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Anthropic is opening a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, a shared specification for agents that operate physical devices.
OpenAI’s account of a cybersecurity-evaluation incident shows that capable agents can cross technical boundaries unless isolation, monitoring, and authorization are designed as a single system.
OpenAI says it will wind down its contract with Cursor after the coding editor changed control, putting model access, safety terms, and developer continuity in the same story.
Anthropic's research preview treats safe control of physical equipment as an interoperability problem, giving labs and manufacturers a shared language for agent actions, checks, and handoffs.
Ubisoft says Rayman won best Nintendo Switch 2 game at gamescom 2026, reviving attention around one of its most recognizable platforming properties.
Electronic Arts and Bit Reactor have launched Star Wars Zero Company on PC and consoles, using a squad-based tactics format to build a new Clone Wars story around planning rather than reflexes.
Sony’s September PlayStation Plus monthly-games announcement pairs a sports franchise, a stealth-action title, and smaller genre releases, keeping subscription value tied to breadth and familiarity.
Nintendo's August release slate puts Elden Ring Tarnished Edition on Switch 2, adding a high-profile test of how demanding console worlds travel to portable hardware.
RedotPay’s latest company update frames stablecoin cards as a payments infrastructure story, with compliance and settlement quality now under scrutiny.
Mastercard’s latest Signals report argues that agentic commerce needs verifiable intent, agent identity, and bounded permission before consumers will let software complete purchases.
Payward says Reap is live on Hyperliquid with USDC funding, a sign that crypto platforms are building business payment infrastructure around stablecoin settlement and exchange connectivity.
The payments partnership is aimed at near-time posting for small and midsize businesses, turning payment speed into a working-capital feature rather than a back-office detail.
Rain and Avici say users affected by a Solana-linked crypto-card vulnerability will be refunded, putting operational controls ahead of marketing claims.
Circle says USDC, EURC, CCTP, and Bridge Kit are live on Plasma, extending stablecoin infrastructure into payments, treasury, trading, and foreign-exchange workflows.
HashKey says it will bring an on-chain U.S. government liquidity fund to Asian markets with Franklin Templeton, extending the tokenization story from pilots toward regulated distribution.
A transaction involving HSBC and Standard Chartered shows how blockchain experiments are moving from asset issuance toward the settlement layer used by regulated banks.
Pollen Robotics has introduced Microduck, a low-cost open-source biped positioned as an accessible platform for experimentation and learning.
VANEA Defence says ATOMZA is production-ready for airports, events, and critical infrastructure, opening a legally sensitive market beyond military and sovereign operators.
VANEA Defence says ATOMZA is a production-ready counter-UAS system for airports, events, and critical infrastructure, reflecting the shift from military-only tools to civilian security operations.
VANEA Defence says its ATOMZA system brings active counter-UAS capability to airports, venues, and infrastructure operators that cannot rely on sovereign enforcement powers.
Navitas plans to acquire Claros for up to about $232.8 million, adding vertical power delivery and integrated voltage regulators for AI data centers.
SK hynix says its new Indiana production base will expand advanced packaging and HBM capacity, bringing the AI memory supply chain closer to U.S. data-center demand.
Navitas says its planned Claros acquisition will add voltage-transformation and isolation technology for the grid-to-xPU path, highlighting how AI infrastructure bottlenecks extend beyond compute chips.
Google says its TPU integration targets high-throughput embedding workloads with chunked prefill and compilation warm-up, making retrieval infrastructure more predictable at scale.
The Apache Software Foundation has made Apache Iggy and Apache Sourcelume Top-Level Projects, pairing fast message streaming with signed training-data provenance.
Salesforce’s Headless 360 platform exposes governed business capabilities across frameworks, giving developers a path to build agent-powered experiences without rebuilding core enterprise logic.
Microsoft Threat Intelligence says TerminalFix uses fake Cloudflare verification pages, PowerShell, DLL sideloading, steganography, and a reverse tunnel to move from one click into internal network access.
The open-source C++ library gives client and server developers a local-first way to validate Content Credentials, adding a practical verification layer to media and AI pipelines.
