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Key insight: Brazil-based Nubank has launched in the U.S. through a sponsor partnership with Lead Bank as it works to acquire its own U.S. bank charter.Expert quote: “The graveyard of U.S. neobank failures is full of companies that hadn’t yet proven themselves at home — Nubank has, and it has a cohesive strategy to bridge that success to the U.S.” —Javelin’s Dylan LernerForward look: Nubank now has 10 months to fulfill the OCC’s conditions for final approval for its own de novo bank charter.Nubank has now launched its U.S. bank operations, ahead of being granted a de novo bank charter,…

Key TakeawaysSenator Bernie Sanders wants a 50% public equity stake in major AI companies to fund a $7 trillion public pool.Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly backed AI pacing rules in September, agreeing private control is strange.Donald Trump dismissed the AI safety warnings on September 13, framing the entire sector as a race with China. The world’s most powerful AI companies are actively begging the federal government to regulate them. But their strategy might have backfired spectacularly. While industry leaders try to build a regulatory moat to lock out smaller competitors, lawmakers are responding with proposals that include a mandatory 50%…

In brief TRM examined roughly $52.7 million across 198.9 million x402 settlements. Screening out self-payments and other anomalous flows left $25.62 million in likely commerce. Agents accounted for a small share under TRM’s models, which cannot conclusively distinguish them from scripts. Most payment volume on Coinbase’s x402 protocol isn’t coming from AI agents, according to blockchain intelligence company TRM Labs.TRM’s report, published Wednesday, examined $52.7 million across 198.9 million settlements processed by known x402 facilitators on Base, Solana, and Polygon since May 2025. After excluding self-payments and other anomalous flows, researchers estimated that just 0.6%–7.5% of the remaining commerce by…

Cross-chain protocol Symbiosis said it recovered approximately 15 BTC after an attacker exploited its native Bitcoin Bridge, but affected liquidity providers still lack compensation terms as a Sep. 13 bounty window nears its unspecified cutoff.The vulnerability was exploited at about 04:28 UTC on Sep. 11, according to the protocol’s incident statement. Symbiosis said only the Bitcoin Bridge was affected and that its other routes and components remained operational. It specifically listed routes spanning EVM chains, TRON and TON as unaffected, and said its relayer group continued operating to secure the network. The protocol said the recovered bitcoin is secured in…

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Zach Anderson Sep 11, 2026 20:14 AMD highlights AI, adaptive computing, and advanced workflows at IBC 2026, positioning itself as a key player in next-gen media production. AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) is leveraging the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) 2026 in Amsterdam to showcase its adaptive computing and AI-driven innovations for next-generation media production. Running from September 11-14, the event highlights how AMD’s technology integrates AI, high-resolution workflows, and secure production systems into a seamless infrastructure for broadcasters and content creators. As part of its fifth consecutive year as an Associate Sponsor of IBC’s Accelerator…

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Dans les couloirs du Palais des Congrès, porte Maillot à Paris, où se tenait ces derniers jours le rendez-vous annuel des investisseurs dans les actifs non cotés (Ipem), ni le concert de Céline Dion, ni la nouvelle levée de fonds de Mistral AI ne sont parvenus à distraire les investisseurs de leur préoccupation centrale et désormais urgente. « Tout le monde veut récupérer son argent », synthétise un gérant de fonds basé à New York qui concentre plus de 15 milliards de dollars sous gestion.Car si la situation s’améliore légèrement au deuxième trimestre, le dégel du marché du private equity n’est pas encore lancé. « Bien…

There could be pressure on Nvidia , given the self-imposed slowdown of the artificial intelligence data center buildout that Sam Altman from OpenAI, Elon Musk from xAI, and Dario Amodei from Anthropic have raised. Dario’s posting over the weekend — headlined as “We Must Pace the Frontier” — is self-evident and extremely self-serving. David Sacks, former tech investor and White House AI and crypto czar, has an excellent counterpoint that could explain the apparent duplicity of Dario’s manifesto. Sacks, co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, wrote on X and concluded: “Go ahead and pace the…

Shares in housebuilder Vistry (LSE: VTY) jumped 18% on 25 August when it was announced that the Kent-based company would receive £350 million as part of the government’s £39 billion social and affordable homes programme.The funding package was significantly higher than the award under the previous programme (£278 million). It was also the largest possible award in the first round of funding allocations (£9.5 billion). Vistry said it will deploy the funds immediately to more than 3,000 affordable homes. Per-home funding is £116,000, up from £79,000.Vistry delivers around 15% of the UK’s social/affordable homes and is one of the best…