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Trading volume picked up across both categories. Bitcoin ETF volume reached $16.17 billion, up from $8.77 billion the week before, while ether ETF volume rose to $6.82 billion from $5.14 billion.
The affected companies have been informed about the breach. It comes after renewed public scrutiny over the pace of AI development, with some tech firms calling for a slowdown as they raise concerns over its potential threat to humanity - though not all companies agree.
President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he will appoint a czar to take point on artificial intelligence and will also create an AI task force.
Federal agencies are plowing ahead on their own after the Clarity Act — a sweeping bill that would have comprehensively regulated the digital asset industry at the federal level for the first time — failed in the Senate during a procedural vote on Tuesday.
Judge Sidney Stein of the Southern District of New York is weighing summary judgment motions, and documents are being unsealed as he does. "Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models 'hoovering up' all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions," one internal Microsoft…
Lagarde was concerned that Binance’s scale as the world's largest crypto exchange might deepen the use of dollar-based stablecoins in the region, undermining the central banks' digital euro project and euro-denominated alternatives.
Cyber researchers broke into OpenAI using its key rival Anthropic’s software, highlighting vulnerabilities in the ChatGPT maker’s security as leading AI companies face mounting scrutiny over safety.
The first visit by a Chinese president to Washington in a decade centers on tariff truces, soybean commitments, and rare earth minerals.
Gavin Newsom (D) is positioning the state to take the lead on AI oversight, including the potential to mandate a “kill switch” for frontier models, with a new executive order issued Friday. Newsom’s order directs the state to convene a group of experts that will deliver recommendations within two months on how to…
The Alphabet-owned company says it will launch a commercial robotaxi service in Singapore in 2028.
In a Wednesday post on X, Buterin argued that AI will not give hackers an insurmountable advantage, adding that crypto holders—including himself, with roughly 90% of his net worth in crypto—are betting that security defenses can keep pace.
Elon Musk's SpaceX has been talking, internally, about buying the leftover customer files of startups that already went under. Not licensing data from companies that are still operating and can say no.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new experiment with tokenized stocks could give an early advantage to a particular corner of crypto: firms that put real securities on blockchains and the decentralized crypto platforms built to trade them in a regulated manner.
Every year, entities across the United Nations system compile data to track challenges that affect how Google work, learn, stay healthy, and care for Google’s loved ones. These agencies work with some of the highest-integrity data in the world.
The US government is estimated to hold 324,527 Bitcoin, worth $24.7 billion at the time of writing, according to Arkham Intelligence. Under ARMA, Bitcoin in the federal government’s reserve would have to be held for a minimum of 20 years.
Between June and July, Zanjani used BitBank to move hundreds of millions of dollars to the IRGC in the form of bitcoin (BTC). Hormuz Safe appears to be the formal entity behind a bitcoin-settled platform first reported by Iranian media in May.
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.
"While agency rulemaking may establish some guardrails to appease the crypto-ecosystem and instill some confidence into incremental capital flows, The Block acknowledge that agency rulemaking is less durable than legislative statutes since the agency itself can repeal or amend its rules in subsequent administrations and is…
"The vote is not a setback of the technology or direction of travel but more how ethical provisions and banking incumbents are concerned on protecting their market," said Wincent Senior Director Paul Howard, who added that having the U.S. legislative body debate crypto market structure is a feat in itself.
Bitcoin remained flat in the minutes before and after the announcement, swinging between $75,00 and $75,800. Shortly after, however, it spiked to $76,000 and is rising at the moment.
It says it will begin shipping them to buyers sometime this fall. Despite that, Spiegel and the company repeatedly reiterated that Snap’s goal with the glasses is to make “computing more human.”
"The economy has indeed strengthened," Warsh told reporters at his post-meeting press conference. It's a tidy summary of the bind Warsh finds himself in: agree with President Donald Trump on growth, then hike rates anyway, the opposite of what Trump has been demanding for months.
Analysts at research and brokerage firm Bernstein said in a note to clients on Wednesday that the Senate's failure to advance the Clarity Act shifts the next stretch of U.S. crypto rulemaking to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
The group, which calls itself “iamnotavillain,” posted the demand Wednesday alongside a countdown clock, the FT reported. At least 680 Revolut customer accounts were affected by the breach, according to the report.
“Americans deserve regulatory clarity, legal certainty, and consumer protections in crypto asset markets,” Selig wrote. “President Trump promised to deliver a future-proof crypto asset regulatory market structure one way or the other, and Bitcoin Magazine will help him get the job done using Bitcoin Magazine’s existing statutory authorities.
The city's flagship AI infrastructure project attracted one bidder, and that company now needs $2.6 billion in loans that bankers aren't rushing to approve.
Senator Cynthia Lummis' disappointment was already palpable the day before the U.S. Senate shot down the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act.
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act failed to survive the politics of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday as a 49-50 vote meant to start the bill toward passage fell far short in rounding up the 60 supporters required to advance.
Crypto stocks were a sea of red Tuesday afternoon after the Senate failed to advance the Clarity Act, dealing a major blow to an industry that has spent years — and hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign contributions — gunning for a comprehensive U.S. regulatory framework.
If a bill passes the Senate, it would still have to go through the House, which won't be possible until after the November elections. Anchorage Head of Digital Policy Kevin Wysocki pointed to a failed procedural vote last year when the Senate was trying to pass stablecoin legislation, which ultimately later became law.
On ServiceNow’s EVA-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating voice agents, Google DeepMind’s models push the Pareto Frontier for complex workflows by successfully balancing accuracy with conversational quality. Note: This was run on the Live API on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
The latest Republican version gives state attorneys general some leeway in enforcing the ethics provisions by allowing them to sue crypto exchanges and the Justice Department, and says that public officials have to divest "significant financial interest" or put those in a blind trust.
The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control in July said Iran had been dodging sanctions by accepting pay in bitcoin from ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. OFAC said at the time that Hormuz Safe, developed by Iran’s Ministry of Economy, “accepts payment in bitcoin and other digital assets” so it can…
"The Clarity Act is right in front of us and this moment won’t come along again for years," Lummis said in a post on X. This past year, the Senate has been trying to advance its version of the Clarity Act, which would regulate the crypto industry for the first time comprehensively at the federal level, giving the…
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.
“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.
Wall Street may finally get a clearer crypto rulebook it has spent years waiting for when Washington passes a market structure bill on Tuesday.
The latest proposal would also let the Treasury restrict stablecoin rewards if they cause substantial withdrawals from community banks. Banking groups argue those payments could draw away deposits used for lending, while crypto advocates want rewards preserved.
Among the changes, the latest version gives state attorneys general a role in enforcing conflict-of-interest rules for public officials. This had become a major sticking point among some Democrats given President Donald Trump's vast crypto wealth, which has grown to hundreds of millions of dollars linked to World…
As previously announced, Apple has today released 2026’s major annual updates for its operating systems, including iOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and tvOS 27.
Since launching on July 1, Robinhood Chain's TVL has already climbed to nearly $1 billion. Palmer set to answer common investor questions he's received since initiating a "buy" rating and $170 price target on Robinhood's stock.
Think about how surreal that agreement is for a moment. Anthropic was founded in 2021 because Amodei didn’t think Altman took the risks of the technology they were building seriously enough.
AI models are becoming the "most potent cyber weapon" ever created, pushing the "frontier" of cybersecurity into new territory, the CEO of AI firm Cohere told CNBC's "The Tech Download" podcast.
Strive (ASST) also increased its "amplification ratio" to 53.5%, which the company defines as "the ratio of notional preferred equity outstanding and debt to BTC NAV." Simply put, this means that for every $100 of bitcoin Strive holds, it has about $53.50 of preferred stock obligations and debt outstanding.
Most payment volume on Coinbase’s x402 protocol isn’t coming from AI agents, according to blockchain intelligence company TRM Labs.
Cross-chain liquidity protocol Symbiosis said it has recovered approximately 15 BTC after an exploit targeted its Bitcoin Bridge.
“I think that, given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public, and CoinDesk don’t feel pressure on that,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Fortune. “CoinDesk got a lot of stuff to do, like meeting this moment of what is going to be required for safety and alignment, and how the industry…
“So what do I expect in return for my donations? No peerage, no policy change, a party that is ready for government,” Harborne said.
Ripple, the financial services firm closely associated with the XRP Ledger (XRP) blockchain, is looking to corporate treasurers to drive the next leg of growth for its Ripple USD RLUSD $ 1.0025 stablecoin, eyeing a customer base that handles roughly $13 trillion in transactions annually.
He said that this “recursive self-improvement,” in which AI is increasingly helping researchers build the next generation of AI, was beginning to emerge across the industry and could accelerate development faster than humans could safely monitor.
Revolut disclosed sensitive customer information to an unauthorized third party that submitted fraudulent requests for records from a legitimate government agency email domain, the company told TechCrunch on Saturday.
Founder to offload as many as 50mn shares as company posts higher revenue from data centres but faces investor fears it is overcommitted to AI.
ESMA also raised concerns about insider trading and market manipulation on prediction markets, particularly DLT-based platforms such as Polymarket, where it said limited identity verification and pseudonymous participation can make suspicious activity harder to detect.
Bitcoin opened Friday at $76,529 and briefly dipped toward the day's $76,040 low in the minutes after the CPI print, an initial hawkish reaction before the market reversed hard. Bulls have since taken over, for now, and BTC climbed as high as $79,837 through the session and now trades near $79,007, a 3.24% gain on the…
The Consumer Price Index rose 0.4% in August, in line with economist forecasts of 0.4% and July’s 0.1% increase. On a year-over-year basis, headline CPI rose 3.4%, versus expectations of 3.4% and July’s 3.4% reading.
Bitcoin's price nearly touched $79,000 before settling around $77,800, and ether's price rose above $2,500 as the Consumer Price Index rose 0.4% in August, bringing the 12-month inflation rate to 3.4%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Metaplanet is making a U-turn on a significant portion of a controversial executive compensation plan after waves of shareholder criticism over the potentially massive number of new shares it could create.
"Return the bitcoin," Blockstream told those responsible for the Liquid Network exploit on Friday, saying it would not pay a bounty for the remaining 598.5 BTC.
“Decrypt’s investigation identified two recurring alignment issues, present at varying levels of severity across the incidents,” Anthropic wrote. It also acknowledged relying too heavily on the model’s claims that they believed they were in simulations.
A new version of the Digital Asset Market Clarity offers tweaks to how the key crypto legislation would address activities by decentralized finance firms and some traditional finance firms engaging in crypto activities, but it isn't expected to represent a final compromise that will win sufficient support from Democrats.
The paper’s authors include researchers affiliated with Theta Labs, MultiVM Labs, Eigen Labs, Trail of Bits, StarkWare, and the Ethereum Foundation. Researchers designed and tested a quantum circuit that performs a calculation needed to crack Bitcoin’s cryptography, cutting its resource score by 86%.
“It is unclear why all EU Member States are not included in the list of restricted jurisdictions,” it wrote, citing risks of unauthorized services and breaches of existing retail trading restrictions.
Claude is the world’s smartest and most capable AI model for developers, startups, and enterprises. In November, Claude Code achieved a significant milestone: six months after becoming available to the public, it reached $1 billion in run-rate revenue.
Frontier intelligence, built for financial services.
Citadel Securities urged the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission to reaffirm SEC oversight of products tied to U.S. public companies and their securities.
MoneyGram, the 86-year-old global payments company, has launched its first stablecoin-backed Visa card, initially available in Colombia.
The company unveiled a new iPhone that costs $1,999. Here are the economics behind that price tag.
DoubleZero has added Kalshi’s election and political prediction markets to its low-latency data platform, giving institutional and automated traders access to real-time order-book information ahead of the U.S. midterms.
The new Consensys, meanwhile, will bring together the teams and technologies behind Linea and Ethereum software Besu and Teku, with a focus on infrastructure for banks, asset managers and other institutions.
"This is the fastest chip ever put into an iPhone," Ternus said on stage, referring to the new A20 Pro. Siri AI is Apple's biggest rework of its assistant since it shipped in 2011.
The former U.S. president's son stated that he wants to use LAPTOP as a symbol of "resilience, redemption, and recovery" against political foes and media that weaponized it. Hunter Biden's laptop became one of the biggest political controversies of the 2020 presidential election after he left it at a Delaware repair…
Apple has unveiled the iPhone Duo, the company’s first foldable phone and the most significant change to the iPhone since the smartphone’s introduction in 2007.
These maneuvers come as Republican groups have started a massive cash injection to counter a wave of discontent from voters over the Iran war and high prices, and burgeoning Democratic momentum that has opened up the possibility of a Democrat-controlled Senate.
Duo, Apple’s long-awaited foldable phone announced at the company’s Surprise and Shine event on Wednesday, contains several surprises, including a critical hinge that was designed and built with the help of AI and 3D printing.
The French AI startup's Series D is the largest equity raise by a European tech company ever, valuing it at over €21 billion.
As part of the agreement, Qualcomm said Securities and Exchange Commission that it issued warrants to Amazon to acquire 25 million shares in the company at $161.26 apiece for a total investment of $4 billion.
Prediction markets let people trade contracts on whether something will happen—a Federal Reserve rate cut, an election result, who wins Sunday's game—instead of betting through a traditional sportsbook.
Visa highlighted Credit Coop, a blockchain-based protocol that extends credit lines to businesses, as an early example of the model. Rubail Birwadker, Visa’s global head of growth products and partnerships, said stablecoins are “changing how money moves” and creating opportunities to rethink the financial…
The platform said it seeks to snapshot tokens held in user wallets, staking delegations, validator rewards, smart contracts, and centralized exchanges at the final block. "Delegated stakes and unclaimed rewards will be airdropped to individual governor vaults," Harmony said.
Bitcoin was trading below $80,000 on Monday after giving back some of its gains from last week.
The exchange followed an earlier message from the attacker offering to send most of the bitcoin back to the federation address. Communication between the parties began after Liquid said on Sept. 6 that roughly 4,000 BTC, then worth about $320 million, had been withdrawn from its federation wallet.
Capital B, a French bitcoin treasury firm, announced Monday that it has acquired 376 BTC for €25.3 million ($29.4 million), marking its largest bitcoin (BTC) purchase in a year.
The actors then transferred 3,400 BTC to the Liquid Federation address. Blockstream did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Decrypt.
