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Regulation · Digital Assets
The U.S. Treasury sanctioned cryptocurrency exchanges facilitating transactions for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to curb illicit finance.
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Anthropic unveils Claude Opus 5, engineered for long-running agents with step-change gains in coding and professional work.
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5, offering frontier performance for coding, agentic workflows, and professional work at scale.
Anthropic and Cognizant are expanding their partnership to deliver Claude AI to enterprise clients, focusing on business adoption and AI-driven transformation.
Anthropic's connector lets users ask Claude about the Anthropic Economic Index, offering insights on AI's economic impact.
Indonesia's first university AI center launched in Yogyakarta by UGM, Indosat, and NVIDIA to develop local AI talent.
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Topics include AI models, AI agents, AI infrastructure, chips and compute, enterprise AI, and developer tools.
Coverage spans payments, stablecoins, regulation, compliance, tokenization, and digital-asset infrastructure.
Topics include agent payments, machine-to-machine payments, AI identity, wallets for agents, on-chain AI, decentralized compute, and AI-related blockchain applications.
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