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Stock market filing illustrates AI company’s meteoric rise, while California’s tech billionaires pour cash into elections Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian. This week in tech, we’re discussing Anthropic’s meteoric rise, both theological and financial, and California’s unprecedented infusion of political cash from Silicon Valley. ‘Like a billionaire on acid’: Star Wars director Gareth Edwards comes out in favour of AI To YouTube and beyond: how online gen Z directors stormed Hollywood Continue reading...

TON is rebranding its native token from Toncoin ($TON) to Gram (GRAM), the original name from the white paper. TON remains the blockchain name while Gram becomes the native currency name only. $TON surged 15% as this rebrand marks step four of Pavel Durov’s “Make TON Great Again” plan. The Open Network ecosystem triggered a […] The post TON Surges 15% as The Open Network Eyes a Gram Rebrand appeared first on Live Bitcoin News.

Most enterprises already have access to AI models, so that is no longer the differentiator. The real challenge begins after the demo ends. Organizations are now trying to determine how AI agents interact with ERP systems, supply chains, approvals, security policies, customer records, and operational environments that were never designed for autonomous systems. The reality is that ERP remains the system of record for many business decisions. If AI agents cannot operate within ERP governance, approval, and transaction frameworks, they remain assistants rather than operational participants. What makes this interesting is that Snowflake is not positioning itself as another AI platform vendor. The company is positioning itself to be the governance and orchestration layer that enterprises will build agentic AI around. Horizon Context, Semantic Studio, Cortex Sense, Coco, Cowork, Apache Iceberg interoperability, Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectivity, and the company’s broader AI security

A clear overview of Syscoin: what it is, the problems it targets, token utility and supply, ecosystem context, and key considerations. The post Syscoin Explained: Blockchain, Token Utility, And Ecosystem appeared first on BiteMyCoin.

Spark is Google’s new agentic answer for everything. According to every product demo from the last four years, planning a trip is a killer use case for AI. Just tell it where you're going, they all promise, and your chatbot / agent / other buzzword will exhaustively search travel options, read up on all the fun things to do, check all the local hotspots, and offer you a fully fledged itinerary. So far, I've found this to work only in the most generic ways: If you want to do the six most obvious things in any city on planet Earth, AI has you covered, but that's about as far as it goes. I had a very different experience using Spark, Google's new always-on AI agent. Spark is a hugely ambitious … Read the full story at The Verge.