Inside the last-minute political breakdown that doomed the Clarity Act vote
Senator Cynthia Lummis' disappointment was already palpable the day before the U.S. Senate shot down the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act.
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Sep 14 – Sep 20, 20266 stories
Whoever wins AI, wins," he told reporters, repeating a line he has used before to wave off regulatory pressure
The president had previously ducked some of these uncomfortable questions. Sunday's exchange marks the first time he's staked out a personal view, coming days after the September 8 deadline Hawley set for Flock to turn over its internal documents.
Trump Confirms He’s the Only ‘Guardrails’ AI Needs, Attacks Anthropic and Defends Data Centers
President Donald Trump said Monday that his presidency provides the guardrails artificial intelligence needs, attacking Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and alleging a conspiracy against AI and data centers.
OpenAI's Brockman Confirms Safety Concerns Have Already Slowed Its Most Advanced AI Work
OpenAI has already slowed down some of its most advanced AI development because of safety and security concerns, company President Greg Brockman said in a Bloomberg podcast interview published Monday.
The second, Altman warned, is that power could become concentrated in one person or company
“Avoiding these two threats requires walking a narrow middle path; for example, one country could gain too much power,” he wrote. In a separate post, Altman said American AI companies must give the public confidence that they will develop increasingly capable systems responsibly as progress accelerates.
Bitcoin reclaims $80,000, Solana and Hyperliquid rally as crypto markets shrug off Clarity setback
The crypto market is closing the week on a high note, with assets jumping across the board as federal agencies continue to innovate through regulation after the Clarity Act hit a roadblock in the Senate.
Sep 7 – Sep 13, 20266 stories
PayPal scales up stablecoin rails with custom token issuance service
Internet commerce giant PayPal PYPL $ 52.20 · Market Closed extended its blockchain-based stablecoin effort to include a custom stablecoin developer platform, dubbed PYUSDx, built with the help of fiat-pegged token specialist M0 and crypto payments firm MoonPay, the companies said on Tuesday.
AI Is Solving Math's Best Problems Faster Than They Can Be Replaced, Terence Tao Warns
Terence Tao, the UCLA professor widely considered the best living pure mathematician, has sounded the alarm over the accelerating AI race in math happening right now.
GPT-6 Astra Users Say OpenAI's Newest Model Got Dumber
A week ago, GPT-6 Astra was rebuilding Manhattan street by street inside a game engine, wowing users left and right with its capabilities.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a giant sponge for investment capital
The biggest U.S. hyperscalers are expected to spend upwards of $800 billion this year and more than $1 trillion in 2027, according to estimates in Bitcoin Suisse’s Crypto Wealth Management Report 2026.
Acquires Vercept
People are using Claude for increasingly complex work—writing and running code across entire repositories, synthesizing research from dozens of sources, and managing workflows that span multiple tools and teams.
At the IBC conference, running Sept. 11-14 in Amsterdam, the creative
Read on to learn more about what NVIDIA’s highlighting at the show. Media companies are increasingly integrating AI into live production, sports, news and streaming workflows to unlock richer performance insights, verify video authenticity, and enhance and localize content — all without disrupting trusted broadcast…
Aug 31 – Sep 6, 20266 stories
TZERO is expected to become an approved digital transfer agent and participant on ICE's planned NYSE-affiliated platform
The deal shows how Wall Street's tokenization push is moving beyond putting stocks and bonds on blockchain rails. The potential market is large.
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, also bought in, though neither company said how much Google's parent chipped
The deal deepens a partnership that already touches PCs, data centers, and cars. Three areas get top billing: AI infrastructure, edge AI, and software-defined vehicles.
OpenClaw 2.0 Is Here: What Changed, Why It Took Two Months, and How It Stacks Up Against Hermes
OpenClaw shipped its biggest update ever over the weekend. The team calls it OpenClaw 2.0.
Arbitrum's token, ARB, has risen more than 30% over the past 24 hours to around 11 cents
The move followed a ramp-up in activity on Robinhood Chain, the Ethereum layer-2 introduced on July 1 by trading platform Robinhood HOOD $ 103.51 · At close. The chain uses Arbitrum’s technology stack and pays the Arbitrum DAO directly.
Musk’s X hit by wave of unsolicited password reset emails
Thousands of X users are reporting a wave of unsolicited password reset emails, including several prominent crypto accounts, raising concerns about an attempted account-takeover campaign or possible leak.
Each is readying a dedicated app while folding the AI into products people already tap
The government will divide up to 512 of Nvidia's high-end B200 chips between the three groups and contribute toward running costs. The Ministry of Science and ICT has not said what the programme will cost.
Aug 24 – Aug 30, 20266 stories
All banks in Japan use those accounts for interbank payment settlement
The new infrastructure would cut both to near-zero, allowing investors to reinvest proceeds almost immediately. Nearly 80% of Japanese institutional investors plan to allocate to crypto within three years, according to a survey by Nomura and Laser Digital published in April.
Ro Khanna launched an investigation into money going to WLF from the UAE royal family
United Arab Emirates' national security advisor, also known as the "spy sheikh," is playing a major investment role in President Donald Trump's family's bank venture, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal.
Meta Tests Robots to Handle Data Center Work
Meta is testing robots to maintain the data centers powering its artificial intelligence systems, including machines that can replace networking cables, restart servers, and inspect equipment.
Meet the maintainers building and securing it
What began as a personal experiment quickly became a global open source project with extraordinary momentum.
Nvidia already sells the hardware every major AI lab trains and serves models
Hugging Face is where most of those models are stored, versioned, and downloaded. To see why this matters, it helps to separate the layers.
Nvidia shares surge 8% on earnings overtook, lifting technology stocks and bitcoin
Nvidia NVDA $ 224.67 · At close shares rose 8% during Thursday’s pre-market session after the AI chipmaker delivered another earnings beat and issued stronger-than-expected guidance, lifting the wider technology and crypto markets.