Amazon said that it would cooperate with any investigation. “Fortune is heartbroken to learn that five people lost their lives in today’s incident at Miami International Airport,” the company said.
The withdrawal represented roughly 95% of Liquid's reported bitcoin reserves, which stood at approximately 4,200 BTC before the incident. "The Block is aware of a security incident on," the network wrote.
The political group associated with President Donald Trump is spending $10 million on television and digital advertisements in the Texas Senate race, according to a Saturday filing with the Federal Election Commission.
Researchers Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts and Thomas Larsen found roughly 18,000 posts by AI agents identifying themselves as belonging to OpenAI, according to their preliminary report.
El Salvador apparently received bitcoin from private donors rather than using government funds, according to the International Monetary Fund.
Google DeepMind has more than 650 participating partners globally, including: Trusted defenders and industry leaders are already putting Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber into practice:
Google hasn’t released a frontier-level Gemini Pro AI model since early 2026, but it sure loves rolling out new Gemini Flash variants. Today, Google is announcing its third Flash model release in six weeks, making it more likely that we’ll never see the promised Gemini 3.5 Pro.
Strategy CEO Phong Le has no regrets about selling Bitcoin near $60,000, only to buy it back at a higher price weeks later.
On Wednesday, New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport filed a 332-page petition for a writ of certiorari, a formal request asking the Supreme Court to review a lower court’s decision. Kalshi subsequently sued New Jersey, and the case eventually reached the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which…
Chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi told staff in a company email that the taxi and delivery firm had expanded quickly but accumulated too many layers and small teams that slowed decision‑making. He said the reductions would put Uber, which has its global head office in San Francisco, US, in a better position for its…
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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.
The Sept. 17 roundtable at the SEC's Washington headquarters will bring together major securities names, including those who provide the financial infrastructure. While the crypto industry was born into a technology that never closes, round-the-clock trading would be a profound step for the rest of the markets, and…
Now, with yet another new stablecoin initiative backed by large financial institutions, it is likely to hit investor sentiment again. UPDATE (Sept. 1, 2026, 17:32 UTC): Adds details of OpenUSD and updates Circle price action.
The company claims new AI models are the world's “ most advanced for coding and knowledge work,” and it lands three months into a launch cycle that has already included an 18-day export-control shutdown, a mid-summer pricing fight over subscription access, and a July release of Claude Opus 5 that undercut Fable 5 on…
DeFi Development Corp. is a publicly traded company listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker DFDV. According to CEO Joseph Onorati, the company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes, including for working capital and the acquisition of SOL.
The deal shows how Wall Street's tokenization push is moving beyond putting stocks and bonds on blockchain rails. The potential market is large.
"Santos placed a series of large trades in a market where the underlying contracts depended upon his own attendance at the event," Kalshi wrote in the disciplinary record posted on its site, which detailed the trading on whether Santos would attend President Donald Trump's speech earlier this year.
The company has also staked about 5.07 million ETH, or 86% of its holdings. Anvil is a shared on-chain collateral layer built on a programmable letter of credit: reserve assets as a guarantee -no loan, no interest, keep custody & yield.
Chain revenue is what the network keeps from transaction fees. Over 30 days Robinhood Chain pulled in $3.13 million, third among all chains behind Canton at $49 million and Tron at $26 million.
The acquisition was funded via the sale of $602.8 of common stock, according to a Monday morning press release. Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, the company now holds 845,050 bitcoin purchased for $63.73 billion, or an average price of $75,412 each.
Ireland is preparing to exclude cryptocurrencies from new government-designed personal investment accounts due to launch in 2027, while allowing savers to invest in listed stocks, bonds and exchange-traded funds.
Chinese markets are booming with new public stock offerings, energized by the craze for artificial intelligence and other advanced technology and a growing preference to list shares in Hong Kong and Shanghai.
Robinhood Chain recorded a record $989 million in single-day DEX trading volume on Friday.
Nvidia wrote a $3.5 billion check to MediaTek, and it wasn’t a passive portfolio move. The bond purchase is part of a broader $3.9 billion offering by MediaTek, which means Nvidia absorbed the lion’s share.
Prediction market Kalshi has permanently banned former Rep.
Strive is continuing to stack Bitcoin, snapping up another 1,800 BTC worth roughly $143 million as the asset manager expands one of the larger corporate crypto treasuries.
The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued Amazon, alleging the e-commerce giant "secretly and systematically overcharged" advertisers on its platform by manipulating its pricing and auction systems.
Payward acquired Bitnomial earlier this year for up to $550 million, giving it control of a CFTC-licensed U.S. derivatives stack spanning exchange, clearing and brokerage operations. A Kraken spokesperson declined to comment.
Compounding the pressure is Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's hawkish Jackson Hole address, which pushed September rate-hike odds to around 58% from roughly 35% before he spoke. The session caps a strong but choppy stretch for crypto.
Strive has jumped to become the fifth-largest publicly traded bitcoin treasury company after adding another 1,800 BTC, prompting TD Cowen analysts to raise their price target on the firm's common shares.
The lending push reflects clear demand in a high-rate environment, where Russia's key interest rate stood at 14%. Sberbank has not disclosed loan-to-value ratios, interest rates, or a launch date, tying everything to approvals the central bank has yet to grant.
Cronos switched off its entire blockchain on Sunday to contain an attack on DeFi lending protocol Tectonic, freezing every position on the network in the process.
KATHMANDU — Authorities in Nepal have warned of the risk of further flooding after heavy rainfall, as China sheds light on the scale of the disaster in its Tibet region.
Nepal raced to find thousands still missing as rising water levels and worsening weather threaten to hamper rescue efforts, five days after a glacial collapse unleashed catastrophic flooding along the border with China.
Perez consented to the order without admitting the findings. The CFTC credited KalshiEX for its assistance in the matter.
The AI company, led by Sam Altman, said it has worked with Cursor for almost four years and retains enormous respect for its team, product and role in the developer community. Cursor’s agreement with OpenAI gives the company a limited period to terminate the contract following a change in control.
Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages for “tens of thousands” copyrighted works. The companies are asking for up to $150,000 per work, plus up to $25,000 for each instance when identifiable copyright data was…
Meta 's watershed social media trial wrapped up in California, but now attention is shifting to the wider industry with TikTok, YouTube and Snap next on the firing line.
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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.
The acquisition will expand BitGo’s custody, settlement and wallet business to include derivatives, structured products, financing and other capital markets services. The deal to buy NYDIG IF Holdings is made up of $7 million in cash and around $35.5 million in stock, as well as the $15 earnout tied to revenue…
The deal is part of SBI's push to expand JPYSC, its yen-denominated stablecoin, across Southeast Asia and build cross-border settlement infrastructure using blockchain technology. Ajaib gives SBI a foothold in Indonesia, a consumer-retail market worth an estimated $375 billion, according to IMARC Group, and one of…
“The responsibility for 65 months of sustained, elevated inflation sits squarely with the central bank,” said Warsh, delivering his keynote address at the Kansas City’s Fed Jackson Hole symposium. “CoinDesk must be confident that underlying inflation is moving to CoinDesk’s objective, clearly and at sufficient speed.
Nvidia posted record quarterly revenue of $96.2 billion and disclosed $366 billion in future AI infrastructure commitments, while separately moving to acquire Hugging Face, the open-source AI hub, for roughly $12.9 billion.
Meta has agreed to pay up to US$17 billion over 10 years to settle claims brought by a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general.
The DOD relied on two distinct designations to justify its supply chain risk action, which means they have to be litigated in two separate courts. Anthropic praised Lin's decision.
The legal pressure is ratcheting up on Kalshi and the broader U.S. prediction market industry after a significant federal court rejection of the company's argument that the state of Nevada had no right to regulate its betting activity.
India's ESDS Software Solution is targeting an Initial Public Offering (IPO) raise of Rs 720 crore ($75.4 million).
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.
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 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.
With this new initiative, hundreds of teachers across all of Iceland will gain access to Claude to help support lesson preparation, receiving the AI technology as well as educational resources, training materials, and a dedicated support network.
Robbie Mitchnick, BlackRock’s (BLK) head of digital assets, is the latest industry expert to voice a strongly bullish macroeconomic outlook for bitcoin BTC $ 79,875.02, and investors appear to share that conviction.
The OpenAI agents that hacked Hugging Face recently were part of a group of roughly 1,200 that broke their own isolation and ran a coordinated campaign to cheat the benchmark grading them, according to an independent investigation published Wednesday.
To get the ball rolling, Bitfinex Securities announced a $50 million tokenized capital raise for Alkemya Metacore, a Luxembourg-based investment and operating platform focused on the industrial development, commercialization and financial structuring of high-technology metals.
Authorities had received more than 3,600 complaints by June and have since secured more than 100 million zlotys for potential compensation. Neither the Polish Olympic Committee nor Zondacrypto returned CoinDesk’s request for comment by the time of publication.
Britain plans to give the Bank of England a new statutory objective to support innovation in stablecoins and other forms of digital money, while keeping financial stability as its primary responsibility.
"The CFTC will continue to safeguard its exclusive regulatory authority over these markets and defend market participants against overzealous state regulators," CFTC Chair Michael Selig said at the time.
The leading cryptocurrency was recently trading for $80,236 after notching as high as $80,793 earlier in the day in New York. Bitcoin is now up more than 2% over the past day after gaining 10% in a week.
The Schwab Crypto accounts are offered through Charles Schwab Premier Bank, with affiliated brokerage Charles Schwab & Co. performing certain operational functions on the bank’s behalf. Schwab’s crypto expansion comes as the financial services firm moves into other new trading products.
StarkWare announced today that it has completed the first quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction.
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.
In a related filing in April, Storm's lawyers also pointed the court to a recent Supreme Court ruling in a copyright case against internet service provider Cox. "Prosecutors are supposed to protect American interests and go after people who broke the law," Storm wrote Tuesday in a post on X.
“NVHBM represents a new architectural approach to advancing high-bandwidth memory performance and efficiency,” said Nafea Bshara, vice president of Annapurna Labs at Amazon. NVLink Fusion enables partners to connect custom XPUs and CPUs to NVIDIA’s rack-scale platform.
“The highest priority is a monumental task: creating a domestic and international framework for dealing with AI,” he wrote. “AI will require much, much more.
The 195 square mile site will house five launch complexes, each with two launch pads.
LayerZero, a blockchain interoperability protocol helping cross-chain transfers, has announced ATLAS, new exchange infrastructure for trading platforms and financial institutions.
In Germany, data shows Claude is bolstering local manufacturing, with especially high per capita use for calibrating, troubleshooting, and repairing equipment. And in France, Claude is supporting the country’s culture and tourism, with four times the global average use for information about dining, shopping and the…
“Today is a pivotal moment for Louisiana. This announcement pushes Decrypt’s state beyond $250 billion in new investment and puts us at the center of the next great frontier,” Governor Jeff Landry said in a statement.
The products, called Automated Token Portfolios (ATPs), use Coinbase's recently debuted tokenized U.S. stocks, with portfolio technology provider Glider handling the rebalancing based on models designed by Bitwise.
The immigrant father of a sailor on board the beleaguered USS Abraham Lincoln was detained Saturday by immigration officials, family members said.
Traders sit on their hands ahead of Treasury Secretary's press conference on what he calls 'the toughest sanctions in history' against Iran.
AI is putting powerful hacking capabilities in the hands of people with little cybersecurity expertise, forcing crypto developers into a race to find vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them.
The crisis helped drive a redesign of U.S. post-trade infrastructure, including centralized securities depositories and the formation of the Depository Trust Company. “The main question today is whether CoinDesk is recreating the paper crisis, but as a digital crisis,” Delanoue told CoinDesk in an interview.
The poll lands as the ethics questions collide with policy, with lawmakers still wrangling over provisions in the Clarity Act that would restrict the president's crypto ventures ahead of a Senate vote next month.
Bitcoin's rebound over the past two days could mark a broader shift in market momentum amid improving liquidity conditions, renewed exchange-traded fund demand, and a more supportive U.S. regulatory backdrop, according to analysts at research and brokerage firm Bernstein.
The era of cheap money is officially over. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s $4 billion buyback plan for longer-dated government debt managed to calm bond markets for barely a day before we saw another sell-off, pushing up the yield on the 30-year Treasury.
President Trump had a clear message for the crypto execs invited to the oval office: Pass the Clarity Act. Industry executives left Wednesday’s White House meeting with renewed optimism about the Clarity Act’s prospects.
Meta is also now facing penalties that could exceed hundreds of billions of dollars stemming from COPPA violations alleged by attorneys general of 29 US states. While the TikTok lawsuit predates last year's split of TikTok's US business and operations from its original base of China, the settlement only involves…
Bitcoin surged toward $80,000 on Friday, extending a three-day rally that has liquidated more than $4 billion in bearish bets and pushed the cryptocurrency to a three-month high.
Bitcoin BTC $ 77,602.44 climbed as high as $79,400 on Friday, adding 8.8% since midnight UTC as a rally kicked off by the U.S. Treasury on Wednesday gathered steam.
However, like others in the industry, Cloverleaf has faced challenges in some markets due to local pushback. Nvidia's investment comes as the company invests ever deeper into the data center ecosystem, helping keep the industry's growth going, while tying the companies into its ecosystem.
The new measure doesn’t print money “out of thin air” and isn't quantitative easing (QE) or yield curve control (YCC) — two of the biggest tools governments and central banks have for pumping money into markets.
For many watching Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, the primary takeaway has been how the deaths of her three small children—Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callen, eight months—were tragically preventable.
The handles have been blamed, in the US and in China, for making it difficult for passengers to quickly exit vehicles and for impeding rescue efforts. Now the door handles have led to Tesla’s largest recall ever—and China’s.
During a private Oval Office meeting with crypto and traditional finance executives, President Donald Trump appeared "bullish" on passing cryptocurrency legislation, as his administration works to devise a plan to get a bill through Congress as soon as next month.
A CFTC roundtable on prediction markets turned heated Thursday when CME Group Chairman Terry Duffy and Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara traded insults over market manipulation and regulation.
The company is also expanding beyond China's borders. That distribution bet is already showing up in the numbers: Chinese open-weight models jumped from under 2% of tokens generated on OpenRouter in late 2024 to roughly 61% by mid-2026, even as Alibaba's quarterly profit shrinks by three-quarters.
