Top stories of the week, month, and year — ranked by importance, not recency. A permanent record of significant AI news, grouped by time.
Governments risk repeating mistakes made during the dawn of the nuclear age if they wait to create laws governing artificial intelligence, warned UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper.
Bitcoin traded around $63,170, per CoinDesk data, after touching $64,400 in the early hours and slipping back. Ether held near $1,770, up 11.6% on the week, while XRP and solana kept most of their weekly gains at $1.13 and $80.
Conversations have also pivoted to putting the reserve inside the Commerce Department. In an emailed statement to The Block, a White House spokesperson said the administration is continuing to work on its plans for the reserve.
M1X Global, the crypto startup that worked with the Republic of the Marshall Islands to help it issue the tokenized sovereign debt instrument USDM1, has raised $5.5 million in a seed funding round led by Paradigm.
Ethereum's ambitious plan to reinvent itself over the next several years is getting an enthusiastic reception from many of the network's researchers, though several say the biggest challenge won't be deciding what to build, but how quickly it can happen.
Claude empowers millions of users to tackle complex challenges, spark creativity, and deepen their understanding of the world. We want to amplify human potential while ensuring our models’ capabilities are channeled toward beneficial outcomes.
Tokenization advocates often point to faster settlement, around-the-clock trading and using the tokens in decentralized finance (DeFi) as the biggest advantages of bringing traditional assets onto blockchain rails.
A $3,000 server was enough for a blockchain security researcher to simulate an attack path they say could have put as much as $70 billion in crypto infrastructure at risk.
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.
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.
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs posted about $527 million in net outflows over the four trading days ending Thursday, July 2, their eighth consecutive negative week, per The Block's analysis of SoSoValue data.
Nearly 1 million wallets that bought President Donald Trump's official memecoin have lost money since its January 2025 launch, with combined losses of $3.81 billion through the end of June, according to data from analytics firm Nansen reported by The New York Times on Saturday.
According to the official White House website, Trump issued Executive Orders 14409 and 14411 on Monday. EO 14409, titled "Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks," focuses on mitigating the threats posed by large-scale quantum computers to current encryption standards.
Top U.S. crypto lobbying groups united to ask that the U.S. House of Representatives embrace a bill that gives digital assets miners and recipients of staking rewards an option for deciding when to take a tax hit on the new assets — either when they're first obtained or when the holders ultimately unload the cryptocurrency.
NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and the firm behind centralized crypto exchange OKX are forming a joint venture to build tokenization and digital asset products, the firms announced on Monday.
Kalshi is in talks to raise funds at a valuation of $40 billion, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
Meta (META), the parent company of Facebook, is developing a new app called “Arena” that mirrors a prediction market platform, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke with the New York Times.
Crypto sold off hard this week, with bitcoin breaking below $60,000 even as the technology stocks that had dragged it down came roaring back.
Jaredfromsubway.eth, one of Ethereum’s most infamous MEV bots, has been drained for more than $7.5 million after an attacker turned the bot’s own automated trading logic against it.
Cathie Wood-led investment firm Ark Invest bought $18.4 million worth of Coinbase Global shares on Wednesday across three exchange-traded funds, as the stock closed lower.
Something felt different in ChatGPT this week—and a lot of people noticed at once.
More than any other congressional race this year, the crypto sector's campaign-funding operations dumped massive cash into Barry Moore's Alabama Senate bid, with the leading political action committee alone spending more than $12 million to push the Republican onto the general-election ballot.
The council's proposal would let an agent's ID specify exactly what it's cleared to do—Michal lists actions like view a record, draft a document, make a payment up to a fixed amount—rather than inherit blanket access to everything its owner can reach.
Strategy’s "Stretch" preferred stock (STRC), designed to pay a high dividend while maintaining a stable price around $100, is trading below $90 on Wednesday afternoon.
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…
If it trims or silos the position to quiet volatility, the lesson inverts, and the case for bitcoin sitting in an ordinary corporate treasury loses its best reference. Meanwhile, a strong SpaceX debut is already being read as a green light for the OpenAI and Anthropic listings behind it.
Technically speaking, summer hasn't started yet and won't for another week.
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…
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.
OpenAI has nearly 1 billion ChatGPT users. That's the problem the company is trying to solve before it goes public.
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.
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 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.
