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Meta Platforms Inc.'s (META) new AI assistant Muse topped U.S. app store charts on Monday after launching Sept. 8, driving the stock to its best single-day gain in 13 months with an 11% jump. The app registered over 902,000 downloads in its first six days, outpacing Meta's earlier AI app launch.

The European Central Bank announced Monday it will invest a small portion of its own funds in tokenized securities, with transactions settling through its newly launched Pontes service. The purchases aim to help the ECB gain practical experience as an investor and build institutional expertise in th

Ondo Finance introduced a conversion system allowing eligible institutions to convert stocks and exchange-traded funds directly into tokenized equivalents or redeem tokens for underlying shares. The new system aims to reduce the amount of additional capital needed to create tokenized inventory and l

Venice AI's native token VVV hit a fresh all-time high of $34.51 on September 21. The token is up roughly 17% in the past 24 hours and has climbed around 3,000% since bottoming out at $0.92 last December. VVV now holds a market cap near $1.6 billion, making it the third-largest AI-focused

Meta's Muse personal AI agent app topped Apple's iOS app store free app chart on Friday, surpassing OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and SpaceXAI's Grok AI. The app racked up 730,000 downloads over about five days after launching on Sep. 8, according to analytics firm Sensor Tower. Meta's

Hardware maker FutureBit tested a Bitcoin mining demonstration using a simulated fruit fly brain to perform mining calculations in a web browser, the company stated on X on September 13, 2026. The HashFly experiment simulates activity across 2,914 neural pathways from MaleCNS v1.0, a digital

Iran's government has implemented reduced office hours and increased remote work to address energy shortages, as reported by Al Jazeera. The measures respond to fuel and power shortages exacerbated by ongoing military conflict, including strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure and disruptions in

The United States is investigating a shipment of F-35 components that was diverted to Hong Kong instead of its intended destination, Australia. The shipment is believed to have included sensitive stealth-related technology, prompting an inquiry by the Pentagon and U.S. Congress due to concerns

Sunrun and Tesla said on Monday that more than 140,000 household batteries discharged power into California's grid on the evening of Sept. 9, when a heat wave lifted demand and wholesale prices. The companies reported a peak of more than 580 megawatts over a three-hour window, describing the

ARM Holdings Plc (ARM) shares surged about 16% on Monday, making the stock the Nasdaq-100 pack's top gainer, as Meta Platforms Inc.'s (META) Muse AI agent reportedly sparked renewed enthusiasm for central processing units (CPUs). Meta is ARM's lead partner and co-developer on the AGI CPU built for a

Paramount Skydance will settle with state attorneys general led by California's Rob Bonta, allowing its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery to proceed, multiple reports said Monday. The lawsuit sought to block the deal on antitrust grounds and was previously set for trial in March. The d

Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks announced on Monday that one-third of new GLP-1 pill patients are taking the company's Foundayo, as the drugmaker ramps up production to compete with rival Novo Nordisk in the oral obesity medication market. The announcement came as Lilly broke ground on a $6.5 billion

Bitcoin broke through $86,000, reaching its highest price level in eight months after clearing a resistance zone that had acted as a ceiling for months. The move was driven by a cascade of forced liquidations, with more than $648 million in short positions wiped out within a 24-hour window. When

Circle launched a Bitcoin-backed borrowing service for institutional clients, allowing eligible Circle Mint customers to use BTC as collateral to borrow USDC through onchain lending markets. The service, called Digital Asset-Backed Borrowing, went live with cirBTC launching on Arc on Monday, days

Sony has argued in court that players don't own the digital games they buy, marking the latest development in an ongoing dispute over digital ownership rights. Traditional property law protections against seizure don't apply to digital assets, leaving platform operators free to revoke or edit

Amazon announced Monday it will invest an additional $1.9 billion in its Delivery Service Partner program in 2027, bringing total investment in the initiative to $21.7 billion since its launch eight years ago. The commitment was outlined at the company's annual Ignite Live conference for DSP

The USD/JPY exchange rate rose 0.603 yen (0.385%) to 157.335 yen as of 9:47 AM on the 21st in New York trading, recovering gains surrendered after the Bank of Japan conducted a 'rate check' on the 18th ahead of Japan's 'Silver Week' holiday. The yen strengthened briefly following reports of the

Ahad Ali transitioned from managing a 20-person accounting team handling over 2,000 returns annually to founding Tabby, an AI-powered real-time bookkeeping platform. In May 2025, Ali left his accounting practice after becoming frustrated with traditional accounting software like QuickBooks, which

Crypto-focused political action committee Fairshake committed $30 million to campaign against former Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio, days after the Senate failed to pass the Clarity Act digital asset legislation, according to a New York Times report. A Fairshake spokesperson confirmed the figure and

The New York Times lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI received a significant development on Friday when newly unsealed statements from executives at both companies threatened the defendants' fair-use defense. According to the unsealed material, an OpenAI executive allegedly acknowledged their