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XRP holders now have a new financial tool at their disposal. Through a two hundred eighty million dollar lending vault on Ethereum, they can borrow RLUSD stablecoins against their XRP without ever selling their holdings. It marks the first time this particular vault has accepted an XRP-linked asset, signaling a quiet but meaningful expansion of cross-chain DeFi.
Shifting to artificial intelligence research, a new paper out of arXiv asks a genuinely interesting question about large language models — should they know when to stop thinking? The work explores training LLMs to recognize when a reasoning chain is going nowhere and abort it early. That kind of self-awareness could reduce wasted compute and improve reliability in real-world deployments.
And for anyone working from home, gaming, or running local AI tools, EE in the United Kingdom has launched what it calls its fastest fibre broadband ever, advertising download speeds of two point three gigabits per second with a ceiling of eight gigabits. The service is rolling out first in Guildford and Woking, riding Openreach's expanding XGS-PON glass fibre network.
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