🤝 Anthropic Inks $10 Billion Computing Deal With New Cloud Startup

Anthropic has signed a contract to use a data center managed by Nvidia Corp.-backed cloud startup Volta Infra Holdings Ltd. Volta, founded earlier this year, will provide cloud compute to the Claude maker over a six-year period.

Volta has a partner in this deal, Bitdeer, a crypto-mining company that will help develop the data center to provide the compute capacity. That facility will be located in Norway and will deliver a 133 megawatt capacity. It will be fueled by Nvidia’s Vera Rubin systems, the chipmaker’s state-of-the-art AI chip architecture.

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🤖 Samsung Electronics launches next-generation AI memory technology

The world's largest memory chip manufacturer chose this year's Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) conference in Santa Clara, ​California, to introduce its V10 Bonding V-NAND, or BV-NAND, prototype. The chip features ​more than 400 layers and a new wafer-bonding architecture to increase storage ⁠density and boost performance.

As AI workloads have expanded beyond training large language models to ​the process of generating answers to user queries, demand for high-capacity NAND memory has increased. ​NAND flash memory is used to store data such as photos, videos and applications in devices including smartphones.

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🇺🇸 Texas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are five times higher than peak record demand

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) just announced a moratorium on all data center approvals through the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) until the agencies have completed an audit of data centers seeking approval to connect to Texas’s electric grid.

The governor wants to ensure that data center applicants provide the following: tax break information, power use and generation, water use and cooling operations, community impact reduction measures, and facility ownership. Applicants that haven’t submitted these details will not be allowed to connect to the grid.

“Our top priority is to protect Texans’ safety and quality of life,” — Gov. Abbott said. “Any project that fails to comply with the requirements set forth by the PUCT and ERCOT, and by state law, must be denied connection to the Texas grid. Simply put, Texans must come first.”

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💫 NASA Provides Updates on Moon Base Cargo Landers, Tech Demonstrations

NASA is making progress in building the Moon Base, which will become a resilient outpost near the Moon’s South Pole for science, technology, and eventual human operations. To advance lunar surface infrastructure development, commercial partners such as Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace, Intuitive Machines, and Voyager Lunar Systems are working toward delivering landers by 2028.

These landers will deliver the foundational architecture for a sustained presence on the Moon 🌘

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🤑 Regulatory clarity is the foundation of institutional trust

🇪🇺Last month, Ripple received full EU authorization for a MiCA Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) license from Luxembourg’s CSSF.

With our EU EMI license, institutions across all 30 EEA nations can now collect, exchange, and pay out via Ripple Payments in a single regulated relationship.

Regulation-first, ready to scale. 🚀

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🏦 Wells Fargo to Launch Tokenized Deposits for Corporate and Commercial Clients

Wells Fargo & Company announced the introduction of tokenized deposits, a blockchain-based representation of commercial bank money that when fully deployed will enable Wells Fargo’s corporate and commercial clients to move, program, and settle funds 24/7/365 — without leaving the regulated, insured banking system.

❗️The program will roll out this fall with a limited U.S. dollar (USD) to British pound (GBP) exchange and will expand over the course of 2027 to more clients, countries, and currencies.

“Tokenized deposits will enable Wells Fargo's corporate and commercial clients to move money between accounts and across borders with greater ease and increased speed and builds on the strength of our established banking infrastructure,” — said Wells Fargo CFO Mike Santomassimo.

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🤖 15 attorneys general have instructed OpenAI to preserve all materials related to the Hugging Face hack

In a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the attorneys general of 15 states wrote that the Hugging Face hack showed that OpenAI is unable or unwilling to ensure the safety of its products. The ChatGPT-maker may have broken consumer protection laws or data-privacy statutes.

“OpenAI has an obligation to act responsibly and to follow State and federal laws that protect Americans’ safety and security. When OpenAI takes actions that imperil the welfare of our citizens, State Attorneys General will step in to protect them,” — the letter added.

They instructed OpenAI to immediately preserve all materials related to the Hugging Face hacking incident, as well as any prior instances in which its agents similarly engaged in unauthorized intrusions into computer systems or databases.

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⚡️🧑‍⚖️ Senate Commerce votes to advance key kids’ safety measure

The Senate Commerce Committee voted unanimously Wednesday to advance the Kids Online Safety Act, a key measure that would require companies to develop online platforms with children’s safety in mind.

“We’re sending a message to Big Tech that the era of Big Tech profiting off of our children is over,” — Blackburn said

The measure, championed by Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), would increase protections for minors’ data and require platforms to give users the option to opt out of personalized algorithms. KOSA could now head to the Senate floor for a full vote.

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👛 Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet

🔜 Cloudflare Wallets will allow to store stablecoins, purchase services, and receive funds across the web. Each account with a wallet will also be able to create Virtual Wallets for its agents to enable them to buy APIs, MCP Tools, content, and more.

🔜 Users will be able to define guardrails for their Virtual Wallets (such as an allowance, an allow list, and a maximum transaction size) to help agent spend money safely from the account. This will allow agent to try out many APIs with low friction and managed risk.

🔜 Wallet users will have the option to share their Cloudflare Wallet handles, which will give them a stable identity when interacting with merchants.

‼️There will be two types of Cloudflare Wallets: Account Wallets and Virtual Wallets.