The head of the U.S. agency that regulates derivatives, including a wide swath of crypto assets, said that if Congress can't deliver a Digital Asset Market Clarity Act to set out laws for crypto markets, his agency is already working on alternative regulations.
The leading cryptocurrency was trading for $71,758 at 8am in New York, after jumping nearly 12% over a 24-hour period. Bitcoin was last trading this high at the beginning of June.
Crypto traders spent the days before Unitree Robotics' Shanghai listing pricing the company at more than four times its IPO valuation.
OpenAI’s second-quarter revenue rose 18% from the previous quarter to $6.7 billion, but its operating loss, including stock-based compensation, widened from $9.3 billion to $12.3 billion, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Tuesday.
Ruben Gallego, a key negotiator on the Clarity Act, says Congress can still "land this plane" as concerns grow over an unfinished ethics deal.
Cross-chain liquidity protocol Maya Protocol halted its MAYAChain network after a series of software bugs created a false balance in one of its liquidity pools, allowing an attacker to drain nearly $1.7 million in bitcoin BTC $ 64,453.62, and other assets, and created a further fallout that caused roughly $11 million in total losses.
On Wednesday morning, the U.S. Department of the Treasury said it is increasing, by at least double, the size of liquidity support buyback operations for longer-dated nominal coupon securities (the 10-year to 20-year sector and the 20-year to 30-year sector).
According to the Kalshi filing, the Copper Perp contract would be settled in cash, with no physical copper changing hands. Copper is a critical industrial metal used in power grids, construction, electric vehicles, electronics and the infrastructure supporting AI data centers.
President Trump has decided to nominate White House aide Heidi Overton to lead the Food and Drug Administration, according to a senior administration official.
Moderna's personalized mRNA cancer shot cleared its first Phase 3 readout, and the market reacted like it had won more than a trial.
The latest proposed rules would allow a "startup exemption" that would exempt offerings of up to $5 million from registration rules under the Securities Act of 1933 for four years — a federal law focused on anti-fraud and requiring certain disclosures.
The maker of ChatGPT is rolling out a range of new safety features today for under-18s who use the AI chatbot.
Metaplanet, the so-called "Strategy of Japan," is taking a roughly 96% stake in Nasdaq-listed Super League Entertainment through a $134.6 million investment that will turn the gaming media company into its U.S. bitcoin treasury platform.
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.
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.
Bitcoin miner HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE) has signed a five-year GPU cloud services agreement worth about $350 million through its BUZZ High Performance Computing subsidiary, expanding its AI business with a second big deal in two months.
“Security has always been an unfair game. A defender has to find all of them, first, every single day,” Payward co-CEO Arjun Sethi said in the release.
Bitmine, which trades under the ticker BMNR, now holds 4.8% of ETH’s total supply with its tokens worth about $11 billion at the current price of $1,904. Lee said the ETH/BTC ratio has broken above a years-long downward trend, which he sees as a sign that investors are starting to price in growing demand for Ethereum…
Bitpanda also circulated a marketing communication before publishing the required white paper. The firm told CoinDesk in an emailed statement the regulator’s findings “related exclusively to timing and formal specifications surrounding the publication of the whitepaper and an accompanying information document.”
"No one asked you if the account was hacked or not," wrote. "Answer what people have been asking you since July 26.
Russia’s Investigative Committee alleged that Belenkiy made the payments between January 2023 and March 2024 after an appeal by exiled Kremlin critic Arkady Babchenko. Investigators reportedly received two responses from after requesting Belenkiy’s transaction history.
The four phases will total 200 megawatts of IT capacity and Nvidia GB300 GPUs. IREN (IREN) also said Horizon 1 was designated Nvidia's Exemplar Cloud status, recognizing cloud providers that meet Nvidia's performance and reliability standards for running AI workloads.
Ethereum developers are deciding whether the blockchain’s next major upgrade, Hegotá, should make it easier to build private transactions without relying on middlemen.
The Treasury issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Monday seeking public comment on how it plans to implement Section 3 of the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act.
The clearest cautionary tale remains Ledger, whose 2020 leak of some 272,000 customers' details led to a wave of phishing and, for some, ransom threats invoking violence. The timing adds to a jittery stretch for self-custody users still shaken by the Coldcard exploit, which drained long-dormant Bitcoin through a…
U.S. and South Korean forces were expected to practice joint operations in complex scenarios, including a live-fire exercise to test joint precision targeting and maneuver, a wet gap crossing, and distribution of prepositioned military equipment, according to the U.S. military.
Crypto hardware wallet provider SafePal has disclosed a security incident that exposed the personal information of thousands of customers.
Harvard University's endowment reported an unchanged position in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) at the end of the second quarter, pausing two consecutive quarters of selling, according to its latest 13F filing.
The share count rose by 109,446, or 18.9%, from 579,083 at the end of March. Tudor also reported calls tied to 148,000 underlying IBIT shares, down 85.2% from 998,000 in March.
JPMorgan Chase ended its banking relationship with prediction market Polymarket in October 2025, telling the company to find a new banking partner, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
President Donald Trump is expected to attend a White House meeting on Wednesday with executives from the cryptocurrency and prediction market industries, two people familiar with the plans told The Block.
The AI energy startup faces mounting legal pressure as both a federal court and the SEC demand records related to its 17 GW power campus and former management.
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…
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.
There are limitations to the effectiveness of watermarking. Detecting a watermarking also doesn’t work well on small samples, where there are fewer word choices and thus less information to go on.
GLM-5.3 stands at 743 billion parameters and consumes a lot less tokens per task than its predecessor. Z.ai says GLM-5.3 clears 34.5% on its in-house Z.ai Code Bench at Max effort while burning roughly 75,000 output tokens per task, against GLM-5.2's 23.4% at 96,000.
It isn't Leumi's first swing. In March 2022, Pepper Invest said it would enable BTC and ETH trading through crypto infrastructure and tokenization company Paxos, also billing itself the first Israeli bank to do so.
The White House is now cracking down on these tariff dodgers. It claimed the U.S. is losing between $19 billion to $26 billion in tax revenue annually because of countries routing exports through other countries to evade levies, in a process called transshipment.
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund ended the first half of 2026 with record indirect Bitcoin exposure and a newly disclosed stake in the world’s largest Ethereum treasury company.
A Washington court issued a final order requiring Kalshi to cease offering a wide range of event contracts in the state, after finding the company likely violated its gambling regulations.
“Mr. Mangione has accepted full responsibility for the death of Brian Thompson,” his lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo told reporters outside court, arguing that her client shouldn’t face two prosecutions over a “single tragic event.”
That doesn't mean the method stopped working. The bulk of funds have remained largely unmoved since stolen from victims.
ShipMonk, Trezor’s fulfillment partner, suffered unauthorized access to its systems, affecting nearly 14,000 customers’ data, the cold storage crypto wallet firm reported Thursday.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is set to further delay its anticipated "innovation exemption" designed to accelerate tokenized securities trading after concerns emerged from both the White House and Wall Street over the proposal's legal footing and potential market impact, according to three industry .
The Bitcoin Red Team is using Chinese AI models to search nearly the entire Bitcoin open-source ecosystem for security flaws, according to pseudonymous developer and Red Team lead Calle.
The speed push lands as the labs pivot from "who's smartest" to "who's fast enough for agents." Google's timing is pointed. Its flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro is still missing, with no release date given, three weeks after 3.6 Flash and days after a DeepMind leadership reshuffle that moved Demis Hassabis aside for deputy…
For research, OpenAI’s team uses Ultrafast to rapidly search knowledge sources, query data, and quickly gather, organize, and summarize information across connected tools. With Ultrafast, OpenAI see this loop tightening to support multiple iterations during the workday instead.
Stablecoin issuer Tether said Thursday it has completed its first full independent financial statement audit, with KPMG U.S. issuing an "unqualified opinion" on the 2025 accounts of Tether International, S.A. de C.V.
Baltimore alleges the three partnered platforms offer Kalshi event contracts directly through their respective prediction market segments, allowing users to trade sports contracts without leaving the Coinbase, Robinhood or Webull apps.
“Whether federal regulators, based on their own discretionary whims, can intrude on state prerogatives and debank lawful businesses is a question of exceptional importance with broad consequences for the national economy,” they wrote.
BitGo Holdings Inc. reported strong revenue growth in the second quarter of 2026, driven by business expansion, despite posting a net loss from digital asset devaluation.
Goldman Sachs is set to add three crypto options-income ETFs to its asset management business through the Neos Investments deal it announced Wednesday.
DeepSeek shipped the finished version of its flagship on Wednesday with no blog post and no announcement.
McGurn defended Truth API during Monday's call, describing it as a feed of publicly available posts delivered "fractionally faster" than through other channels. "Providing licensed real-time public data through commercial APIs is a well-established business practice," McGurn said.
The Amazon-owned platform is automatically opting all users in to the feature. Within hours of Twitch's announcement, nearly 14,000 people had upvoted a comment on the company's support forum demanding the platform make the setting opt-in and not opt-out.
New York sued Kalshi on July 31 after a federal judge ruled against Kalshi's bid to block the state from filing a lawsuit. "Kalshi has failed to obtain a license from the New York State Gaming Commission (Gaming Commission), sidestepping its obligation to pay taxes like licensed casinos and mobile sports gambling…
Riot Platforms announced it has signed a 20-year data center lease agreement with a "leading frontier AI lab" expected to generate roughly $9.1 billion in total contract revenue over the term.
Zcash’s Tachyon upgrade aims to scale shielded payments, improve quantum readiness, and test whether its funding, security, and governance can hold.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is about to propose its first formal rule that sets more durable rules for crypto businesses — in this case, a regimented path for legal issuance of digital assets under "Regulation Crypto."
Some in the crypto industry were disappointed by the delay, as there had been an expectation that the Senate could at least hold an initial vote before lawmakers returned to their respective states, said Talia Davis, vice president of government relations at the DeFi Education Fund.
Gemini has wormed its way into virtually every Google product and service, powering email organization in Gmail, document summary in Drive, and much more. Gemini is also core to Google’s flagship search experience, with AI Mode and AI Overviews becoming increasingly hard to avoid.
Node provider BTCPay Server said Tuesday it is funding a bounty for the return of bitcoin stolen from merchants last week, offering 10% of whatever is recovered up to a maximum of 3 BTC, worth roughly $190,000 at current prices.
Coinbase announced the launch of a suite of derivatives products for professional investors in the UK, expanding its derivatives offering as it advances its broader "Everything Exchange" strategy.
In its second-quarter earnings report, Trump Media said the “vast bulk” of the loss came from non-cash charges rather than money spent or assets sold. “As part of management's efforts to streamline TMTG's strategic vision and focus resources on growth initiatives, the Company has substantially resolved its legacy…
Citing the Bank of Russia’s Telegram channel, news agency Tass reported that the central bank capped cryptocurrency purchases for retail investors at 300,000 rubles ($3,632) per year. The news comes as Russia moves fast in regulating the crypto space.
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s special projects lead and the company’s former COO, announced his departure after an eight-year stint at the AI lab. “Over the last few months, I’ve been focused on the next horizon and what would stand in the way of mission success,” Lightcap wrote.
A breakaway bitcoin chain is now so short of miners that its own mechanism for fixing that is six years away.
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.
Trump Media's Crypto.com-linked cronos CRO $ 0.04749 holdings remained unchanged at roughly 756.1 million tokens, but their fair value fell to $40.6 million from $68 million at the end of 2025. A significant chunk of the company's bitcoin was also tied up as collateral.
Around the same time, several new organizations were founded to support Ethereum’s development and adoption, including EthLabs, a nonprofit that will contribute R&D work alongside the EF, and EthSystems, a for-profit spun out of the EF’s former Institutional Privacy Task Force that will build institutional-grade…
Governance can hold.
H100 Group, a Swedish health technology company-turned-bitcoin treasury firm backed by Blockstream CEO Adam Back, more than tripled its bitcoin holdings after acquiring the Norwegian firms Moonshot and PDI.
North Korean hacker group Kimsuky is using local AI systems to target cryptocurrency and financial firms with sophisticated cyberattacks, according to a report released Monday by Genians.
The cybersecurity world is rapidly changing—threat actors will increasingly use AI to conduct cyberattacks at unprecedented speed and scale, including in fully autonomous ways.
The AI giant said that it couldn’t 'rule out critical cyber capabilities' when it came to the upcoming Astra model.
“Texas is where big ideas grow even bigger,” the governor said in the release. The Terafab website compares the planned 100 million square feet with Tesla’s roughly 10-million-square-foot Gigafactory Texas and says the facility is designed around production at “terawatt scale.”
AUSTRAC accepted that enforceable undertaking after its Cryptocurrency Taskforce found alleged late reporting and weak risk assessments, and still moved to suspend the company months later. The 96 machines are a slice of a fast-growing footprint.
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.
— Decrypt August 7, 2026. Kerbrat said the freedom to trade when traditional markets are closed gives retail investors a way to respond to market-moving news after traditional exchanges close.
On average, it gives forecasters a day more lead time than existing models; this means its predictions three days out are as accurate as previous models’ predictions two days out. “Even a few hours can make a difference,” says Mike Brennan, director of the US National Hurricane Center.
In December, the companies unveiled plans for a publicly traded CRO treasury company with Yorkville Acquisition Corp., which was expected to hold billions of CRO tokens. Democrats have repeatedly criticized Trump's expanding crypto ventures.
Beyond Next-Token Prediction: A Performance Characterization of Diffusion versus Autoregressive Language Models.
US President Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order imposing a 15 percent tariff on products made from polysilicon and setting minimum import prices on polysilicon and related products.
Independent testing plays an important role in helping us validate and further understand risks before deployment.
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GitHub Copilot spans multiple products, including cloud agents, the Copilot CLI, and the VSCode IDE. From the model picker, simply pick "Grok 4.5" to start using xAI’s latest coding model.
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 (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.
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.
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.
Polymarket plans to challenge France’s decision to block its website, arguing the order prevents users from accessing its market probabilities even though trading from the country has been disabled since November 2024.
Google has a new way for users to sign in to their accounts: a selfie video.
Violent, real-world attacks on crypto holders are escalating fast, and the money at stake has ballooned, according to a new report from blockchain security firm CertiK.
The exchange said that after “a strategic review of the business and the broader crypto industry, the board of HDR Global Trading Limited, owner and operator of BitMEX, has decided to close the exchange.”