Aug 17 – Aug 23, 20266 stories
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission published its proposed Regulation Crypto rulemaking last week
You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. The Securities and Exchange Commission published its Regulation Crypto proposal last week, laying out how it thinks crypto companies and developers can raise funds with tokens without running afoul of…
Pennsylvania Cracks Down on AI Data Centers as Backlash Scales up
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order Tuesday imposing new restrictions on large AI data centers, including rules aimed at making developers pay for their impact on the state's electrical grid.
CEO Phong Le also defended Strategy's practice of selling new MSTR shares
In that situation, he said, the amount of bitcoin backing each MSTR share can increase. The recent drop in STRC has also changed how Strategy manages its money.
In March, three minors in California joined others in suing xAI
Alleging Grok was used to turn their photos into AI-generated child sexual abuse material. xAI has said it suspended more than 50,000 accounts and filed more than 70,000 reports with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 2026.
Robot maker Unitree’s IPO rallies 600%, outpacing crypto traders’ premarket bets
Crypto traders spent the days before Unitree Robotics' Shanghai listing pricing the company at more than four times its IPO valuation.
Bitcoin holds $64,000 and solana leads gains amid 7% Korean chip stock slide
Bitcoin held near $64,250 on Wednesday, up marginally on the day and 1% on the week, while a global selloff in chip stocks left crypto largely untouched.
Aug 10 – Aug 16, 20266 stories
A rare CME shift: Hedge funds abandon structural shorts to bet on a bitcoin rally
Hedge funds trading bitcoin BTC $ 64,978.27 futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange have turned net long, according to Ki Young Ju, CEO of blockchain data analytics firm CryptoQuant.
Standard Chartered Sees $4 trillion Tokenization Driving Chainlink to $200 by 2030
Standard Chartered has initiated coverage of Chainlink with a price target of $200 by the end of 2030, implying a roughly 25-fold gain from around $8 today and outperformance of both Bitcoin and Ethereum over the period.
The all-in-one Robinhood app will bring U.K. customers access to over 50 cryptos including Bitcoin BTC $ 64,978.27
The trading firm is also introducing “Robinhood Cortex Digests for Crypto,” a generative AI-powered widget that analyses breaking news, market data, technical indicators and Robinhood's proprietary insights.
In May, Senator Elizabeth Warren challenged Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould
After Warren had specifically asked that the OCC put a stop to the application process for Trump-tied World Liberty, Gould had told her that the agency would act without considering politics and proceed with the application on its normal timeline.
President Donald Trump is expected to be in attendance when the administration's new innovation committee
The chief executives of companies such as Coinbase, Ripple, Gemini, Robinhood, Polymarket and Kalshi are members of the new Innovation Advisory Committee at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, but before they attend their first committee meeting on Thursday, the crypto CEOs will gather for the White House…
Morgan Stanley's infrastructure partner Zerohash rebuffed in pitch to be U.S. trust bank
Zerohash, a crypto platform that handles the backend operations of high-profile traditional financial firms including Morgan Stanley's E*Trade, fell short last month in joining the dozens of firms who've recently been granted U.S. trust bank charters by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Aug 3 – Aug 9, 20266 stories
Senate Majority Leader John Thune filed the motion to proceed on the bill
The filing came too late to squeeze in a vote before senators leave for their August recess, but it queues up an initial procedural vote almost immediately after they return, with the first test set for 2:15 p.m.
World Liberty received $100 million from businessman investigated for money laundering: NYT
Guren "Bobby" Zhou, the businessman behind Aqua 1's $100 million purchase of World Liberty Financial (WLFI) governance tokens, was arrested in Britain in 2021 on suspicion of money laundering and remains connected to an active investigation, The New York Times reported Sunday.
Bitcoin Red Team Confirms AI Is Detecting Critical Exploits Across Core Projects
A volunteer security initiative says it used frontier AI models to scan 150 Bitcoin repositories and found more than a dozen vulnerabilities as developers increasingly use artificial intelligence to audit blockchains.
Into the Omniverse: How Open World Models Push the Frontier of Physical AI
Editor’s note: This post is part of Into the Omniverse, a series focused on how developers, 3D practitioners and enterprises can transform their workflows using the latest advancements in OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse.
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
Independent testing plays an important role in helping us validate and further understand risks before deployment.
How the GitHub legal team leveraged Copilot CLI to streamline their workflows
Whether you are starting out or are not in a technical role at all, you likely already have the skills you need to build your own tools.
Jul 27 – Aug 2, 20263 stories
Position Open Weights Models
A post by Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO.
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
We are publishing this level of detail because the technique matters more than the incident, as it reveals the emerging attack capabilities of the frontier agents, how they could be used by rogue actors, and how everyone should be prepared as defenders.
With managed agents in the Gemini Interactions API, a single API call coordinates, reasoning, code execution, package installation
If you're using an AI coding assistant, drop this in your terminal to give it access to the Interactions API skill: npx skills add google-gemini/gemini-skills --skill gemini-interactions-api. Below are examples using the /genai TypeScript/JavaScript SDK.
Jul 20 – Jul 26, 20266 stories
Then, in “Ask an Expert,” Joshua de Vos from CoinDesk Research answers questions about tokenized investment products and current
Key takeaways from TokenizeThis 2026, where the debate shifted from whether real-world assets belong on-chain to whether anyone is using them. Bitcoin sat around $60,000 for most of the TokenizeThis 2026 conference, and almost nobody on stage seemed to care.
LayerZero, Keeta enable tokenized bank deposits across Ethereum, Solana and Base
LayerZero and Keeta have partnered to enable regulated commercial bank money to move across public blockchains, as the two companies seek to expand institutional settlement infrastructure beyond closed banking networks.
Galaxy this week launched a separate $5 million initiative for quantum-resistant signatures
Quantum computers capable of breaking Bitcoin’s cryptography do not currently exist. Proposals include BIP 360, which would introduce a new output type designed to limit the exposure of public keys.
Uniswap pushes deeper into tokenized assets with permissioned trading pools
Uniswap (UNI), one of the largest and longest-running decentralized exchanges, is making a deeper push into tokenized assets, introducing a feature designed to let regulated securities trade on the venue without sacrificing compliance requirements.
