Kraken’s parent company has agreed to acquire Bitnomial for $550 million. Bitnomial is a CFTC-licensed derivatives platform focused on digital assets, which could strengthen Kraken’s regulated derivatives offering.
Finextra ↗The UAE Capital Market Authority joined an international campaign focused on the risks of misleading financial content, unauthorized investment advice, and online financial scams. It also awarded finfluencer authorisation certificates as part of its effort to improve oversight of financial promotions online.
Finextra ↗Piraeus Bank has launched a dedicated AI hub with Accenture and Anthropic. The move is aimed at shifting from isolated AI projects to a unified enterprise-wide capability.
Finextra ↗The article explains ERC-3643, a token standard designed for regulated institutional finance and compliant tokenization. It notes growing adoption, including more than $32 billion tokenized across 180+ jurisdictions and integration into DTCC's ComposerX.
Finextra ↗Lloyds Banking Group has appointed Sameer Gupta from DBS as its new chief data and AI officer. The move signals a continued focus on data and AI leadership within the bank.
Finextra ↗Lydian is launching a co-branded Visa Platinum card issued by Rain. The digital assets payments provider is backed by Tether and Cantor Fitzgerald.
Finextra ↗MoneyHash announced a multi-year partnership with Visa to enable Cybersource across its payment orchestration platform. The deal is aimed at strengthening MoneyHash’s payments infrastructure for emerging markets and expanding its collaboration with Visa.
Finextra ↗Ant International, IFC, and GCash are developing a sustainability impact scorecard for micro, small, and medium enterprises. The tool is designed to help businesses track environmental and social impact and align with global standards.
Finextra ↗Moonfare has launched a new AI-focused early and growth stage investment strategy. The product is designed to give investors diversified exposure to artificial intelligence and other transformative innovation themes.
Finextra ↗Earl Shilton Building Society is partnering with One Mortgage System to implement its full Originations platform. The move is intended to modernize the society’s digital infrastructure and support mortgage origination operations.
Finextra ↗OpenAI is expanding its Trusted Access for Cyber program from a limited pilot to broader use. The new GPT-5.4-Cyber model is fine-tuned to support verified security defenders with more permissive cyber capabilities.
MarkTechPost ↗The article says many AI startups exist because foundation models have not yet moved into their niche. It notes that this advantage may disappear within the next 12 months as model capabilities broaden.
TechCrunch ↗Moonshot AI and Tsinghua researchers proposed PrfaaS, a new architecture for serving large language models across datacenters. The approach aims to rethink how KV cache is handled so prefill and decode can be separated more efficiently at scale.
MarkTechPost ↗The article explains how TabPFN uses in-context learning to improve accuracy on tabular datasets. It compares the approach with established models like Random Forest and CatBoost, highlighting a technical performance advance in machine learning.
MarkTechPost ↗The article discusses OpenAI’s recent acquisitions and whether they solve two major strategic problems for the company. It is framed as a podcast discussion rather than a breaking regulatory or market event.
TechCrunch ↗Palantir published a manifesto criticizing inclusivity and what it called “regressive” and harmful workplace cultures. The move has drawn more scrutiny as the company continues working with ICE and frames itself as a defender of “the West.”
TechCrunch ↗The article is a TechCrunch Mobility newsletter introducing coverage of transportation trends and AI’s growing role in the sector. It appears to focus on Uber’s evolving strategy, but the excerpt provided does not include any regulatory or market-moving details.
TechCrunch ↗An open-source project called OpenMythos tries to reconstruct Anthropic’s unreleased Claude Mythos architecture from first principles. The project claims a 770M-parameter model can match the performance of a 1.3B-parameter transformer in tests.
MarkTechPost ↗This tutorial shows how to combine Magika file-type detection with OpenAI to analyze files from raw bytes. It walks through setting up the tools and building a workflow for practical security analysis.
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