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Foundation's chief executive told Fox News a humanoid robot pilot on the southern border could start tomorrow. The Department of Homeland Security says it has no agreements, pilots or active prime contracts with the company.
SafePal disclosed on 16 August that an authorisation flaw in an order-tracking plug-in exposed the names, addresses, phone numbers and purchase details of about 39,798 customers. A seller advertised the data the same day.
The SEC pulled its 14 August open meeting the day before, cancelling a vote on proposing Regulation Crypto Assets. The tokenisation innovation exemption was reported delayed again on the same day.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
NASA funds the International Space Station to 2030 and has already bought the vehicle that will bring it down. Every company lined up to take over has money in the bank and no flight with a crew aboard.
The world has attempted 186 orbital launches to 6 August. Catalogues that all count carefully put China's share anywhere from 55 to about 70, because they draw the line between a launch and a test in different places.
Blue Origin landed the same booster twice and reflew it, so the hard part works. Then a hotfire test in May took out the next rocket and the only orbital pad the company had, and return to flight now depends on rebuilding a launch mount.
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.
On its first earnings call as a public company, SpaceX said it intends to sell mobile service directly to consumers and take customers from Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. It has 65 MHz of American spectrum, 12 million Starlink subscribers and a plan to turn rooftop dishes into cell sites.
Audio generated with OpenAI tools now carries a SynthID watermark, the invisible signal built by Google DeepMind. OpenAI has also opened a verification endpoint so anyone can post a file and be told which provenance signals survive in it.
Google announced on 5 August that Demis Hassabis becomes Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet. In the same post it confirmed Jeff Dean is leaving after 27 years, and he has taken Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le with him.
Thirty machines from 16 companies enrolled at the Hangzhou Robot School on 29 June. They sit an entrance check, train in one of four departments, take a real-scene assessment, and leave with a graded certificate and a code tied to the individual machine.
Consensys opened its wallet for autonomous trading agents to everyone on 6 August, with a mandatory scanning pipeline and $10,000 of Transaction Protection in the headline. The cover is a subscription, Consensys says it is not insurance, and MetaMask's own British page will not sell it here.
