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Key TakeawaysXRPL and RLUSD anchor Ripple’s role in Mastercard’s autonomous payments initiative.Enterprises may use XRPL to enforce controls while AI agents transact continuously.RLUSD could support regulated settlement as machine-driven commerce expands across business systems. Mastercard’s AI Payments Plan Puts Ripple’s Enterprise Role in Focus Ripple’s role in Mastercard’s Agent Pay for Machines initiative puts XRPL and RLUSD inside a broader push to govern AI-driven commerce. Mastercard announced on June 10 that it is working with more than 30 partners to support autonomous transactions that require speed, controls, permissioning, and reliable settlement. “As AI agents begin transacting on behalf of businesses,…

Companies are burning through exorbitant sums of money to keep pace in the AI arms race. Debt is climbing. Amidst this flurry of activity, Amazon has signed a deal to borrow some $17.5 billion from a number of financial lenders, according to Bloomberg. The banks behind the loan reportedly include Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, HSBC, and BofA Securities. The deal has been characterized as a delayed draw term loan, meaning Amazon can draw down the funds on its own timeline rather than taking the full sum upfront, giving it flexibility in how and when the money gets deployed. The…

Prosthetic supplies and ongoing care are urgently needed for Gaza’s child amputees, writes Neena Bhandari. [SYDNEY, SciDev.Net] Thousands of children in Gaza, who have undergone amputations during the war, need their prostheses modified, repaired or replaced every six to 12 months or sooner, as they grow. But with healthcare services severely strained and rehabilitation resources scarce to non-existent, specialists and aid organisations warn that young amputees face an uncertain future without sustained access to the care they need. Eight-year-old Mohammed Akram Abu Aker’s right leg was severed in June 2025 by shrapnel from an artillery shell, just as he and…

Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign was based on a warning that automation and AI would hollow out the labor market and concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. At the time, ideas like Universal Basic Income felt fringe. Now Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Bernie Sanders are all saying versions of the same thing.  An entrepreneur at heart, Yang has found a new way to put money back into the hands of the people — one phone bill at a time. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan talks to Yang about his startup Noble Mobile, which pays you to use your phone less, ways to combat the “attention…

New Port Richey, FL, June 10, 2026 –(PR.com)– R.J. Kielty Plumbing, Air, & Electric, a leading home services provider serving the greater Tampa Bay area for over 50 years, today announced its expanded focus on whole-home generator installation services ahead of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season. With forecasters predicting an above-normal season, the company is urging homeowners to act now to protect their families, homes, and essential systems from extended power outages.Florida homeowners know all too well the devastation that hurricanes can bring, not just from wind and water, but from the days and sometimes weeks without power that follow. A…

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Greater Manchester Mayor and Labour by-election candidate Andy Burnham has pledged to slash taxes for hospitality businesses – including National Minimum Wage Contributions (NICs) and value-added tax (VAT) – if he becomes prime minister.Burnham’s promises come as businesses continue to struggle with rising labour costs, soaring energy prices, food inflation, and ongoing staff shortages – all of which have squeezed margins across the hospitality sector.Now, top chefs – including Tom Kerridge, who is leading the #VATstheproblem campaign – are backing Burnham’s plans, in hopes that a future government under his leadership would deliver long-promised tax reforms, ease cost pressures, and…

A former engineer at Elon Musk’s xAI has filed suit against the company and its parent SpaceX claiming he was fired for raising concerns about AI safety. Devin Kim, who left xAI in September 2025, filed the suit in a California state court on Tuesday. The complaint comes days before SpaceX is set to join the public markets in what’s shaping up to be the largest IPO in history. According to the lawsuit, which TechCrunch has viewed, Kim became a prominent voice for AI safety while working on Grok, xAI’s AI chatbot. He allegedly complained repeatedly about xAI’s failure to…

The notorious cybercrime group ShinyHunters claimed to have hacked Oracle PeopleSoft servers at more than 100 organizations, many of them universities, a ShinyHunters member told TechCrunch on Wednesday. The breaches were first reported by BleepingComputer. PeopleSoft is enterprise software designed to manage payroll, human resources, administration, and other business operations.  The news shows that despite being one of the most visible and prolific cybercrime groups at the moment, ShinyHunters is not slowing down, and has turned mass hacks into its specialty. The group’s modus operandi is to find a vulnerability in a popular piece of software so that they can…

Strategy Inc. CEO Phong Le somewhat pushed back Tuesday against the wave of criticism that followed the company’s first Bitcoin sale since 2022, telling CNBC’s Power Lunch that the move was a deliberate, limited exercise designed to signal operational flexibility — not a philosophical reversal. “We wanted to inoculate the market and we wanted to test our processes,” Le said in what the network described as a first-time interview. “We learned that everything works.” Between May 26 and May 31, Strategy sold 32 Bitcoin for approximately $2.5 million at an average price of $77,135 per coin — a transaction that,…