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Will Knight / Wired: Anthropic, OpenAI, Block, Google, AWS, Microsoft, and others launch the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source agent standards under the Linux Foundation  —  American AI giants are backing a new effort to establish open standards for… Read More »Anthropic, OpenAI, Block, Google, AWS, Microsoft, and others launch the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source agent standards under the Linux Foundation (Will Knight/Wired)

Ben Weiss / Fortune: Circle launches USDCx, a privacy-focused version of its USDC stablecoin on the Aleo blockchain, to give users “banking-level privacy” with a “compliance record”  —  Blockchains are public databases.  That’s an immediate roadblock for large institutions like… Read More »Circle launches USDCx, a privacy-focused version of its USDC stablecoin on the Aleo blockchain, to give users “banking-level privacy” with a “compliance record” (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Mathieu Rosemain / Reuters: An EssilorLuxottica independent board director says Meta now holds an “at least 3%” stake in the Ray-Ban maker, and possibly up to 5%, confirming media reports  —  Facebook-owner Meta (META.O) holds at least a 3% stake… Read More »An EssilorLuxottica independent board director says Meta now holds an “at least 3%” stake in the Ray-Ban maker, and possibly up to 5%, confirming media reports (Mathieu Rosemain/Reuters)

Jen Judson / Bloomberg: The US DOD says it has chosen Google’s new GenAI.mil platform to help the US military quickly analyze video and imagery, as part of a $200M contract from July  —  The Defense Department said it has… Read More »The US DOD says it has chosen Google’s new GenAI.mil platform to help the US military quickly analyze video and imagery, as part of a $200M contract from July (Jen Judson/Bloomberg)

Meaghan Tobin / New York Times: Some Biden-era officials say access to Nvidia chips could help China’s AI companies buy time while China’s chip makers improve their chips’ performance  —  President Trump said Nvidia can export some chips.  But years… Read More »Some Biden-era officials say access to Nvidia chips could help China’s AI companies buy time while China’s chip makers improve their chips’ performance (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)

Bloomberg: Stripe and Paradigm launch a public trial for their blockchain project Tempo, targeting real-world stablecoin payments, with Kalshi and UBS as new partners  —  Stripe Inc. and crypto venture firm Paradigm have launched a public trial for their joint… Read More »Stripe and Paradigm launch a public trial for their blockchain project Tempo, targeting real-world stablecoin payments, with Kalshi and UBS as new partners (Bloomberg)

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Mistral launches Devstral 2, a coding model with 123B parameters requiring at least four H100 GPUs, and a 24B parameter Devstral Small for local deployment  —  French AI startup Mistral today launched Devstral 2, a new… Read More »Mistral launches Devstral 2, a coding model with 123B parameters requiring at least four H100 GPUs, and a 24B parameter Devstral Small for local deployment (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

Deborah Mary Sophia / Reuters: Wikimedia Foundation names Bernadette Meehan, who was the US Ambassador to Chile from 2022 to 2025, as its new CEO  —  Wikimedia Foundation, the operator of Wikipedia, on Tuesday named Bernadette Meehan its chief executive… Read More »Wikimedia Foundation names Bernadette Meehan, who was the US Ambassador to Chile from 2022 to 2025, as its new CEO (Deborah Mary Sophia/Reuters)

Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: Saviynt, an identity and access management service focused on “human and nonhuman” identity controls, raised a $700M Series B led by KKR at a $3B valuation  —  AI has businesses scrambling to ensure workers… Read More »Saviynt, an identity and access management service focused on “human and nonhuman” identity controls, raised a $700M Series B led by KKR at a $3B valuation (Angus Loten/Wall Street Journal)

Julian Chokkattu / Wired: Pebble unveils the Pebble Index 01, a $99 smart ring with an on-device LLM for processing voice notes, shipping in March 2026, initially for $75  —  You can speak into the Pebble Index to have it… Read More »Pebble unveils the Pebble Index 01, a $99 smart ring with an on-device LLM for processing voice notes, shipping in March 2026, initially for $75 (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)