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Coins.ph CEO Wei Zhou on Corporate Chains, AI Agents & Asia’s Stablecoin Rails: Inside Coinfest 2026

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Asia moves roughly $245 billion in stablecoin volumevand on a stage in Bali in August the people who move a good deal of it spent forty minutes not talking about consumers. The panel at Coinfest Asia on 20 August was “Stablecoins Are Becoming the New Financial Rails” and was moderated by Adriel Wong, Head of … Read more

Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic

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Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages for “tens of thousands” copyrighted works. The companies are asking for up to $150,000 per work, plus up to $25,000 for each instance when identifiable copyright data was stripped. In total, the … Read more

“We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z

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Vijay Pande — who left a16z’s roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a “discovery” science to an “engineering” one, why clinical trials are still brutally expensive, and why he thinks open, shared datasets (not walled-off ones) are what … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: How I Built a Production-Ready AI Agent on PHP, cPanel, and Gemini Flash (8/29/2026)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 29, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The British Computer Misuse Act Went into Effect in 1990, Michael Faraday Discovered Electromagnetic Induction in 1831, Meitnerium was Synthesized for the First time in 1982, and we … Read more