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Amazon on Thursday unveiled two new Bee listening devices, the Bee Frontier wearable and the Bee Eclipse smartphone attachment, marking its latest push into the AI gadget market. The launch follows Amazon's July 2025 acquisition of Bee, a San Francisco startup known for its always-listening

Circle minted approximately $750 million USDC on the Solana blockchain within the last 24 hours. The minting activity was highlighted by CryptoTwitter commentator @SolanaFloor. This development showcases Solana's growing role in the USDC stablecoin ecosystem. Circle Mints $750 Million USDC on Sola

Solana will activate Alpenglow on mainnet on October 21 around 15:00 UTC, replacing the consensus mechanism it has used since launch. The upgrade reduces transaction finality from approximately 12.8 seconds to a target of about 150 milliseconds, an 85-times improvement, according to Anza, the core d

Tom's Hardware tested Nvidia's RTX Spark Superchip in Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra over the past week following the platform's announcement at Computex 2026. The test system featured 20 CPU cores, 6144 CUDA cores, and 128GB of LPDDR5X-9400 RAM. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the RTX Spark pla

Deutsche Bank maintained its buy rating and $150 price target on AI cloud company CoreWeave on October 15, following a share price drop of more than 15% the previous day. The investment bank identified the decline as a potential buying opportunity, stating it found little evidence of fundamental

CoreWeave (CRWV) shares declined in Thursday early morning trade, extending losses to a fourth consecutive day after bond yields spiked this week. Paul Meeks, Head of Technology at Creditsights, called the selloff overexaggerated in a CNBC interview, while Deutsche Bank maintained difficulty

Taiwan authorities blocked access to U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase and prediction-market platform Kalshi on October 14-15, ahead of local elections in November. The New Taipei District Court approved the Criminal Investigation Bureau's request to restrict access, citing violations of the Civil

Spain's securities regulator CNMV launched a public consultation to expand the complaints procedure for cryptoactivos and crowdfunding service providers, with submissions accepted until November 16, 2026. The initiative aims to enhance consumer rights and improve accountability within the crypto sec

The Groundwork event in Washington, DC, on October 16 will feature Coy Garrison, Deputy General Counsel for Crypto at Robinhood, and Orest Gavryliak from 1inch discussing tokenized stocks and real-world assets moving on-chain. The panel addresses growing industry interest in asset tokenization as

Lido announced on October 15, 2026 that Ethereum users can now stake ETH directly on Layer 2 solutions through Lido's user interface. The feature supports networks including Arbitrum, Base, Linea, and Optimism, eliminating the need for users to manually bridge assets back to Ethereum. The

XRP whale inflows to Binance reached a seven-month high, according to data noted by commentator @cryptoquant_com. The surge in large-holder deposits to the exchange increased the amount of XRP available for trading on the platform. The development occurred amid mixed signals across the broader crypt

bStocks surpassed $1 billion in assets under management, according to a recent Binance tweet. Users have actively converted and traded tokenized stocks on the platform, with over $6 billion converted between bStocks and underlying stocks. The milestone reflects growing investor engagement with token

ASML said customers are placing orders for its chipmaking equipment for 2029 and 2030 output, according to a Reuters report citing Q3 2026 earnings published October 14. CEO Christophe Fouquet said demand could surpass capacity despite plans to raise capacity by 30% in 2027 and another 30% in 2028.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reduced fuel economy targets for light-duty vehicles to 34.9 miles per gallon by 2031 in late September, down from the Biden administration's 50.4 mpg target finalized in 2024. Congress voted last year to eliminate fines automakers faced for

BlackRock Chief Executive Larry Fink stated that a national halt to data center construction would risk pushing the United States into recession, following BlackRock's quarterly results. Fink argued in a CNBC interview that AI infrastructure investment has become a major source of economic

Surgence Labs on 14 October 2026 launched TraderComps, a free calendar platform aggregating trading competitions, bonuses and rewards across 168 trading platforms. The platform consolidates campaigns that trading platforms currently announce only on their own blogs or social

Elon Musk criticized memory makers for 'extortionate' pricing amid an unprecedented shortage of DRAM and high-bandwidth memory, while praising Micron for a more 'reasonable' approach. Musk stated on X that Micron is making

Metaplanet, referred to as Japan's version of Strategy, completed its first share buyback on Oct. 14, repurchasing approximately 73.98 million common shares representing about 5.42% of total common shares outstanding, valued at approximately $120 million. The company stated the repurchase aims to im