Strategy Declares Daily STRC Dividends As Saylor Targets $100 Share Price
TL;DR: Strategy has conditionally declared daily STRC preferred-stock dividends for November 2026. The new cadence remains subject to shareholder approval…
Violent clashes, looting and buildings ablaze as hundreds arrested after France protests
Disorder broke out in cities across the country on a day in which more than half a million joined cost…
Charles Schwab Opens Bitcoin And Ethereum Transfers As Crypto Rollout Expands
TL;DR: Charles Schwab is expanding its direct Bitcoin and Ethereum services, including phased external wallet transfers. The move brings digital…
Circle Reveals $819 Million USDC Payouts As Stablecoin Economics Come Under Scrutiny
TL;DR: Circle says it generated roughly $1.4 billion in first-half 2026 revenue while spending $819 million on distribution partners and…
Meet Kyutai REKI: The 2.4B VLA Model Bringing Efficient Memory to Robot Manipulation
Kyutai, with Inria and École des Ponts, has released REKI, a 2.4B vision-language-action model (VLA) for robot manipulation. The REKI…
Binance.US Seeks $100 Million Funding Round At $1 Billion Valuation
TL;DR: Binance.US is reportedly seeking up to $100 million from private investors at a proposed valuation of approximately $1 billion.…
Crypto Giants Feature In $210 Million Political Donations Report As Regulatory Scrutiny Grows
TL;DR: An October 8 Public Citizen report links corporations and individuals benefiting from cancelled federal enforcement actions to approximately $210.5…
Grayscale Opens DeFi And AI Crypto Funds To Investors With Just $2,500
TL;DR: Grayscale and investment platform Republic are offering three specialised crypto funds with minimum commitments starting at $2,500. The products…
Arbitrum Courts European Investors Managing €800 Billion With New Revenue Pitch
TL;DR: Arbitrum representatives have presented the network’s infrastructure and revenue model to European financial institutions managing substantial assets. The meetings…
Deutsche Bank Nears Bitcoin Custody Launch As Crypto Push Expands Beyond Europe
TL;DR: Deutsche Bank is preparing to introduce institutional digital asset custody services, initially targeting professional clients in Germany. The planned…
The Number Your Quantization Gate Doesn’t Have
Ten quantization guides, and not one threshold-dependent metric between them — what that gap hides, and the two numbers that…
Bitcoin ETFs Lose $82 Million As BlackRock Leads Friday’s Withdrawals
TL;DR: US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded approximately $82.4 million in net outflows on October 16. BlackRock’s IBIT accounted for $71.8…
Binance bStocks Hits $1 Billion As Tokenized Stock Trading Accelerates
TL;DR: Binance says its bStocks tokenized-equity offering has surpassed $1 billion in assets under management, four months after launch. The…
When EEG Models See the Same People in Training and Testing
How participant-aware evaluation changed performance across three machine-learning models The post When EEG Models See the Same People in Training…
Judge Rejects Gemini And CFTC Bid To Overturn $5 Million Settlement
TL;DR: A federal judge has rejected a joint attempt by Gemini and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to overturn the…
Circle Targets 40 New Markets As USDC Push Moves Beyond Crypto Trading
TL;DR: Circle plans to expand USDC infrastructure into approximately 40 developing and emerging markets. The company is targeting international payments…
Trump waives broad new Russia sanctions and tariffs under Graham Act, citing national interest
Trump signed the Graham Bill, which targeted Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, into law in September.
MSCI Tightens Index Rules As Strategy And Other Bitcoin Treasury Firms Face Fresh Scrutiny
TL;DR: MSCI has revised its methodology for classifying non-operating companies, putting Bitcoin-heavy treasury businesses under closer index scrutiny. Any possible…
Trump waives several Russia sanctions as row with Zelensky intensifies
The US president temporarily ends many restrictions on Moscow recently passed by Congress over “national security” concerns.
DeepSeek Just Released V4.1-Flash-1017, Scores 77.0 on DeepSWE, Opens Search API
DeepSeek has just released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, a new checkpoint of its V4.1-Flash model. It is live on the DeepSeek website, app…
Trump’s Russia diesel deal may offer Putin more than money — and spell trouble for Ukraine
Trump’s diesel deal may do little for Russia’s finances, but it raises bigger questions about Ukraine’s leverage, U.S. support and…
Brazil sees record fall in Amazon deforestation as key election looms
The Amazon rainforest is a crucial buffer against climate change – but deforestation had expanded under former president Jair Bolsonaro.
Perplexity Open-Sources SPACE, a Firecracker MicroVM Sandbox for AI Agents
Perplexity has open-sourced SPACE, the sandbox platform behind every task in Perplexity Computer. The Perplexity SPACE sandbox gives each agent…
Building trust in AI agents: A production-ready evaluation framework with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
The North Star Every organization racing to deploy AI agents faces the same reckoning: an agent that demos beautifully can…
Brent oil touches $110 as Iran escalates Hormuz attacks, Ukraine vows to hit Russian refineries
U.S. crude oil prices rose sharply Friday as Iran escalated attacks in the Strait of Hormuz this week.