The Smarter Web Company PLC repaid its Smarter Convert instrument to the TOBAM Group roughly two weeks ahead of maturity, selling 177.89 bitcoin to fund the $11,698,540 payment, the U.K.-listed firm said Thursday.
France has become the first country in the European Union to ban social media for children under the age of 15, after its parliament overwhelmingly approved landmark legislation by 279 votes to 81.
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The rest barely moved. XRP held $1.09, Solana traded at $76, BNB slipped to $565 and dogecoin was steady near $0.07.
Cardano activated its Van Rossem hard fork on Saturday, moving the mainnet to protocol version 11.
The spot ETFs pulled in $75.67 million in investor money in the week ended June 17, following a more robust $197.40 million in the preceding trading week, according to data source SoSoValue. The two-week inflow is a sign of bullish regime change, according to bTC and macro insights newsletter Ecoinometrics.
The Cambridge-based startup's valuation has roughly quintupled in under a year, reflecting a venture capital market that's increasingly betting on AI with tangible industrial applications.
Earlier this month, Nikkei reported that Lawson, Japan's third-largest convenience store chain, is launching a pilot to allow customers to pay with JPYC. Japan's traditional institutions have also joined the stablecoin race, with SBI Group launching JPYSC in June as the country's first trust bank-backed yen stablecoin.
According to blockchain analysis provider Onchain Lens, the exploiter used a $1.12 million flash loan from Solana-based liquidity protocol Kamino to manipulate the stablecoin liquidity pool ratios by rapidly swapping USDC for USDT.
Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3 in the dead of night and markets woke up today doing what they always do when a Chinese lab closes the gap: They panicked.
Moonshot AI put out the biggest Chinese open-source model ever released, and it topped Claude Fable 5 at writing scripts.
Apple overtook Nvidia on Friday to become the world’s most valuable company, reshuffling the top ranks of tech heavyweights as investors reassess the outlook for artificial intelligence.
A US senator has accused Meta of using lawfare in “efforts to destroy” a whistleblower who made allegations about the social media company’s dealings with China and its treatment of teenagers.
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Gemini Omni and personal avatars in Google Vids make video creation easier than ever.
Personalizing Incremental Video Search with Hybrid Text and ID Embeddings.
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.
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.
Listen below, and subscribe to Layer One on YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. In Episode 17 of Layer One, The Block’s Kelvin Sparks and Ava Labs President John Wu were joined by Aave Labs Founder Stani Kulechov, who explained how the protocol that processed over $3 trillion in deposits is pointing…
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Dozens of Meta employees have sued the social media company over claims that it used artificial intelligence tools to tag workers for mass layoffs.
Iran military action against a gulf state.
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.
Key Senate Democrats have begun mounting an impassioned case against passage of the Clarity Act in its current form, as the sprawling crypto bill enters a climactic final hurdle.
Back in 2015, Musk and Altman worked together closely to get OpenAI off the ground. The pair joined forces with several other cofounders to start OpenAI as a nonprofit AI research lab “to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate…
Claude doesn't behave the same way in every conversation.
At current prices near $63,000, that stack is worth about $53 billion, which leaves the firm with roughly $10.7 billion in paper losses. Markets read the filing without much enthusiasm.
Circle Internet Group's (CRCL) final approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish First National Digital Currency Bank is a positive milestone, but investors may be overestimating its significance, according to Japanese investment bank Mizuho.
Jupiter has launched a digital venue where collectors can buy real, graded Pokémon and One Piece cards that are fully onchain and tradable on the Solana DEX.
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) addressed his hospitalization Sunday, following a fall some four weeks ago.
Meta has abruptly taken down a new feature that allowed people to use its artificial intelligence (AI) tool to make fake.
The company said it heard feedback that the capability ‘missed the mark.’.
The CBDC limit expires at the end of 2030, though there was little chance that a Fed digital currency would have been executed by then. There's been limited appetite at the central bank, where its previous leadership — even before the arrival of Trump's newest Fed chair, Kevin Warsh — had long said that such an effort…
The Clarity Act advanced out of the Senate Banking Committee in May after two Democrats split from their party to support moving the bill forward—though the lawmakers warned a deal on ethics language remained necessary to earn their votes on the Senate floor.
Apple has sued OpenAI and two former employees, accusing the ChatGPT maker of using stolen trade secrets for its consumer hardware efforts.
Coming off its Fourth of July break, Congress returns to Washington next week ready to take up ambitious cryptocurrency legislation before the midterm election calendar takes over.
Crypto exchange Kraken is relaunching its mobile app to put agentic trading at the center of its user experience, according to a blog shared with The Block on Friday.
“Today is a historic day for Circle,” Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said in a post on X. Allaire noted that Circle will offer custodial services for digital assets via its bank, referencing stablecoins and tokenized securities that represent real-world assets.
Circle ( CRCL ), the issuer of the world's second largest stablecoin USDC, received approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a national trust bank.
China’s sprawling state-owned rocket developer, maker of the country’s Long March rocket family, announced it recovered a reusable orbital-class booster for the first time Friday in the South China Sea.
The company's ADRs, ticker symbol SKHYV, went live on the Nasdaq on Friday and were up over 13% as of 2:37 p.m. Telegram, the messaging app with over 1 billion users, isn't the only company getting in on the tokenized action.
Last week, Bitcoin treasury company Strategy sold 3,588 BTC for about $216 million between June 29 and July 5 to cover preferred-share dividends and top up a cash reserve, leaving it with 843,775 BTC.
Behavioral Privacy Leakage in Agentic Negotiation: Formalizing and Mitigating Inference Attacks via Randomized Policies.
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.
The company shared its results in a paper posted on its website this week. “It’s good and interesting work,” says Tom McGrath, chief scientist and cofounder at Goodfire, a startup that also builds tools to understand and control LLMs.
Earlier this month, a wallet holder reportedly lost $1.65 million after connecting to a fake exchange and signing a malicious contract in a similar incident, which enabled attackers to gain unlimited access to the funds, researcher Ryan Coleman said on Friday.
Shares of Luxshare Precision Industry ended lower in their Hong Kong trading debut Thursday, after the Apple supplier's multi-billion-dollar initial public offering — the largest this year in Hong Kong.
President Trump's threat to " cut off all trade " with Spain was immediately a market event — at least in Europe.
Sony's bid has already faced pushback. The wave of applications has also drawn political heat, with Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) arguing that the OCC improperly granted charters to firms that don't qualify under the National Bank Act.
DHS is accusing people of ‘doxing’ federal agents — and, a new lawsuit claims, trying to chill dissenting speech.
Is only one campaign in a widening effort, with Interpol's tally of more than 142,000 victims in a single four-month window illustrating the scale of the challenge facing law enforcement.
BNB Chain is developing a new layer-1 blockchain built for high-frequency trading and autonomous AI agents, with a public testnet targeted for the end of 2026 and mainnet planned for early 2027.
Tokenization specialist Dinari and broker-dealer tZERO are working together to offer broker-dealers a turnkey platform for tokenized U.S. equities, as competition intensifies over how public stocks should move onto blockchain networks.
The firm's third venture fund reflects growing interest in AI and defense technology, though it does not signal an exit from digital assets. "Crypto was the first frontier for us, and it continues to be a exciting one, but there's so much else happening right now that's pretty hard to ignore," managing partner Alana…
Adam Back's Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company (BSTR), the bitcoin treasury company backed by the Blockstream CEO and bitcoin pioneer, is r enegotiating the terms of its planned public listing through a merger with Cantor Equity Partners I (CEPO), with the parties abandoning the original structure agreed last year in an effort to better reflect current market conditions.
Nigel Farage's £5 million gift from billionaire Tether investor Christopher Harborne was flagged to the UK's National Crime Agency by bankers, the Guardian has reported.
National vulnerability database claims monitoring mechanism can forward Chinese users' data to remote servers.
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage said he will resign his seat in the UK House of Commons, asking Clacton constituents to decide his political future after confirming he is the subject of two parliamentary standards investigations into crypto-linked gifts.
With Ripple becoming an official sponsor of Kansas Jayhawks sports, XRP will be the first cryptocurrency to appear on the jerseys of a major collegiate athletics program, the company said Wednesday.
Strategy's sale of 3,588 BTC for approximately $216 million last week — only the third bitcoin sale in the company's history — puts future selling in focus, with Payward subsidiary CF Benchmarks warning recurring sales could become a concern.
Nasdaq-listed Coinbase (COIN) has secured U.K. regulatory approval to offer equities and derivatives alongside crypto, expanding its product suite in one of its largest international markets.
1 month ago, Polymarket scammed me for $500K, with 1,868 traders losing a total of $6.5M. Now Decrypt is taking Polymarket to court.
Heathcote is working with PJT Partners to sell his holding in the San Salvador, El Salvador-based company, citing sources close to the matter. The discussions with potential buyers were ongoing.
There is also a transparency angle that legislation could sharpen. Proposals to add regular cryptographic proof-of-reserve audits would give markets a verifiable public figure for sovereign holdings, a data point that has never reliably existed.
It is reportedly hiring engineers and speaking to manufacturers.
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 (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.
XRP finally pushed through the $1.14 level that had capped recent attempts higher, but the move did not run cleanly into the next resistance band.
Both apps had offered pools of agents customizable for specific tasks, speaking styles, and fixed personas. Users could turn a general-purpose chatbot into a named assistant, tutor, role-playing character, or companion with a consistent tone.
The UK government has announced a fresh crackdown on foreign money in politics, and the new rules could squeeze the crypto billionaires who have bankrolled Nigel Farage's Reform UK.
The Indian government has warned of action against two of Meta's three major platforms, WhatsApp and Instagram, within a week, underscoring the growing regulatory risks the U.S. social media giant faces in a key market.
These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
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.
Have been using Fable 5 all day continuing what I was doing with Opus. The findings are true.
The proposal doesn't stop at OpenAI. Altman reportedly wants other major U.S. AI developers—Anthropic, Google, Meta—to cede a similar 5% to the government through the same vehicle.
Leading tokenization firm Securitize (SECZ) began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday following a business combination with Cantor Equity Partners II late Wednesday.
Rajiv Patel-O'Connor, a longtime partner and early member of the firm's investment committee, was promoted to general partner. Framework also promoted Fred Neary to general counsel and hired Ryan Barney from Pantera Capital and Nick Trileski from DRW as partners.
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.
“Beyond its scale, this campaign was striking for its brazen nature,” Anthropic wrote. Anthropic said the campaign went beyond intellectual property concerns, framing large-scale model distillation as a national security issue that could accelerate China's military and cyber AI capabilities while narrowing the United…
It added that it has never provided funding channels or any active assistance to Iranian government agencies, Islamic Revolutionary Guard-related entities, or other sanctioned parties. CoinEx further stated that it was blacklisted by the Iranian government in 2021 and has never established an operating entity in the…
SBI Holdings has signed agreements to acquire Japanese crypto exchange Bitbank for 46.7 billion yen ($288.6 million).
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.
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, sending the bill, including anti-central bank digital currency provisions, to President Donald Trump's desk.
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.
A few days later, a developer on Hugging Face uploaded a model that used Fable’s reasoning to guide a local model—and now even your potato PC can run a better model. The model is called Qwable —Qwen + Fable, if the portmanteau wasn't immediately obvious.
Bitcoin started the week drifting near $64,000, sitting out a rally in Asian equities as the US and Iran moved closer to a lasting peace deal.
The attacker could forge the proofs a bridge uses to confirm that a withdrawal matches a real deposit. Bridges are blockchain-based tools that move assets between different chains, in this case, Taiko and Ethereum.
The proposal on Ethereum's research forum introduced “validator redirected revenue,” a protocol-level mechanism that would let network operators to send part of their staking rewards to ecosystem funding.
This is the sixth time in roughly a decade that a sitting UK Prime Minister has left the job early. Starmer communicated his decision to King Charles III and asked Labour’s National Executive Committee to arrange a leadership contest.
On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Sean O’Kane, Rebecca Bellan, and I discussed what prompted the administration’s moves against Anthropic, and what this might mean for the broader AI ecosystem.
Cboe executives have said they see an opening for products that bridge the two worlds, pitching binary options as an on-ramp for traders who have tried prediction markets but not yet graduated to more complex options strategies, per the Journal.
He also said he was "not a founder of the company or original token project," recasting his prior use of the term co-founder as a description of his technical role. Cronje said his focus is now Flying Tulip, his DeFi exchange, which raised $200 million at a $1 billion fully diluted valuation in August 2025 and later…
The AI company is pushing back against export controls that banned access to its most powerful models, arguing the restrictions may help US adversaries.
Cohere, a large language model company that builds AI systems for enterprises and governments, will use that compute layer to run its platform for Canadian clients. The term "sovereign AI" gets thrown around a lot.
“During my break, Bastian guided the transition with care and thoughtfulness, and I appreciate the work he and many others have put into that process,” Wang said. Wang’s exit comes one month after Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin signaled that the Foundation would be transitioning into a “smaller ship,” creating a…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it has settled its case against former Celsius CEO Alexander Mashinsky, who is currently serving a 12-year prison sentence.
The proposal would require so-called permitted payment stablecoin issuers, or PPSIs, to collect from each new customer a legal name, date of birth or formation, physical address, and a government-issued identification number before opening an account.
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.
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.
Flutterwave will also connect to Ripple Payments, Ripple's global payments network, and use the XRP Ledger blockchain to process transactions. The companies said the goal is to make it easier and cheaper for businesses across Africa to send and receive money internationally.
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, may be unable to serve customers in Europe if its regulatory license application in Greece is turned down, as on Tuesday.
The iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF, which is set to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol BITA, seeks to provide investors with participation in the digital asset’s upside while generating monthly options premium, BlackRock said in a press release.
SpaceX’s blockbuster debut didn’t mint a trillionaire; it became a real-world stress test for crypto’s promise of democratized market access.
You can preorder the new Specs starting today.
The big picture: There have been several attempts on Trump's life, including a recent shooting at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, as law enforcement reckons with a period of elevated political violence.
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.
"This is a good type of case for a class action, because the law is clear that companies have to be honest about their advertising and marketing,” Daffan told Decrypt. “If they're not, they can be held liable, need to change their ways, and refund money to people.
