The heads of the banking and financial committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives presented an updated text of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing bill, which provides for a temporary ban on the issuance of CBDCs until December 31, 2030. The document is being returned to the Senate for consideration. According to the text of the document, the Fed will not be able to "issue or create a digital…

Singapore-based Acrab has received more than $350 million in combined funding to build computing infrastructure for agentic AI systems. The company will direct the funds toward platform development, research in the field of computing systems, expanding partnerships and entering international markets. Acrab was founded in 2024. The startup is developing a computing…

Bitcoin (BTC) is sending ambiguous signals in exchange flows while the market awaits the meeting of the US Federal Reserve System (Fed). Some analysts see signs of accumulation, others record a reversal toward an inflow of coins onto trading platforms, but everyone agrees on one thing: the market's next big move will likely begin precisely with the Fed's decision. At first glance the data…

Pasadena, the late 1930s. The young self-taught chemist Jack Parsons launches homemade rockets in the Arroyo Seco canyon near Los Angeles. At night he immerses himself in the world of esotericism, and soon he begins corresponding with the English occultist Aleister Crowley. Several decades later, Parsons’s developments will help take humanity into space. He will become one of…

Microsoft has reported improved materials in its topological qubit system. In the new device the company replaced aluminum with lead in the superconducting layer and changed the semiconductor structure, which increased the lifetime of the parity state from less than 10 ms to more than 20 seconds, Ars Technica writes. Separately, Atom Computing announced progress in…