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Moody's prepares to rate stablecoins, focusing on liquidity risk
Moody's is preparing to introduce credit ratings for stablecoins, in a move it says reflects the growing mainstreaming of digital finance technology. Fabian Astic (파비안 애스틱), global head of digital economy at Moody's, said investors have remained cautious amid confusion over cryptocurrency risks. Moody's has disclosed a methodology to assess reserve asset quality, volatility exposure, stress-scenario performance, liquidity mismatches, operational and counterparty risks, legal enforceability, and blockchain and cybersecurity risks.
AI & Enterprise
Anthropic's Claude enters Microsoft 365 used by more than 400 million people
Anthropic can now offer its Claude in Microsoft Office in a way similar to Microsoft 365 Copilot. Anthropic said Claude for Excel, PowerPoint and Word has reached general availability, while Outlook has entered public beta. Paid enterprise users of Microsoft 365 exceed 450 million. Microsoft’s Copilot has 20 million paid users as of the latest quarter, a 4.4 percent penetration rate.
AI & Enterprise
Pinecone that helped popularise RAG now bets on an alternative
Pinecone, one of the companies that helped pioneer the vector database market supporting retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), is sending a different message around AI agents. The News Stack reported that Pinecone has provided 800,000 developers with chunking, embedding and retrieval methods for RAG over the past four years and unveiled its agent knowledge engine, Nexus, in early May. Pinecone argues RAG is unstable, slow and costly, but faces questions over industry adoption of its KnowQL.
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AI & Enterprise
Tech Insight: Stop using Markdown, move to HTML - why?
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Crypto
Opentrade raises $17 million to expand stablecoin yield infrastructure
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Crypto
Kraken launches regulated spot crypto margin trading in US
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Crypto
ECB president says central bank money infrastructure should come before euro stablecoins
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Crypto
Exodus launches Solana-based stablecoin for AI agents
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Crypto
Zcash to launch quantum-recovery wallet within a month, aims full quantum-resistant shift by 2027
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Crypto
Solv Protocol ends LayerZero support, selects Chainlink CCIP for bridge infrastructure
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Crypto
Warren asks Meta to disclose details on stablecoin integration
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Crypto
Terawulf says Q1 HPC revenue tops bitcoin mining revenue for first time
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Crypto
SEC signals overhaul of on-chain trading rules, revisits standards for software
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Crypto
Kraken parent Payward applies to U.S. OCC for national trust charter
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Crypto
Trump-linked World Liberty Financial token may be unregistered security
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Crypto
U.S. Senate Banking panel to relaunch markup on sweeping crypto regulation bill on May 14
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AI & Enterprise
Musk v Altman lawsuit documents reveal origins of Microsoft-OpenAI alliance
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Telecommunications & Media
Apple to roll out iOS 26.5 next week; 5 new features coming to iPhone