Mattia Mezzetti · 14 days ago US Tech Boom Leaves Many Americans Behind: The Growing Divide US tech investment is projected at $10.4 trillion through 2032, yet 30-year mortgage rates hit 7.6% and the middle class keeps shrinking. Berzoni explains why. TetherAIStablecoins
Riccardo Curatolo · 14 days ago Claude Duet Works in the Background: What Anthropic's Agent Actually Does Claude Duet, Anthropic's new background agent, launched October 21, 2026. It works across connected apps while you're away, but the US-only preview comes with… AI
Riccardo Curatolo · 14 days ago EIT Spark Grant: Up to €30,000 to Launch Your Creative Tech Startup EIT Spark covers up to €30,000 in eligible costs for creative tech founders without a registered company. Deadline is November 16, 2026. Web3AI
Giulia Ferrante · 14 days ago OpenAI on Google Cloud: Private Preview Launches, GA Weeks Away OpenAI and Google Cloud struck a deal on October 21, 2026, giving enterprises access to GPT-6 models via Model Garden. General availability has no set date yet. AIAdoption
Ilya Bratanov · 14 days ago GENIUS Act: OCC Finalizes Stablecoin Rules, Yield Ban Stays Case-by-Case The OCC's GENIUS Act final rule bars stablecoin issuers from paying yield to holders, but dropped an automatic presumption for third-party rewards. Every… StablecoinsRegulation
Francesco Campisi · 15 days ago PHP Critical Flaws CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619: Patch Now Two critical PHP flaws scored 9.2 on CVSS v4.0. CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 allow unauthenticated remote code execution on web servers running PHP. Security
Ilya Bratanov · 15 days ago OpenAI MultiLangBench: COBOL Migration Scores Hit 97.9% OpenAI published MultiLangBench on October 19, 2026, reporting a 97.9% COBOL migration pass rate. These are vendor benchmarks, not certified production… AIAdoption
Francesco Campisi · 15 days ago MiniMax M3.1 Flash Cuts Prices: Weights Arrive October 23 MiniMax M3.1 Flash launched October 19 at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 output. Open weights are due October 23. Price per token and cost per… AdoptionAI
Francesco Campisi · 15 days ago Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines: 9 AI Payments in One Demo Mastercard opened early API access to Agent Pay for Machines on October 20, 2026. A live demo showed one AI agent completing nine payments to two vendors… PaymentsAI
Francesco Campisi · 15 days ago FINMA Approves Switzerland's First Public Bitcoin Spot ETF FINMA approved Switzerland's first Bitcoin spot ETF for retail investors on October 20, 2026. Manager, ticker, and launch date remain undisclosed. ETFRegulationEurope
