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TLDR REX-Osprey launches the first U.S. XRP ETF on September 18 under ticker XRPR CME Group plans to list options on XRP futures starting October 13 XRP trading around $3.03, down nearly 1% in the past 24 hours Historical data shows XRP often outperforms equities by 10x during Fed rate cut cycles Short positions clustered [...] The post XRP Price: First U.S. ETF Goes Live Thursday as Bulls Eye Breakout Above $3 appeared first on CoinCentral.

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The post SoftBank’s AI rollout with OpenAI in Japan falls behind schedule appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. SoftBank’s artificial intelligence joint venture with OpenAI is now months behind schedule, according to Reuters. The project, which was announced in February by SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, was supposed to launch by summer. That timeline collapsed. Despite multiple public statements, there’s still no active business. A new update is expected sometime in November, but so far, there’s no clarity on what exactly is holding things up or when the rollout will happen. The venture, named SB OpenAI Japan, is supposed to be co-owned by OpenAI and a new company formed by SoftBank and its domestic telecom division. The goal is to bring OpenAI’s tools and services to businesses across Japan. It hasn’t happened. In June, telecom unit CEO Junichi Miyakawa told shareholders that the target to launch was the end of July. He said the product lineup was still under discussion. That deadline also passed, and now, the entire thing’s stuck in development limbo. SoftBank delays pile up as Son pushes deeper into AI This isn’t the only SoftBank-backed AI project facing delays. The company’s massive $500 billion data center initiative in the United States, known as Stargate, is also stalling. CFO Yoshimitsu Goto confirmed last month that negotiations with potential partners are dragging, and decisions on where to build are taking longer than expected. That means Stargate, just like SB OpenAI Japan, is still stuck on paper. Masayoshi had slowed down his investment pace after losing billions on failed tech bets. Now, he’s back in AI mode, going all-in on new ventures again, with OpenAI at the center of the plan. But the timeline is clearly slipping. Despite all the announcements, neither of the company’s major AI projects, Japan or the U.S., has made it past the setup stage. Over in the U.S., Sam…