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427 stories · page 10 of 48The Eurosystem launched Pontes: tokenised asset deals can now settle in central bank money
On 21 September the ECB and the national central banks launched Pontes - a bridge between blockchain platforms for securities and central bank money. The first banks and operators can use it immediately, and the full feature set is expected by 2028. The ECB itself said it is preparing to invest a small portion of its own funds in tokenised securities through Pontes.
Read →Atlas has started training at Hyundai's Georgia plant, with parts assembly promised for 2030
Boston Dynamics opened a humanoid robot training centre inside the Metaplant America plant near Savannah. Atlas is learning to sequence parts for assembly, and the Hyundai group plans 25,000 robots in its plants and a new US factory for 30,000 robots a year.
Read →Meta will build Petal: the first cable across an ocean with a petabit per second of capacity
The cable will link France and the United States over about 7,000 kilometres and carry 1 petabit per second, per Meta double the most advanced cables at that distance. The trick is fibre with two cores instead of one. Service is expected in 2029.
Read →Anthropic will bring outside evaluators inside the company, and both it and Accenture expect to invest at least a billion dollars each
Evaluators from Faculty, Accenture's specialist AI business, will work with access comparable to an employee's: they test the models, check the safeguards and can report incidents. Anthropic pays.
Read →Three holes in the Linux kernel went onto the exploited list, and their fixes are months old
CISA added three kernel vulnerabilities already used in attacks on 18 September, with a deadline of 21 September. Their NVD entries date from September and October 2025 and June 2026. The problem is the machines that never got the fix.
Read →Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 transcribes twice as accurately as the first version in SpaceXAI tests, at the same price
The new speech-to-text model is built on the audio model behind Grok Voice, detects the language itself and follows a switch mid-recording. The price stays at $0.10 per hour of audio for batch and $0.20 for streaming.
Read →Google closed Gemini 2.5 to new users
In a note dated 18 September Google limited access to the Gemini 2.5 models in the API to users who have actively used them. They are not deprecated, but for a new app Google points to 3.5 Flash-Lite or 3.8 Flash, citing capacity.
Read →Brussels proposed: no social media under 13, your own account from 15, AI companions off by default
The Commission adopted the draft EU KIDS Act. Platforms will have to prove for themselves that they are safe for children. It is a proposal and now goes to Parliament and the Council.
Read →Claude sped up more than 30 biology models by about 4 times on average in under four weeks and opened the code
An internal Anthropic research model, supervised by two people with no background in optimisation, optimised the open models for protein structure and design. Plus a new mode that predicts systems over 10,000 tokens on a single server.
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