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The upcoming Grok 4.8 model from xAI is trailing behind Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5, @elonmusk admitted. However, the entrepreneur aims to surpass the competitor with the next generation of the neural network, Grok 5.

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A consortium of 21 financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Bank of America, has pledged approximately $270 million to fund a future joint stablecoin issuer. The funds are intended to cover the operational expenses of the future company over five years, according to Bloomberg.

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Google has launched access to Gemini 4 Carbon, its flagship artificial intelligence model designed for complex computations, cybersecurity, and software development.

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The Layer 1 blockchain Initia has experienced its second hack in less than three weeks. An attacker compromised the project’s cloud infrastructure and stole crypto assets worth $3.27 million.

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The Dutch-German startup QuiX Quantum has taken the lead in a national project to develop a universal photonic quantum computer with a capacity exceeding 100 qubits. The project is funded by the Dutch foundation PhotonDelta under the National Growth Fund program.

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