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Yuga Labs, the powerhouse behind Bored Ape Yacht Club and ApeCoin, announced the acquisition of Tokenproof, a Web3 tokenization service, along with its technical team.

Grok, an AI chatbot by Elon Musk’s xAI, can now understand images and answer users’ questions. You can try the feature only if you’re a paid user of the social platform X (formerly Twitter).

Samsung Electronics announced integrating blockchain into its smart home devices to improve security.

Pony.ai, an innovative startup developing autonomous driving technology, will officially file for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in the U.S. this week.

A research team from Shanghai University executed the first successful quantum attack on encryption algorithms. In the paper “D-Wave Advantage,” the team wrote they could crack classic encryption algorithms using a computer from Canada’s D-Wave Systems.

Chinese tech giant ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, plans to develop a new artificial intelligence model trained using chips from Huawei Technologies, particularly the Ascend 910B. This move appears to be in response to U.S. export restrictions on chip technology for Chinese ventures.

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor will meet Microsoft’s Board of Directors in December to discuss the tech company investing in Bitcoin.

Major financial corporations, including BlackRock and Blackstone, have extended over $11 billion in loans to tech companies providing cloud computing power for AI development. These companies have significant reserves of Nvidia chips and are using loans to expand their stock.

Airline company Delta Air Lines sued CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity software provider, claiming that a test update caused a global technological outage.

Tesla’s showcase of its humanoid robots created a lot of excitement in the tech world. Footage of the Optimus robots walking smoothly, completing tasks, and engaging with the crowd spread across the globe.

California Governor Gavin Newsom blocked an artificial intelligence (AI) safety bill that would have enforced strong security measures for AI companies and developers, potentially impacting industry growth.