The company is offering zero-commission trades to non-U.S. customers and fractional purchases starting at $5 as part of an ambition to build a "multi-asset financial super app," co-CEO Richard Teng told Fortune.
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.
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.
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) fell below $73,000 early Thursday as spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds logged their largest net outflows since late January.
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.
Forward this thread to." The AI does it. Imagine you ask your AI assistant to summarize an email.
"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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bitcoin BTC $ 80,947.38 shrugged off the inflation scare almost as quickly as the print landed.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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…
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.
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.
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.
“As a gamer and games producer, I’ve long admired EVE,” Google DeepMind Director Alexandre Moufarek said in a statement. I’m excited to partner with the team at Fenris Creations to push the frontier of artificial intelligence and explore new player experiences.”
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.
Alphabet, Meta Platforms, and Microsoft broke the news to investors that they’ll be spending billions more on the AI race.
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.
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.
Elon Musk and Sam Altman appeared in a federal courtroom together for the first time on Tuesday as they fight over OpenAI’s decade-long evolution and what it means for the company’s future.
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.
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.
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.
Apple CEO Tim Cook will step down from the job effective September 1, 2026.
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 plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic and support the AI firm’s growing computing needs, Bloomberg reports.
By Brian Yu and Ashwin Nathan, Members of the Technical Staff.
Amazon is aiming to increase the number of satellites it has in Earth’s low orbit to 3,200 by 2029. Reporting, the company currently operates a network of “ more than 200 ” satellites.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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 directly in its success.
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 wants Washington to tax AI’s winners — and he’s put it in writing.
The information presented here has been organized into several different pages. The TraPPE model of Carbon Dioxide was developed by Siepmann and coworkers [ 1 ].
“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.
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.
Following our enterprise-level, user-level, and organization-level CLI metrics releases, we’re completing coverage with per-user CLI breakdowns in organization reports.
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 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.
Tokenization advocates often point to faster settlement, around-the-clock trading and using the tokens in decentralized finance (DeFi) as the biggest advantages of bringing traditional assets onto blockchain rails.
A $3,000 server was enough for a blockchain security researcher to simulate an attack path they say could have put as much as $70 billion in crypto infrastructure at risk.
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.
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.
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs posted about $527 million in net outflows over the four trading days ending Thursday, July 2, their eighth consecutive negative week, per The Block's analysis of SoSoValue data.
Governments risk repeating mistakes made during the dawn of the nuclear age if they wait to create laws governing artificial intelligence, warned UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper.
Jaredfromsubway.eth, one of Ethereum’s most infamous MEV bots, has been drained for more than $7.5 million after an attacker turned the bot’s own automated trading logic against it.
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.
According to the official White House website, Trump issued Executive Orders 14409 and 14411 on Monday. EO 14409, titled "Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks," focuses on mitigating the threats posed by large-scale quantum computers to current encryption standards.
Thanks to the newly passed U.S. Senate housing affordability bill, the Federal Reserve may be heading toward a formal ban from instituting a digital dollar in the form of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), despite the fact the Fed wasn't working on such a project.
Top U.S. crypto lobbying groups united to ask that the U.S. House of Representatives embrace a bill that gives digital assets miners and recipients of staking rewards an option for deciding when to take a tax hit on the new assets — either when they're first obtained or when the holders ultimately unload the cryptocurrency.
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…
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.
HYPE is trading at $45.17 on Monday, up roughly 5% over the past 24 hours and 69% over the past year, according to CoinGecko data. The divergence is tied to Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 marketplace, where traders are betting on pre-IPO shares of SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI, a $120 billion volume opportunity that traditional…
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.
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.
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 (BTC) fell below $73,000 early Thursday as spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds logged their largest net outflows since late January.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Apple CEO Tim Cook will step down from the job effective September 1, 2026.
Jaredfromsubway.eth, one of Ethereum’s most infamous MEV bots, has been drained for more than $7.5 million after an attacker turned the bot’s own automated trading logic against it.
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 at least $10 billion in Anthropic, and that amount could rise to $40 billion if Anthropic meets certain performance targets, Bloomberg reports.
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.
According to the official White House website, Trump issued Executive Orders 14409 and 14411 on Monday. EO 14409, titled "Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks," focuses on mitigating the threats posed by large-scale quantum computers to current encryption standards.
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…