German Savings Banks Begin Crypto Trading Rollout Inside Sparkassen App
Germany’s Sparkassen savings-bank group is beginning a phased cryptocurrency-trading rollout inside its existing banking app, taking an asset class it…
Kraken Parent Payward Moves Into European Banking With Saldo Deal
Payward, the company behind crypto exchange Kraken, has agreed to acquire Lithuania-based Saldo Bank, taking a route into European banking…
CME Targets October 19 Start For Bitcoin Cash And Uniswap Futures
CME Group has scheduled the introduction of Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures for October 19, giving institutional derivatives traders two…
Why teaching AI about symmetry could make prenatal diagnosis more reliable
Despite millions of years of evolution, the development of the human fetus remains a complex process that is vulnerable to…
European Banking Authority Puts USDC Under Significant-Token Supervision
The European Banking Authority has designated USDC as the EU’s first significant e-money token under MiCA, setting up an additional…
Ethereum Sets October 26 Hoodi Test For Glamsterdam Upgrade As 200M Gas Limit Nears
Ethereum’s next major upgrade has another date on the calendar, though it is not a mainnet launch. Developers have scheduled…
Saudi Arabia postpones big investor conference to 2027 as Iran-backed Houthis escalate attacks on kingdom
Iran-backed Houthi militants have launched repeated volleys of missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia since a deadly airport attack earlier…
Pegasus 1.5 from TwelveLabs is now available in Amazon Bedrock
On Oct 9, 2026 we announced the availability of TwelveLabs’ Pegasus 1.5 on Amazon Bedrock. Pegasus 1.5 is a video…
Fidelity Pays $500,000 In California Crypto Withdrawal Settlement
California has secured a $500,000 settlement with Fidelity Digital Asset Services over restrictions that previously prevented some crypto customers from…
Stablecoin Payments Reach $482 Billion As Token Supply Barely Grows
A new payments dataset offers a useful correction to the idea that stablecoin growth must be measured by how many…
Australian MP critically injured after being hit by car in apparent attack
The independent politician is in hospital after what the prime minister says may have been a deliberate attack.
Welcome to Google Gemini 4 Argon
A million-token output window changes what you can hand a model in one go, and the benchmarks and the bill…
MiniMax Just Launched M3.1 Flash: 428B MoE Agentic Model at $0.15/M Input
MiniMax has just released MiniMax M3.1 Flash on its API, priced at $0.15 per 1M input tokens. MiniMax also confirmed…
Latvia Changes Crypto Tax Treatment And Opens A 2027 Declaration Window
Latvia has passed a change to the way crypto investment-account gains are taxed, shifting attention from individual trades to what…
JPMorgan Takes JPM Coin To Ethereum As Banks Test Public-Chain Settlement
JPMorgan is taking its bank-issued deposit token onto public Ethereum, an expansion that puts an established Wall Street payments product…
Alberta heads to polls to decide whether to hold vote on separation from Canada
Polling suggests most Albertans favour remaining part of the country, although the debate alone has proven divisive.
How Many EEG Channels Do You Actually Need?
Testing sensor reduction, feature ranking, and generalization to unseen participants The post How Many EEG Channels Do You Actually Need?…
Inside the shadowy world of anti-Putin sabotage from within Russia
Two men tell of the work they say they have been doing to support Ukrainian intelligence during the war.
French unrest compounds debt crisis fears. Paris-listed stocks, bonds and the euro fall
“It looks like either the bond markets riot, or the people riot, or both,” one analyst told CNBC.
France’s government under pressure after weekend of widespread violence
Political tension grips France after rioting marred protests over the cost of living and struggling public services, Katya Adler writes.
France hit by worst unrest in years as attempts to rein in government spending meet citizen ire
France’s worst unrest in years saw thousands arrested, prompting President Macron to vow an “uncompromising” response ahead of a critical…
Putin reportedly suggests summit with Trump and Xi to decide fate of Ukraine
The report comes amid mounting tensions between Ukraine and the United States, its largest military backer.
NVIDIA Open Sources Run:ai Under Apache 2.0 for Kubernetes GPU Orchestration
NVIDIA has released the full NVIDIA Run:ai platform as open source software. The source code ships under the Apache 2.0…
China’s third-quarter economic growth quickens to 4.5% as exports surge, beating estimates
China’s economic growth accelerated in the third quarter, as foreign demand for the country’s technological goods largely offset sluggish consumer…
Mistral AI Releases Timestral: A 209M Forecasting Model Family That Outperforms Google’s TimesFM-3
Mistral AI has released Timestral, its first family of time series foundation models. Timestral is a set of 4 zero-shot…
Brent crude hovers near $109 a barrel as Ukraine resumes energy strikes, tankers attacked in Middle East
Fires broke out at an oil terminal and depot in St. Petersburg after Ukraine launched a massive wave of drone…
Solana’s Tokenized Asset Market Grows More Than Sixfold In A Year
TL;DR: Research attributed to Castle Labs puts Solana’s real-world asset market at about $4.3 billion, versus $700 million a year…
Macron calls for ‘calm and order’ after riots across France
French President Emmanuel Macron gives a national address after widespread disorder and as some looting continued in Paris.