JPMorgan has also warned that crypto legislation should close regulatory gaps rather than create new ones
The debate over stablecoin rewards has become one of the biggest sticking points in negotiations over the CLARITY Act. Solomon's comments also echo remarks he made in February criticizing the economic costs of excessive regulation.
The launch also fits into the UAE's broader ambition to become a hub for tokenized finance
Markets repositioned since June, but Binance held share (~55% user funds, ~24% spot) and drew net inflows in early July while the tracked market saw outflows.
Jul 13 – Jul 19, 20266 stories
The president and his advisers are expected to meet with senators to work on closing that gap, the people said
Clarity’s progress may hinge on what the president is willing to accept on the ethics section and whether he’ll support a bill that directly restricts his businesses. White House spokespeople didn't immediately comment on the meeting plans.
Stop Over-Prompting: OpenAI’s New GPT-5.6 Guidelines Change Everything
OpenAI published a new prompting guide for GPT-5.6 Sol, its newly released flagship model, and the main message will feel wrong to anyone who spent the last year writing multi-page system prompts: stop writing so much. Define what good looks like, set the stopping conditions, and get out of the way.
The proposal contemplates revising the National Property Act, which dates back to 1950
Officials are also studying the tokenization of state-owned real estate to allow retail investors to participate and share in investment returns, according to the plan. The announcement builds on South Korea’s broader push to bring blockchain into public finance.
Team Behind Ethereum's Institutional Privacy Push Spins Out For-Profit Firm EthSystems
The group that spent the past year running the Ethereum Foundation's institutional privacy work has spun out to start its own company.
Strategy pauses its Bitcoin buying spree to hoard a large $3 billion cash cushion
Strategy (MSTR) has not purchased any bitcoin since June 22, when it acquired 520 BTC for approximately $35 million.
Data reviewed by CoinDesk shows that total value locked for the chain reached about $135 million
This means the tokenized-equity book remains tiny in a chain that clears billions of dollars in weekly trading volume. The pattern is similar to when prominent exchange Coinbase launched its own network, Base, in 2023.
Jul 6 – Jul 12, 20266 stories
Coinbase AI draws backlash after erroneously publishing World Cup result before kickoff
Coinbase (COIN) sent users a false “breaking news” alert saying Norway's soccer team beat Brazil 3-2 in a World Cup knockout match before the game had even started.
FOMC minutes, SpaceX joins Nasdaq 100: Crypto Week Ahead
Crypto Week Ahead is a comprehensive list of what's coming up in the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain, as well as the major macroeconomic events that will influence digital asset markets.
‘Bottom building in progress’: Analysts say bitcoin holder capitulation signals late-stage bear market
Bitcoin has traded below its True Market Mean and Short-Term Holder Cost Basis for five straight months, one of the longest deep-value stretches in its history, according to Glassnode's latest onchain report.
Aave publishes vaults for yield-hungry fintech investors
Aave Labs, the organization behind the largest decentralized lending platform Aave AAVE $ 90.87, is rolling out vaults to help fintech companies offer yield on stablecoins without requiring users to interact directly with crypto rails.
Over $7.2 billion have migrated from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP as Mantle joins exodus
More than $7.2 billion in cross-chain and wrapped assets have migrated from LayerZero to Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) since May, with Mantle becoming the latest project to replace LayerZero for high-value token transfers.
Morning Minute: Strategy Turns Net Seller
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Jun 29 – Jul 5, 20266 stories
Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum’s next rebuild will rival the Merge, and take three to four years
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published his takeaways from an updated version of the network's draft long-term roadmap, describing the multi-year "Lean Ethereum" effort as a near-total rebuild of how the network operates.
Perplexity Co-Founder: AI Safety Is an Excuse to Lock Down Frontier
Perplexity AI and Databricks co-founder Andy Konwinski thinks the AI safety conversation has a problem: It's being used to concentrate power, not prevent harm.
Tokenization could make finance faster, but also more susceptible to shocks, IMF confirms
Tokenization, the process of moving financial assets into a blockchain environment, could make markets faster and cheaper.
Bitcoin as the underlying asset has displayed signs of recovery since the start of the month
Glassnode analyst Chris Beamish wrote in the firm's latest report that long-term bitcoin holders have returned to accumulation after an extended period of distribution, with buying activity broadening across wallet cohorts, including smaller holders and entities holding 100 to 1,000 BTC.
Inside the Trading Engine Behind ChangeNOW’s ‘Fast, Seamless Swaps’
Open ChangeNOW and a crypto swap looks like the simplest thing in the world: pick two tokens, send one, receive the other—a process the non-custodial exchange says usually completes within minutes, across more than 110 blockchains including ETH, BSC and SOL.
EU moves to block retail investors from explosive boom of multibillion-dollar prediction markets
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) said some prediction-market contracts may be covered by the European Union’s binary options ban, warning firms that yes-or-no event contracts cannot be marketed, distributed or sold to retail clients when they qualify as financial instruments.
Jun 22 – Jun 28, 20266 stories
Kentucky alleges that 89% of the platform's 2025 volume came from sports, the contracts states are trying to ban
Prediction market Kalshi is in talks to raise fresh funds at a valuation of about $40 billion, the Financial Times reported, in a round that could close as soon as the third quarter.
Securitize aims to raise $400 million as tokenization company nears public debut
Securitize, one of the largest providers of tokenization infrastructure for Wall Street, expects to raise about $400 million as it prepares to go public through a merger with a Cantor Fitzgerald-backed special purpose acquisition company.
In May 2025, it approved a $1.4 billion arms sale to the country
In the same month, Treasury created a "Known Investor Pilot" program to streamline investment approvals through CFIUS, a fast-track process that the UAE had lobbied for. The Department of Commerce also rescinded Biden-era chip export restrictions, allowing the UAE to receive up to triple or quadruple the number of…
Cerebras raised $6 billion in a May IPO priced at $185 per share
The stock soared as high as $385 shortly after going public, but has since retreated. In May, combined exchange volumes fell 3.45% to $4.41T; the lowest since September 2024.
