BitGo Korea secures VASP registration for institutional crypto custody
Regulators reportedly accepted BitGo Korea’s registration on Tuesday, two days before stricter VASP entry requirements took effect.
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Designing Agent Memory: Five Gates a Bigger Context Window Cannot Replace
Think of your agent’s history as a warehouse the size of a city block. Every event goes onto a shelf: user messages, tool outputs, retrieved documents, the model’s own half-formed plans. A million-token context window makes that warehouse bigger. It does not hire a librarian, and it does not tell the forklift which box to … Read more
Live updates: Bitcoin ETFs draw $517 million, ether pulls $189 million in biggest inflows in months
Spot bitcoin ETFs pulled in $517 million and ether funds $189 million on Aug. 19, the strongest daily hauls in months, as a broad rally torched $2.7 billion in bearish bets.
HYPE jumps 20% as Trump signals legal US path for Hyperliquid
HYPE reached $72 after Trump said the CFTC was pursuing compliant US access for Hyperliquid, though no formal regulatory plan has been released.
Trader who made $49 million shorting crypto lost $24 million on ether in 12 seconds
The Hyperliquid wallet known as pension-usdt.eth was forced out of a 50,000 ETH short as ether surged, with five liquidation orders helping push the price higher during the unwind.
Bearish crypto bets lose record $2.7 billion as bitcoin surges toward $70,000
Traders betting against crypto lost $2.74 billion in a day, more than the short side of the October 2025 crash that remains the biggest liquidation event in the market’s history.
Rushed CLARITY Act vote could set legislation back, Gallego warns
Gallego said the White House has not provided point-by-point feedback on a bipartisan ethics proposal as a September vote approaches.
Ether jumps 18% to $2,250 as bitcoin tops $69,000 in broad crypto rally
Every major except tron posted double-digit weekly gains, with nearly $1.4 billion of short positions wiped out after the Treasury doubled its bond buybacks.
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Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’
What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it’s because of “the singularity” but it’s really for a far more real and powerful reason.
Does giving a camera wings dodge the FCC’s drone ban?
It’s a camera. It’s a drone. But HoverAir doesn’t want it to be a drone where the FCC is concerned. | Image: HoverAir HoverAir drones always have intriguing gimmicks. This one folds flat to fit in your pocket. This one can land on water. Another can charge inside its carrying case. But the brand’s latest … Read more
Bitcoin briefly hits $70,000 for the first time since June. Here is why
The largest crypto asset rose more than 7% on Wednesday after several catalysts sent crypto-related assets higher.
Waymo’s cheaper, next-gen robotaxi is now open to all riders in these three cities
The next-generation robotaxi, called the Waymo Ojai, is central to the company’s push towards mass scale, and eventually, profitability.
Bitcoin’s Sharpest Rally in Five Months Flips Markets From Bearish to Coin Flip
Bitcoin’s steepest daily gain since March caught traders off guard, and Myriad’s pump-or-dump market swung from 70-30 odds to nearly even in a single day.
Domain and publish date filters for Web Search on AgentCore
When an AI agent uses Web Search to ground its answers on behalf of a customer, the organization behind that agent needs domain and date filters to control which sources the agent consults and how fresh those sources must be. A financial-services agent shouldn’t ground its answers in an unvetted blog. A product-information agent shouldn’t … Read more
OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections
A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.
Automate Document Processing with Quick Automate and the IDP Accelerator
Mortgage lending runs on documents. Every loan starts with a familiar set: earnings statements, W-2s, bank statements, driver’s licenses, voided checks, and insurance applications. Every lender processes them at scale. The challenge of classifying, extracting, and validating high volumes of documents isn’t unique to mortgage lending. Organizations in banking, insurance, healthcare, and the public sector … Read more
Asynchronous patterns for calling Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents in serverless pipelines
Asynchronous invocation patterns for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents in serverless pipelines remove idle compute costs while your AI agent processes requests. A common example is document validation: in a real-estate financing back office, an agent can read a property record or loan contract, reason about whether the information is complete and consistent, and return a … Read more
Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup
SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.
Travis Kalanick kicks off another round of VC bashing: ‘1% are helpful’
After raising $1.7 billion for his new robotics company Atoms, Travis Kalanick is introspective about the role VCs have played in his career.
Trump Says AI Could Be ‘Bigger Than the Internet’ as He Pushes Light-Touch Regulation
The president said the U.S. is far ahead of China in artificial intelligence and defended the rapid construction of data centers and power plants needed to fuel the industry.
HireQuotient’s EasySource Delivers 65% Reduction in Time to Fill, for North America’s Retail Gaint
San Francisco, United States, August 19th, 2026/TechnologyWire/–HireQuotient, which recently announced its strategic partnership with Paylocity (NASDAQ: PCTY), delivers another strong return on investment (ROI) for a PE-owned North American media and retail giant. Chief People Officer of the organization, Ann Jadown shared her amazement at closing 15 critical roles with a 65% reduction in time … Read more
How Fanatics Betting and Gaming built a multi-agent customer support system
Fanatics Betting and Gaming (FBG) built a multi-agent customer support system on AWS to solve a challenge unique to sports betting. Customers expect instant, accurate answers, especially during live events when every minute counts. Customers ask about account issues, deposit limits, state-specific regulations, and responsible gaming resources. The rules vary across every jurisdiction where an … Read more
KnowledgeForge: mining gold from the ITSM ticket graveyard
KnowledgeForge is about mining gold from the IT Service Management (ITSM) ticket graveyard: the resolved incident tickets whose knowledge never reaches a knowledge base article. Enterprise IT support teams resolve thousands of tickets every month, and each one holds something useful: a symptom, a root cause, and the fix an engineer applied. That knowledge stays … Read more
Bitcoin.com integrates UAE-registered US dollar stablecoin into self-custodial wallet
The integration expands access to USDU, the UAE’s first central bank-registered US dollar stablecoin, as it builds distribution beyond institutional channels.
Rillet raises $100M Series C at $1B valuation — 2 years after emerging from stealth
AI-native account startup Rillet became a unicorn, led by Iconiq, after it doubled its ARR in the past three months, it said.
Gwyneth Paltrow allegedly set to throw dinner in honor of Sam Altman
The actress’ firm Kinship Ventures is an investor in the company.