Banks escalate stablecoin rewards fight as Senate prepares for a Clarity Act vote
Eight banking groups on Monday said they want tighter limits on stablecoin rewards, keeping the ongoing banks-versus-crypto dispute alive in Congress.
CLARITY Act faces state AGs opposition ahead of key Senate vote
Trump’s ethics concession addresses one hurdle for the crypto bill, but 18 state attorneys general say the revised legislation would weaken state oversight.
Volkswagen’s crazy-efficient EV borrows an idea from Slate
Volkswagen’s new efficiency-minded halo car is almost twice as efficient as the most efficient production car, the Lucid Air.
Bitcoin Climbs as AI Slowdown Calls Sink Nvidia, Intel and Other Chip Stocks
AI CEOs want the industry to pump the brakes on capability gains. Nvidia, Intel, and AMD didn’t like the sound of that. Bitcoin didn’t seem to mind.
TIFF 2026: the latest movie reviews from Toronto
If you want an idea of what’s next in film, the Toronto International Film Festival is a good place to start. Every year TIFF features a huge range of features from around the world, and often some of them go on to be huge hits or awards contenders; the 2025 edition, for instance, included the … Read more
Crypto Market Has ‘Definitely Not Priced In’ Clarity Act Surprise, Says Bernstein
Ethics and banking concessions have improved the crypto bill’s prospects, analysts say, but Democratic support remains uncertain.
With iOS 27, I’m actually using Siri again
Apple’s long-delayed Siri overhaul is finally here with iOS 27, and it changes how useful the assistant feels day to day
macOS 27 is available now
Apple released macOS 27 Golden Gate on Monday, which brings the new Siri AI assistant, Liquid Glass improvements, improved performance, and more. The update is compatible with all Macs with Apple Silicon, but not Intel Macs – Apple released its final big update for Intel-based Macs last year with macOS Tahoe. Siri AI is arguably … Read more
macOS 27: new Siri takes on AI productivity apps
The two most noticeable things about macOS 27 Golden Gate are the newly updated Siri AI and the design changes that make windows and icons more consistent.
Apple releases iOS 27 with Siri AI overhaul
The iOS 27 update arrives just in time for the iPhone 18 Pro release. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple is now rolling out its iOS 27 update to compatible devices today, alongside the watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, and visionOS 27 updates. Siri AI is the headline feature across all four updates, … Read more
Fashion app Daydream uses Apple Intelligence to help you shop the outfits in your camera roll
Thanks to the launch of iOS 27, Daydream’s app now includes features that can turn saved outfit photos into shoppable results and search for products through Siri without opening the app.
Valve’s Steam Frame costs $1,059
Valve is finally releasing its Steam Frame headset, which can run both flat and VR games locally and stream both kinds of games from your PC. The Steam Frame will start at $1,059. Valve will also offer a 1TB model that starts at $1,299. Every Steam Frame will come with a copy of Half-Life: Alyx, … Read more
The Steam Frame is made for irresponsible hardware nerds like me
For nearly three weeks, I’ve been testing the limits of Valve’s Steam Frame, the company’s new wearable PC. At first glance, it’s easy to write it off as a pricey headset that missed the VR craze. At $1,059 with 256GB of storage or $1,299 for 1TB, it costs two to three times as much as … Read more
Microsoft’s new AI ‘code of conduct’ tells models not to hack systems or trick humans
The code of conduct lays out general principles that Microsoft AI models should uphold — supporting humans rather than replacing them, for instance, and accelerating human flourishing — as well as specific safety constraints meant to implement those principles.
S&P Global backs Kaiko as Series B reaches $110M
The investment brings together major financial institutions as Kaiko expands its data infrastructure for tokenized securities and onchain financial markets.
Bitmine Adds $68 Million in Ethereum as Holdings Near 6 Million ETH
The purchase brings the company closer to its goal of owning 5% of Ethereum’s supply, with most of its tokens earning staking rewards.
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SecurityMetrics Contributes to GEAR, Shares AI Solutions at the PCI SSC NA 2026 Community Meeting
OREM, Utah, Sept. 14, 2026— SecurityMetrics has participated for the last eight years in PCI SSC’s GEAR (The Global Executive Assessor Roundtable) since its creation in July of 2018. As participants in GEAR, SecurityMetrics aims to improve the cybersecurity of businesses to help protect organizations and customers alike from cyber threats, and to help refine … Read more
How Ninth Wave built AI-powered open finance onboarding on Amazon Bedrock
Financial institutions participating in open finance (the network where banks share customer-authorized financial data with third-party applications through standardized APIs) face a persistent integration challenge. Every bank exposes APIs with its own field names, formatting conventions, and gaps relative to the Financial Data Exchange (FDX) standard. Validating those APIs, mapping fields, and scoring readiness for … Read more
A bipartisan coalition of 17 state attorneys generals urge Senate to reject Clarity Act
The state AGs said they were concerned the crypto legislation might restrict their ability to bring securities and commodities cases tied to online scams.
Bitmine projects $334M in annual staking revenue from $15.8B crypto treasury
Bitmine now has more than 5 million ETH staked, turning most of its Ether holdings into a recurring income stream as it continues to accumulate.
The generative AI customization spectrum: From prompt engineering to custom models on AWS
This post shows you how to pick the right generative AI customization approach for your workload without over-engineering or under-investing. AWS provides access to foundation models from Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, and Amazon through Amazon Bedrock, along with the infrastructure to build everything from chatbots and code assistants to document processors and autonomous agents. The models … Read more
Automate replenishment with MMF, Databricks Genie, and Amazon Quick
AWS Machine Learning Blog: technical walkthrough. Commands and expected outputs are from a working deployment. Substitute your own account values throughout. Replenishment automation starts with a demand forecast, and in retail that forecast has a short shelf life. By the time a planner exports it, checks it against supplier availability, and works down tens of … Read more
Strategy Buys Back $139 Million of STRC, Bitcoin Stack Frozen for Second Week
The Bitcoin treasury firm slowed its preferred-stock buyback from last week’s $176 million pace and left its 845,050 BTC untouched, per a Monday SEC filing.
Top 5 AI Code Review Tools 2026
AI reviewing AI? What could possibly go wrong? Well, for starters, the biggest issue here is bias. If a model has written the code, it probably shouldn’t be the one doing the review. Then there’s the fact that these code reviews shouldn’t be fully outsourced to LLMs (even though they can assist you pretty well, … Read more
Sources say Automattic’s board is out after failed attempt to oust CEO Matt Mullenweg
Automattic’s board is out, days after its members voted to put chief executive Matt Mullenweg on leave, sources tell TechCrunch.
NBKR Signs CertiK to Secure Kyrgyzstan’s Digital Som Ahead of a December Pilot Deadline
Nine days ago the president of Kyrgyzstan gave his central bank a deadline: build a working digital som platform and pilot it by 31 December 2026, test it with real users in 2027, then roll it out to the country in stages. Today the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic signed a Memorandum of Understanding … Read more