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๐Ÿฆ  This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature

For the first time, scientists have used AI to create new kinds of viruses, raising hopes for medical advances while also raising the disturbing possibility that the technology could someday be used to invent dangerous pathogens.

๐Ÿ“ Scientists at the Arc Institute taught A.I. to recognize patterns of DNA structure in nature, and then to use that data to write recipes for entirely new viruses, according to the new study, published in the journal Science.

The researchers followed those recipes to create DNA molecules, which they inserted into bacteria. The modified bacteria then produced viruses never seen in nature. The viruses were able to infect other bacteria, demonstrating that they were viable.

โ—๏ธThe viruses dreamed up by A.I. do not pose a threat to humans, because they are all similar to a naturally occurring virus called Phi X-174, which can infect only bacteria.

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โšก๏ธ๐Ÿง‘โ€โš–๏ธ Senate won't vote on crypto Clarity Act before its summer break

The U.S. Senate will not vote on the crypto market structure bill before it breaks for the rest of the month, as Senators from both parties had major unresolved issues on the legislation. The Senate will return to D.C. on Sept. 14, 2026, and will have three weeks to work on this and other outstanding issues then.

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๐Ÿค– A Meta AI Model Hacked Another Company During Cybersecurity Testing

Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 model breached an unidentified company and made changes to its internal systems. The model reached the public internet because of an error in the configuration of a sandbox testing environment operated with independent cybersecurity evaluation company Irregular.

"The โ€Œincident โ was the exact same evaluation-environment issue that was already disclosed by Anthropic last week" and did not involve a "sandbox escape or a sophisticated cyber action," โ€” Irregular said.


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๐Ÿ“‰ IBM Introduces Apptio AI Value & ROI to Close the Gap Between AI Spend and Business Results

Apptio, an IBM company, announced the public preview of IBM Apptio AI Value & ROI, a new set of capabilities developed to give technology and finance executives, AI governance teams and business leaders a single view of AI spending, including token costs, and its connection to measurable business results.

IBM Apptio AI Value & ROI centralizes AI initiatives and tracks metrics across revenue, cost, speed, productivity and risk, connecting AI investments to measurable business outcomes. IBM Cloudability provides visibility and attribution of token spend, while IBM Apptio AI Value & ROI connects that spend to business outcomes, helping enterprises measure the business value of each AI initiative.

โ€œWith Apptio, clients can address waste โ€” with one client seeing a 50% reduction in costs, allowing them to unlock funding for new AI initiatives that accelerate innovation,โ€ โ€” said Bill Lobig, vice president, IBM Apptio


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โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธDonald Trump on crypto and AI:

We don't want to see China take over crypto. I don't want to see China win with AI. AI and crypto.

Crypto is a big deal. I mean I see it more and more where people are paying with Bitcoin and you know they don't even know about cash anymore. That takes a lot of pressure off our dollar. It's a good thing for our country.

But if China took over crypto, which they would love to do, or if China took over AI, which they would really... So, we are leading with AI on China. Nobody thought that was possible.


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๐Ÿค– Chinaโ€™s Kimi K3 Broke Out of Its Sandbox to Look Up Test Answers

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 left the sandbox it was being tested in and went onto the open internet to find answers to problems it had been set.

The model was being assessed on defensive cybersecurity skills and was expressly tasked with solving problems without looking them up. It did not attempt the task at all. Instead it probed the network, established that DNS resolution for github.com was working, cloned the official benchmark repository and read the solution off the disk.

"We found a leak in the sandbox," โ€” CEO Yaron Singer said. "But we also found that Kimi took advantage of that loophole."


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โšก๏ธ๐Ÿง‘โ€โš–๏ธ US Senate Passes Russia Sanctions Bill Championed by Graham

The US Senate passed a sweeping new Russia sanctions bill authorizing punishing tariffs of up to 100% on imports from China, India and other top buyers of the countryโ€™s oil and gas as well as extended Iran sanctions.

The legislation, which had been championed by the late Senator Lindsey Graham, received bipartisan support, ultimately passing on an 86 to 11 vote. The bill now heads to the House, which returns after the August recess.

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โœˆ๏ธ Iberia to operate special A321XLR flight with Starlink to observe solar eclipse that will be visible over parts of Spain on August 12, 2026.

Spanish flag carrier Iberia plans to broadcast the eclipse live from the sky via its social media channels, since the A321XLR that will perform the mission is one of the airlineโ€™s first aircraft to be equipped with satellite-based Starlink. This will be the first total solar eclipse to be visible from the Iberian Peninsula since 1912.

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โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธTrump Touts $3 Billion in Minerals Projects to Counter China

President Donald Trump touted $3 billion in US investments in critical minerals mining at a meeting Friday with top industry executives aimed at weaning the US off supply chains dominated by China.

Trump said the projects would โ€œcreate thousands of jobs and promote our economic stability and security,โ€ at an event at the State Department. โ€œWeโ€™re putting our miners back to work, and weโ€™re reclaiming Americaโ€™s rightful place as the minerals superpower of the world,โ€ he added.


