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[mahir @slobkebap]

Berlin, Im organizing the first Claude for Founders event next Wednesday, in typical fashion, at a Startup Rooftop, if you're a founder building with Claude, you should join!

[w3.hub @w3_hub]

"No one works during summer in Europe."

"No one joins events during summer."

The Claude Berlin community doesn't care.

300+ signups in 72 hours.

[Nico Cabrera @NicoCabrera92]

🚨 Hoy ha pasado algo que casi nadie está explicando bien, y conviene que lo entiendas porque dice mucho de hacia dónde va esto.

Se ha lanzado Open USD (OUSD), una nueva stablecoin. Pero lo importante no es "otra stablecoin más"... es QUIÉN está detrás.

Más de 140 empresas que normalmente se pelean a muerte entre sí, juntas en el mismo proyecto: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, BlackRock, Google, Samsung, Stripe, Coinbase... y sí, Ripple también.

¿Y por qué se juntan todos? Aquí está la jugada, y es brillante.

Hasta ahora el negocio de las stablecoins funcionaba así: tú le das tu dinero a Circle (los de USDC), ellos emiten el token, y con TU dinero compran deuda de EEUU y se quedan ellos casi todo el rendimiento. Dinero gratis para el emisor.

OUSD le da la vuelta a la tortilla: el rendimiento se reparte entre las empresas que participan. La stablecoin deja de ser el negocio y pasa a ser solo la tubería. Un estándar compartido en vez de un emisor que se lo queda todo.

¿Y a quién le sienta esto como una patada? A Circle.
Hoy mismo sus acciones cayeron casi un 16%.
Ni Circle, ni Tether, ni PayPal están invitados a la fiesta. Normal.

Y ahora fíjate en quién dirige esto, porque lo explica TODO. El CEO de Open Standard (la empresa detrás de OUSD) es Zach Abrams, cofundador de Bridge. ¿Y qué es Bridge? La infraestructura de stablecoins que Stripe compró por 1.100 millones de dólares en 2024.

O sea: esto es, en el fondo, una jugada del ecosistema Stripe.
Por eso de entrada OUSD NO sale en todas partes. Sale nativo en Solana desde el día uno (donde Bridge ya tiene toda la fontanería montada y rodada) y en Tempo, que es la propia blockchain de pagos de Stripe.

No es casualidad ni ideología: lanzan donde el equipo fundador ya tiene la infraestructura funcionando.

¿Y las demás cadenas? Aquí te aviso, porque he visto a medios soltar alegremente "sale en Solana, Stellar, Base y Polygon".

Cuidado: eso NO lo ha confirmado Open Standard. Lo único sólido es Solana + Tempo el día uno. El resto es especulación de periodistas mirando qué cadenas están entre los socios.

No te lo creas hasta que salga la documentación técnica.
Y la cosa no estará del todo operativa hasta más adelante en 2026 — no hay fecha firme todavía.

Ahora, la pregunta que de verdad importa para nosotros: ¿qué pinta Ripple ahí?

Y aquí te voy a ser sincero, sin venderte humo: Ripple está en la lista de socios, pero eso NO significa que OUSD vaya a funcionar sobre la XRP Ledger.
La XRPL es, como mucho, un riel más entre varios posibles.
Y el centro técnico de todo esto no es la XRPL... es Bridge + Tempo, o sea, Stripe. Ripple está en la periferia estratégica, no en el núcleo.
Ripple está jugando a estar sentada en TODAS las mesas que importan.
Es estrategia de cobertura: "yo me pongo en todos los raíles posibles y ya veremos cuáles ganan". Inteligente, pero hay que llamarlo por su nombre.

Y ojo al detalle que nadie te va a decir, porque no vende: aunque OUSD acabara corriendo sobre la XRPL, las transacciones ahí cuestan fracciones de céntimo. Eso quemaría un goteo ridículo de XRP.
Que la red se use NO significa automáticamente que el token suba.
Lo llevo diciendo tiempo: una cosa es la utilidad de la red, otra muy distinta que ese valor llegue al token.
Resumen para que te lo lleves claro:
✅ Bueno para Ripple como empresa/infraestructura (está en la mesa de los grandes).
⚠️ Neutro para el precio de XRP a corto (el mecanismo que conecta uso → precio sigue siendo flojo).
💥 Muy malo para Circle (le acaban de montar una coalición en contra).
🏗️ Y en el fondo, esto huele a Stripe: su CEO viene de Bridge, sale en su cadena Tempo, y el núcleo técnico es suyo.

Esto va de raíles, no de tokens. Y el que entienda esa diferencia, va a leer este mercado mucho mejor que el que solo mira el precio.

¿Qué opináis? ¿Ripple cubriéndose las espaldas o tiene una carta que aún no enseña? 👇

[Kirk Borne @KirkDBorne]

36 shades of BI (Business Intelligence)

[AMLBot @AMLBotHQ]

@Robobby1 We've been on this case as well. The attacker targeted the AIDC/WBNB PancakeSwap LP via a deployed exploit contract.
https://t.co/PaNcYMU7ju

[Max Rumpf @maxrumpf]

"You and Your Research"

i read it every few months and you should too.

the most important determinant of outsized success is picking the right problem.

[DEGEN 👑 @iamjustape]

AI and the Future of Fraud How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Financial Crime

Financial fraud losses exceeded $485 billion in 2025.

AI didn't create financial crime. It industrialized it.
Synthetic identities built by AI over months. Account takeovers that mimic real human behavior. Deepfake video calls authorizing $25 million transfers.
How AI is changing financial fraud and what actually protects you.