Block’s Proto Mining Hardware Gets A Smaller Entry Point With Sazmining
TL;DR: Sazmining is offering individual Proto immersion hashboards at $4,187 each, with financing and managed hosting. The arrangement lowers the…
Bessent warns Zelenskyy to ‘be very careful’ about claims U.S. is throttling Starlink
Starlink, high-speed satellite internet provided by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is critical to Ukraine’s defense.
TinyFish Makes Search Free: What It Really Costs an AI Agent to Read the Web
An AI agent that reads the web pays 2 kinds of cost. The first is the retrieval charge: what a…
BitTorrent Ushers in Next-Gen Web3 Infrastructure with Strategic Rebrand and Inaugural BTT Burn
The first round of BTT repurchased with decentralized service revenue has been completely burned, as BitTorrent leverages its reimagined architecture…
Fidelity Sees A Stronger Solana Network, With Concentration Risks Still In View
TL;DR: Fidelity’s technology research team says Solana has operated for more than two years without a major mainnet outage, while…
Tokenized Stocks Reach $262 Million In DeFi, But The Growth Is Not All On Base
TL;DR: Stock-linked tokens deployed in DeFi reached an estimated $262.4 million across blockchains at the end of September, up nearly…
Aave’s Native Bitcoin Plan Moves Forward, But Governance Has Questions
TL;DR: Babylon Labs has advanced a proposal to bring native Bitcoin collateral to Aave V4 without requiring wrapped BTC or…
Binance Pool To Close November 10, Giving Bitcoin Miners Weeks To Move
TL;DR: Binance will discontinue its mining pool and related services at 07:00 UTC on November 10, 2026. Miners must redirect…
Robinhood Chain Now Accounts For More Than Half Of Uniswap Revenue
TL;DR: Uniswap generated approximately $14.81 million in protocol revenue during September, with Robinhood Chain contributing about 53% of the total.…
Iran says it has a ‘new operational plan’ if the U.S. resumes attacks, as shipping vessels report strikes
Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said the country’s military has prepared a response to any new…
Inferring the Host: A Bayesian Look at the Monty Hall Problem
“Always switch” is true for one particular host. Watch a few episodes and you can work out which host you’ve…
Bitcoin Futures Open Interest Slips To $7.68 Billion As Traders Keep Funding Positive
TL;DR: A Saturday derivatives snapshot showed Bitcoin open interest at $7.68 billion, down 0.69% in 24 hours. Funding remained positive,…
XRP ETFs End 13-Week Inflow Run With $1.84 Million In Withdrawals
TL;DR: US spot XRP ETFs recorded a $1.84 million net weekly outflow, ending 13 consecutive positive weeks. The reversal was…
Both Charts Are Right. So Why Do They Disagree?
The statistical paradox that shows how combining data can reverse the story. The post Both Charts Are Right. So Why…
Ethereum ETFs Lose $320 Million In A Week As Bitcoin Outflows Slow
TL;DR: US spot Ethereum ETFs lost $320.1 million in the week ending October 16, more than the $228.4 million withdrawn…
Burnt out cars and shattered glass on Paris streets after protests turn to riots and looting
Around 1,800 people were arrested after nationwide protests saw outbreaks of violence and vandalism.
Google Open-Sources Harness2, a Recursive Agent Harnessing Framework
Google Cloud AI Research has open-sourced Harness². It is a recursive agent harnessing framework that improves the code and files…
Why hedge funds could be making a bond market shock more likely
The Bank of England’s deputy governor has warned that hedge funds’ activities could raise the risk of a global bond…
How to Make Zero-Training Tabular Predictions with NVIDIA Structured Data Models
In this tutorial, we implement Structured Data Models, NVIDIA’s new library that puts several pretrained foundation models for tables behind…
Meet Voxel51 3.0: A Unified Multimodal Data Platform for Physical AI
Voxel51 has released Voxel51 3.0, a very important update to its data platform. Voxel51 3.0 is an end-to-end multimodal data…
Giving AI a “crystal clear” view of the materials world
In principle, artificial intelligence could make finding the right material for an application as simple as ordering dinner: Scientists would…
Pantera Leads $10 Million Fission Funding Round To Solve Tokenized Fund Liquidity Problem
TL;DR: Tokenization infrastructure firm Fission has raised $10 million in a funding round led by Pantera Capital. It wants to…