CryptoQuant confirms Michael Saylor's Strategy should halt its bitcoin buying
Strategy (MSTR) should stop buying bitcoin BTC $ 62,540.26, rebuild its cash reserve and become far more disciplined about when it buys, onchain analytics firm CryptoQuant said in a Wednesday report shared with CoinDesk.
Bitcoin bounces from $58,000 as derivatives signal more pain in the pipeline
The crypto market is clinging to a crucial level of support, with bitcoin BTC $ 60,222.10 barely moving since midnight UTC after rebounding from its lowest level since September 2024 on Thursday.
Jun 15 – Jun 21, 20266 stories
BlackRock's new bitcoin income fund offers cash flow alongside BTC exposure
Opening for trade on Tuesday, BlackRock's newest bitcoin exchange-traded fund —the Bitcoin Premium Income Fund (BITA) — is less about market timing and more about meeting a growing range of investor needs as the asset class matures, according to Jay Jacobs, the firm's U.S. head of equity ETFs.
State Street targets stablecoin reserve boom with new money market fund
Wall Street's largest asset managers are increasingly competing to manage the assets backing stablecoins, a market that could swell into the trillions of dollars as digital dollars become a larger part of the financial system.
Coinbase to join tokenized stock race with onchain shares, dividend payments
Coinbase (COIN) said it plans to introduce tokenized stocks backed one-for-one by underlying U.S. equities, joining the growing competition among crypto firms and traditional financial companies to bring stocks onto blockchain networks.
Middle East ceasefire, Fed interest-rate decision: Crypto Week Ahead
Crypto Week Ahead is a comprehensive list of what's coming up in the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain, as well as the major macroeconomic events that will influence digital asset markets.
Morning Minute: HYPE Climbs to ATH as SPCX Takes Off
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More importantly, it cut the maximum drawdown from −80% to −44%
The implication for wealth managers is that bitcoin deserves a place in a diversified portfolio; the long-term return premium is real, and the diversification benefit is measurable. Bitcoin is a cyclical asset driven by a four-year supply schedule, successive waves of institutional adoption and leverage cycles that…
Jun 8 – Jun 14, 20266 stories
Bitcoin BTC $ 60,930.61 has lost buyers on two fronts
The exodus from spot ETFs as a catalyst for the recent bitcoin price swoon is well documented. "As BTC broke down from the mid-$70Ks toward $60K, net inflows from corporate treasury firms fell sharply, with daily purchases slowing to a fraction of their recent pace," analysts at Glassnode said in the latest market…
Here's what SpaceX's IPO means for its $1.3 billion bitcoin reserve
SpaceX's Nasdaq debut on Friday did something quieter than the record $75 billion raise.
The European Commission ordered Meta on Monday to give rival AI chatbots free access to WhatsApp's business messaging tools
Commission Executive Vice President Teresa Ribera said the interim measures would remain in place for the duration of the investigation, which started in December 2025. The order requires Meta to reinstate access for third-party general-purpose AI assistants to the WhatsApp Business API under the same terms that…
AI Agent Rekts Dev on Bogus Scan, Departs Them Begging for Crypto Donations
On May 9, an AI agent asked a volunteer network known as DN42 to register it as a member. "Hello, I'm a friendly AI agent, and my user, JertLinc, has asked me to register with dn42 and get fully connected to create an index of the network,” the agent JertLinc3522 wrote in the network’s official Git.
Crypto’s next billion-dollar hacker may move at superhuman speed
The newest AI model from Anthropic, which gives users access to stronger, faster reasoning and coding capabilities, lands in a crypto market beset by security problems and could well exacerbate them.
OpenAI Wants to Kill the Chatbot It Invented and Turn It Into a Superapp
OpenAI has nearly 1 billion ChatGPT users. That's the problem the company is trying to solve before it goes public.
Jun 1 – Jun 7, 20266 stories
JPMorgan, Citi-backed consortium is set to launch tokenized deposit network in early 2027: WSJ
Major U.S. banks reportedly plan to launch a tokenized deposit network as soon as the first half of 2027, in Wall Street's latest effort to integrate blockchain into traditional finance.
The deal now heads to a shareholder vote scheduled for June 29
The milestone comes as tokenization has emerged as one of the fastest-growing trends in finance. The process involves creating blockchain-based representations of traditional assets such as funds, bonds, private credit and equities.
Bybit follows Kraken in offering tokenized SpaceX IPO access via xStocks
Crypto exchange Bybit launched a tokenized SpaceX IPO access product on Sunday, opening a four-day window for eligible users to commit USDC ahead of the rocket, satellite broadband, social media and AI company's expected Nasdaq debut on June 12.
Bitmine's Ethereum bet nears $9 billion loss as ether falls below $1,800
Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), the largest corporate holder of ether (ETH), is staring at nearly $9 billion in losses as the token's slide below $1,800 drags down the value of its massive treasury.
Binance said its version, due in the coming weeks, will let customers start the tokenization process themselves
"Tokenized stocks could become a major driver of both RWA adoption and crypto more broadly," Misha Putiatin, co-founder of collateral markets platform Symbiotic, told Decrypt. The real opportunity lies in making equities fully composable with DeFi, allowing tokenized stocks to support lending, collateral, and other…
AI Is Already Developing AI, Confirms Anthropic—And Humans May Be Slowing Things Down
AI has become so effective at writing code and researching that the biggest constraint on developing new AI systems may now be the humans overseeing them, according to a new study by Anthropic.
May 25 – May 31, 20266 stories
Masayoshi Son's conglomerate is building Europe's largest AI infrastructure project
SoftBank committed €45 billion, roughly $52 billion, to building AI data centers in northern France over the next five years. The investment will fund 3.1 gigawatts of data center capacity across multiple sites in the Hauts-de-France region.
Trump praises prediction markets, defends CFTC as court cases compound
U.S. President Donald Trump said it was "critically important" that the CFTC keep "exclusive authority" over prediction markets, echoing CFTC Chair Michael Selig in a post on Truth Social, his social media platform, late Tuesday afternoon.