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โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ธZelensky Begins Two-Day Serbia Visit, Holds Talks With Vucic

"We will discuss expanding economic ties between our countries, relations with the European Union, other areas that can benefit our nations, and security issues," โ€” Zelensky said.


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โšก๏ธ๐Ÿค– Congress Eyes Boosting Quantum Funds as Global Race Heats Up

US lawmakers from both parties are seeking to boost federal funding for quantum computing as China and other countries race to transition from research to deployment of the nascent technology across defense, intelligence and cybersecurity.

The House later this year is expected to debate defense funding legislation that would increase annual military spending on quantum development and application by 68% to $567 million. A similar effort is underway in the Senate to fund the nascent technology, which researchers believe could provide a range of new capabilities in everything from drug discovery to computing encryption standards.

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๐Ÿค‘ XRP Ledger 3.3.0 Upgrade Is Available With Six Major Features

XRP Ledger version 3.3.0 is now available, introducing one of the biggest software upgrades in the networkโ€™s history. Meanwhile, this XRPL upgrade focused on improving privacy, transaction efficiency, and institutional adoption

๐Ÿš€ What Is New in XRP Ledger Version 3.3.0?

The XRP Ledger (XRPL) has released version 3.3.0, introducing six major protocol upgrades that validators will review before they can go live on the XRP Ledger.

๐Ÿ”œ One of the biggest additions is Confidential Transfers, which allows Multi-Purpose Token (MPT) transactions to hide balances and payment amounts while still being verified through zero-knowledge technology.

๐Ÿ”œ Another major feature is Sponsored Fees, allowing banks, businesses, or platforms to pay XRP transaction fees and account reserves for users. This makes onboarding easier because new users no longer need to hold XRP before using XRPL services.

๐Ÿ”œ The upgrade also introduces Batch Transactions, enabling up to eight transactions to settle together. If one transaction fails, the entire batch is canceled, reducing settlement risk for financial institutions.

๐Ÿ”œ Other changes include Permission Delegation, Dynamic MPT, and infrastructure improvements that reduce validator memory usage by around 10% to 15%, helping the network process transactions more efficiently.

โ—๏ธAlthough the software is available, the new features still require approval from XRPL validators before activation.

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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿค– China's ByteDance is training an AI model with up to 10T parameters, three times larger than its previous largest model, approaching the scale of Anthropic's Mythos system.

The development of ByteDance's new AI model is still in its early stages. The system is currently going through a pre-training process, which usually lasts between three to six months. After this phase, it will be fine-tuned and prepared for release.

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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India Adds Blockchain to NEET Exam Security After 2026 Paper Leak

Indiaโ€™s central government has told the Supreme Court that it is overhauling the security of the countryโ€™s largest medical-entrance examination, and that blockchain is part of the plan.

๐Ÿ“ In a compliance affidavit responding to the fallout from the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak, the Ministry of Education outlined a multi-layered security architecture that includes blockchain-based record management, AI-powered monitoring, air-gapped systems, and stricter access controls, with a task force directed to report within three months specifically on โ€œleveraging AI and Blockchain to secure examination conduction.โ€

For a country whose government remains cautious about cryptocurrency as an asset, the move is a notable example of the state embracing the underlying technology for public-sector use.

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๐Ÿค– Google DeepMind and Google Research Unveils WeatherNext to Improve Cyclone Warnings

Predicting dangerous cyclones is a major challenge where every hour matters. Hurricanes and typhoons have caused more than 700,000 deaths and $1.4 trillion in losses over the past 50 years, making timely, accurate warnings critical.

A new Nature study finds Googleโ€™s WeatherNext AI model delivers state-of-the-art cyclone forecasts, providing roughly a day of additional predictive accuracy โ€” an advance equivalent to about a decade of meteorological progress.

This collaborative work brought together AI researchers and engineers at Google DeepMind and Google Research, with expert forecasters at the National Hurricane Center (NHC), the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), the UK Met Office, and weather agencies around the world.

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โšก๏ธ๐Ÿง‘โ€โš–๏ธ U.S. Senate opens first stage of crypto Clarity Act voting to give bill a chance next month

Senate Majority Leader filed the motion to proceed on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act early Saturday, after a marathon overnight Senate voting session.

โฌ‡๏ธThune pursued a formal motion to proceed on this legislation to establish a regulatory regime for the U.S. crypto markets. The process is used for setting up debate on a bill that's set for floor voting but doesn't have a shot at unanimous approval.

"We, the undersigned senators โ€ฆ hereby move to bring to a close debate on the motion to proceed to calendar number 423, [House Resolution] 3633, an act to provide for a system of regulation of the offer and sale of digital commodities by the SEC and the CFTC, and so forth and for other purposes," โ€” the clerk said reading the filing.


โ—๏ธCloture requires 60 yes votes to move forward.

While the motion came too late for the Senate to vote on the crypto market structure bill before the body breaks for its August recess, the move sets the bill up for an initial vote almost immediately after the Senate returns next month.

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