transactions and the platforms facilitating them.

❗️The agency’s advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) was published in the Federal Register on Oct. 13.

📝 The document outlines two regulatory frameworks, Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions (CTX) and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets (CAM), covering the treatment of leveraged crypto trades and the registration and oversight of trading platforms.

The CFTC has set December 14, 2026, as the deadline for public comments. The initiative would use the agency’s existing authority under Section 2(c)(2)(D) of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) to establish rules for certain retail commodity transactions involving crypto assets.

It also examines how designated contract market requirements could be adapted for platforms handling these transactions.

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💸 Federated Hermes joins Wall Street's tokenization push with plans for first onchain fund shares

Federated Hermes (FHI), the Pittsburgh-based investment manager overseeing $911 billion in assets, plans to issue its first tokenized fund shares early next year, joining Wall Street's growing push to bring traditional investments onto blockchain rails.

The asset manager has partnered with plans to make the upcoming products available through traditional brokerages and financial advisers alongside New York-based digital securities infrastructure provider Prometheum.

❗️The firm has not yet disclosed which funds it plans to tokenize or which blockchains they will use. Money market funds are a likely starting point, according to Kevin Barr, Federated Hermes' director of digital asset products and platform.

“There's enormous interest in the industry at large around tokenized money market funds, [and] it aligns very well with the ballast of our franchise, which has been our liquidity funds,” — Barr said.

The move adds another major asset manager drawn to Wall Street's tokenization effort. 🚀

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🧠 After 30 years, scientists finally have a drug for a deadly brain disease

The FDA has approved the first drug designed to directly treat Alexander disease, an extremely rare neurological disorder that progressively damages the nervous system and can be fatal. The treatment, called Zanvastro, represents a major advance for patients who previously had no options beyond managing their symptoms.

Alexander disease can interfere with movement, thinking, and automatic bodily functions such as breathing and heart rate. Zanvastro is the first and only approved disease-modifying treatment for the condition, meaning it targets an underlying biological process responsible for the disease rather than simply relieving its effects.

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⚡️🤑 DriveWealth and Ripple Partner to Bring Institutional Digital Asset Infrastructure to Global Investing

DriveWealth, a global Brokerage-as-a-Service platform powering the infrastructure for modern investing and trading, announced a partnership with Ripple to modernize how money moves, settles, and is managed across DriveWealth's global investing infrastructure and accelerate DriveWealth’s move to digital financial rails. 🤝

👇 The partnership covers:

👉 Stablecoin settlement: DriveWealth is integrating Ripple’s stablecoin infrastructure to support settlement in Europe, with plans to expand to the U.S. The integration will leverage RLUSD on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), alongside Ripple mint and burn capabilities.

👉 Payments: DriveWealth is integrating Ripple Payments to support cross-border acceptance from its global partners, helping streamline how funds move into DriveWealth across markets.

👉 Custody: DriveWealth is working with Ripple to support its digital asset custody needs in Europe, with plans to expand to additional markets over time. 🇪🇺

👉 Equity financing: DriveWealth and Ripple Prime are exploring opportunities across equity financing through Ripple Prime’s Delta One business, which expands its institutional capabilities across U.S. equities and equity derivatives. 🇺🇸

🟠The collaboration brings Ripple’s suite of blockchain solutions into DriveWealth’s brokerage infrastructure, creating a more unified experience across traditional and digital assets.

🟠DriveWealth clients can instantly fund and manage their collateral accounts using stablecoins that convert to cash in near real time instead of waiting on a bank wire.

For international clients that currently plan around cross-border transfer windows and cutoff times, it means capital can move when it’s needed – supporting faster settlement, more efficient use of capital and always-on access to global markets. 🚀

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🇺🇸 Trump Warns of Depression if Democrats Win, Promises $5,000 Checks if Republicans Prevail

"If the Democrats win you will have a 1929-style economic depression... If the Republicans win, you will each receive $5,000 in your pocket... Just recently, I gave all members of our military $1,776, and everybody said that can't be done!"

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⚡️🤑 Chainlink is now live on Stellar, unleashing a new wave of DeFi innovation across a $4B+ RWA ecosystem

Chainlink is unleashing a new wave of DeFi adoption on the Stellar network. With Chainlink’s Data Feeds and Data Streams now live on Stellar, developers have access to the market data needed to launch secure lending markets, prediction markets, perpetual futures, and other innovative onchain financial applications that connect the Stellar network’s growing RWA ecosystem to DeFi.

🏆The Stellar network already supports $4+ billion in RWAs, but assets moving onchain are only part of the story. These assets also need to be priced, traded, borrowed against, and used as collateral. The next phase is utility and distribution.🔣 Chainlink is providing industry-standard data infrastructure required to put more of that value to work securely and reliably.

❗️Data Feeds can supply prices for collateral valuation, loan-to-value ratios and liquidation mechanisms, while Data Streams offer low-latency pricing designed for trading platforms and derivatives markets that require more timely data.

👉 Through Chainlink, assets and liquidity on the Stellar network become the foundation of a productive DeFi ecosystem where stablecoins, tokenized equities, and other digital assets gain utility as collateral and tradable assets, giving users more ways to put their capital to work.

Chainlink creates a powerful engine for the Stellar network’s growth by removing a critical barrier to launching new DeFi applications, enabling developers to build the markets that attract new users and capital. 🚀

“Tokenization is only the beginning. For onchain financial markets to operate at institutional scale, assets need reliable infrastructure for pricing, execution, and movement.

Chainlink's oracle infrastructure strengthens that foundation by giving developers access to the data and connectivity required to build next-gen financial applications on Stellar.

As these layers mature together, the opportunity shifts from simply issuing assets onchain to putting them to work,” — Raja Chakravorti, Chief Business Officer, Stellar Development Foundation.

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