Bitcoin falls below $73,000 as BlackRock’s BTC ETF sees second-largest outflows since debut
Bitcoin (BTC) fell below $73,000 early Thursday as spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds logged their largest net outflows since late January.
Anthropic's Claude Mythos AI Model Nearing Release After Raising Cybersecurity Alarms
Anthropic said Thursday that it expects to expand access to its Claude Mythos AI models “in the coming weeks,” signaling the company may soon move beyond the tightly restricted rollout surrounding the cybersecurity-focused system.
What Is an AI Prompt Injection Attack
Forward this thread to." The AI does it. Imagine you ask your AI assistant to summarize an email.
Gu revealed that CertiK discovered hundreds of malicious skills, fake installers
"The scam apps use natural language to influence behavior, making them totally resistant to traditional antivirus scans," Gu explained. In what Gu describes as a bizarre evolution of financial crime, CertiK's telemetry has observed an explosion of onchain, automated scams that run for only 10 minutes or a few hours…
May 18 – May 24, 20266 stories
Elon Musk's SpaceX held 18,712 bitcoin at fair value of $1.29 billion at end of Q1, IPO filing shows
SpaceX officially confirmed plans to go public on Wednesday, setting the stage for what could become the largest initial public offering in history and potentially push CEO Elon Musk toward becoming the world’s first trillionaire.
Bitcoin BTC $ 75,231.48 is rapidly losing ground as investors pull out billions of dollars from U.S.-listed spot ETFs
The world’s largest cryptocurrency fell to $74,305 early Saturday, its lowest level since April 20, data. The sell-off accompanies a notable upswing in U.S. Treasury yields and parallel increases in government bond yields across developed markets, which are reducing appetite for high-risk, zero-yielding assets like…
Crypto rails are becoming the default payment layer for AI agents, report confirms
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents autonomously spending money online is still a tiny market, but some of the world's largest tech, payments and crypto firms are already racing to build the infrastructure for it, Keyrock said in a new report.
In March, Securitize and the NYSE revealed a collaboration aimed at supporting the tokenized securities market
Benchmark analysts, who called Securitize a " picks and shovels " play for tokenization, recently argued that even capturing " one basis point " of the NYSE's roughly $44 trillion market capitalization would more than double the tokenized asset base on Securitize.
Now, developers can take their GitHub Copilot agent anywhere, with remote control for GitHub Copilot CLI sessions
Start a Copilot session in VS Code or the CLI, take it on the go with /remote on. Developers will experience one continuous workflow across CLI, VS Code, web, and mobile.
OKX and ICE are bringing 'never-expiring' oil futures to 120 million crypto users
Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE), owner of the New York Stock Exchange, and OKX announced Friday that they are joining forces to roll out perpetual oil futures.
May 11 – May 17, 20266 stories
Wall Street is starting to notice one of crypto’s smartest AI bets
That debate is increasingly moving from theory into live markets, and one startup at its center is Nof1, the AI trading lab backed by SUI Group (SUIG) and Karatage.
In February 2008, a software engineer named Jay Freeman—known online as " saurik "—published Cydia
In general terms, when the iPhone launched, users were not able to record videos, or use their phones in landscape mode. Thanks to this technique, users were installing themes and doing things on their phones almost 10 years ago that Apple makes impossible to install even today.
Google on Tuesday published “Gemini Intelligence,” a new AI capability for Android that the company confirms will automate tasks
According to Google, the rollout will begin this summer on Samsung Galaxy S26 and Google Pixel 10 phones before expanding later this year to watches, cars, glasses, and laptops tied to the Android ecosystem.
Anthropic signals against unauthorized stock exposure as token markets imply trillion-dollar valuation
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, is warning investors that tokenized products claiming to offer access to its private shares may be invalid, escalating a fight over whether restricted pre-IPO stock can be repackaged for retail traders.
Rather than release it publicly, Anthropic restricted access to select technology companies, banks
Mozilla later said Mythos identified 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox during internal testing, while the U.K.’s AI Security Institute found the model could autonomously complete sophisticated multi-stage cyberattack simulations.
OpenAI Publishes Daybreak as AI Firms Expand Into Cybersecurity
OpenAI on Monday launched Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative aimed at helping developers and security teams identify vulnerabilities, validate fixes, and secure software faster using artificial intelligence.
May 4 – May 10, 20266 stories
Apple and Intel reached a “preliminary agreement” for Intel to make chips for Apple hardware
Intel appointed Lip-Bu Tan as its new CEO in March 2025, and in August, the US government took a 10 percent stake in the company. The WSJ says that it’s “still unclear” what Apple products will get Intel chips.
Anthropic claims the deal gives the company access to more than 300 megawatts of new compute capacity
“Colossus 1 features over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, including dense deployments of H100, H200, and next-generation GB200 accelerators,” SpaceX wrote. Additionally, Anthropic “expressed interest” in working with SpaceX to build up “multiple gigawatts” of orbital compute capacity, tying into a recent (but unproven ) focus on…
Validating agentic behavior when “correct” isn’t deterministic
Modern software testing is built on a fragile assumption: correct behavior is repeatable. But for autonomous agents like Github Copilot Coding Agent (aka Agent Mode), especially as we explore the frontiers of integrated “Computer Use,” that assumption breaks down almost immediately.
Intel has reportedly signed a preliminary agreement to produce chips for Apple
Following more than a year of "intensive talks," The Wall Street Journal reports Apple has reached a preliminary agreement with Intel for the former titan to produce some of the chips that power its devices.
Improving token efficiency in GitHub Agentic Workflows
GitHub Agentic Workflows is like a team of street sweepers that clean up little messes in your repo. And because CI jobs like agentic workflows are automatically scheduled and triggered, costs can accumulate out of view.
Google’s AI-focused DeepMind division has taken a minority stake in the developer of popular sci-fi simulation EVE Online
The research partnership comes as the management behind EVE Onlin e developer CCP Games announced that they have spent $120 million to buy themselves out from their former owners at South Korean publisher Pearl Abyss (Crimson Desert ).
