🤑 Ripple has just released a new video!

Trust or innovation? Why choose when you can have both? 🤔

Ripple is showing how blockchain technology can bring together the trust financial institutions rely on and the innovation shaping the future of finance.

It's happening with Ripple. 🚀

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🚓 The City of Starbase has officially unveiled its Tesla Cybertrucks, which will be part of the city's first municipal police department.

The futuristic patrol vehicles will serve residents, workers and visitors in Starbase, Texas.

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🤑 XRP Ledger developers tighten the rules for who can hold 'restricted' tokens

Some tokens on the XRP Ledger are only supposed to sit in accounts their issuer has approved, and developers have found a few ways around that rule.

✅ Issuers of regulated assets, such as stablecoins or tokenized funds, can require approval before anyone holds their tokens, often so they can run identity checks first. That approval sits on the so-termed trust line, or the connection an XRP Ledger account sets up to hold a token issued by someone else.

❗️Four proposed code changes, updated this week, would close the remaining exceptions. All four are bundled into a single network upgrade called fixCleanup3_5_0, and none has been activated on mainnet.

🟠One proposal would require approval for both tokens in a trading pool before an account can buy into it. These pools, called automated market makers, trade tokens automatically, and a share in one is itself a token.

🟠Another closes an exemption where the approval check only kicked in on trust lines with a zero balance, so a line that already held tokens could keep receiving more.

The XRP Ledger Foundation said developers have been examining these exceptions, including how tokens could reach unapproved accounts through NFT trades before an August 2025 fix. ⚒️

“The developer discussion is about what the protocol should guarantee, not a report of affected users,” — Hussein “Vet” Zangana, director of community and product at the XRP Ledger Foundation, said.

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🇦🇺 ‘Emotional intimacy’ from AI chatbots would be banned under Australia’s digital duty of care laws

The federal government wants to ban AI chatbots which seek to create “emotional intimacy” after prime minister Anthony Albanese raised the alarm in a heartfelt speech about children treating these agents as their “best friend”.

The planned framework would apply new online safety standards to social media, games, apps and chatbots. Labor said it would place “an overarching obligation” on tech platforms “to provide a safe online environment for all Australians” and replace a range of existing online codes and standards with a broader duty-of-care requirement to protect users from certain “harmful” content.

It would also require social media platforms to offer an “opt-out” feature for its algorithm and suggested content. The digital duty of care bill passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday and will be debated by the Senate in coming weeks. The government hopes to pass the bill by the end of 2026.

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🛰 Google's Satellite AI Writes Haiku from Orbit in Historic Test

Google's Project Suncatcher prototype, launched October 1 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 with Planet Labs, successfully ran a TPU chip and Gemma model to process prompts like haikus and limericks.

The satellite responded during a pass over Svalbard, Norway, with lines like 'Blue marble below / Data streams in silent grace / Starlight feeds my core.'

This test explores solar-powered AI in space for potential large-scale compute, with plans for interconnected satellites in 2027 despite challenges like cooling and radiation. 🚀

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🤑 Moody's assigns investment-grade ratings to Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin

Moody’s Ratings assigned Ripple's U.S. dollar-denominated stablecoin A2 long-term and P-1 short-term deposit ratings, both investment-grade marks. 🏆

🟠The agency said the A2 long-term deposit rating reflects its assessment of the credit quality and market value of RLUSD's reserve assets, reserve coverage, liquidity and redemption arrangements.

🟠It also pointed to the segregation of the reserve and its custody with third parties, as well as operational, technological, legal, regulatory and other structural considerations. The P-1 rating aligns with the long-term rating, Moody's said.

"The Reserve is predominantly invested in highly liquid, short-duration U.S. government assets and cash," — Moody's said.

"[Standard Custody & Trust Company] targets 103% Reserve coverage, which exceeds the minimum coverage level associated with the rating."

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🇨🇦🇪🇺Canada and EU announce new alliance open to like-minded countries

Canada and Europe have announced a new alliance of like-minded nations to serve as both a “protective canopy under which our citizens can thrive” and a powerful hedge against the unpredictable nature of geopolitics, while welcoming other countries to join.

The prime minister, Mark Carney, and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, called the new partnership the Alliance for the Future and said the “deepest possible partnership between Canada and the 27-member bloc had the potential to offer unprecedented stability and opportunity”.

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🧑‍⚖️ One month ago, President Trump launched America.gov, a government built around you.

It puts you first. Respects your time. And actually works for YOU.

See the historic launch yourself in Hello, America. 🇺🇸

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