Today, Mastercard, @OndoFinance, Kinexys by @jpmorgan, and @Ripple successfully completed a landmark transaction connecting a public blockchain with interbank settlement rails.
Together, we’re laying the groundwork for 24/7 global markets that never close.
Model Monday: Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Not just open weights, open training data and techniques too. Small enough to run on one GPU.
"Open source" keeps getting redefined upward.
Band Open Thoughts: DeepSeek just shipped another frontier-grade model under an MIT license, free to inspect, modify, and run.
The gap between "open" and "the best available" keeps shrinking. That's the actual story of AI in 2026