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Salesforce is increasing its focus on national security. The customer relationship management giant announced the creation of a new business unit called Missionforce on Tuesday. It will be focused on incorporating AI into defense workflows in three main areas: personnel, logistics, and decision making, according to a company press release.  Missionforce will be helmed by Kendall Collins, who joined Salesforce in 2023 and is currently the chief business officer and chief of staff to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.   “With Missionforce, we’ll now bring the best of AI, cloud, and platform technology from the private sector to modernize critical areas…

Keshav is currently a senior writer at NewsBTC and has been attached to the website since June 14, 2021. Keshav has been writing for many years, first as a hobbyist and later as a freelancer. He has experience working in a variety of niches, even fiction at one point, but the cryptocurrency industry has been the longest he has been attached to. In terms of official educational qualifications, Keshav holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from one of the premier institutes of India, the University of Delhi (DU). He started the degree with an aim of eventually making a career…

On Tuesday, Google announced a new open protocol for purchases initiated by AI agents — automated software programs that can shop and make decisions on behalf of users — with backing from more than 60 merchants and financial institutions. Called the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), the system is meant to be interoperable between AI platforms, payment systems and vendors, providing a traceable paper trail for each transaction. In a post announcing the protocol, Google executives emphasized their commitment to openness. “We are committed to evolving this protocol in an open, collaborative process, including through standards bodies, and  invite the entire…

In brief Publicly traded firms are starting to stack up Solana in addition to Bitcoin and Ethereum. The top firms have already amassed more than $2.5 billion in SOL. The leader, Forward Industries, maintains a balance of nearly 7 million SOL on its own. Michael Saylor popularized the digital asset treasury when his firm Strategy...

After a terrible start to its launch back in July this year, the PUMP token has finally found its spark, managing to lead the recent market recovery. The Pump.Fun native token rose by over 140% over the last month, featuring prominently at the top of the gainers’ list during this time. A slowdown has since rocked the altcoin after this, but it may not be the end of the story. Pump.Fun Surpasses Hyperliquid In Daily Revenue In an interesting turn of events, Pump.Fun, the native platform behind the PUMP token, has overtaken Hyperliquid in terms of daily revenue. Hyperliquid, an…

While many robotics companies are building human-sized robots, or working to automate entire factories, MicroFactory is instead trying to think big by building small.   San Francisco-based MicroFactory built a general-purpose, tabletop manufacturing kit that’s about the size of my Siberian Husky’s dog crate. This compact factory includes two robotic arms and can be trained by human demonstration, as well as through AI.   “General purpose robots are good, but it’s not necessary [to] be humanoid,” said Igor Kulakov, the co-founder and CEO of MicroFactory, in an interview with TechCrunch. “We decided to design robots from scratch that will still be general…

Y Combinator-alum Rulebase is betting that the next wave of automation in financial services won’t be about flashy AI interfaces, but the unglamorous back-office tasks like compliance. The startup, founded by Gideon Ebose and Chidi Williams, two Nigerian engineers who met in London, just raised a $2.1 million pre-seed round led by Bowery Capital, with participation from Y Combinator, Commerce Ventures, Transpose Platform VC, alongside several angels. Financial services firms spend enormous amounts of effort on support tickets, resolving disputes, ensuring quality assurance, and regulatory compliance. Rulebase’s software, which it calls an agent coworker, replaces much of the manual grunt…

Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) leadership is signaling a decisive push into mainstream finance for the remainder of 2025, hinting that “some of the biggest names in payments and asset management” are set to go live on the network in the coming weeks and months. Speaking alongside SDF CEO Denelle Dixon, José Fernández da Ponte—who joined SDF in mid-July and now serves as President & Chief Growth Officer—framed the acceleration as the culmination of a year spent laying technical and go-to-market groundwork. Biggest Names In Payments Coming To Stellar “We are the blockchain for financial services at scale,” Fernández da Ponte…

The Texas Supreme Court has declined to take up an appeal of a case concerning the state’s overturning of a local marijuana decriminalization law that was approved by voters in the city of San Marcus. About five months after the state Fifteenth Court of Appeals rejected a lower court ruling that denied a temporary injunction to...

Crypto analysts found a strong ‘buy signal’ in $XRP’s recent market performance, indicating a potential significant upward move very soon. Specifically, trader Ali Martinez identified a TD Sequential in XRP’s charts. $XRP has been trading around the critical $3.00 support zone. This is important because, historically, significant $XRP accumulation happened at this level. Traders worry about the coin falling below the $3.00 support, which could cause a decline of roughly 10% to approximately $2.70. $XRP’s future performance could depend on factors such as the SEC’s decision on $XRP-related ETFs and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policies. Overall, technical indicators suggest…