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Clearpool Targets XRP Ledger Credit Market With Token Overhaul

September 12, 2026
Clearpool plans to bring institutional lending infrastructure to the XRP Ledger while replacing CPOOL with a proposed CLEAR token. The overhaul would recapitalize its treasury and fund incentives intended to support the network expansion. Key Takeaways Clearpool plans to build institutional lending products natively on XRPL. The proposal would replace CPOOL with CLEAR through a 1:1 migration. A…
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Scientists discover mysterious new X-ray objects 'unlike any they have seen before'

September 12, 2026
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a brand new type of an otherwise familiar object – compact binary systems that steal gas from other stars, but which do so while emitting very low-energy X-rays but copious amounts of ultraviolet. Chandra spotted 84 suspicious object emitting very low-energy X-rays in six galaxies – four evolved ellipticals and two spirals, namely our…
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Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too

September 12, 2026
When it comes to Chinese AI labs using distillation techniques to extract knowledge from frontier model makers, Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan is hoping regulators stay out of it. In fact, he thinks U.S. AI labs should perhaps play the same game. “I would do nothing,” he told CNBC in an interview earlier this week. “We could argue that there should be an American distillation…
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OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating

September 12, 2026
Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work as they seek to one-up each other with solutions to famous math problems. Each signatory has been awarded the Fields Medal, considered the most prestigious…
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"I spotted a female Common Merganser with a flatfish take to the air to protect her catch from other mergansers. I was thrilled to snap this frame, but I worried it wouldn’t be tack sharp. It was!" says award-winning photographer

September 12, 2026
When Gail Bisson retired as a doctor, bird photography was at the top of her list. Since then, she has traveled the world photographing birds, building an impressive collection of international awards. Now Bisson has added another prestigious honor to that list. Her striking…
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“I saw the tower was about to collapse. I took one photo. Then someone shouted, ‘Run!’” In shock, covered in dust, and bleeding, she captured some of the most memorable 9/11 photos

September 12, 2026
Some of the most historic photographs of 9/11 are so powerful, they are written in America’s collective memory. One of those photographs came from photographer and New Yorker Gulnara Samoilova. But for as memorable as her photographs are – winning a World Press Photo Award and Pulitzer nomination – Samoilova, in shock, covered in dust and bleeding, says she reacted on pure photographer’s…
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