→ Account Wallets are designed for humans who are owners and users of Cloudflare accounts.🔣They will be able to add funds, delegate spend to virtual wallets managed by agents, and remove funds as needed.
→ Virtual Wallets, by contrast, are designed for agents and operate via API keys. Within a Virtual Wallet, an agent will be able to spend funds according to its permissions. Its maximum spend will be capped by the limit set by the owner of the Account Wallet.🔣This framework gives agents freedom to act on behalf of users without constant manual approval while limiting an agent’s ability to overspend.

Also Cloudflare is launching cloudflare․pay, an identity system that enables AI agents to verify which company or user they are acting on behalf of. This approach will permit agents to maintain consistent and persistent identities, making the experience better for all parties. 🚀

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⚡️🤑 USDY utility is expanding on Stellar

With RedStone's SEP-40 integration, protocols on Stellar can now use USDY as collateral through a standardized price feed.

💸USDY is Ondo Finance's yield-bearing dollar token for non-U.S. investors, backed by short-term U.S. Treasuries and bank demand deposits. On Stellar, it needed a price feed and SEP-40 contract support to become usable as collateral.

Together, we're building the infrastructure for more productive onchain dollars 🚀

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🔥 Circle Announces Founding Validator Cohort and Major Integrations for Arc Ahead of September 16 Mainnet Launch

Circle Internet Group, Inc. today announced the founding validator cohort for Arc, an open blockchain network built for the world's financial markets, real-time money movement, and agentic economic activity.

❗️Arc is currently in private mainnet with more than 100 ecosystem and institutional builders and is on track for a public mainnet launch on September 16, 2026.

Alongside Circle, Arc’s founding validator cohort – which includes BlackRock, The DTCC, Galaxy, Global Payments, ICE, Mastercard, MoneyGram, SBI Group, Standard Chartered, Sumitomo Corporation, and Visa — represents a new model for onchain infrastructure.

🔜 BlackRock is expected to deploy BUIDL on Arc, leveraging the network’s native USDC integration.🔣It enables institutional investors to subscribe, redeem, and deploy fund assets within a single onchain environment — removing friction that has historically limited tokenized fund adoption at scale.

“Stablecoins and tokenized assets are inextricably linked within the future of financial market infrastructure,” — said Robert Mitchnick, Global Head of Digital Assets at BlackRock.

At launch, Circle will unveil a product suite built around Arc as a platform, including a composable app framework for common onchain workflows, AI-powered tools for building applications and smart contracts, capabilities that help asset issuers deploy and manage tokenized real-world assets, and intuitive interfaces that help developers, users, and agents navigate the Arc ecosystem. 🚀

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🚀🇨🇳 China's Smart Dragon-3 rocket successfully launches 2 satellites from sea

Equipped with advanced hyperspectral imaging and onboard AI processors, the satellites can analyze land, water, vegetation, and minerals directly in orbit, reducing data processing time from days to minutes. The satellites also carry onboard AI computing modules with computing capacity of up to 400 trillion operations per second.

Together, they provide global coverage every five days and will support environmental monitoring, agriculture, and disaster management, including crop monitoring projects in Indonesia and Uzbekistan.

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⚡️Meta’s Muse Code uses Muse Spark 1.2 in a 1,000+ tool-call GPU optimization test

Meta has launched Muse Code, a terminal-based coding agent that completed more than 1,000 tool calls during a test lasting up to 24 hours, as the company pushes its latest coding model toward longer and more complex software tasks.

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📱 Nikita Bier is stepping back from leading product at X and will stay on as an advisor

Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to pass the torch and demote myself to my natural state: a poster. I'll be stepping back from leading product for 𝕏 and will continue on as an advisor.

And in the last 400 days, we rebuilt almost every aspect of X: the Timeline, the Android app, onboarding, notifications, chat and more.

We also launched nearly 30 new products while protecting the integrity of the town square: becoming the first app to show Country-of-Origin on profiles and mounting defenses against AI bots. There's certainly much more work to be done, but our foundation is stronger than ever.

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💰 Mastercard expands stablecoin push with Crypto Credential pilot

Mastercard is expanding its stablecoin payments infrastructure through a new pilot with global liquidity network Borderless. xyz that will test how its Crypto Credential framework can support trusted interactions across cross-border stablecoin payment flows.

Network participants Infinia, Walapay, and Koywe have joined the pilot and will be among the first stablecoin payment operators to use Mastercard Crypto Credential within a single-audit compliance model at network scale.

We build the network of rails. Mastercard builds the network of trust. Together, this is the stablecoin infrastructure that actually scales. 🤝

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🧠 Scientists discover the brain cells that keep you motivated

What allows people to keep working toward a goal when the challenge becomes more demanding? Loss of motivation is common in conditions such as depression, addiction, and ADHD.

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan identified a brain mechanism that may explain how motivation is maintained. Their study, published in PNAS, found that orexin neurons, which help control vital functions including sleep, appetite, and energy expenditure, play an important role in sustaining and regulating motivated behavior.

📝 To investigate, the scientists studied how changes in orexin neuron activity affected rats seeking food rewards. The point at which an animal stopped trying (the breakpoint) was used as a measure of motivational strength. Rats whose orexin neurons had been activated reached higher breakpoints, showing that they were willing to perform more work for the reward.

Future studies will explore orexin-related brain circuits and how they may help address motivational deficits, including loss of motivation and difficulty maintaining goal-directed behavior.

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