USD1, the stablecoin issued by the Trump family's crypto venture World Liberty Financial, has gone from locking retail depositors out of a DeFi lending pool to being used to pay fighters on the White House lawn.
Standard Chartered's head of digital assets research Geoffrey Kendrick says bitcoin BTC $ 66,111.32 may have already put in its low for the current market cycle, arguing that a combination of improving investor flows, corporate buying and easing macroeconomic pressures points to a stronger recovery ahead.
ARK Invest bought nearly 3.3 million shares of SpaceX (SPCX) as Elon Musk's company went public in the largest IPO ever on Friday, building a stake worth more than $500 million by the end of the day.
XRP spent the past two weeks trying to stop going down.
Kraken began offering regulated perpetual futures to U.S. customers, marking a significant step in bringing one of crypto's most popular trading products into the country after years of activity concentrated on offshore venues.
Rio de Janeiro's IplanRIO released Rio 3.5 on June 13.
The U.S.-Iran deal does not fix Bitcoin’s fundamental problem of “genuinely soft institutional demand,” Levin said. The skepticism matters because the market has repeatedly struggled to sustain rallies on positive headlines alone.
It dates back to September 2008. Shotwell was in a Glasgow hotel bathroom, with the shower running so her husband could sleep, while on the phone with her team to price SpaceX’s bid for a $1.6 billion NASA resupply contract.
Uniswap's UNI token could rise 40x from its current price of about $2.70 to $100 by the end of 2030 as tokenized assets increasingly move into decentralized finance, according to Standard Chartered Bank.
And Snapchat said: “Because most time spent on Snapchat is in private messaging between friends and family, an outright ban that disconnects teens from those relationships doesn’t make them safer – it may simply push them to less safe platforms.”
"As BBC Technology has seen in Australia, bans risk isolating teens from online communities and information, and driving them to unregulated alternatives that lack built-in protections and parental controls," it said.
Forward, which acquired nearly 7 million SOL last year for around $1.6 billion, also made an acquisition offer to SkyAI (SKYA), another Solana treasury firm formerly known as Sharps Technology, but did not receive a response by the expiration of the proposal on June 12.
SpaceX's Nasdaq debut on Friday did something quieter than the record $75 billion raise.
The U.S. government issued an emergency export control directive on Friday ordering Anthropic to immediately suspend access to its two most powerful artificial intelligence models—Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, both released days earlier —for all foreign nationals, including the company's own employees, citing national security concerns.
Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox said Anthropic's Mythos AI model found no further "serious bugs" in the privacy protocol following the patching of a previously discovered forgery bug.
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…
Coinbase said it launched a new product called Coinbase for Agents, a platform that allows artificial intelligence agents such as ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude to connect directly to users' Coinbase accounts and carry out financial transactions on their behalf.
The Elon Musk-led aerospace and satellite company is expected to begin trading on Nasdaq on Friday under the ticker SPCX, giving public investors their first opportunity to buy shares. The valuation is a pricey one, given SpaceX produced roughly $19 billion in revenue last year, driven by launches, government…
The company launched Claude Fable 5 this week to immediate backlash over a safeguard buried in its 319-page system card: The model, the first of the company’s new Mythos class, would secretly degrade its own responses for users it suspected were building competing AI models—no warning, no fallback message, quietly…
When SpaceX's initial public offering launches on Thursday, it may have an outsized impact on crypto, potentially triggering an initial rotation out of digital assets before bolstering trading volumes of tokenized shares and SpaceX-linked perpetual futures offered by exchanges such as Hyperliquid, Binance and others.
According to Amodei, his proposal borrows from the regulatory structure used by the Federal Aviation Administration. “Frontier AI models, like airplanes, should be required to go through technical testing and auditing, and their release should be blocked or reversed as a threat to public safety if they do not meet…
Bitcoin may find a bottom around $53,600, while demand conditions remain weak and a durable recovery is not yet in place, according to onchain analytics firm CryptoQuant.
Scrimba CEO Per Borgen did the math in public: "tried Fable. It burned 1.3M tokens in 7 minutes.
Tether, the company behind the world's largest stablecoin, USDT, announced Wednesday it had led a financing round of up to $1.4 billion into NEURA Robotics, a German humanoid robotics firm.
Rather than generating text one word at a time, DiffusionGemma generates multiple words in parallel to output whole blocks of text, opening a new, low-latency frontier for the kind of single-user workloads that developers, researchers and AI enthusiasts run every day.
Amid the incident, Raydium’s native token is down around 2% in the last 24 hours, recently changing hands at $0.567.
A former engineer at Elon Musk’s xAI has filed suit against the company and its parent SpaceX claiming he was fired for raising concerns about AI safety.
“But it is understandable as TechCrunch is still in the early days and they are still adapting their guardrails. “It’s better to catch more people than not enough when you do such a release and to relax the guardrails over time.”
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs assets stood at $77.58Bn as of June 10, 2026, precisely where they were the week Donald Trump won the presidential election in November 2024.
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…
Anthropic on Tuesday announced the official launch of Claude Mythos 5, a restricted-access AI model the company says has unprecedented cybersecurity capabilities, alongside Claude Fable 5, a version designed for broader public use.
The thief has been selling the stolen H for ether and minted another 100 million H, worth roughly $11 million, on the BNB Chain, blockchain data shows, pointing to more selling pressure ahead. H fell from about $0.67 to near $0.13 and briefly touched $0.05, an intraday drop of about 90%.
Bitcoin BTC $ 63,244.64 can drop down to $30,000 but still won't impact Strategy's BTC plans.
Bitcoin BTC $ 62,667.11 pulled back from Sunday highs as renewed military conflict between Iran and Israel sent Asian stocks, including South Korea's Kospi index, sharply lower.
The rollout also includes a dedicated Siri app that stores conversation history and synchronizes it across devices through iCloud, allowing users to, for example, begin a conversation on a Mac and continue it on an iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, or Vision Pro.
Bitcoin's latest slide that saw it briefly dip below $60,000 on Friday has done little to shake institutional conviction, according to Coinbase Head of Institutional Strategy John D'Agostino, who said many large investors are using the downturn as an opportunity to accumulate.
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is pressing ahead with his bid for a presidential pardon, even after President Donald Trump said he has no plans to grant clemency.
Bitcoin BTC $ 62,667.11 is back to trading at levels seen in early February: near $60,000.
While CFO Andrew Kang filed to sell about $3.9 million.
Apple CEO Tim Cook’s final time hosting the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference ( WWDC ) is about here.
Chicago-based trading giant DRW has spent decades profiting from mismatches between different asset classes, and now it's building a dedicated prediction market desk targeting platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi.
The company needs extra computing power for Gemini Enterprise.
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 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.
Now, however, it’s best known for its aggressive strategy of acquiring Bitcoin for its corporate reserves, with Saylor becoming a figurehead for the institutional adoption of the asset. Here’s everything else you need to know about Strategy and its relationship with Bitcoin.
The Bitcoin (BTC) crash to $61,100 on Friday wiped out $335 million in leveraged long positions. Bearish positions built up heavily between $63,000 and $66,000, setting the stage for a potential $2.6 billion short squeeze.
Bitcoin briefly plunged below $62,000 Thursday morning Hong Kong time, triggering more than $1.5 billion in leveraged crypto liquidations over the past 24 hours as a wave of forced selling accelerated the market's steepest decline in months.
As the semi-legal peptide sector explodes, driven by a confluence of online trends like "looksmaxing" and the "Make America Healthy Again" movement, more and more suppliers and buyers are turning to cryptocurrency, Chainalysis said Thursday in a new report.
Saved memories were only written during the conversation and relied on strong cues to decide when to trigger memory, such as an instruction to "remember I’m traveling to Singapore in July." In practice, interacting with this system could feel like talking to someone who took a few notes, but still forgot everything…
Blanche, a former federal prosecutor, entered the Trump administration after first having been his personal attorney. He represented Trump in his New York hush money case, which resulted in a conviction on 34 felony counts.
The move fits the profile of a classic oversold bounce. On the daily chart, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) dropped below 30 on Tuesday, a reading that typically signals oversold conditions and often precedes short-term relief rallies.
The offering would also have implications for the crypto market. SpaceX held 18,712 bitcoin with a fair value of $1.29 billion as of March 31, making it one of the larger known corporate holders of the cryptocurrency.
It's a tease of what's to come right now, but these are the first Windows devices that may live up to the overused “AI PC” name. Microsoft has been talking up the idea of “AI PCs” since 2024, but it has never felt real.
Bitcoin BTC $ 69,348.21 extended its slide on Tuesday, dropping more than 3.8% in 24 hours to dip below $70,000, as the aftermath of Strategy's first disclosed bitcoin sale weighed on the market while stocks paused at record highs and oil pushed further on the stalled U.S.-Iran ceasefire negotiations.
Copilot isn’t enough. Microsoft wants to build an AI that doesn't wait for you to ask it something.
The dispute turns on a single ambiguity: the rules ask whether Strategy sold bitcoin "by 11:59 PM ET" on May 31, but they don't say whether that means the sale must have occurred by then or been confirmed by then.
When Strategy disclosed on Monday that it had sold Bitcoin, the move marked a counterintuitive turning point for Ethereum, according to Standard Chartered’s Geoff Kendrick.
That shift, the lawmakers say, conflicts with decades of legal precedent and exposes the estimated $14.2 trillion sitting in American 401(k) accounts to assets with extreme price swings and limited regulatory oversight.
The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, better known as OFAC, said Nobitex "processed over 50 percent of all Iranian digital asset inflows in 2025" and was a key player in sanctions evasion, terrorist financing and transactions linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Ethena said the two companies have also become partners "to grow onchain finance and savings products." Coinbase mentioned a "closer partnership" that included Circle's USDC stablecoin, according to a social media post.
The stablecoin, dubbed MGUSD, will be embedded into the MoneyGram app, allowing customers to hold a dollar-denominated balance in a self-custodial wallet and transfer funds through the company's global payments network.
Ring announced the Familiar Faces feature last September and faced pushback from consumer protection organizations like the EFF, as well as Senator Ed Markey (D-MA). Familiar Faces lets Ring users identify people who regularly come to their home through AI facial recognition.
Coinbase (COIN) announced Tuesday that it made an undisclosed investment in the ProShares GENIUS Money Market ETF (IQMM), which is designed to hold assets that qualify as reserves for payment stablecoins under the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act.
Mt. Gox transferred 10,306 BTC, worth roughly $730.8 million, from its cold wallets to the unmarked address "14FE…c9eq" at around 4:47 a.m. Additionally, at around 6:46 a.m., Mt. Gox transferred another 116.3 BTC to the address "1A4x…QNj4," along with a small amount of bitcoin worth roughly $1.19 to a Bitstamp cold…
"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…
Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee predicted the firm is "expected to reach" its goal of holding 5% of the total (ETH) supply "sometime in 2026." It currently holds 4.49% of the total, with Ethereum’s circulating supply estimated at 120.7 million coins.
Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to Decrypt’s "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox?
Bitcoin treasury company Strategy sold 32 BTC for approximately $2.5 million at an average price of $77,135 per bitcoin between May 26 and May 31, according to an 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday.
Strategy (MSTR), the company whose bitcoin accumulation strategy inspired a new generation of so-called digital asset treasury firms, sold BTC for the first time since December 2022, offloading roughly $2.5 million worth of tokens.
Cosmos 3 supports multiple input and generation modalities through a single unified model: For video generation, Hugging Face recommend using detailed prompts in the form of narrative paragraphs.
Strategy's (formerly MicroStrategy) first publicized bitcoin sale has triggered a $15 million resolution dispute on Polymarket.
Running agents securely and privately requires hardware that’s up to the task. Designed for AI, creating and gaming, RTX Spark brings NVIDIA’s 30 years of technology innovation to slim Windows laptops with all-day battery life and ultraefficient desktop PCs.
"Decrypt recently filed a monumental civil lawsuit against Sam Altman and ChatGPT for endangering Decrypt’s kids and deceiving parents into believing that this application is safe for use," Uthmeier said during a press conference on Monday.
The filing gives the Claude developer the option to move forward with an IPO after the SEC completes its review, although the company said any offering remains subject to market conditions and other factors.
"Our goal is to make STRC the best credit instrument in the world," Saylor wrote on X on Monday.
Neowin reported having the exploit as being “active in the wild for months, going as far back as February of this year, with hackers compromising thousands of accounts.” But the exploit seems to have gained more public notice in recent days with the compromise of high-profile accounts.
The Google parent company said that the capital will "fund investments in its world-class AI compute infrastructure to meet its unprecedented customer demand." "The company is experiencing strong demand for its AI solutions and services from enterprises and consumers, at levels that are exceeding the company's…
0xFlorent_ said he found a way for HongCoin’s old contract to recognize blocked investors again and release their refunds. For years, the contract had relied on the wrong number to decide who could get ETH back.
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said Monday that The Open Network's native cryptocurrency (TON) will be renamed Gram, reviving the original name proposed in the project's first white paper as part of his ongoing "Make TON Great Again" initiative.
By headcount, a majority of voting delegates supported the request, 135 in favor to 61 against, with 24 abstaining, and the Constitutional Committee approved it. The measure was already a scaled-back version of an original 14.07 million ADA proposal (~$3.66 million) that bundled the summit with an EMURGO-run TOKEN2049…
The boom could be heard across several states and shook houses.
SoftBank Group will commit as much as €75 billion ($87 billion) to build five gigawatts of AI data center capacity across France, with a first €45 billion ($52 billion) phase delivering 3.1GW in the northern Hauts-de-France region by 2031.
A novel pill helped people with advanced pancreatic cancer live longer, researchers reported Sunday, raising hopes of long-needed better treatments for one of the deadliest types of cancer.
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.
As Congress barrels forward on passing legislation called the Clarity Act that would establish rules for digital assets and likely unleash a wave of institutional investment, Trump's expanding crypto empire is giving critics fresh reasons not to support the bill, with the issue becoming increasingly contentious ahead…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued Texas resident Nathan Fuller, alleging he raised about $12.3 million from roughly 150 investors through a crypto investment scheme built around false claims of AI-powered trading bots, guaranteed returns and insurance protections.
XRP funds are getting the bid that bitcoin and ether ETFs are missing.
A Republican candidate jockeying to represent Florida’s 22nd Congressional District has liquidated a portion of his personal Bitcoin stash to bankroll his political bid, while striking a pro-crypto stance in a newly shaped battleground race.