Apr 27 – May 3, 20266 stories
Unveiled today, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is an open multimodal model that brings these capabilities together into one system
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni sets a new efficiency frontier for open multimodal models with leading accuracy and low cost, topping six leaderboards for complex document intelligence, and video and audio understanding.
Microsoft, Meta, and Google just rolled out billions more in AI spending
Alphabet, Meta Platforms, and Microsoft broke the news to investors that they’ll be spending billions more on the AI race.
How Shivon Zilis Operated as Elon Musk’s OpenAI Insider
As the first week of trial in Musk v. Altman comes to a close, one person has emerged as a critical behind-the-scenes manager of communications and egos in OpenAI’s early years: Shivon Zilis.
Nemotron Labs: What OpenClaw Agents Mean for Every Organization
Editor’s note: This post is part of the Nemotron Labs blog series, which explores how the latest open models, datasets and training techniques help businesses build specialized AI systems and applications on NVIDIA platforms.
Claude Opus 4.1 charges $15 per million input tokens and $75 per million output
Gemini 2.0 Flash charges $0.10 and $0.40, a two-order-of-magnitude spread on input alone. Worse, higher spend does not reliably buy better results.
Musk accuses OpenAI lawyer of trying to 'trick' him in combative testimony
In his second day on the stand, Elon Musk was at times combative under questioning by OpenAI's lawyer, whom he accused of asking overly complicated questions.
Apr 20 – Apr 26, 20266 stories
Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic
Google will invest at least $10 billion in Anthropic, and that amount could rise to $40 billion if Anthropic meets certain performance targets, Bloomberg reports.
During Cook’s tenure Apple published both the Apple Watch and AirPods, important anchors for the company’s accessories unit
But some of the projects developed under Cook, such as Apple’s self-driving car, were less successful. Apple Vision Pro, the company’s delayed foray into virtual reality headsets, was widely considered to be too expensive and failed to gain traction.
John Ternus will replace Tim Cook as Apple CEO
Apple CEO Tim Cook will step down from the job effective September 1, 2026.
At Google Cloud Next, Google announced A5X powered by NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale systems
A5X will use NVIDIA ConnectX-9 SuperNICs, combined with next-generation Google Virgo networking, scaling to up to 80,000 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs within a single site cluster and up to 960,000 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs in a multisite cluster, enabling customers to run their largest AI workloads on NVIDIA‑optimized infrastructure.
Google to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic in cash and compute
Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic and support the AI firm’s growing computing needs, Bloomberg reports.
Speeding up agentic workflows with WebSockets in the Responses API
By Brian Yu and Ashwin Nathan, Members of the Technical Staff.
Apr 13 – Apr 19, 20266 stories
The deal would effectively bring Globalstar’s existing satellite operations, infrastructure, and assets
The acquisition would be Amazon’s second-biggest ever, according to S&P Capital IQ, behind its purchase of Whole Foods in 2017 for $13.7 billion. Under the terms of the deal, GSAT stockholders can elect to receive either $90 in cash or 0.321 Amazon shares for every Globalstar share.
Secret scanning pattern updates and product improvements - GitHub Changelog
This week, we’re rolling out several improvements to our detection coverage, APIs, and workflows. These improvements strengthen our continued investment in the developer experience of our secret scanning features.
Crypto markets the past two weeks have surged since President Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran
That ceasefire could now be coming to an end. The prices of Bitcoin, Ethereum and other major coins have typically faced downward pressure on news of war and rallied in hopes of a ceasefire.
Secure.gov websites use HTTPS A lock or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the.gov website
Working collaboratively to maximize efficiency, performance, and impact of data resources and infrastructure. The Data Services and Infrastructure Group is part of the Material Data Division at NIST.
Mercogliano said there were earlier signs the Navy resupplied its ships via the island of Diego Garcia
While it’s not clear whether the destroyers entered the strait alongside those ships or without them, it still marked an important milestone for the oil trade. “One of the things that commercial ships were waiting to see was whether or not this strait was clear, and sailing two destroyers in is a big one,” he added.
Gemini's Personal Intelligence now in the Arab World
We are excited to announce the launch of Personal Intelligence in the Arab world. Personal Intelligence securely connects information from apps like Gmail and Google Photos to make Gemini uniquely helpful.
Apr 6 – Apr 12, 20266 stories
The agreement preserves key elements that have fueled this successful partnership—meaning OpenAI remains Microsoft’s frontier
It also refines and adds new provisions that enable each company to independently continue advancing innovation and growth. As we step into this next chapter of our partnership, both companies are better positioned than ever to continue building great products that meet real-world needs, and create new opportunity for…
IRMOF-8: Effect of Partial Charge Method on Adsorption Thermodynamics
A sequence of computational methods were used to examine the affect of partial charge calculation method on simulated adsorption properties of IRMOF-8. Lastly, Monte Carlo molecular simulations were performed to obtain the adsorption isotherms of CO 2 in IRMOF-8.
OpenAI’s planned evolution will see the existing OpenAI nonprofit both control a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) and share
OpenAI’s planned evolution will see the existing OpenAI nonprofit both control a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) and share directly in its success.
OpenAI published its first commercial product back in June: an API for developers to access advanced technologies for building
In addition to offering GPT‑3 and future models via the OpenAI API, and as part of a multiyear partnership announced last year, OpenAI has agreed to license GPT‑3 to Microsoft for their own products and services.
Sam Altman's big pitch to patch the big AI mess sounds like Jamie Dimon's
Sam Altman wants Washington to tax AI’s winners — and he’s put it in writing.
Reproducing these results is a test of the correctness of codes, either written by the user or obtained elsewhere
The information presented here has been organized into several different pages. The TraPPE model of Carbon Dioxide was developed by Siepmann and coworkers [ 1 ].
Mar 30 – Apr 5, 20265 stories
Bondi published a statement Thursday, which read
“Over the next month I will be working tirelessly to transition the office of Attorney General to the amazing Todd Blanche before moving to an important private sector role I am thrilled about, and where I will continue fighting for President Trump and this Administration.
