The corporate pension fund Nationwide Business Corporate Pension Fund from Japan will allocate about 1% of its assets to cryptocurrencies in the 2026 financial year, Nikkei writes. The entity serves about 1,200 small and medium-sized companies and manages 21.3 billion yen (~$130 million). The investments will be made through the portfolio of a large hedge fund that includes several crypto assets.

Turkmenistan is continuing its course toward digitalizing the economy and the financial sector, despite its status as one of the most closed countries in the world. The government has approved a digital economy development program for 2026-2028, is working on a national AI strategy and is expanding digital financial services. This was reported by local media. Recall that an important…

NVIDIA recently released Nemotron 3 Ultra — the largest open AI model in the Nemotron 3 lineup. The release took place on June 4, 2026: the model's weights, training data and the training methods themselves were made openly available under a free license. The model is designed for long-running autonomous agents and complex reasoning. Unlike closed flagships…

The British literary magazine Granta will stop publishing the stories of Commonwealth Short Story Prize winners after a dispute over the possible use of AI in one of the texts, The Guardian writes. Granta stated that it will no longer take part in «external publishing partnerships» where the magazine has no editorial control. The trigger was the selection of regional…

Prediction markets set a new all-time record: in the week ending June 15, 2026 trading volume on such platforms reached $10.8 billion. This was reported by a16z crypto. Prediction markets hit a record $10.8 billion in weekly trading volume in the week ending June 15 — their biggest week ever. Several big events coincided that contributed […]