SEC, DTCC grant approval to tokenize traditional assets

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has granted a much-needed “no-action” letter to a subsidiary of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), allowing it to offer new securities market tokenization services. DTCC announced Thursday that its subsidiary, Depository Trust Company (DTC), has been granted permission to launch “a new service to tokenize real-world assets…

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First impressions of GPT-5.2: A powerful update especially for business tasks and workflows

OpenAI has officially released GPT-5.2. The response from early testers (those whom OpenAI seeded with models days, even weeks, before public release) paints a mixed picture. This is a monumental, but potentially overwhelming, advance for deep, autonomous reasoning and coding. "incremental" An update for people who have casual conversations. After an early access period and…

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New materials could improve energy efficiency in microelectronics | Massachusetts Institute of Technology News

MIT researchers have developed a new manufacturing method that allows for the creation of more energy-efficient electronics by stacking multiple functional components on top of a single existing circuit. In traditional circuits, the logic devices that perform calculations, such as transistors, and the memory devices that store data are built as separate components, forcing data…

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The 70% factuality ceiling: Why Google’s new ‘FACTS’ benchmark is a wake-up call for enterprise AI

There is no shortage of generative AI benchmarks designed to measure the performance and accuracy of specific models as they complete a variety of useful enterprise tasks, from coding to following instructions to web browsing and tool usage by agents. However, many of these benchmarks have one major drawback. It measures the AI’s ability to…

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Stablecoins are among the top 3 growth drivers for Web3 gaming: Report

Blockchain game builders are increasingly prioritizing fundamentals and infrastructure over token-driven growth cycles, with stablecoin adoption emerging as one of the top three drivers for the first time, according to a new report from the Blockchain Gaming Alliance (BGA). On Wednesday, BGA released its 2025 State of the Industry Report, charting the changes in what…

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MIT affiliates selected as 2025 Schmidt Science AI2050 Fellows | Massachusetts Institute of Technology News

The 2025 membership of AI2050 Fellows includes two current MIT members and seven additional alumni. Zongyi Li, a postdoc in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and Tess Smidt ’12, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), have both been named AI2050 Early Career Fellows. Seven MIT alumni were also…

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Z.ai debuts open source GLM-4.6V, a native tool invocation vision model for multimodal inference

Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai releases GLM-4.6V seriesa new generation of open-source vision language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal inference, front-end automation, and high-efficiency deployment. This release includes two models "big" and "small" size: GLM-4.6V(106B)a larger 106 billion parameter model for cloud-scale inference. GLM-4.6V-Flash (9B)a small model with only 9 billion parameters designed…

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