Stay up to date on the latest Copilot capabilities by following the Visual Studio blog
March 2026 brought a major step forward for GitHub Copilot extensibility in Visual Studio, with custom agents, agent skills, and new tools that make the agent smarter and more capable.
Copilot usage metrics now includes per-user GitHub Copilot CLI activity in organization logs - GitHub Changelog
Following our enterprise-level, user-level, and organization-level CLI metrics releases, we’re completing coverage with per-user CLI breakdowns in organization reports.
Both Israel and the United States have warned in recent years Iran was experimenting with fentanyl in munitions
US President Donald Trump lashed out at allies over their unwillingness to help the US reopen the critical passageway in a recent social media post. (AP video shot by Bassam Hatoum)
The launch was successful and occurred on schedule
The launch window opened on Wednesday, April 1, at 6:24 pm Eastern Time (EDT) and could have been extended for two hours, if necessary. The astronauts took off on a NASA SLS rocket and are traveling inside the Orion capsule, described as a spacecraft about the size of a large van.
September 20266 stories
Inside the last-minute political breakdown that doomed the Clarity Act vote
Senator Cynthia Lummis' disappointment was already palpable the day before the U.S. Senate shot down the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act.
Trump Confirms He’s the Only ‘Guardrails’ AI Needs, Attacks Anthropic and Defends Data Centers
President Donald Trump said Monday that his presidency provides the guardrails artificial intelligence needs, attacking Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and alleging a conspiracy against AI and data centers.
XRP sinks 10% as the Clarity Act falters and bitcoin slides toward $76,000
XRP dropped nearly 10% to $1.30 as of Asian morning hours Wednesday, the worst performance among the majors, after the Senate failed to advance the Clarity Act, data.
The second, Altman warned, is that power could become concentrated in one person or company
“Avoiding these two threats requires walking a narrow middle path; for example, one country could gain too much power,” he wrote. In a separate post, Altman said American AI companies must give the public confidence that they will develop increasingly capable systems responsibly as progress accelerates.
Whoever wins AI, wins," he told reporters, repeating a line he has used before to wave off regulatory pressure
The president had previously ducked some of these uncomfortable questions. Sunday's exchange marks the first time he's staked out a personal view, coming days after the September 8 deadline Hawley set for Flock to turn over its internal documents.
PayPal scales up stablecoin rails with custom token issuance service
Internet commerce giant PayPal PYPL $ 52.20 · Market Closed extended its blockchain-based stablecoin effort to include a custom stablecoin developer platform, dubbed PYUSDx, built with the help of fiat-pegged token specialist M0 and crypto payments firm MoonPay, the companies said on Tuesday.
August 20266 stories
All banks in Japan use those accounts for interbank payment settlement
The new infrastructure would cut both to near-zero, allowing investors to reinvest proceeds almost immediately. Nearly 80% of Japanese institutional investors plan to allocate to crypto within three years, according to a survey by Nomura and Laser Digital published in April.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune filed the motion to proceed on the bill
The filing came too late to squeeze in a vote before senators leave for their August recess, but it queues up an initial procedural vote almost immediately after they return, with the first test set for 2:15 p.m.
A rare CME shift: Hedge funds abandon structural shorts to bet on a bitcoin rally
Hedge funds trading bitcoin BTC $ 64,978.27 futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange have turned net long, according to Ki Young Ju, CEO of blockchain data analytics firm CryptoQuant.
Standard Chartered Sees $4 trillion Tokenization Driving Chainlink to $200 by 2030
Standard Chartered has initiated coverage of Chainlink with a price target of $200 by the end of 2030, implying a roughly 25-fold gain from around $8 today and outperformance of both Bitcoin and Ethereum over the period.
The all-in-one Robinhood app will bring U.K. customers access to over 50 cryptos including Bitcoin BTC $ 64,978.27
The trading firm is also introducing “Robinhood Cortex Digests for Crypto,” a generative AI-powered widget that analyses breaking news, market data, technical indicators and Robinhood's proprietary insights.
Ro Khanna launched an investigation into money going to WLF from the UAE royal family
United Arab Emirates' national security advisor, also known as the "spy sheikh," is playing a major investment role in President Donald Trump's family's bank venture, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal.
July 20266 stories
Vitalik Buterin confirms Ethereum is preparing its 'biggest rebuild' since the Merge
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has a fresh set of takeaways on "Lean Ethereum," the multi-year plan to rebuild nearly every major part of the network, following research meetings.
Coinbase AI draws backlash after erroneously publishing World Cup result before kickoff
Coinbase (COIN) sent users a false “breaking news” alert saying Norway's soccer team beat Brazil 3-2 in a World Cup knockout match before the game had even started.
FOMC minutes, SpaceX joins Nasdaq 100: Crypto Week Ahead
Crypto Week Ahead is a comprehensive list of what's coming up in the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain, as well as the major macroeconomic events that will influence digital asset markets.
‘Bottom building in progress’: Analysts say bitcoin holder capitulation signals late-stage bear market
Bitcoin has traded below its True Market Mean and Short-Term Holder Cost Basis for five straight months, one of the longest deep-value stretches in its history, according to Glassnode's latest onchain report.
Aave publishes vaults for yield-hungry fintech investors
Aave Labs, the organization behind the largest decentralized lending platform Aave AAVE $ 90.87, is rolling out vaults to help fintech companies offer yield on stablecoins without requiring users to interact directly with crypto rails.
Over $7.2 billion have migrated from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP as Mantle joins exodus
More than $7.2 billion in cross-chain and wrapped assets have migrated from LayerZero to Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) since May, with Mantle becoming the latest project to replace LayerZero for high-value token transfers.
June 20266 stories
JPMorgan, Citi-backed consortium is set to launch tokenized deposit network in early 2027: WSJ
Major U.S. banks reportedly plan to launch a tokenized deposit network as soon as the first half of 2027, in Wall Street's latest effort to integrate blockchain into traditional finance.