Inside Ukrainian offensive pushing Russia back – with Starlink playing a key role
The BBC joins Ukraine’s Operation Vivaldi as it regains crucial territory in the Donbas, but optimism has been dampened by…
Fostering community amid Kendall Square’s innovation
Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is often cited as the most innovative square mile in the world. But when the…
Introducing Reflection Beam: an open-weight model for agentic coding on AWS
Reflection AI introduced Beam, an open-weight model for agentic coding and long-horizon tasks such as maintaining code, using tools, interpreting…
Do You Still Own the Code Your AI Wrote? I Built CodeOwnership to Measure It
I rated my confidence 4 out of 5, then couldn’t find a planted bug in 8 minutes. Here is the…
Zelensky says Ukraine has right to defend itself after Trump criticism
EU leaders rally around Ukraine’s leader after Donald Trump says he is “more difficult to work with than Putin”.
Deploying Data Science Tools: Part 1
Getting your data science code running anywhere The post Deploying Data Science Tools: Part 1 appeared first on Towards Data…
MEXC Releases October 2026 Proof of Reserves, Reinforcing User Trust Through Verifiable Transparency
Mutsamudu, Comoros, October 16, 2026 – MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has released its October 2026 Proof…
Norway’s $2 trillion wealth fund was frozen out of major defense companies. That may be about to change
Existing ethical rules mean the fund is not permitted to invest in companies like Lockheed Martin and Boeing.
I Reran My Python 3.14 JIT Benchmarks on Python 3.15
The same three workloads show a much stronger JIT, but it still doesn’t help every program The post I Reran My…
MEXC AI Trading Report Reveals 85% of Crypto Traders Use AI, But Most Limit Its Control Over Funds
Mutsamudu, Comoros, October 16, 2026 — MEXC, a global cryptocurrency exchange, released its AI Trading Report, based on a survey…
Trump says he won’t use nuclear weapons or send ground troops to Iran
Trump said he would not use nuclear weapons against Iran or send ground troops as the U.S. reportedly weighs new…
Liquid AI Releases d1-ultra: A Multimodal Decision Model That Scores 65 on the AA Decision Index
Liquid AI has released d1-ultra, its most capable decision model to date. The Liquid AI d1-ultra decision model reads text,…
Fed’s Warsh says AI path will be ‘very bumpy’ but ultimately ‘very good’ for wealth
Warsh said he’s optimistic that AI will make economies that use it well more productive and wealthier, warning the road…
Meta Releases Muse Spark Open: 816B Open-Weight MoE With 1M Context
Meta Superintelligence Labs has released Muse Spark Open, the open-weight version of its Muse Spark model. Muse Spark Open is…
Three children and a teacher killed by 16-year-old at Oregon primary school
A teen assailant was pursued into the school by an armed community member, who shot him dead, said police.
Bus hits train stopped on French side of Channel Tunnel, with 19 injured
Two people were severely injured and evacuated by helicopter but no one’s life appeared to be in danger, officials said.
CoreWeave credit default swaps hit distress levels as investors sour on AI debt
Signs of distressed deepened in CoreWeave on Thursday.
State of Supply Chain Sustainability Report finds corporate commitment at record high, but governance lags behind
When corporate leaders discuss climate strategy, the message that still dominates is that, despite competing priorities and external pressures, sustainability…
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B Open Multimodal Agent Model
NVIDIA just released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open vision-language model built for always-on enterprise agents. Nemotron 3.5 Super VL…
Meta’s Muse Spark Open now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Muse Spark Open, Meta’s coding-optimized open-weight model, is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, the machine learning (ML) hub of…
Trump calls off livestream of Fort Hood attacker’s execution by firing squad
Trump said some would “rather not watch” the killing of Nidal Hasan, the first military execution in over 60 years.
Trust in Depth: Giving agents more autonomy without losing control
In every conversation I have with enterprise leaders, they say the same thing. They want agents to do more, but…
Jev Your Engines: Seven Open Decision Models vs. a Generative LLM
A hands-on Jev repo comparison of routing accuracy, latency, and output reliability The post Jev Your Engines: Seven Open Decision…
CopilotKit Releases CLiF: A Continual Learning Platform That Turns Agent Traces and User Actions into Skills, Evals, and Fine-Tuning Data
Introduction Teams shipping AI agents at scale keep running into the same pattern. Even agents built on top-tier models like…
Accelerating the search for antimicrobial peptides with Google Antigravity
Accelerating the search for novel antimicrobial peptides using Google Antigravity for Science.