This Startup Aims To Catapult Satellites Into Space

Catapulting satellites into space. Making all the data center heat useful. Why memory technology needs disrupting. All that and more in this week’s Prototype. To get it in your inbox, sign up here.

Kraken is rebuilding its app around agentic trading as crypto exchanges evolve beyond crypto

Kraken is one of the world's largest crypto exchanges.

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Kraken is preparing to reintroduce its app with agentic trading at its core, a development that could mark the next major competitive battleground for crypto exchanges, the company told CNBC exclusively.

Trump Says Iran Peace Talks Will Continue Despite Latest Strikes—Repeats Ceasefire Is ‘Over’

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The U.S. and Iran will continue peace talks even as the two sides have escalated strikes against each other this week, President Donald Trump said Friday, signaling a willingness to negotiate as both countries have struggled to find meaningful progress since a “memorandum of understanding” was signed last month.

After ‘Tokenmaxxing’, Token Spend Has Become The New Metric To Watch

As Tokenmaxxing is on its way out, companies are becoming more cautious over token spend.

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Token consumption is under fire once again. Just last week, Palantir CEO Alex Karp made headlines for calling out the token consumption model of Anthropic and OpenAI during an interview with CNBC.

SK Hynix Surges 17% In Record-Setting U.S. Debut: Here’s What Regular Investors Should Know

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South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix surged in its Nasdaq debut on Friday, after completing the largest U.S. share sale ever by a foreign company and becoming the third-largest debut on record following SpaceX’s record-setting listing last month.

Council Post: AI Agents: Secure Like Software, Manage Like Employees And Budget Like Human CapEx

Priya Sawant leads ASAPP’s engineering team, delivering enterprise AI at scale.

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​Imagine a CTO walks into a weekly ops review and finds three different teams have deployed AI agents. One was purchased through IT and rolled out across engineering to automate pull request reviews, but no one has defined standards or operating practices. Another is running as a product pilot, funded by engineering but still waiting on IT to establish access controls. A third has been operating under a corporate card with little visibility.

All 20 Disney live-action remakes ranked from tolerable to downright unwatchable

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All 20 Disney live-action remakes ranked from tolerable to downright unwatchable

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Council Post: Your Chatbot Is Not A Voicebot And Pretending Otherwise Is Costing You Money

Ran Inbar, CTO UCaaS, leading the voicebot, conversational AI and UCaaS platforms with deep expertise in voice networking that powers them.

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​Most enterprises that have invested in a text chatbot eventually reach the same conclusion: If the bot already answers questions over chat, why not let customers simply call it?

Has Beauty Entered Its Proof Era? Why Aspiration Alone No Longer Sells Skincare

Taking a closer look at skincare’s next chapter. As AI reshapes beauty marketing, consumers are looking beyond the promise and closer at the proof behind every formulation.

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AI, data center fears could be key in closely watched Michigan Democratic Senate primary

Detroit, Michigan, U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed speaks at Senator Bernie Sanders 'Fighting Oligarchy' rally.

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Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive running for the Democratic nomination in the Aug. 4 Michigan Senate primary, sees a foundational risk in the rise of artificial intelligence. And he's betting that fears related to the emerging technology and the data centers that power it could play a pivotal role in the race.