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 […]

The well-known MEV bot Jaredfromsubway.eth on the Ethereum network lost assets worth more than $7.5 million as a result of a hacker attack. ????Community Alert:Blockaid Exploit Detection system detected an exploit involving the @jaredsmev MEV bot on Ethereum.The incident resulted from attacker-controlled contracts tricking an automated MEV execution system into granting token…