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Samsung is moving into stablecoins. At Galaxy Unpacked, the company showed a mockup of its Samsung Wallet holding Circle's USDC, signaling a push toward crypto payments for its massive global user base. Details remain thin, but the direction is clear — Samsung wants your digital dollars in its ecosystem.
Shifting gears, Midjourney has acquired Co-Star, the personalized astrology app beloved by millions of millennials who check their birth charts more often than their email. Co-Star's CEO Banu Guler is joining Midjourney as Chief Design Officer. It's an unusual pairing — generative AI meets cosmic self-reflection — though what Midjourney actually plans to do with horoscopes remains, fittingly, written in the stars.
And for the developers in the room, a project called Twigg has gone fully open source. It's an ambitious attempt to replicate the internal developer tooling used at companies like Google and Meta — covering version control, a software forge analogous to GitHub, and a built-in CI/CD pipeline. You can self-host it or use their hosted instance, making enterprise-grade workflows accessible outside the walls of big tech.
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