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Binance acquires a $100M stake in Circle, and both companies sign a five-year deal that pays the crypto exchange to promote the USDC stablecoin on its platform (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/09/22/binance-b…

Binance buys $100 million Circle stake in five-year USDC promotion deal
Circle sold 1.24 million shares at $80.84 each and will pay Binance a monthly fee tied to USDC held through its wallet infrastructure.

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 126 nodes and 28561 edges.
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Snap Counts: Cowboys rookie maxes out in Week 2 win; injuries require bench help https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/09/21/cowboys-week-2-snap-counts-commanders-caleb-downs/91872977007/…

After nearly 30 years, NASA realized this near-Earth asteroid is actually a comet | Space https://www.space.com/astronomy/comets/after-nearly-30-years-nasa-realized-this-nea…

Before everybody get's too excited about available Chinese open weights models, the infrastructure costs for running these models are immense, it's hard to find specific and reliable data but think about half a million dollars of infrastructure costs for 5-15 users according to this linkedin post.

Kimi K3 just dropped. 2.8 trillion parameters, 1M-token context window, open weights. Capabilities comparable to Fable 5. 🔥 And every enterprise buyer is doing the same math right now. Here is… | Miklos Toth
Kimi K3 just dropped. 2.8 trillion parameters, 1M-token context window, open weights. Capabilities comparable to Fable 5. 🔥 And every enterprise buyer is doing the same math right now. Here is what running it yourself actually costs: - 16x NVIDIA H200 GPUs: ~$500,000. That's GPUs only. No chassis, no networking, no power infrastructure. - Model weights on disk: 1 to 1.7TB depending on quantization. - What's left for actual context: somewhere between 550 and 1,250GB of KV cache. Translat…

Augustus, which is building a federally chartered "AI-native" clearing bank designed around stablecoins, raised $180M led by Tiger Global at a $1B valuation (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/07/

Stablecoin bank Augustus raises $180 million to build a clearing bank for the AI era
The firm, freshly valued at $1 billion, aims to replace legacy correspondent banking with always-on infrastructure that connects traditional payment systems and stablecoins.

Raiders Week https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/09/21/raiders-week-2-snap-counts-chargers/91874087007/

Ox Alpha, a "stealth model" from an unknown AI lab with a 1M-token multimodal context and capacity for 100T tokens/day, goes viral after launching on OpenRouter (Rohail Saleem/Wccftech)
https://wccftech.com/a-my…

A Mysterious AI Lab Is Offering 100 Trillion Free Tokens/Day For Its Ox Alpha Model, As Evidence Points To Zhipu’s Unreleased GLM
Ox Alpha's 1-million-token context window and video inputs hint at a heavily upgraded GLM-class model that's undergoing live testing.