Bitcoin ETF inflows hit $3.8B in strongest three-week stretch of 2026
US spot Bitcoin ETFs drew nearly $1 billion in the latest week as Friday inflows stayed positive despite Bitcoin briefly falling below $79,000.
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XRP Ledger has fewer active accounts than last year, but bigger trades and more value
Daily order-book traders fell about 40% from a year ago while volume rose 79%, as the value held on XRPL climbed above $4 billion.
Southeast Asia’s crypto funding rebounds to $680 million as investors focus on mature firms
Blockchain investment in Southeast Asia in 2026 has been led by crypto financial services, though funding remains heavily concentrated in Singapore and a handful of companies.
XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.
TikTok’s Parent Company Just Borrowed $30 Billion to Go All-In on AI
Nearly 30 banks backed the rare unsecured facility as TikTok’s parent company spends heavily on AI chips, models, and overseas data centers.
Deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
This post shows how to deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant built with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2. Many quick-service restaurants spread ordering across an app, a website, a phone line, and the counter. Each of those is a separate system to build and run. Each one also fragments the customer’s history, making … Read more
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Audacity 4 is a complete revamp of the ‘world’s most popular’ audio editor
Audacity 4 has been in the works for some time, and had its own mini controversy last year when an unfortunate redesigned logo started making the rounds. The final version of the new icon isn’t nearly as bad as the early rendition that was circulating last October. But more importantly, all the promised improvements to … Read more
G7 Warns Quantum Threat Demands Action as Crypto Industry Weighs Fixes
The group is urging organizations to adopt post-quantum security before powerful computers can compromise today’s encryption and digital signatures.
AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing
Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.
Polymarket Launches Crypto Perpetual Futures With Up to 20x Leverage
The prediction market platform’s new Perps product scaled from 10 markets to 67 on its first day—though the 20x leverage ceiling only applies to some of them, and none of it reaches U.S. traders.
Surprise nonfarm payrolls print sends Bitcoin back below 80K
The US economy added far more jobs than expected in August, pressuring Bitcoin lower as traders repriced the odds of a Federal Reserve rate cut this month.
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The White House is making arcade games racist
Trump’s racist new “Build the Wall” game. | Image: The White House The PR masterminds at the White House just released a series of vaguely policy-themed “arcade” games, some of which are racist – and modeled on real games whose copyright holders may not be too happy to be associated with the MAGA agenda. The … Read more
Pineapple Financial puts $1B in mortgage records on Injective
The mortgage lender plans to bring more than $10 billion in historical loans onchain, turning thousands of mortgage files into blockchain-based records.
FinCEN ties $13B in crypto scams to non-US operations
The agency reported that “transnational criminal organizations” based in compounds in Southeast Asia were largely behind digital asset scams targeting US residents.
Crypto Traders Are Pairing Meme Coins With Stocks on Robinhood—And It’s Working (Sort Of)
A meme coin called BONER cornered half of Hims & Hers Health’s tokenized shares on Robinhood’s new blockchain. It started a new trend that’s spreading fast.
Inside Walmart: Tianyu Zhang on How AI Is Changing Software Engineering
When most people see AI today, they see headlines splashed across billboards and social media feeds. But behind the scenes, AI is also quietly transforming the day-to-day work of professionals inside some of the world’s largest companies. For Tianyu Zhang, that transformation has unfolded firsthand across three different stages of her career. From earlier workflows … Read more
Where the Cybersecurity Market Is Actually Moving in 2026
Large platforms are moving into AI. Specialists are moving into Exposure. The gap matters more than the ranking. 0. Introduction Ten of the eleven public security vendors I tracked moved into AI Security between July 2024 and July 2026. Of the 66 companies in the Broader Sample, eight did. In Exposure Management the picture is … Read more
AI Isn’t the First Tool Education Has Feared
A personal view of the British system — and why education keeps repeating the same response to every new tool I am tackling education from a personal perspective; there is no AI Committee behind this one. I came up through the British world of O Levels and A Levels in the 1980s — secondary school, … Read more
One Developer, Four Repos, 42 Releases: What Parallel AI Agents Actually Cost Me
Since January 7th I have shipped 458 commits across four repositories of a single product and cut 42 releases. The product is a London Underground app: an iOS client (Swift, TCA), an Android client (Kotlin, Compose), a web version (React, WebGL2) and a Go backend. Thirteen App Store releases, ten on Google Play, eleven web, … Read more