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Coinbase users can now borrow USDC against bitcoin at a fixed rate
That variable-rate business is substantial, carrying more than $1.4 billion in active loans backed by nearly $3 billion of collateral.
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AI potential to drive crypto demand remains ‘underappreciated’: BlackRock
BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, says broad artificial intelligence adoption could represent a significant and underappreciated source of demand for digital assets, according to its latest research paper titled 'The Machine-Native Economy.' Authored by Will Su, Robert Mitchnick, Jay Jacobs, and William Helm, the report argues that the rise of AI and machine-to-machine payments could increase demand for blockchains, stablecoins, and other programmable payment infrastructure.
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Claude 5.5 Released, Performance Nearly Matches Fable, and It's Competing on Price Too
Anthropic has officially launched Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in the Claude 5.5 family, with Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 set to arrive in the coming weeks.
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Just In: GPT-6 New Model Shakes the Table! Crashes into DeepSeek's Territory at Rock-Bottom Prices
Among them, GPT-6 Luna is priced at $0.1 per million tokens for input and $0.5 for output, equivalent to approximately ¥0.7 and ¥3.5 in Chinese yuan.
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Morning Briefing...
OpenAI released two new models, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, on September 22, bringing down some of GPT-6 Astra's advances in professional work, factual accuracy, programming, and computer use into faster, lower-priced versions.
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Qualcomm Unveils Two Sixth-Generation Snapdragon 8 Elite Flagship Chips, Focusing on On-Device AI and Agent Capabilities
Qualcomm officially unveiled two new generations of flagship mobile processors at its annual Snapdragon Summit on September 22 local time — the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6.
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SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering
An evening gathering dedicated to agentic engineering is scheduled for Wednesday, 14th October in San Francisco, announced in a Link blog post published on 23rd September 2026.
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UN Security Council Will Get Advice on AI Risks From Tech Giants Building It
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, AI safety researcher Yoshua Bengio and Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue are scheduled to brief the 15-member body.
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US Treasury secretary emerges as frontrunner for Trump’s AI czar role
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has emerged as the frontrunner to serve as President Donald Trump's next artificial intelligence czar, according to three sources familiar with the matter who spoke to Semafor.
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Zcash leads crypto majors with a 10% gain as bitcoin holds near $87,000
Zcash led major cryptocurrencies with a 10% surge to above $1,616 during Wednesday's Asian trading session, while Bitcoin held steady near $86,900, according to CoinDesk data.