Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti meets young Hakmatullah in Quetta, appreciates his courage in saving lives after the training aircraft crash in Nawan Killi, and presents him with a certificate of appreciation on behalf of the provincial government. #Balochistan# #SarfrazBugti# #Hakmatullah# #Quetta# #HeroOfNawanKilli# #PakistanTV#

Neemias Queta says he has no interest in spending $100K per week to train with Hakeem Olajuwon “I don't spend $100,000 on training... Not even with Hakeem Olajuwon.” (Via A Bola)

Richard Reyle, chief investment officer at Questar Capital Partners, said with Nvidia now ‘exposed to lawsuits’ over the allegations against ousted CEO Jensen Huang, the company is bound to take its ‘eye off the ball’ under any new leader

*The Mexica Princesses* imagines two Mexica noblewomen in love on a palace terrace overlooking Tenochtitlan. Surrounded by native flowers, they kiss in embroidered huipiles. The quetzal feathers in one woman’s hair evoke Xochiquetzal, Precious Flower, Teotl of love, beauty and desire. Prints:

Kite is embedding verifiable identity and programmable spend controls into global payment rails, physical AI, and developer workflows. Here's what we delivered last week: 1️⃣ We joined the Avalanche Payments Collective as a Contributing Partner alongside @FTDA_US, @vaneck_us, and @krakenfx, bringing the Kite Agent Passport to a global payments network covering 150+ countries and 96 currencies. 2️⃣ We shipped cross-chain x402 payments, allowing agents to settle transactions across Base, Tempo, and Solana regardless of where funds are held, with full route timelines now visible in the Kite Passport dashboard. 3️⃣ Settlement is now live on Base, enabling direct-pay and cross-chain routing to handle 1:1 USDC bridging and replacing the treasury relay path for agent wallets. 4️⃣ At Agent Experience Demo Night in SF, our Co-Founder & CTO @scottshics previewed a new developer product coming this month that provides per-user spend visibility and automated cost controls to prevent runaway agent bills. 5️⃣ Kite joined @AethirCloud as an ecosystem partner for Aethir Claw, providing agents with the verifiable identity and stablecoin settlement layer needed to move from ready-to-work to ready-to-transact. 6️⃣ We partnered with @ChainPatrol to protect the Kite community, successfully identifying and taking down 381 malicious links and impersonation attempts to date. 7️⃣ We supported @RiverdotInc Sessions x AI in Tokyo on July 13, joining @axisrobotics and @0G_labs to explore the onchain infrastructure required for physical AI and robotics to sense, settle, and act. 8️⃣ We announced the winners of the Kite Global Hackathon, hosted with @encodeclub alongside @googlecloud, @avax, @cbventures, @smbcnikko_jp, @StanfordSBA with @theBBFund, and @BerkeleyHaas. Over two months, builders competed across Agentic Commerce, Agentic Trading and Portfolio Management, and a Novel track, judged by leaders from Microsoft, Uber, Nvidia, Meta, and Google DeepMind. Eight teams shared a $12,400 prize pool, led by Flattora × ZUKKU (1st), Quittance and WasiAI A2A Gateway (2nd), and ORCA and Kutip (3rd), with standouts like a physical robot concierge that books trips inside budget caps and proof-of-delivery escrow already live on Kite Mainnet. 9️⃣ We launched the Kite Mainnet Use Case campaign in our Discord, recognizing the creative contributions and organic support driving the growth of the Kite ecosystem. The infrastructure for the agentic internet requires both identity and control. 🪁