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Manus built a self-driving AI assistant before the hype, sold itself to Meta, then watched Beijing unwind the deal. Its first fresh money since: more than $500 million.

Google Cloud unveiled a single Gemini agent that takes goals instead of questions, works in the background for days, and can join a company as a staffer with its own inbox and calendar.

Ethereum’s Sepolia test network activated Glamsterdam on October 6 with a block gas limit near 200 million, over three times mainnet’s 60 million.

The NFL urged the Supreme Court to resolve a circuit split over whether states can regulate sports contracts on prediction markets, arguing they’re gambling, not federally regulated swaps.

A batch of 100.02 BTC mined in July 2010 moved Wednesday after 16 years. It’s worth about $8.3 million, but nothing in the transaction shows who owns it.

Solana DEX Orca and lending platform Loopscale will operate as Formation, a New York company aiming to finance AI, energy, robotics and defense assets and eventually reach regulated U.S. markets.