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Animoca & Currenc suspend Nasdaq reverse merger over audits

Animoca Brands & Currenc Group just paused their Nasdaq reverse merger 🏦 — the Web3 gaming giant is stuck because it lacks current audited financials (its FY2023 report came ~3 years late). Yet Animoca's stablecoin arm Anchorpoint quietly pressed ahead: HKDAP got one of only two HKMA stablecoin licences and

AMC's $3.97B refinancing defers, not fixes, its debt problem

Prolink Router: Ten Ways to Get Root, Zero Authentication Required

Grok 4.7 model interface showing a 500,000-token context window and CursorBench 4.0 benchmark score of 46.3%.

Grok 4.7 undercuts frontier rivals at half the token cost

Abstraction of a computational graph and MoE router network visualizing the path from millions of training tokens to a low per-task cost, indicating efficiency economics.

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro Tops Open-Weight Index at $0.13

Canadian Parliament building exterior in Ottawa with a trading chart overlay symbolizing economic pressure

Carney's Liberal Majority Faces Burning US Trade War This Fall

Technology

Prolink Router: Ten Ways to Get Root, Zero Authentication Required

Grok 4.7 model interface showing a 500,000-token context window and CursorBench 4.0 benchmark score of 46.3%.

Grok 4.7 undercuts frontier rivals at half the token cost

Abstraction of a computational graph and MoE router network visualizing the path from millions of training tokens to a low per-task cost, indicating efficiency economics.

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro Tops Open-Weight Index at $0.13

Boston Dynamics Atlas humanoid robot moving automotive parts at the Savannah, Georgia test facility.

Boston Dynamics' 25,000-robot goal collides with a narrow Savannah testbed

Tesla certifies suppliers, not the product

A U.S. military aircraft flying over open ocean near a cargo vessel, with a warning overlay indicating an intelligence alert.

AI hallucination nearly sparked a U.S.-China confrontation

Business

Graphic of a paused merger path between two company logos with a stablecoin token icon crossing into a Hong Kong exchange, set against a financial data background.

Animoca & Currenc suspend Nasdaq reverse merger over audits

Animoca Brands & Currenc Group just paused their Nasdaq reverse merger 🏦 — the Web3 gaming giant is stuck because it lacks current audited financials (its FY2023 report came ~3 years late). Yet Animoca's stablecoin arm Anchorpoint quietly pressed ahead: HKDAP got one of only two HKMA stablecoin licences and

AMC's $3.97B refinancing defers, not fixes, its debt problem

Xbox console controller on a desk beside a folded severance document and a reduction chart, in muted office lighting.

Microsoft's Xbox reset: 3,200 roles cut after a $76.5B buying spree

Smartphone production line in India assembling a CMF budget phone handset.

CMF becomes majority Indian-owned, targets 100 million phones a year

Exterior of the National Stock Exchange of India building in Mumbai on the day its shares begin trading on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

NSE's ₹22,562-Crore IPO Opens for Trading on BSE

Warren Buffett and his son Howard at a Berkshire Hathaway meeting in Omaha.

📉 Buffett Cedes Chair to Son, Abel Runs the Machine

Illustration of a Bitcoin token and a court gavel on a descending line chart

💸⚖️ Celsius Estate Sues BitMEX for $495 Million in 2020 Liquidations

Logistics

F-16 fighter jet streaking low over a suburban skyline, dark smoke rising in the background.

Two F-16 crashes in five days raise aging-fleet questions

Two F-16s down in five days—one bird-strike engine failure confirmed by ATC audio, one combat-seasoned squadron's jet on a German golf course. ✈️ That's 15 crashes since 2000, and the Air Force keeps calling each one an isolated incident. Pilots ejected safely. But

A Ukrainian Antonov An-124 heavy cargo aircraft parked on an airfield apron under overcast skies.

Europe's 120-tonne airlift gap: a study names it, no one closes it

Air traffic control radar screens showing flight paths at a UK control centre, with aircraft symbols on a dark display.

UK air traffic failures disrupt thousands twice in two weeks

A Prime Air delivery drone flying low over a suburban backyard in Richardson, Texas, with a pool visible below.

📦🚁 Amazon Eyes 500 Cities for Drone Delivery With Little Local Say

Twisted wreckage of the Eurocopter AS350 B2 news helicopter in a Chatsworth parking lot, with fire-damaged vehicles and firefighters in the background.

🚁💥 News Helicopter Crash Deaths Renew Aviation Safety Scrutiny

Uncrewed Collaborative Combat Aircraft concept with General Atomics and Anduril markings in flight formation over desert terrain.

✈️ Faster Than the Budget: Inside the 1,000-Drone Promise

Recovered F-15E Strike Eagle wreckage displayed alongside MQ-9 Reaper drone components in an Iranian outdoor exhibit, August 2026

✈️ Pentagon Logs $7B Aircraft Loss in Iran After F-15E Shootdown

Artificial Intelligence

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Claude Fable 5.1 & Mythos 5.1: 75% Cache Cut, 1.7× Token Burn — Anthropic's Efficiency Paradox

Muse Voice Transcribe Launches: Meta's On‑Device Dictation Slashes Costs 80%, Challenges Google's Cloud Dominance

IBM Granite 4.2: 512K-Token Reasoning at Sub-Second Latency Without Degradation

Alexa+ Goes Free on Fire TV: Voice Triples, Data Trade-Offs Follow

83% Faster Edits: Adobe Firefly AI Cuts Photoshop Latency to 6.2 Seconds in Beta

Logistics

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Two F-16 crashes in five days raise aging-fleet questions

Europe's 120-tonne airlift gap: a study names it, no one closes it

UK air traffic failures disrupt thousands twice in two weeks

📦🚁 Amazon Eyes 500 Cities for Drone Delivery With Little Local Say

🚁💥 News Helicopter Crash Deaths Renew Aviation Safety Scrutiny

Startups & Entrepreneurship

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Anthropic Moves Enterprise Query Data Off Its Servers — Zero Server-Side Retention After Fable 5 Fallout

₱60B EVIS vs. ₱1.99M Grant: The Philippine EV Math Doesn't Add Up

$1.75M Grant, Zero Customers: Space Angel's Green Spaceport Gamble

$1,899 E-Bike With Free $229 Helmet: Monarc's Urban Commuter or Still Just Two Wheels of Embarrassment?

$1.1B Valuation, $60M Raise: Skyroot Becomes India's First Private Orbital Launcher