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🔥 5 DAYS TO GO — FUTUREMODE 2026 AI x Brands x Culture x Digital Assets x Emerging Tech. Three days built to refresh how you imagine the world could be. FUTUREMODE 2026 📍 Taipei Expo Dome｜Sep 4–6, 2026 🎟️ Get your pass -

TDC State Network Microgrant Winner @WVblockchain is opening the door to new economic opportunity through digital innovation and emerging tech policy.   Join us for the West Virginia Digital Innovation Policy Briefing next Tuesday, August 11. Register:

Under Secretary Emil Michael (@USWREMichael) on the @DeptofWar's important partnerships with universities for the development of emerging tech: "What we're getting from a lot of these universities [is] a passion for defense, a passion for the warfighter, wanting to be part of the solution here, and it's been exciting... We have all kinds of assets that we're building and [doubling down] on these research universities who have an ethic of being patriotic and want to help the warfighter." @SenMcCormickPA @DOWResponse #PADefenseSummit#

FUTUREMODE 2026 Community Partner: FJCU FINLAB FJCU FINLAB is a professional community at Fu Jen Catholic University dedicated to global market analysis and financial literacy education. Through campus outreach and on-site engagement, they'll help connect FM26 with students exploring Web3 and emerging tech. We're looking forward to seeing them in September at #FM26#. FUTUREMODE 2026 📍 Taipei Expo Dome | Sep 4–6, 2026 🌐 🏟 Get your pass: Local - International -

.@usembassytokyo brought together over 70 experts from U.S. & Japanese universities and study‑abroad partners to highlight emergency preparedness, mental health services and buddy systems for American students in Japan.👨‍🎓👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓 Huge thanks to @lakeland_jp @UNC & @mextjapan as we strengthen 🇺🇸🤝🇯🇵 academic partnerships and spark new collaboration in scientific research and emerging tech! @ACSTokyo

👑 THE NEXT CHAPTER OF UNCROWNEDKINGS We started with gaming, and gaming will always remain part of our roots. But as UCK grew, so did the community, the opportunities, and the vision behind it. Today, UncrownedKings is evolving into a broader Web3 community built around gaming, markets, education, builders, creators, events, partnerships, and new opportunities across Web3. This isn’t about leaving behind what we built. It’s about expanding it. We want UCK to be a place where people can learn, connect, build, participate, and grow — whether they’re here for gaming, trading, creating, building, education, events, or simply exploring Web3. Over the coming months, you’ll see more from UCK across: • Trading and market education • Gaming and tournaments • Builders and creators • Online and IRL events • Exchange and project partnerships • Community campaigns and opportunities • Web3 education and emerging tech There’s still a lot more we’re building behind the scenes. Same community. Broader vision. Together We Build What’s Next. 👑

DAILY SITUATION RECAP: - ZAI releases GLM-5.3. GLM-5.3 is the exact same base model as GLM-5.2, released June 13, but with post-training improvements. It performs similarly to Kimi K3 on most benchmarks, but is substantially improved on TerminalBench and on cyber capabilities. ZAI found that the model performs substantially better than GLM-5.2 and Kimi K3 on cybersecurity benchmarks (though still behind Mythos and Sol), and was able to chain together multiple exploits. In response, the company built the ZAI Security Disclosure Ledger as a public record of vulnerabilities that are found and fixed, and will release the weights in two weeks after safety evaluations and hardening are complete. - Thrive releases its first-ever investor letterand invests $215M in Amazon. Thrive Capital, founded by Joshua Kushner in 2009, has over $65 billion under management and stakes in OpenAI, SpaceX, Stripe, Databricks, Anduril, and more. In his first letter, Kushner laid out the firm’s opportunity set: emerging tech, infrastructure and applications, traditional industries to be transformed by tech, and scarce assets that will become more valuable with tech. Since 2009, Thrive has compounded at 41% gross and 33% net IRR. - Anthropic publishes its August 2026 Risk Report focusing on three threat models: misalignment in high-stakes settings, risks from automated R&D, and chemical and biological weapons production. They find that risk is still low, though no longer very low, and could increase if models learn how to scheme more coherently. Anthropic evaluated an unreleased “Model 2” that is slightly more capable than Claude Mythos 5, that they have no plans to release. - France’s highest court blocks ban on social media for under-15s. The French Constitutional Council ruled that the ban was too broad and age verification would violate the privacy of adults. The French Senate and Assembly passed the bill last month with overwhelming margins (243-2 and 279-81, respectively). - Jane Street posted a $15B loss in July due to declines in the value of Situational Awareness LP’s holdings. Jane Street was a major backer of SALP, an unusual move for a firm which usually trades only its own capital. - Nvidia disclosed a $21B stake in SpaceX and a $30B stake in Intel. Also, Google disclosed a $94B stake in SpaceX, up ~100x from its $900M investment in 2015. - Apple is working with Alibaba to train its own model in China. It will be used as part of Apple Intelligence for Apple devices sold in the country. - Alibaba releases the weights of Qwen3.8-27B, the smaller version of its recent model. Weights of the full 2.4T version are also available on Hugging Face. Written by @theojaffee. Read more at our link in bio.