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Solana's Alpenglow upgrade lands Oct 21, targeting finality of 150ms, but SOL trades at ~$106 with analysts split on value capture.→
Nexo's Digital Wealth Survey shows 19.2% of wealthy investors expect crypto to be their top 10-year wealth builder, yet only 2% plan to hold 10+ years.→
Franklin Templeton says institutions now fear being left behind in crypto rather than fearing entry.→
GrokBot prices plans as 4x or 15x more usage without defining the baseline, making comparisons meaningless.→
Muse hides pricing entirely outside the app and charges $20/month for 500 million tokens per week, leaving users unsure what it buys.→
Elena Verna argues AI pricing confusion persists because products are novel, but the mass market will demand clearer value propositions.→
Nine companies including CoreWeave, Broadcom, and Verizon objected to tokenized versions of their shares listing on OKXICE, barring those tokens under the SEC exemption.→
Citadel Securities used a tokenized two-year Treasury as collateral in an overnight triparty repo with BNY, settling within minutes on BNY's private ledger.→
Visa and Mastercard put stablecoin payouts into production, with USDC prefunding going live on Visa Direct via Inyo Global.→
Meta Muse Spark Open is an 816B-parameter open-weight model with 42B active parameters and 1M token context that can run on two Mac Studios.→
OpenAI GPT-Live-1.1 brings 13 new voices and more natural accents in six languages to all ChatGPT users.→
Cheng Lou's Handwired converts JavaScript code into an exact neural net without training, enabling differentiable programs in the browser.→
Claude Haiku 5.5 launched with a 43 Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index score and 237 tokens per second output.→
Claude Sonnet 5.5 launched, ranking first on the Coding Agent Index and nearly matching Claude Opus 5.5 on independent benchmarks.→
Andrew Ng argues the gap between verifiable and judgement-task performance is larger than most realize, making judgement-task progress slower.→
Google warned of potential widespread exploitation of a BeyondTrust Remote Support flaw already used in targeted attacks.→
Windows 11 is getting improvements like lower memory use and a redesigned Search experience.→
Apple's internal Minions system turns idle Macs into an AI inference data center.→
Social media bans are being enacted across France, UK, EU, and Australia, but early evidence shows kids easily circumvent them.→
Form Energy is developing iron-air batteries that use reversible rusting, aiming to provide 100-hour renewable energy storage.→