The State Duma’s Financial Market Committee has revised the draft law “On Digital Currency and Digital Rights” for its second reading. The new version proposes changes to the mechanism for blocking transfers related to the illegal circulation of cryptocurrencies. The initial draft of the bill proposed two registries to be maintained by an authorized body: […]
The rise in the use of stablecoins could lead to a reduction in retail bank deposits, according to European Central Bank (ECB) Executive Board member Piero Cipollone at the annual Federcasse meeting. Together we will strengthen trust in money and the banking system, says Executive Board member Piero Cipollone in a @FedercasseBCC lecture. The digital […]
The Thinking Machines Lab, led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has released its first open AI model, Inkling. Today, we are introducing Inkling. Inkling reasons efficiently across text, image, and audio modalities. We are making the full weights available.https://t.co/Ghebq5mG30 Available today for fine-tuning on Tinker. Play with it in the Inkling Playground. 🧵— Thinking […]
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3 — the world’s first open 3T-class model with 2.8 trillion parameters, native vision, and a 1 million-token context window. By the project’s own estimates, overall it trailed only the proprietary Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol. Kimi K3 is built on the new Kimi Delta Attention […]
On July 16, VentureBeat published the results of a survey on the security of corporate AI agents. Among 107 respondents, 18% reported a confirmed security incident, while another 36% mentioned an incident that was stopped before causing damage. Source: VentureBeat Pulse Research. Another 42% of participants did not identify such events. In 5% of the […]
Payment company Visa has introduced the Visa Stablecoin Platform (VSP) for stablecoin operations, aimed at banks and fintech companies. The platform supports issuance, redemption, storage, and transfer of assets within a single interface. The product also includes Wallet-as-a-Service, where Visa hosts and maintains the wallet infrastructure, and clients connect via API. Access is secured with […]
Ledger has unveiled the Agent Stack toolset, enabling AI agents to interact with cryptocurrency wallets. These agents can check balances, analyze portfolios, and prepare transactions, but any signed operations require device confirmation. Clean build on the Ledger Agent Stack. The hardware-as-final-approval pattern is exactly right. https://t.co/TIKAaphw76 — Ledger (@Ledger) July 16, 2026 According to the […]
Cards and stablecoins will occupy different niches in AI agent payments, according to a report by Visa and blockchain analytics firm Artemis. The authors identified two categories of such transactions: human-directed purchases: booking travel, managing subscriptions, and ordering goods. These transactions are similar to regular online commerce and can be processed through payment cards; frequent […]
Zhipu, a leading Chinese technology company in the field of artificial intelligence, trained its GLM-5.2 model using responses from Claude and GPT. This was stated by Tarun Chhabra, head of national security policy at Anthropic, during the Aspen Security Forum, as reported by the South China Morning Post. According to him, the U.S. is six […]
In a technical experiment, Nvidia increased the accuracy of the Cosmos 3 Nano model on a multiple-choice test from 54.41% to 93.35% in less than a day. The main retraining stages were performed by the AI agent Codex using pre-prepared instructions from TAO. The result was achieved using a specialized dataset—Woven Traffic Safety by Woven […]