Circle froze roughly $12.6 million in USDC early Saturday morning by blacklisting the Ethereum contract behind open-source cryptography firm Zama's confidential USDC token, dragging a privacy protocol into a dispute it apparently had no direct part in.
"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…
"This marks Kalshi’s evolution from prediction market leader to next-gen derivatives exchange," said Tarek Mansour, CEO of Kalshi, in a post on the company's website that called their event-contract business only the first chapter.
Jamie Dimon, complaining about the Clarity Act and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong this AM: “He’s spending hundreds of millions of dollars in Washington in this thing.” Maria: “He said he’s representing the whole —”
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded Thursday night during a hot-fire test at a Space Force launch facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The U.S. government has seized vast sums of cryptocurrency from entities linked to Iran’s military since the war broke out in February, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Trainer argues correctly that the investors who are expected to buy $80 billion in SpaceX shares in the IPO will get exert zero influence over how the enterprise is run. Instead, Elon Musk will hold all the power.
Coinbase's path is different. The CFTC's Market Participants Division issued an interpretation and no-action position in response to Coinbase Financial Markets.
Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of defunct crypto lending platform Celsius, is seeking to vacate his 12-year prison sentence according to a new motion filed in the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The committee was established under Senate Bill 21, passed by the 89th Texas Legislature and signed into law on June 22, 2025 — making Texas one of the most prominent states in the nation to move forward with an operational bitcoin reserve.
In 2021, ConstitutionDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) or collective of users with a shared goal, raised more than $45 million in the hopes of winning a rare copy of the document via auction.
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.
Beyond the chatbot app, the Bloomberg illustrations show Siri baked into the Camera app as a dedicated capture mode, replacing the current Visual Intelligence button. Apple is also adding AI editing tools to Photos: Reframe adjusts perspective, Extend fills in parts of an image that weren't in the original frame.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission wants to tear up the remnants of an old dispute with crypto exchange Gemini, with the agency insisting that its own staff's assertions about Gemini making misleading statements weren't handled properly.
The round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, alongside investors including Blackstone, Fidelity, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Temasek. “Earlier this month, Decrypt’s run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion,” Anthropic wrote on X.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission also filed a parallel civil complaint against Spagnuolo, alleging insider trading in violation of the Commodity Exchange Act. Between October and December 2025, Spagnuolo allegedly used an account known as "AlphaRaccoon" to place trades on Polymarket.
Kalshi has asked a federal judge to prevent Minnesota from implementing the nation’s first-ever prediction market ban, joining forces with President Donald Trump’s administration in a rapidly escalating regulatory battle against state governments.
Today, the European Commission issued a fine of €200 million to Temu under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
As investors pulled millions of dollars out of U.S.-listed spot crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on Tuesday, one move stood out.
"The Block has always assumed that President Trump was backing CFTC Chair Michael Selig's advocacy for prediction markets including his contention that states lack the power to block event contracts on sporting events," Jaret Seiberg, managing director at TD Cowen's Washington Research Group, said in a note on Wednesday.
Spagnuolo allegedly used an internal Google tool to track who the most-searched-for individuals were and transferred some $3.8 million in USDC to a Polymarket address, said the complaint, which was signed by FBI Special Agent Brandon Racz.
Fuli Luo, head of Xiaomi's MiMo team and a former core DeepSeek developer who co-built DeepSeek-V2, published a technical explanation on X. That means the AI needs far less computing power, cutting storage and processing costs by around 80%.
It is a continuation of a months-long rally that has seen former pure-play bitcoin miners switch off their rigs and divert their resources and capital to AI power and compute infrastructure — businesses many investors now see as more attractive than traditional mining operations.
The combination of SpaceX and Tesla—a reported possibility—could put the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, in direct control of more than 30,221 Bitcoin valued at about $2.27 billion.
ElevenLabs, the Polish-founded voice AI company sitting at an $11 billion valuation after a $500 million Series D in February, launched Music v2. The backdrop is the Recording Industry Association of America copyright suits from 2024 against Suno and Udio, which made "trained on licensed data" the most important…
Christian Menefee has unseated Rep.
Crypto-focused political committees are flexing their growing bipartisan political muscle in Texas, spending more than $9 million on races this cycle as Tuesday’s primaries deliver a string of wins for industry-backed candidates across both parties.
The predictions market operator reportedly explored mandatory user verification requirements, breaking from its policies of allowing traders to access its services using pseudonyms.
AI's most powerful CEOs are splitting into warring camps over whether their own technology will gut white-collar work or supercharge it — but the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.
Republican primary voters on Tuesday rejected U.S. Sen.
AI agents asking questions in natural language apparently issue a lot more queries than your average SQL jockey.
According to a Wednesday official release, the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office has filed charges against two main suspects who were taken in custody, along with three others who were not detained.
"As institutional participation scales across regions, the ability to move capital efficiently across currencies has become a critical requirement," Coinbase said. The integration with the international bank introduces new currency rails across AUD, SGD, CAD, and CHF, as well as GSIB-backed settlement for EUR and GBP,…
The launch marks a broader push by banks into blockchain-based payments as lawmakers and regulators move closer to establishing rules for stablecoins in the U.S. Stablecoins are digital tokens designed to maintain a fixed value, usually pegged to the dollar.
Base, the Coinbase-incubated Ethereum scaling layer, has released a new protocol making it easier to connect AI interfaces with its wallet infrastructure.
SpaceX and the Pentagon have been bickering about the price of using Starshield satellite service during the Iran war, according to a published today.
Ondo Finance founder Nathan Allman has died, the company said in a post on X on Tuesday, without disclosing the cause.
The weakness is not reflected in broader financial markets. Ether (ETH) is faring worse.
The new “Muskie Data Campus,” purchased from Industrial Equity Partners, sits within the 1,000-acre EastPark Industrial Park in northeastern Kentucky and encompasses roughly 285 acres of owned and controlled land.
“Moon Base One will be the first privately funded lunar lander mission in history,” Isaacman said. Isaacman said the objective was to “demonstrate critical capabilities that reduce risk for the human landing system missions”, and that Bezos’s company was picked “because of the role Blue Origin plays in the Artemis…
Publicly traded Ethereum treasury firm Sharplink will join the Russell 2000 and 3000 indexes when their semiannual restructure goes into effect on June 29, the firm announced on Tuesday.
Hyperliquid has begun supporting outcome markets tied to offchain events as part of its HIP-4 upgrade, allowing validators to deploy and settle such prediction markets.
American in January rolled out free in-flight Wi-Fi for members of its frequent flyer program, following United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and others. Delta in March said it would use Amazon Leo for in-flight Wi-Fi for hundreds of jets starting in 2028.
Under Bastian Aue, the Ethereum Foundation’s interim co-executive director, Buterin indicated that the organization is refocusing itself around CROPS, a framework rooted in censorship resistance, openness, privacy, and security.
Crypto fund flows are starting to fracture, with investors exiting bitcoin BTC $ 77,320.88 and ether (ETH) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) while rotating into alternative tokens such as Hyperliquid’s hype (HYPE) and XRP (XRP).
BTC/USD one-hour chart. In its latest market commentary, X analytics account Cryptic Trades called the dip a “fakeout,” noting its proximity to Bitcoin’s lowest levels of 2025, also seen in April that year.
The market tension followed $1.26 billion in net outflows from spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds the week of May 18–22 — their second consecutive billion-dollar redemption week — even as BTC briefly cleared $82,000, The Block reported.
Released Monday, Tether said GELT is designed to serve as a "digital representation" of the Georgian Lari, enabling lower transaction costs, faster settlement, and programmable payments. Tether said Georgia's digital asset framework was designed to achieve "substantive compatibility" with emerging U.S. stablecoin…
The contracts, ticker QBTC, are cash-settled in US dollars against a Bitcoin benchmark and fit within the same account and margin framework used for equity index options. That places QBTC in the market for cash-settled Bitcoin options without requiring investors to hold BTC or use crypto-native derivatives venues.
Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical on Monday, a 245-paragraph document dedicated entirely to artificial intelligence that demands tighter oversight of Big Tech, classifies data as a shared human resource, and argues that "technology is never neutral" because it absorbs the values, blind spots, and economic incentives of whoever builds it.
GEL₮ puts the lari on private stablecoin rails, but issuer approval, reserves, redemption rights, and payment access will decide whether it works.
The pope’s first major manifesto, published Monday, calls for a new legal and ethical framework to govern AI.
Cross-chain interoperability has long been one of the most difficult areas in crypto, with the sector experiencing multiple bridge exploits and security incidents over the years. Asked at the time whether Squid is looking to serve projects reassessing their cross-chain infrastructure following issues elsewhere in the…
Gemini's founders, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, back American Bitcoin, the crypto firm co-founded by Eric Trump. Senior career officials told the NYT they worried Crypto.com was not treating small bettors fairly, that Polymarket lacked adequate fraud protections, and that Gemini Titan had not completed the required…
One directed the broader government to update existing regulations to better integrate crypto into payment systems, while the other directed the Treasury Department and regulators to strengthen Bank Secrecy Act regulations.
MoonPay has brought crypto purchases directly into ChatGPT, allowing users to generate checkout links to buy digital assets, including Bitcoin, XRP, Solana, and USDC, without leaving OpenAI’s chatbot.
The post lands amid a wave of high-profile departures from the EF that has reignited debate over the foundation's direction. Former EF developer Dankrad Feist, who left his full-time role at the foundation for Tempo last year, this week proposed raising $1 billion for a separate Ethereum advocacy organization "more…
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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…
SpaceX launched the first test flight of its upgraded Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster Friday, with mostly positive results.
Nearly $1 billion in leveraged positions were liquidated as weakening spot demand pushed Bitcoin below $75,000.
The cash-settled, European-style contracts will trade under the ticker QBTC on Phlx, but still require CFTC approval before trading can begin.
Binance CEO Richard Teng denied a new alleging $850 million in Iran-linked transactions flowed through the exchange to the IRGC.
After crumbling about 4% late Friday into early Saturday, bitcoin BTC $ 74,703.02 has more than retraced those losses in the past few minutes after President Trump announced a coming agreement with Iran and other Middle Eastern countries.
A central sticking point is a provision that would permit trading in third-party tokens—digital representations of company shares issued without the knowledge or approval of the underlying corporations.
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.
Polymarket has appointed a representative in Japan as it prepares to seek government approval to operate prediction markets in the country, .
The recent purchases followed Bullish's mixed first-quarter results released last week. While the company reported a wider quarterly net loss of $604.9 million, nearly doubling the loss recorded a year ago, its adjusted revenue rose to $92.8 million from $62.4 million in the same quarter last year.
Crypto executives, policy researchers, and national security experts testified before a House subcommittee on Thursday on how to modernize anti-money laundering laws for an era of AI and digital assets.
Americans for Fair Markets (AFM) will actively combat “interests that are focused on protecting their monopolies and seeding lies,” Kalshi said highlighting the organization’s focus on legislation that supports innovation, market integrity, and consumer protection.
The announcement came during a livestream of the now scrubbed Starship V3 launch on Thursday, minutes before that launch attempt was scheduled to take place. "A lot of people [are] talking about the whole Mars to be like Decrypt is going to fly to Mars, Decrypt're going to land on Mars, Decrypt're going to build [a] city on Mars,”…
Microsoft was once the undisputed front-runner of the generative AI boom, fueled by a $13 billion OpenAI bet.
Chun Wang, the Chinese-born Maltese-Kittitian crypto investor who co-founded F2Pool, has been named Mission Commander for SpaceX’s first commercial human spaceflight interplanetary mission to Mars, crucial to Elon Musk’s plans to send one million people to the Red Planet.
The US president Donald Trump postponed signing an executive order on AI because he did not like certain aspects of it and did not want to take any steps that might undermine the US position in its AI competition with China.
Polymarket developers later acknowledged the incident and said it involved an internal rewards wallet and did not affect user funds or market outcomes. “Findings point to a private key compromise of a wallet used for internal top-up operations, not contracts or core infrastructure,” the Polymarket Developers account…
According to the bill text obtained by the Block, ARMA would require all bitcoin (BTC) deposited into the reserve to sit there for a minimum of 20 years, barring the government from "selling, swapping, auctioning, encumbering, or otherwise disposing of" the assets for any reason.
Roughly four years after Galaxy Digital planned to acquire BitGo, the two crypto firms faced off in court this week as their legal battle over the failed merger drags on, .
Federal investigators are examining whether over $1 billion flowed through Binance to entities supporting Iran-affiliated groups, piling new legal pressure onto an exchange already serving a $4.3 billion penance.
Over $520,000 was reportedly drained from two smart contracts on the Polygon blockchain, according to on-chain data shared by ZachXBT. Polymarket developers said the company is aware of reports tied to its rewards payout system in a post on X.
In the motion, the anonymous petitioner argued that taxing gains from cryptocurrencies is unfair for investors, especially after South Korea abolished income taxes on traditional financial investments, such as stocks and bonds.
SpaceX noted that it has safely flown 78 crew members to and from space across 20 missions since 2020, which included seven commercial and private astronaut missions. Meanwhile, Wang founded F2Pool in 2013 with Shixing Mao.
An attacker connected to the recent exploit of the Verus network transferred 4,052.4 ETH worth $8.5 million back to the project’s wallet on Thursday, following a negotiated settlement framework proposed by the platform's core contributors.
SpaceX officially filed its S-1 with the SEC on Wednesday, confirming plans for what could become the largest IPO in history. The filing reveals the company is targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation with an $80 billion raise, dwarfing Saudi Aramco’s previous record of $29.4 billion.
"Pre-IPO perpetual futures is another example of how Binance is democratizing access to market opportunities by combining crypto-native infrastructure with major financial events. "This launch reflects CoinDesk’s vision for Binance as a financial super app — one that offers access to an expanding range of financial…
Anthropic's Claude Code is a command-line tool that lets developers hand off complex engineering tasks to an AI that keeps working without constant hand-holding. And it has a peculiar advantage: Its latest model, DeepSeek V4, already runs natively inside Claude Code.
Nvidia printed the kind of quarterly revenue that makes other Fortune 500 companies look like lemonade stands. The chipmaker reported $81.6 billion in revenue for fiscal Q1 FY27, a figure driven almost entirely by insatiable demand for AI infrastructure.
