Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk:
Visa says its stablecoin settlement pilot supports nine networks, including Base, Polygon, Canton Network, Arc, and Tempo, and has hit a $7B annualized run rate  —  The payments giant added support for Stripe's Tempo, Circle's Arc, Coinbase's Base, Polygon and Canton Network as stablecoins gain traction in global money movement.

Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
How US schools' overreliance on YouTube for educational content encourages students to drift into endless video scrolling on school-issued devices  —  Parents find their kids captive to the video streaming site on their school-issued devices; for one, it was 13,000 YouTube videos in three months

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the White House opposes Anthropic's plan to expand access to Mythos to 70 additional companies and organizations because of concerns about security  —  Relationship is still complicated despite efforts from both sides to de-escalate  —  The White House opposes a plan from Anthropic …

New York Times:
Digital advertising is booming for Google and Meta, helped by AI tools used for language translation, real-time changes to ad copy, and easier ad targeting  —  For years, DribbleUp, a sports equipment company, spent its own time and resources figuring out whom it should advertise its basketballs and soccer balls to on Facebook.

Bloomberg:
Massachusetts-based brain implant company Axoft raised a $55M Series A and says it tested its device in a Shanghai patient, with plans for more trials in China  —  A US company has tested a brain implant in a Chinese patient in Shanghai, a rare sign of cooperation as the two countries compete …