The Alchemy platform, in partnership with Visa, has launched the AgentCard service. The solution lets AI agents make online purchases on behalf of users. The integration with Visa Intelligent Commerce gives neural networks a full set of data to operate: a virtual Visa card, an email address, a phone number and a cryptocurrency wallet. Using a single API…

As of June 2026, Kraken is one of the largest centralized crypto exchanges, with more than 5.7 million active accounts and a combined transaction volume across all platforms of around $2 trillion. And despite all of this, it still does not have a token, while its affiliated blockchain appeared relatively recently. To fill these gaps, the Kraken team is expanding…

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao has been secretly helping American prisoners. Over two years, the entrepreneur sent four large tranches to the charity Prison Professors. In total, his donations to the development of prison education amounted to $2 million. However, the businessman only spoke publicly about this financial support now…

Chinese startup Zhipu AI has released its flagship language model GLM-5.2 for long agentic tasks and programming. The open-source solution has a context window of 1 million tokens, an MIT license and support for local deployment. On its Hugging Face card, the model is listed as a text-generation model for English and Chinese…

A 30-year-old retail specialist from the Russian city of Voronezh went to the police to report cryptocurrency scammers who swindled 2.5 million rubles out of him. The man fell victim to a so-called "honeytrap" — the scheme began with a woman on a dating site. The Voronezh resident was chatting there with a new acquaintance when she suddenly began saying she was making good…