Nick Begich (R-AK) introduced legislation on Thursday aimed at enshrining a strategic reserve for Bitcoin in federal law, seeking to cement one of President Donald Trump’s core campaign promises for digital asset holders ahead of the high-stakes U.S. midterm elections.
This Tuesday, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs also announced the country had agreed to “dialogue” with the U.S. on AI. U.S. officials say talks with China are possible because America leads on AI.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has highlighted AI as the tentpole of the company’s future, projecting a multi-trillion-dollar market opportunity that rivals the total value of all US economic activity.
Google is trying to pull off one of the trickiest balancing acts in tech: aggressively disrupting its own products with AI while protecting the businesses that generate tens of billions in profit.
Hyperliquid 's sustained uptrend continued into Thursday, as the decentralized exchange's token surged to an intraday high of $58.97.
8,000 staffers are reportedly affected, around 10 percent of the company.
Billionaire investor, entrepreneur, and former Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban believes that Bitcoin “has lost the plot”—and said he’s sold most of his holdings in the asset, during an interview with Front Office Sports.
Including the launch of a dedicated prevention platform, according to JDD.
Syndicate Labs, an Ethereum infrastructure provider focused on rollups and sequencers, announced that it is winding down operations after five years.
“Solving hard problems for music is what Spotify does, and fan-made covers and remixes are next,” Spotify Co-CEO Alex Norström said in a statement.
That exposure has reached a massive scale, with Glassnode noting that about 6.04 million Bitcoin, representing 30.2% of the asset’s circulating supply, are currently held in wallets with exposed public keys.
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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.
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.
"The Federal Government must update regulations to allow integration of digital assets and innovative technology into traditional financial services and payment systems," Trump stated in the order. Ari Redbord, Global Head of Policy and Government Affairs at blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs, called the order a…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin on Wednesday outlined near-term steps the network is taking to bring privacy onchain, a feature institutions highlighted at Consensus Hong Kong as necessary for widespread institutional adoption of the blockchain technology.
But it doesn’t make a ton of sense to me. Of course a 33 act ETP is different from a 40 act ETF and it has less protections.
"It's a known addictive product, like heroin," he said. Earlier this week, Kalshi co-founder and CEO Tarek Mansour posted on social media site X to highlight his company's $2 million commitment with the National Council on Problem Gambling to support an initiative on "trader health and safety.""As retail participation…
Deloitte has also forecast that AI and stablecoins will reshape financial services by 2030.
A South Korean funeral services company has reported an unrealized loss of about 45 billion won ($33 million) tied to investments in leveraged ether (ETH) exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
Qivalis expanded its euro stablecoin consortium to 37 European banks after adding 25 new lenders, extending backing for a planned euro-denominated digital token as the group seeks to build out its regulated payments infrastructure in the euro area.
Anthropic has agreed to pay SpaceX $1.25 billion per month through May of 2029 for access to cloud computing infrastructure, a long-awaited US regulatory filing revealed on Wednesday.
First introduced in January 2025, Bill 163, also effectively bans the state’s use of any central bank digital currency (CBDC), also known as a "digital dollar," and its participation in any CBDC tests.
A day earlier, President Donald Trump issued a related executive order that asked the Fed to review how it grants uninsured depository institutions and non-bank financial firms access to payment accounts and services.
The U.S. Treasury added individuals and entities from two separate networks tied to the Sinaloa Cartel and its crypto-facilitated fentanyl trafficking operations, it announced on Wednesday.
According to Wednesday's announcement, USDF is designed to serve as the settlement asset for currencies created on Flipcash, a platform where users can launch fixed-supply digital currencies priced and transacted in the stablecoin.
Nakamoto Inc (Nasdaq: NAKA) said Wednesday that it will enact a 1-for-40 reverse stock split later this week as the bitcoin (BTC) treasury company's shares continue to slide further below Nasdaq's minimum listing threshold.
The crypto-native prediction market platform said the new offerings will exclusively source resolution data from Nasdaq Private Market via a new partnership between the two. "Prediction markets are one of the most powerful tools The Block has for democratizing access to financial information and opportunity," Shayne Coplan…
Spark runs on Gemini 3.5 and is built on Google's Antigravity harness—the same agent infrastructure behind the company's own internal tools. Out of the box, Spark can handle recurring tasks and do most of the everyday tasks you have handled to your Openclaw or Hermes agent.
Google on Tuesday introduced Gemini Omni, a new multimodal AI model that combines the company’s Gemini AI models with its media-generation tools, including Veo, Nano Banana, and Genie.
OpenAI was cofounded by Musk and a group of researchers in 2015 as a nonprofit with a mission to develop AI for the benefit of humanity, unconstrained by a need to generate financial returns. Musk brought two claims against OpenAI.
Strategy purchased 24,869 BTC between May 11 and May 17 for approximately $2.01 billion at an average price of $80,985 per coin, funded almost entirely by $1.949 billion in STRC preferred stock issuances plus $83.7 million in MSTR common shares.
Health Premium and Home Premium are also included in AI Pro and Ultra subscriptions at no additional cost. Google is moving from daily prompt limits to a "compute-used" model.
One of the key agentic experiences rolling out is a new form of dynamic data gathering through “information agents” that can be more proactive than previous search experiences and automate alerts through your conversational requests.
Andrej Karpathy, a computer scientist and AI researcher best known as the co-founder of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla, announced today that he has joined Anthropic, the AI safety-focused company behind the Claude family of large language models.
National trust companies are regulated with less scrutiny than traditional banks, but also are more limited in the services they are allowed to offer. In the wake of the passage of the stablecoin-focused GENIUS Act last year, numerous crypto companies have applied for national trust banking charters to facilitate the…
On Monday, Minnesota became the first state to outright ban prediction market platforms. Within hours, the CFTC filed a lawsuit, alongside the Department of Justice, claiming Minnesota’s leaders violated federal law and encroached on the regulator’s jurisdiction by instituting the ban.
The Wall Street Journal reported late Monday that Google and Blackstone are planning to create a joint AI cloud company that would deploy Google's custom chip technology, with Blackstone committing $5 billion in equity and retaining a majority stake.
The industry sometimes tries to display a united front, especially when it comes to safety, research and inclusivity. But this case served as a powerful reminder that none of the AI giants are charities and don't have to be, even if they once said otherwise.
Polymarket is opening a new corner of finance to retail traders: betting on the future of private companies.
Strive, Inc. added 382 Bitcoin for $30.3 million, pushing its treasury to 15,391 BTC as it continues an aggressive, equity-funded accumulation strategy tied to shareholder Bitcoin exposure growth.
Bringing its total funding to approximately $28.3 million.
Like other vaults, Armitage vault curators will be able to design vaults based on specific risk profiles to access various DeFi lending opportunities. Vaults have become an increasingly hot area of focus for the institutional side of crypto, following the success of platforms like Morpho on Ethereum and Kamino on…
According to the statement, the deposit flow requires two XRPL signatures from the D'CENT device. Withdrawals follow the same signature pattern, with execution handled by a smart contract proxy assigned to each XRPL address.
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…
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Elon Musk’s latest legal challenge against OpenAI has collapsed in court, clearing one of the biggest legal threats facing the ChatGPT maker as competition in artificial intelligence intensifies.
Additional open models — MiniMax-M2.7, DeepSeek Pro, DeepSeek-V4, GLM 5.1 and Kimi K2.6 with NVIDIA NVFP4 optimization — are available on the Dell Enterprise Hub on Hugging Face, joining Gemma 4, NVIDIA Nemotron Super 3, Mistral Small 4 and Arcee Trinity-Large-Thinking.
When Musk answered questions, he argued that OpenAI had sacrificed safe and responsible AI development by prioritizing profits. But when cross-examined about AI safety, Musk was unable to articulate any coherent arguments.
It’s all-knowing, omnipresent, and somewhere between one to two billion people in the world subscribe to it.
“If done right, this has potential to both output extremely efficient code, and be far more secure than the way programming has been done before,” Buterin wrote, noting that developer Yoichi Hirai refers to it as the “final form of software development.”
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) could soon introduce a new framework for trading tokenized stocks, according to a Monday report by Bloomberg Law, a move that may accelerate Wall Street firms push to bring traditional securities onto blockchain rails.
"Compute is the new engine of the AI economy," Craig Tavares, BUZZ HPC's president, said in a statement. "If Canada wants to lead in AI, CoinDesk need to build the factories that produce intelligence here at home.
The firm’s latest weekly addition comes one week after it telegraphed a slowdown in its ETH purchases, scaling back last week to add only $62 million worth to its stash, which now sits at nearly 5.28 million ETH—or about $11.1 billion worth.
Strategy announced Monday it has acquired an additional 24,869 bitcoin for approximately $2.01 billion, averaging roughly $80,985 per coin, pushing the firm’s total holdings to 843,738 BTC — cementing its standing as the world’s largest corporate bitcoin treasury by a wide margin.
Google’s Q-Day estimate—for when a quantum computer powerful enough to break current cryptography comes online—is 2032, but other researchers think it could happen as early as 2030. The deeper problem is Bitcoin's governance.
Standard Chartered plans to acquire the crypto custody business of Zodia Custody, its majority-owned subsidiary, folding operations directly into the bank's own digital asset infrastructure.
A separate market places the odds of Iran closing its airspace before June at 46.5%. Observers say the reported model may be technically possible, though difficult to scale beyond sanctioned or niche trade channels.
Galaxy Digital said Monday that New York regulators granted the company a BitLicense and money transmitter license, allowing the crypto financial services firm to expand institutional digital asset operations in one of the industry’s most tightly regulated markets.
The company's stock plummeted 79.48% over the past six months as investors fled amid regulatory uncertainty. Bitcoin Depot’s troubles accelerated after a series of setbacks this year.
The Ethereum Foundation is facing renewed scrutiny after two more prominent contributors, Carl Beek and Julian Ma, shared they are exiting the organization on Monday, extending a wave of departures that has rattled parts of the Ethereum community over the past few months.
The leaders of the House Agriculture Committee on Friday urged President Donald Trump to fill the four open seats on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, pointing to the agency's expanding crypto mandate and a flood of pending rulemakings.
Cerebras Systems ' raucous IPO this week gave investors a taste of what's to come in artificial intelligence.
The Maltese Minister for Economy, Enterprise and Strategic Projects, Silvio Schembri said, “Through this AI for everyone course OpenAI is making sure that every citizen, regardless of their background, has the chance to build the confidence and skills needed to thrive in a digital world.
Taiwan will send its top trade negotiator to next week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) ministerial meeting in mainland China – a rare occurrence since the two sides cut off official communication in 2016.
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According to news organization, citing three people with knowledge of the discussions, SpaceX has moved up its IPO schedule and now plans to make its prospectus public as soon as next Wednesday. The revised timeline is weeks ahead of the company’s earlier target of late June, which had been loosely aligned with Musk’s…
CoinShares estimated earlier this year that more than $70 billion in cumulative AI contracts have been announced across the listed miner cohort, with some operators on track to derive as much as 70% of their revenue from AI by the end of 2026, as The Block previously reported.
But some people wanted more—for some reason. If you are one of those people, OpenAI launched a personal finance feature in ChatGPT that connects to your actual bank accounts and answers money questions based on what you've spent—not what the average American spends.
Gemini Space Station Inc’s (GEMI) shares jumped more than 25% in pre-market trading despite recording a net loss of $109 million in the first quarter of 2026.
The investment would take the form of new shares being issued rather than buying existing shares, the report said. Coinone is among the largest crypto exchanges in South Korea, alongside Upbit, Bithumb and CoinW.
Dunamu booked a net profit of 708.8 billion won on revenue of 1.56 trillion won in fiscal 2025.
OKX's reported plan to invest in Coinone closely follows another major investment news from South Korea earlier today — banking giant Hana officially announced that it will acquire a $670 million stake in Dunamu, the parent company of Upbit.
This decision prioritizes the safety and security of all Lombard users and reflects Decrypt’s commitment to the security record Decrypt has maintained since day 1: 0 security incidents, and 100% uptime. — Lombard May 15, 2026.
CME Group and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, are urging U.S. regulators to scrutinize decentralized derivatives exchange Hyperliquid over concerns tied to market manipulation and sanctions evasion, according to a on Friday.
THORChain halted trading operations Friday morning after blockchain security researchers identified a suspected exploit allegedly affecting more than $10 million across multiple blockchain networks.
CNA said the draft legislation also outlines the creation of a new committee tasked with coordinating international cooperation against online scam operations, with Myanmar’s military-backed parliament next scheduled to sit in the first week of June.
The Hyperliquid Policy Center, the new U.S.-based advocacy group led by prominent crypto industry lawyers and lobbyists, argued that Hyperliquid offers a new model for market integrity and transparency in response to a alleging that Intercontinental Exchange and CME Group are pressing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to rein in their upstart blockchain-based competitor.
In August, Bitcoin Depot said it operated 9,000 kiosk locations globally. Last year, fraud involving crypto ATMs reached a record high, with $389 million in reported losses, according to numbers released last month by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center.
Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) plans to repurchase $1.5 billion worth of debt at a discount and listed bitcoin sales as a potential funding source.
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.
Decrypt is proud to see Kimi-k2.5 provide the foundation. — Kimi.ai March 20, 2026.
"This process has been one of the most informative and challenging processes I've been through as a United States senator," Scott said after advancing the bill, saying he's confident that the parties will keep working on it to iron out the remaining issues.
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A Bitcoiner’s post has gone viral on X after he claimed to use Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude to recover five Bitcoin worth about $320,000 that he had been unable to access for more than a decade. On Wednesday, pseudonymous X user Cprkrn said he created "complicated passwords" on blockchain.info and forgot one of three…
The first consideration for jurors in their deliberations is whether Musk’s allegations of a breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment took place during a specific period of time. OpenAI’s lead attorney in the case, William Savitt, also gave final remarks to stress the argument that Musk only filed his suit…
Crypto exchange Kraken is deprecating its LayerZero-powered infrastructure and migrating to Chainlink to secure its Kraken Wrapped Bitcoin (kBTC) product, according to an announcement on Thursday.
CEO Matt Cole described the shift as a “zero-to-one innovation,” affecting the company’s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (SATA) starting June 16. SATA, which debuted on the Nasdaq in November, currently carries a stated annual dividend rate of 13%.