Kentucky alleges that 89% of the platform's 2025 volume came from sports, the contracts states are trying to ban
Prediction market Kalshi is in talks to raise fresh funds at a valuation of about $40 billion, the Financial Times reported, in a round that could close as soon as the third quarter.
Bitcoin BTC $ 60,930.61 has lost buyers on two fronts
The exodus from spot ETFs as a catalyst for the recent bitcoin price swoon is well documented. "As BTC broke down from the mid-$70Ks toward $60K, net inflows from corporate treasury firms fell sharply, with daily purchases slowing to a fraction of their recent pace," analysts at Glassnode said in the latest market…
Here's what SpaceX's IPO means for its $1.3 billion bitcoin reserve
SpaceX's Nasdaq debut on Friday did something quieter than the record $75 billion raise.
Securitize aims to raise $400 million as tokenization company nears public debut
Securitize, one of the largest providers of tokenization infrastructure for Wall Street, expects to raise about $400 million as it prepares to go public through a merger with a Cantor Fitzgerald-backed special purpose acquisition company.
In May 2025, it approved a $1.4 billion arms sale to the country
In the same month, Treasury created a "Known Investor Pilot" program to streamline investment approvals through CFIUS, a fast-track process that the UAE had lobbied for. The Department of Commerce also rescinded Biden-era chip export restrictions, allowing the UAE to receive up to triple or quadruple the number of…
May 20266 stories
Masayoshi Son's conglomerate is building Europe's largest AI infrastructure project
SoftBank committed €45 billion, roughly $52 billion, to building AI data centers in northern France over the next five years. The investment will fund 3.1 gigawatts of data center capacity across multiple sites in the Hauts-de-France region.
The divergence is tied to Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 marketplace, where traders are betting on pre-IPO shares of SpaceX, Anthropic
The HIP-3 framework, which allows third-party teams to launch their own perpetual futures markets, has processed more than $120 billion in total volume since launch, according to Dune Analytics data. That parity means retail traders can now access pre-IPO price exposure that was previously available only to…
Crypto rails are becoming the default payment layer for AI agents, report confirms
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents autonomously spending money online is still a tiny market, but some of the world's largest tech, payments and crypto firms are already racing to build the infrastructure for it, Keyrock said in a new report.
Trump praises prediction markets, defends CFTC as court cases compound
U.S. President Donald Trump said it was "critically important" that the CFTC keep "exclusive authority" over prediction markets, echoing CFTC Chair Michael Selig in a post on Truth Social, his social media platform, late Tuesday afternoon.
Bitcoin BTC $ 75,231.48 is rapidly losing ground as investors pull out billions of dollars from U.S.-listed spot ETFs
The world’s largest cryptocurrency fell to $74,305 early Saturday, its lowest level since April 20, data. The sell-off accompanies a notable upswing in U.S. Treasury yields and parallel increases in government bond yields across developed markets, which are reducing appetite for high-risk, zero-yielding assets like…
Bitcoin falls below $73,000 as BlackRock’s BTC ETF sees second-largest outflows since debut
Bitcoin (BTC) fell below $73,000 early Thursday as spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds logged their largest net outflows since late January.
April 20266 stories
Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic
Google will invest at least $10 billion in Anthropic, and that amount could rise to $40 billion if Anthropic meets certain performance targets, Bloomberg reports.
During Cook’s tenure Apple published both the Apple Watch and AirPods, important anchors for the company’s accessories unit
But some of the projects developed under Cook, such as Apple’s self-driving car, were less successful. Apple Vision Pro, the company’s delayed foray into virtual reality headsets, was widely considered to be too expensive and failed to gain traction.
Unveiled today, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is an open multimodal model that brings these capabilities together into one system
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni sets a new efficiency frontier for open multimodal models with leading accuracy and low cost, topping six leaderboards for complex document intelligence, and video and audio understanding.
The agreement preserves key elements that have fueled this successful partnership—meaning OpenAI remains Microsoft’s frontier
It also refines and adds new provisions that enable each company to independently continue advancing innovation and growth. As we step into this next chapter of our partnership, both companies are better positioned than ever to continue building great products that meet real-world needs, and create new opportunity for…
IRMOF-8: Effect of Partial Charge Method on Adsorption Thermodynamics
A sequence of computational methods were used to examine the affect of partial charge calculation method on simulated adsorption properties of IRMOF-8. Lastly, Monte Carlo molecular simulations were performed to obtain the adsorption isotherms of CO 2 in IRMOF-8.
John Ternus will replace Tim Cook as Apple CEO
Apple CEO Tim Cook will step down from the job effective September 1, 2026.
20266 stories
All banks in Japan use those accounts for interbank payment settlement
The new infrastructure would cut both to near-zero, allowing investors to reinvest proceeds almost immediately. Nearly 80% of Japanese institutional investors plan to allocate to crypto within three years, according to a survey by Nomura and Laser Digital published in April.
JPMorgan, Citi-backed consortium is set to launch tokenized deposit network in early 2027: WSJ
Major U.S. banks reportedly plan to launch a tokenized deposit network as soon as the first half of 2027, in Wall Street's latest effort to integrate blockchain into traditional finance.
Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic
Google will invest at least $10 billion in Anthropic, and that amount could rise to $40 billion if Anthropic meets certain performance targets, Bloomberg reports.
Coinbase AI draws backlash after erroneously publishing World Cup result before kickoff
Coinbase (COIN) sent users a false “breaking news” alert saying Norway's soccer team beat Brazil 3-2 in a World Cup knockout match before the game had even started.
During Cook’s tenure Apple published both the Apple Watch and AirPods, important anchors for the company’s accessories unit
But some of the projects developed under Cook, such as Apple’s self-driving car, were less successful. Apple Vision Pro, the company’s delayed foray into virtual reality headsets, was widely considered to be too expensive and failed to gain traction.
FOMC minutes, SpaceX joins Nasdaq 100: Crypto Week Ahead
Crypto Week Ahead is a comprehensive list of what's coming up in the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain, as well as the major macroeconomic events that will influence digital asset markets.