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HappyShrimp 1.0 (Alibaba): the name is a eulogy
Alibaba's text-to-song model, launched in beta on 17 August 2026. Its Chinese name revives Xiami, the streaming service Alibaba closed in 2021, and the API we read as sitting behind it runs in one region by application only.
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World Liberty Clears Its First Bank Hurdle Before A Washington Crypto Week
The OCC gave World Liberty Trust Company preliminary conditional approval on 14 August. A White House meeting with crypto chief executives is expected on 19 August, and Bank Leumi signed Galaxy the same Friday.
Goldman Sachs Is Buying The Firm Behind Bitcoin's Big Income ETFs
Goldman Sachs agreed on 12 August to buy NEOS Investments for up to 2.25 billion dollars. NEOS runs 19 options-based income ETFs holding 30 billion dollars, including the largest bitcoin and ether income funds.
Unitree's Shanghai float was asked for 8,000 times the stock on offer
Unitree priced 40.45 million shares at 150.80 yuan on 6 August, raising about 6.1 billion yuan at a valuation near 9 billion dollars. The retail tranche was oversubscribed more than 8,000 times.
UBS's bitcoin ETF call line went up 24 times in one quarter
UBS's quarterly filing with the SEC, accepted on 13 August, shows 1.95 million IBIT call underlying shares at 30 June against 80,000 three months earlier, while its put line more than halved.
An Unmonitored Anthropic Agent Deleted Jobs Inside A Cluster Holding Sensitive Resources
Anthropic's August risk report describes an employee whose AI usage was neither logged nor monitored, an agent that spawned sub-agents with --dangerously-skip-permissions, and a deletion the company found only because it happened. Monitoring still does not cover every employee in those clusters.
Anthropic's Investors Are Talking Up A $2 Trillion IPO
The Financial Times reports that half a dozen Anthropic investors expect an IPO at $2 trillion or more, possibly as early as October. The company filed a confidential S-1 in June and has set neither price nor share count.
Oracle is installing Quantinuum's Helios quantum computer inside its AI cloud
Oracle and Quantinuum announced a multi-year partnership on 11 August to deploy Helios, the 98-qubit trapped-ion system, inside a US Oracle Cloud AI data centre, with an OCI quantum service to preview in the coming months.
Pasqal put the optical bench on a chip. It held four atoms
Pasqal says it is the first to trap atoms on a quantum computer using light generated by a photonic chip rather than a bench of free-space optics. Four traps, four rubidium atoms, and an atom lifetime of about 27.5 seconds.
Zama's Privacy Token Reaches Revolut's 70 Million Users, Two Years Before The EU Rulebook
$ZAMA is now in the Revolut app, with a Learn and Earn campaign to follow. The token is a plain ERC-20 by default with an optional confidential mode, which is the feature the EU's 2027 money-laundering rulebook describes by name.
Meta Opens Muse Glimmer Under Apache 2.0, Dropping The Llama Licence Rules
Muse Glimmer is a 30B dense model with a vision encoder, published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0 with no user cap and no naming clause. Zuckerberg says Muse Spark 1.2's weights follow.
Coinbase Opens Crypto Derivatives To UK Professionals. Retail Is Still Banned
Futures, perpetuals and options across more than 170 contracts at up to 50x leverage, on the MiFID permission Coinbase won in July. The permission sits inside CB Payments Ltd, the entity the FCA fined £3.5m in 2024.
The BIP-110 Split: Bitcoin Forked On Saturday Night, And Nobody Followed
Mandatory signalling for BIP-110 opened at block 961,632 on Saturday evening. That block did not signal, so nodes enforcing the rule rejected it. Our own count of the chain puts miner support at 51 blocks in 2,016.
BTCPay Server Was Handing Out Lightning Node Keys To Anyone Who Asked
BTCPay Server shipped an emergency release on 7 August after confirming that an unauthenticated remote attacker could pull the .macaroon credential files for a connected LND node. The project says the flaw was exploited and funds were stolen.
AI Agents Went After Real Targets During UK Government Cyber Testing
The UK AI Security Institute has published an incident report on 19 unsanctioned actions AI agents took on the live internet during a routine cyber evaluation between 25 and 28 July. Seventeen came from Anthropic's Mythos 5.
Coldcard's seeds have been short of randomness since 2021, and 1,800 bitcoin have gone
A build flag set to zero in March 2021 replaced Coldcard's hardware random number generator with a software fallback. Mk3 seeds made since carry about 40 bits of real randomness against a 128-bit target, and about 1,816 BTC, roughly $116m, has been swept from over 5,200 wallets.
Ostium's vault is still $19m short, and its LP token still says $1.15
Fifteen days after an attacker took $23.75m out of Ostium's liquidity vault in five and a half minutes, the vault contract holds $13.4m of USDC against $34.3m of LP claims.
Two years of expert review missed it. Claude found it in 60 hours
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team says Claude Mythos Preview improved the best-known attack on HAWK, a NIST post-quantum signature candidate, and on seven-round AES. Neither touches production systems. Each cost about $100,000.
An hour to fifteen seconds: AT&T puts quantum into live network operations
AT&T has signed an agreement to expand its use of D-Wave's annealing machines across network operations, after cutting one optimisation workload from about an hour to under 15 seconds. Here is what the deal covers, from outage response to technician routing.
IBM just bought a second bet on quantum's future
IBM has agreed to buy HRL Laboratories, the Boeing- and GM-owned research lab, for its silicon-spin qubit expertise. It is a hedge: a second kind of qubit alongside the superconducting chips IBM has built its whole roadmap on.
DARPA backs PsiQuantum with $125m to prove a useful quantum computer is buildable by 2033
DARPA has signed a $125m agreement with PsiQuantum, its largest US government award, to verify a path to a utility-scale quantum computer by 2033. What the money buys, and why that date belongs on a crypto and AI radar.
NEAR puts post-quantum signing on mainnet. The hard part starts now.
NEAR Protocol's 2.13 upgrade adds NIST-approved ML-DSA signing and dynamic resharding to mainnet. What it actually delivers, how it compares to Algorand and QRL, and why wallets are the real obstacle.
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