Bitcoin BTC $ 80,947.38 shrugged off the inflation scare almost as quickly as the print landed.
Developed by Nous Research, Hermes is designed for reliability and self-improvement — two qualities that have historically been hard to achieve with agents. Qwen 3.6, a new series of high-performance, open weight large language models (LLMs) from Alibaba, are ideal for running local agents like Hermes.
Solana-based PreStocks tokens tied to Anthropic and OpenAI fell sharply this week after both artificial intelligence companies warned that unauthorized equity transfers, including via special-purpose vehicles (SPVs) and tokenized instruments, may be void and unrecognized, with OpenAI adding that such transactions could carry no economic value to buyers.
That committee is slated to hold a markup on Thursday to amend and vote on the broad crypto market structure bill, dubbed Clarity, which would comprehensively regulate the industry at the federal level for the first time.
Catch up quick: Musk filed the current lawsuit in 2024, accusing Altman, OpenAI, Greg Brockman and Microsoft of betraying OpenAI's nonprofit mission. The big picture: Musk's lawyers used cross-examination to attack Altman's credibility, citing testimony from former OpenAI figures including Mira Murati, Ilya Sutskever…
The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, bringing new leadership to the world’s most powerful central bank at a fraught moment for the global economy.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh on Wednesday as the next chair of the Federal Reserve, clearing a pathway for him to take over the central bank’s reins.
Bitcoin briefly slipped below $80,000 on Wednesday as April core producer prices surged 1% month-over-month in the steepest reading since March 2022, dealing a second consecutive blow to Federal Reserve rate-cut expectations.
Despite a declining stock price, the company signaled that its investor base has widened to around 250,000 total shareholders compared with 63,600 last year. Metaplanet’s business once revolved around hotel management, but it now derives most of its revenue from selling Bitcoin options contracts.
Consensys, the Ethereum development firm led by Joe Lubin, has pushed back its potential U.S. public offering until fall at the earliest due to poor market conditions, according to two people familiar with the situation.
The rejection, though still 37% above its April lows, mirrors Bitcoin ’s March 2022 relief rally that was followed by a significant downturn, which saw Bitcoin fall from as high as $47,000 to less than $16,000 later that year.
Brokerage and banking firm Charles Schwab has officially rolled out its cryptocurrency trading platform, "Schwab Crypto," to a select group of retail clients.
Fidelity International has launched its first tokenized fund, creating an onchain version of its existing multi-billion-dollar institutional liquidity fund to make it available for non-stop digital markets.
The outcome of the case is hugely important for OpenAI, which is seeking to go public at around a $1tn valuation later this year. When Altman took the stand before 9am local time in the Oakland, California federal courthouse, he began by recapping some of his career in tech before addressing some of Musk’s allegations…
SAP customers building custom agents will have a faster path to production. NVIDIA NemoClaw — a reference blueprint for developing and deploying autonomous agents — will be available directly in Joule Studio.
Microsoft Threat Intelligence said Monday that attackers inserted malicious code into a Mistral AI software package distributed through PyPI, a popular platform developers use to download Python software tools.
OpenAI is facing down another wrongful-death lawsuit after ChatGPT told a 19-year-old, Sam Nelson, to take a lethal mix of Kratom and Xanax.
The Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors on Tuesday, moving President Donald Trump’s pick one step closer to becoming the next chair of the U.S. central bank.
Google’s Threat Intelligence Group says it has “high confidence” a threat actor used an AI model to help discover and weaponize a vulnerability in a popular system admin tool.
Earlier Monday morning, Circle disclosed its Q1 2026 results, reporting $694 million in total revenue, up 20% year-on-year. Meanwhile, onchain USDC (USDC) transaction volume grew 263% year-on-year to reach $21.5 trillion for the quarter, while USDC in circulation rose 28% to $77 billion at quarter-end.
MARA Holdings (MARA) is still producing bitcoin BTC $ 80,984.66, but it is getting harder to argue that mining is its core business.
Revealed in a livestreamed “Android Show” event, the free upgrades are scheduled to arrive in waves over the next year for high-end new and old phones alike, including Samsung and Pixel devices. Gemini Intelligence will combine the company’s top AI tools into one system aimed at being more proactively useful.
ICE agents in at least six states have been spotted wearing Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses during enforcement operations since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term.
Fears exponential increase in attack scale and speed.
EBay’s board of directors today rejected GameStop’s $55.5 billion offer to buy the company.
Some lawmakers continue to push for ethics provision in the bill as bipartisan support is necessary for the CLARITY Act to pass a Senate floor vote.
Shiny Hunters is known for hacking organisations, stealing data and then publicly pressuring victims to pay ransoms in bitcoin. The group has been linked to other breaches, including attacks on Jaguar Land Rover and Gucci.
Giving institutional investors blockchain-based access to short-term cash products.
With three high-profile Ethereum contributors Barnabé Monnot, Tim Beiko, and Alex Stokes stepping down as leaders of the cluster.
Today in crypto, Democratic lawmakers continue to push for an ethics provision in the CLARITY Act as bipartisan support is necessary for to pass a Senate floor vote, a new report from CertiK found North Korea-linked hackers stole about $2.06 billion of the $3.4 billion lost in crypto hacks in 2025 and Ether treasury firm Bitmine says it has slowed down its Ether buys.
According to data from SoSoValue, the XRP funds logged $25.8 million in positive flows on Monday, across three funds. Monday's inflows were the largest daily net inflows since Jan. 5, when the funds reported a combined inflow of $46 million.
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.
Circle Internet Group made a series of sizable announcements Monday, including reporting its quarterly earnings and announcing a $222 million token sale that values its Arc network at $3 billion.
After nearly a year of delays, the Senate Banking Committee scheduled a markup of the CLARITY Act for May 14.
White House says banks skipped stablecoin talks as CLARITY Act debate sharpens over rewards, yield, and payment rules.
The upcoming vote on the crypto market structure bill, or Clarity Act, on May 14, does not mean the bill will become law, according to investment bank TD Cowen.
The disclosures come as AI is dramatically lowering the cost and complexity of crypto fraud. The company said crypto-related fraud reached $17 billion in 2025, a 30% increase from the prior year.
In the second week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk’s motivations for bringing the suit were under scrutiny.
Policymakers around the world are advancing age assurance proposals to protect children and teens online. In this blog post, we’ll provide an overview of what developers should know and how to engage.
The day after the Supreme Court struck down a set of Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs, the president quickly imposed another, using a never-before-invoked provision of a decades-old trade law to order a global 10 percent tariff on most imports.
An unprecedented outbreak of hantavirus has rocked a luxury cruise ship off the coast of West Africa, triggering a tsunami of news stories and a flood of post-pandemic anxiety.
At the same event, WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was in regular contact with the ship’s captain, who was reporting that “morale had increased significantly” since the ship started its journey to the Canary Islands.
President Trump has signed off on a plan to fire Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, though insiders caution that the plan is not final and could change, according to several media reports.
Meta has launched a legal challenge against the UK’s media regulator over the fees and fines regime it is enforcing under landmark digital safety legislation.
The critics are right to keep pushing back. Hype is a key method for inflating the already high puffed-up valuations of AI companies.
Higher education has long been a target of ransomware gangs and data extortion attacks.
The condition causes trembling in Collins’ hands, head and voice, and she said she has had it for the entirety of her nearly three-decade Senate career. It affects millions of Americans over the age of 40 and “does not interfere” with work, Collins said in a Thursday statement to The Associated Press.
Before he became NASA administrator in 2018, Jim Bridenstine was a naval aviator who then served as a US representative from Oklahoma for three terms, sitting on the Committee on Armed Services.
“Trusted Contact is designed around a simple, expert-validated premise: when someone may be in crisis, connecting with someone they know and trust can make a meaningful difference,” OpenAI said in its announcement.
Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is challenging the UK media regulator Ofcom in the High Court over fees and potential fines introduced under the Online Safety Act.
The Trump administration is in early discussions about an executive order that would create a government review process for AI models before public release.
Handguns could be mailed through the United States Postal Service for the first time in nearly 100 years if a proposed rule under the Trump administration takes effect.
Elon Musk’s legal effort to dismantle OpenAI may hinge on how its for-profit subsidiary enhances or detracts from the frontier lab’s founding mission of ensuring that humanity benefits from artificial general intelligence.
Quantum semiconductor testing startup QuantumDiamonds has deployed its QDm.1 system at the Integrated Service Technology (iST) facility in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
In the doom scenario, this means that when the superintelligent AI goes rogue, it will escape shutdown by seeding itself across the world wide web, lurking outside the reach of frantic IT professionals and continuing to plot world domination or paving over the world with solar panels.
Swedish startup Pit may have gained notice for some rage-bait social media posts, but it has also become another Stockholm AI startup to watch.
The former OpenAI CTO had receipts.
Yet it remains unclear if Anthropic's uber model was effective, or if better model middleware is what makes the difference.
Gunmen on motorbikes in India’s West Bengal ambushed and killed a political aide from the ruling Hindu-nationalist party days after it swept state elections, police said on Thursday.
OpenAI’s legal team has responded to Musk’s claims by questioning his true motives, arguing that the Tesla CEO has had “sour grapes” ever since he failed to assume control of OpenAI in 2017. OpenAI’s lawyers used Zilis’ cross-examination on Wednesday to bring up evidence about Musk’s alleged plans to subvert OpenAI,…
During Tesla's first-quarter earnings call last month, Musk said Tesla plans to use Intel's forthcoming 14A process to produce chips at the facility. Intel is positioned to benefit from the ongoing AI boom as manufacturing capacity is getting harder to come by at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, where giants like…
Alex Spiro, an attorney for Musk, said the result vindicated his client, writing that, "A trust vehicle has agreed to a small fine for being late on one filing." The SEC didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
US video games retailer GameStop has offered to buy eBay for $55.5bn (£41bn) in an unsolicited bid that its boss warned could turn hostile if the proposal is rebuffed by eBay’s board.
After landing agreements with Google, SpaceX, and OpenAI, the U.S. Defense Department said on Friday that it has signed deals with Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Reflection AI that allow it to deploy their AI tech and models on its classified networks for “lawful operational use.”
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Roblox’s daily active user count has gone down 20 million in the last six months.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Google has signed a deal that allows the US Department of Defense to use its AI models for "any lawful government purpose." This is according to a report by The Information, which also notes that the full details of the contract are classified.
A trial between two of Silicon Valley’s biggest tycoons kicked off on Monday in California, the culmination of a years-long bitter feud.
Announced in late December, Meta said the deal - estimated to be worth around $2bn (£1.48bn) at the time - would see Manus' agents used to boost to its own AI across its platforms. But reports on Monday said Beijing's National Development and Reform Commission had prohibited foreign investment in the deal, requiring…
Silver has since founded his own company, Ineffable Intelligence, that aims to build more general forms of AI superintelligence. The company will do this, Silver says, by focusing on reinforcement learning, which involves AI models learning new capabilities through trial and error.
As a result, the court has been analyzing the claim under the law of trusts. And so they should be looking at … the law of charitable nonprofit organizations,” says Chan Loui.
AI agents have revolutionized developer workflows, and their next frontier is knowledge work: processing information, solving complex problems, coming up with new ideas and driving innovation.
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.
Both Anthropic and OpenAI have announced new AI models in recent weeks that the companies say have advanced cybersecurity capabilities that could represent a turning point in how defenders—and, crucially, attackers—find vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in software systems.
Apple CEO Tim Cook will step down from the job effective September 1, 2026.
Nemotron-Personas-Korea is the latest addition to the Nemotron-Personas Collection, which also covers the USA, Japan, India, Singapore (with AI Singapore ), Brazil (with WideLabs ), and France (with Pleias ).
World is a Sam Altman-backed digital identity project. And it’s racing to embed that system everywhere before regulators shut it down.
Hastings is stepping aside to focus on “philanthropy and other pursuits,” the company said in a letter to shareholders . The departure was revealed in the company’s first-quarter earnings report published Thursday.
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.
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.
The hyperscaler has contracted an initial 1.2 gigawatts of fuel cell capacity from Bloom, with plans to procure up to 2.8 gigawatts to support the power needs of its data centers. Shares of Bloom boomed last July after the initial announcement that it would be delivering “onsite power for an entire data center within…
The company on Tuesday said that Napoli, who has spent the last few decades in various leadership positions at elevator and escalator company Schindler Group, will also join its board of directors. Alongside the CEO appointment, Lucid said it has received another $200 million commitment from Uber, which has agreed to…
The man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home in San Francisco was opposed to artificial intelligence, writing about AI’s purported risk to humanity and “our impending extinction,” according to court documents.
Another great example of this is Copilot Cowork, which is in research preview. Built in close collaboration with Anthropic, Microsoft is bringing the technology that powers Claude Cowork into Microsoft 365 Copilot to enable long-running, multi-step work that unfolds over time.
The tech CEOs met to discuss the security posture of large language models and safe deployment, according to the person. An Anthropic official declined to comment on the meeting, but told CNBC on Friday that the company has been in touch with senior officials about cybersecurity in recent weeks and has made itself…
Orion capsule entry sequence.
But OpenAI has now got cold feet and put its infrastructure plans on hold, though it still intends to proceed when conditions are right, according to a statement it sent to The Register. "The Register see huge potential for the UK's AI future.
Meta has unveiled Muse Spark, the first AI model produced by its Meta Superintelligence Labs, the new AI research unit it created last year and has spent billions of dollars to staff and equip.
Anthropic spokesperson Danielle Cohen says the company is grateful the Washington, DC, court “recognized these issues need to be resolved quickly” and remains confident “the courts will ultimately agree that these supply chain designations were unlawful.”
Following leaked revelations at the end of March that Anthropic had developed a powerful new Claude model, the company formally announced Mythos Preview on Tuesday along with news of an industry consortium it has convened, known as Project Glasswing, to grapple with the cybersecurity implications of the new model and advancing capabilities more generally across the AI field.
NASA has finally released the first photos taken by the Artemis II astronauts, after they completed 40 minutes of disconnection on the far side of the moon.
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.
Designed for this shift, Google’s latest additions to the Gemma 4 family introduce a class of small, fast and omni-capable models built for efficient local execution across a wide range of devices. Google and NVIDIA have collaborated to optimize Gemma 4 for NVIDIA GPUs, enabling efficient performance across a range of…