Monthly Archives: February, 2026

TLDR Alibaba unveiled RynnBrain, an open-source AI model that enables robots to perform real-world tasks and navigate complex environments like factories and kitchens. The model competes with Google’s Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5 and Nvidia’s Cosmos-Reason2, with Alibaba claiming superior benchmark performance. RynnBrain is available on GitHub and Hugging Face in versions ranging from 2 billion parameters

The vision of a fully on-chain financial world is rapidly moving from theory to reality, and few voices are shaping that transition more directly than Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ). In a recent statement shared on X, CZ revealed that he is actively working with multiple countries to help launch native stablecoins, emphasizing that every

Ripple has enabled staking for Ethereum and Solana within its institutional custody business, expanding beyond safekeeping to include asset servicing features that large investors increasingly consider standard. The new capability, delivered through a partnership with staking infrastructure provider Figment, enables Ripple Custody clients to offer staking on major proof-of-stake networks without setting up validator infrastructure.

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JRL Group has been awarded a £68.4m contract by Clarion Housing Group to deliver 180 affordable homes in Brent, north London. The appointment followed Clarion’s completion of the land purchase at Stonebridge Park, providing a route to deliver a scheme near the existing Argenta House that had previously stalled. Clarion secured the site through Argenta

Sheffield Wednesday Football Club A family-run modular business in Yorkshire that specialised in football projects has fallen into administration. Mockba Ltd – trading as Mockba Modular – called in administrators Carrie James and Simon Carvill-Biggs of Oury Clark, according to a notice on the official Gazette site last week. Ossett-based Mockba Modular was established in

Galliford Try is expected to receive approval this week for plans to demolish a school where reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) was found and replace it with a £11m new building. The contractor and the Department for Education (DfE) submitted a planning application in October to demolish St Francis Catholic Primary School in Coronation Road, Ascot

The Building Safety Regulator is set to operate as the shadow Single Construction Regulator (SCR) before the overarching body begins formal operations, officials said last week. Before Christmas, the government’s prospectus for the new regulator said the SCR would “take over [the BSR’s] responsibilities” and be the “foundation for an integrated regulator” but further details