Figma’s Shares Slide Following Earnings as Company Says It Isn’t a Bitcoin Treasury
Figma boss Dylan Field said Thursday that his company was not primarily focused on Bitcoin, but instead on design.
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Bret Taylor’s Sierra raises $350M at a $10B valuation
Customer service AI agent startup Sierra claims to have hundreds of customers including SoFi, Ramp and Brex, among others.
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Rivian makes its second small workforce cut of the year ahead of R2 SUV launch
The company previously laid off around 140 workers in its manufacturing division in June.
Kraken Acquires Breakout to Enable Leveraged Bitcoin Trading With Funded Accounts
The exchange bought the proprietary trading platform for an undisclosed amount.
Boerse Stuttgart unveils pan-European platform for tokenized assets
Boerse Stuttgart has launched Seturion, a blockchain-based platform to unify settlement of tokenized assets across Europe.
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Wyoming stablecoin to launch on Hedera, still not available to purchase
The FRNT stablecoin, backed by the US state of Wyoming, reportedly went live on seven blockchains at its August launch.
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Race for global stablecoin rails heats up with Stripe, Fireblocks launches
Stripe and Fireblocks networks will go up against crypto-native players such as Ripple and Stellar, as well as established global processors like Visa.
Warner Bros. Discovery sues Midjourney for generating ‘countless’ copies of its characters
Midjourney allegedly generated these images of Batman and the Joker. | Image: Warner Bros. Discovery via Midjourney Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Midjourney over claims the AI startup “brazenly dispenses its intellectual property as if it were its own,” as reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter. In the lawsuit, Warner Bros. Discovery alleges that Midjourney … Read more
AWS Bedrock Knowledge Bases: Comparing S3 Vector Store vs. OpenSearch, PostgreSQL & Neptune
Starting from July 15, AWS has added support for S3 vector stores for Bedrock knowledge bases. Currently, it supports multiple stores: AWS managed, OpenSearch, Pinecone, Postgres, Redis Enterprise Cloud and others.
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Facebook is trying to make ‘pokes’ happen again
The poke-tracking feature is largely designed to appeal to younger users who have grown up with gamification elements built into their social apps, like Snapchat and TikTok Streaks.
Tech companies pledge to ready Americans for an AI-dominated world
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are among the companies committing to help prepare Americans for a world dominated by AI technology at a White House event on AI education Thursday. First Lady Melania Trump hosted a meeting of the White House’s AI education task force where several CEOs touted their commitments. President Donald Trump is expected … Read more
Kraken enters proprietary trading with Breakout acquisition
The deal expands Kraken’s trading infrastructure push following its $1.5B NinjaTrader acquisition in May 2025.
Object Creation: The Issues I Faced and the Patterns That Helped Me
Creational patterns were first described in the famous Gang of Four’s Design Patterns. The book presents each pattern in a dedicated chapter and follows a strict structure for each one: intent, motivation, applicability, structure, participants, collaborations, consequences, implementation, sample codes, known uses, and related patterns. The intent pattern presents a succinct goal of the pattern, … Read more
Bitcoin drop to $108K possible as investors fly to ‘safer’ assets
Bitcoin price faces pressure as investors shift to bonds and gold, and risk aversion raises the chance of BTC falling to $108,000.
Stripe enlists a who’s who, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Paradigm, to build a new blockchain
Stripe is funding a new blockchain called Tempo to process stablecoins faster. And many big names are joining the effort.
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Mark Zuckerberg sues Mark Zuckerberg
Mark S. Zuckerberg, an attorney, says that he’s losing business because his Facebook business profile keeps getting disabled.
What could block Strategy’s path to the S&P 500
A company might satisfy the eligibility criteria in terms of metrics, yet still be denied entry to the index due to a committee decision. Here’s what crypto companies must do to qualify.
‘CopyPasta’ Attack Shows How Prompt Injections Could Infect AI at Scale
AI coding tools can be tricked by fake license files to spread malicious code, security firm HiddenLayer warns.
Stripe, Paradigm Unveil Tempo as Blockchain Race for High-Speed Stablecoin Payments Heats Up
Payments giant Stripe and crypto investment firm Paradigm on Thursday officially unveiled Tempo, their joint blockchain project designed for stablecoin payments. The initiative, incubated inside Stripe, is designed to handle the kind of scale Stripe sees in real-world financial applications, processing tens of thousands of transactions per second with sub-second finality, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison … Read more