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Martha Stewart has a new venture, and it has nothing to do with centerpieces. Her startup Hint wants to be the AI for your home, pulling together property records, maintenance schedules, and key documents into one assistant. It is a practical pitch aimed squarely at the chaos of homeownership.

On the crypto side, nearly one billion dollars in digital assets were stolen in the first half of two thousand twenty six, and security firm Immunefi says the culprit is not what most people assume. Analyst Mitchell Amador argues the real vulnerability is not buggy smart contracts but compromised keys, signers, and governance systems, meaning the phrase we were audited has never actually meant we are safe.

And in object storage, MinIO is making a case that AI agents need something conventional chatbots never required: persistent memory across sessions. As agents take on longer, multi-step work, MinIO argues its infrastructure can hold the context those agents need to actually finish the job, not just respond to a single prompt and forget everything.

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