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Ripple Highlights Institutional XRP Demand as CME Launches 24/7 Crypto Futures

Ripple is framing CME’s 24/7 crypto futures launch as a response to institutional demand, citing XRP futures as evidence, with Ripple Prime serving as a day-one clearing and financing partner. Key Takeaways CME’s 24/7 crypto derivatives launch provides institutions with regulated access to XRP futures around the clock. Ripple Prime provides clearing and financing infrastructure as…
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Bitcoin Treasury Companies Face a Borrow-or-Sell Test

Strategy’s 32 BTC sale has turned a small transaction into a larger test for corporate bitcoin treasuries. The issue is no longer only whether public companies hold BTC. Investors are now watching how those companies meet cash obligations while trying to preserve…
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Unlocking 'the true space age': Impulse Space raises $500 million to build out fleet of ultra-mobile spacecraft

Impulse Space just got a lot more money to help finance its big ambitions in the final frontier. The California-based company — which was founded in 2021 by propulsion expert Tom Mueller, the first person Elon Musk ever hired at SpaceX — announced today (June 2) that it has raised $500 million in a “Series D” investment round. It will use the funds to scale up the production and…
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Will SpaceX still be a launch company after its historic IPO?

On May 20, SpaceX filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) key documentation for an initial public offering (IPO) of stock. An IPO signals that a private company is now selling shares to the public on a stock exchange. SpaceX’s long-anticipated move…
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Amazon faces class action lawsuit over Ring facial-recognition feature

Amazon was sued on Monday over alleged privacy violations from its Ring doorbell cameras. The class action lawsuit, filed in Seattle by Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt, claims that Ring’s Familiar Faces feature stores images of passersby without consent. Ring announced the Familiar Faces feature last September and faced pushback from consumer protection organizations like the EFF, as well as…
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OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work

OpenAI is getting serious about courting enterprise users. On Tuesday, the AI lab released a new set of capabilities for Codex, meant to expand the agentic tool’s uses in the workplace. Together with the new tools, the company released an internal report on how Codex is…
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Photographing David Bowie: "He'd built up all the evidence. So then I had to destroy them…"

Few musicians shaped their visual identity as carefully as David Bowie. From Ziggy Stardust to Aladdin Sane, his collaborations with photographers helped create some of the most iconic images in rock history. So when six eminent photographers got together at the atmospheric Lightroom centre in London, England, to talk about their photos of Bowie to rock journalist Miranda Sawyer, it made for a…
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