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CLARITY Act on Track to Pave the Way for New Rules for Crypto Assets and Stablecoins
3+ hour, 9+ min ago (536+ words) trendingtopics. eu The US Senate Banking Committee has advanced the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act " the CLARITY Act for short " to the full Senate floor by a vote of 15 to 9. The legislation is intended to finally resolve years of jurisdictional…...
Mistral CEO Warns Europe Could Become US "Vassal State" Within 2 Years
16+ hour, 31+ min ago (355+ words) Arthur Mensch, CEO of French AI startup Mistral AI, has warned against Europe's growing dependence on American tech giants in artificial intelligence. The window for action is limited. During a hearing before the French National Assembly on Tuesday, May 13, 2026, Mensch…...
Google I/O 2026: AI Takes Center Stage With New Gemini and Video Generator
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (695+ words) trendingtopics. eu When Google opens its developer conference I/O in Mountain View next Tuesday, artificial intelligence is once again expected to take center stage. Anticipated are a new Gemini version as well as a previously unconfirmed video generator called…...
AI Is Eating Software Margins: How Saa S Companies Now Have to Price In the Token Tax
5+ day, 14+ min ago (828+ words) trendingtopics. eu For many years, software was considered the business model with the sweetest margins in the world: build the product once, sell it as often as you like, collect recurring revenue. With the spread of AI, this logic is…...
Anthropic Seeks Up to $950 Billion Valuation, Potentially Eclipsing Open AI
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (432+ words) According to a report by the New York Times, AI company Anthropic is in talks with investors about a new funding round worth between $30 and $50 billion. The targeted valuation of up to $950 billion would, for the first time, place the…...
Anduril Raises $5 Billion, Hits $61 Billion Valuation in Defense Tech Surge
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (452+ words) US defense tech company Anduril Industries has raised $5 billion in its latest funding round and is now valued at $61 billion. The Series H round was led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. The company has thus significantly increased its valuation…...
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab Challenges Open AI With Real-Time Response Model
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (460+ words) Current language models operate according to a rigid principle: the user speaks or writes, the model waits, processes, and responds. This so-called "turn-based" model creates, in Thinking Machines Lab's view, an artificial bottleneck in the collaboration between humans and AI....
The Recursive CEE Forum returns to Vienna and gathers Europe's tech leaders
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (296+ words) The Recursive CEE Forum brings together founders, investors, policymakers and ecosystem builders from Central and Eastern Europe and the DACH region. Seven country delegations have been confirmed. The forum positions itself as a platform for cross-border collaboration, moving beyond networking…...
Circle Raises $222 M to Build Its Own Blockchain for Stablecoins
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (531+ words) Until now, USDC tokens have run on 34 different blockchains, including Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum, Optimism, Algorand, Avalanche, and many others. Circle is now moving to build its own in-house blockchain for stablecoins. This is not unlike Stripe's project called Tempo, which…...
AI Models like Claude Mythos Threaten Global Financial Stability, IMF Warns
1+ week, 3+ day ago (498+ words) Experts at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) see the rapid development of AI-powered cyberattack tools as a growing threat to the global financial system. Central to their analysis is, among other things, the AI model Claude Mythos Preview from the…...