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Polygon Labs Nears Coinme Integration to Accelerate Blockchain Payments Strategy Blockchain

Polygon Labs Nears Coinme Integration to Accelerate Blockchain Payments Strategy

Key Takeaways: Polygon is closing its Coinme deal and moving away from blockchain payment solutions. As part of the company’s profitability plan for 2027, the company declared layoffs. The shift is driven by the growth in stablecoins and enterprise usage. Polygon Labs is continuing its evolution from a blockchain infrastructure…
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July 17, 2026
Gavin Baker Says Kimi K3 is Bad for Anthropic and OpenAI but Good for Others Pre-Crime

Gavin Baker Says Kimi K3 is Bad for Anthropic and OpenAI but Good for Others

Gavin Baker says anything that increases competition and compresses margins at the model layer (foundation models) is net positive for every other layer in the AI stack — power, semiconductors, hyperscalers/neoclouds, and even software. A world with only 2–3 dominant high-margin frontier labs is bad for the rest of the…
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July 17, 2026
Epstein Victims Slam “Demoralizing” Meeting With Todd Blanche NATO

Epstein Victims Slam “Demoralizing” Meeting With Todd Blanche

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s meeting with several Epstein survivors was a major bust. The Thursday meeting was an obvious gambit for Senate support for Blanche’s potential promotion to permanent attorney general. The encounter was arranged hours after Republican Senator Thom Tillis said that his vote for Blanche’s confirmation would…
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July 17, 2026
Bird strike may have caused New York sightseeing helicopter crash, says NTSB Times Square

Bird strike may have caused New York sightseeing helicopter crash, says NTSB

News The National Transportation Safety Board consulted feather specialists at the Smithsonian to help identify evidence found in the wreckage. July 17, 2026, 10:26 AM EDT Investigators discovered the remains of several large birds in the mangled wreckage of a sightseeing helicopter that crash-landed in New York’s Hudson River last…
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July 17, 2026