Full breakdown 👆
Follow for daily cybersecurity + AI content. 🤖🔐

[Institute of Forensics and ICT Security (IFIS) @forensicsIFIS]

Rationalization: The hidden driver of fraud
https://t.co/j9hU15nuGv

Fraud prevention is not merely about catching thieves; it is about removing the stories people tell themselves before they become comfortable crossing the line.

@MustaphaMugisa
/tg/

[How To Prompt @HowToPrompt__]

A toothpaste company has quietly killed the entire market research industry and nobody is talking about it.

Colgate published a paper showing you can predict real purchase intent at 90% accuracy by simply asking LLMs to roleplay customers.

And this is beyond insane.

If you ask an AI, "Rate this product from 1 to 5," it gives safe, middle-of-the-road garbage.

So researchers invented a method called Semantic Similarity Rating (SSR).

Instead of asking the AI for a number, they asked it to roleplay.

They gave the LLM a demographic profile. They showed it a product concept. And they asked it to write down its raw, unfiltered thoughts.

Then, they used a semantic model to translate those written thoughts into a numerical score.

The results are staggering.

Tested against 57 real corporate surveys and 9,300 actual human responses, the synthetic AI consumers matched real human buying behavior with 90% reliability.

They perfectly mirrored how different age brackets and income levels react to price changes.

And they provided detailed, qualitative feedback that was deeper and more critical than what actual humans wrote.

This destroys the economics of traditional market research.

You don't need to wait a month to see if a product will sell.

You can simulate 1,000 hyper-targeted customer interviews overnight.

You can A/B test pricing across every demographic instantly.

[Sahar Abdelnabi 🕊 @sahar_abdelnabi]

Honored to be on the EU AI Act Scientific Panel advising on the implementation of the EU AI Act.

[Karan @karankendre]

CEO waking up to a $500M Claude API bill

[Merlijn The Trader @MerlijnTrader]

€10,000 CASH BAN. €1,000 CRYPTO ID THRESHOLD. PRIVACY COINS DELISTED.

🇪🇺 The EU just published the rulebook for 2027 financial surveillance.

AMLR takes effect July 1, 2027.
All crypto exchanges must verify identity above €1,000.
Monero, Zcash, Dash banned from EU platforms entirely.

Meanwhile:
America proposes zero capital gains on Bitcoin held over 12 months.
UAE licenses crypto banks under VARA framework.

Europe sees crypto as risk to surveil.
America sees crypto as asset to incentivize.

Capital follows the jurisdiction.

[European Commission @EU_Commission]

Europe’s scientific talent is world-class. We intend to keep it that way.

The 2026 MSCA Doctoral Networks call for proposals is now open 🚀

We’re making close to €600 million available for researchers to work abroad, acquire new skills and collaborate with leading scientific teams around the world.

[Corvantir @Corvantir]

@sahar_abdelnabi Interested!

[Suryansh Tiwari @Suryanshti777]

This is wild 🤯

Somebody finally realized AI coding agents spend half their time searching your codebase instead of actually understanding it.

So they built a local knowledge graph for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, OpenCode, and Hermes Agent.

Not another wrapper
Not another “AI devtool” landing page

An actual semantic layer that indexes your entire repo and lets agents query relationships, call graphs, routes, symbols, and dependencies instantly.

The wild part?

On real repos like VS Code, Django, Excalidraw, Tokio, and OkHttp, CodeGraph cut:

→ ~59% tokens
→ ~70% tool calls
→ ~49% execution time
→ ~35% cost

Instead of Claude Code or Codex endlessly grepping files and spawning exploration agents, they query a pre-built graph and move straight to the relevant context.

That changes the feel of AI coding completely.

Especially on larger codebases where Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex usually start drowning in file reads.

And the setup is absurdly simple:

npx @colbymchenry/codegraph

No external APIs
No cloud dependency
No weird config hell

Just local semantic intelligence for your codebase.

This is one of those repos where you instantly understand why it blew up to 14k+ stars so fast.

100% open source

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[Research in Germany - Initiative of the BMFTR @ResearchGermany]

📣 The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, in Freiburg is offering a research stay of 2 - 6 months for PhD / postdoc / experienced researchers funded by the Barbara Huber Scholarship Program.
🗓️ Apply here by 31 May 👉 https://t.co/ufLZCl65MD

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

AI has stopped being a feature and started being the foundation.

We're excited about a new wave of startups rebuilding software, services, and silicon— and pushing AI into the physical world.

https://t.co/QCIz6DnQnN

[Kelp @KelpDAO]

We appreciate the recent decision by the @arbitrum Security Council to take action in response to the LayerZero-DVN/rsETH incident of April 18.

Over the past two days, the KelpDAO team has worked closely and constructively with members of the security council and broader ecosystem stakeholders to provide detailed context and support evaluation efforts.

We would like to particularly acknowledge the exceptional efforts of @_SEAL_Org 's SEAL 911 among countless others, whose coordination, information structuring, and stakeholder engagement were instrumental in bringing clarity and urgency to this process.

Our focus remains on pursuing all available avenues to support rsETH holders and mitigate the impact of the incident across the Defi ecosystem.

[Stacy Muur @stacy_muur]

https://t.co/Ufj9HJ9QVt

[Corvantir @Corvantir]

The KelpDAO Exploit Is Not About a Hack — It’s About System Design https://t.co/ymNQWNBkXF