⚡️🖥 Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon with advanced cybersecurity features

Google introduced its latest AI model on Wednesday, called Gemini 4 Carbon, which the company describes as its most powerful model with enhanced cybersecurity capabilities and long-horizon task performance.

The new model achieved the top ranking on the updated v5.0 Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 59. Carbon demonstrated improvements in coding and agentic tasks, reaching 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro for vulnerability detection, 54.8% on ExploitGym for exploitation, and 71.0% on CWE-bench for patching.

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🤑 Movantis Integrates with the Stellar Network to Expand Its Cross-Border Payments Infrastructure

Movantis, the unified financial infrastructure platform that enables businesses to move value across global markets, announced an integration with the Stellar network. 🤝

➡️ The collaboration adds the Stellar network as an additional digital settlement rail within Movantis's architecture.

➡️ The Stellar network accelerates the digital settlement leg, while Movantis leverages its connections to regulated local infrastructure and partners for liquidity, fiat conversion where needed, and last-mile payout.

➡️ The first planned use case will focus on movement of value from the United States to El Salvador. Through its regulated subsidiaries, Movantis plans to use USDC on the Stellar network as the settlement leg, with local partners supporting conversion and last-mile payout.

➡️ As a dollarized economy, El Salvador is a natural starting point: value settles in USDC and is paid out to recipients in US dollars, with no additional currency exposure along the way.

➡️ The integration is also designed to work in the other direction. Businesses operating on the Stellar network will be able to reach recipients in Latin America through Movantis, settling in stablecoins and paying out locally.

➡️ Remittance companies, fintechs and wallets will be able to access the corridor through the same Movantis integration they already use for other markets.

“Cross-border payments do not need one winning rail. They need infrastructure that can use the right rail for each leg of the transaction,” — said Robert Gatto, CEO of Movantis.

“Stellar gives us another efficient way to settle, and our job is making sure that speed turns into dollars a business or a family can actually use in El Salvador.”

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🕹 Google to preview crypto custody security system as AI threats grow

Google is set to showcase a new security system designed to help banks and other financial institutions safeguard and move cryptocurrencies and tokenized assets at its inaugural digital assets symposium in New York City on Wednesday.

❗️The product, officially named Google Multi-Party Compute (MPC), is in private preview and is not yet generally available. Several design partners and major financial institutions are testing the technology. Alphabet, the parent company, has also begun using it to secure its own digital assets on the Ethereum and Solana blockchains.

Google did not identify the institutions testing the service or specify which digital assets Alphabet is securing. The company plans to make Google Multi-Party Compute commercially available in early 2027, but has not disclosed pricing.

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🤑 Ripple and Coinbase Partner to Expand Access to Ripple USD

Ripple and Coinbase, two of the the leading providers of blockchain solutions across traditional and digital finance, announced a partnership to bring Ripple USD (RLUSD) to Coinbase, significantly expanding market access and utility for the enterprise-grade stablecoin in the U.S.

Starting today, retail and institutional clients can trade and manage RLUSD through Coinbase Prime, Coinbase Exchange and the Coinbase Retail app, with 1:1 conversion from U.S. dollars and other supported USD-denominated stablecoins into RLUSD.

Availability for Coinbase Global Exchange customers, including leveraging RLUSD as collateral, will follow. 🚀

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