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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.
Tudor Investment, founded by billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones, increased its direct stake in BlackRock’s spot bitcoin ETF in the second quarter while cutting its reported call option position in the fund by 85%.
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.
Chinese AI lab Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on Thursday, a sizable coding model it's pitching as the strongest open-weights coder on the market.
“Customers of Leumi and PEPPER, the bank's mobile digital banking arm, will be able to buy, hold and sell selected digital assets, including Bitcoin, Ether and Solana, within the Leumi Trade capital markets application,” an official press release says.
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.
Google and OpenAI both pushed the same message today: AI is now fast enough to feel impressive for those who use AI agents, each company announcing ultra fast models.
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.
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.
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…
In a post on X, Lightcap said starting something new was “bittersweet,” calling his years building the company the honor of his life. “Through it all, I’m proud of how Decrypt has maintained Decrypt’s focus on people,” he wrote.
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.
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.
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.
The companies cited "prevailing market conditions, and shifting business and stakeholder priorities." They also abandoned a separate partnership under which Crypto.com would have serviced certain planned Yorkville America exchange-traded funds, though Yorkville America said its existing and future ETF plans otherwise…
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…
The context: The cash cushion is part of Strategy’s push to evolve beyond simply buying and holding bitcoin into a broader digital credit business. Reading between lines: Le is pitching Strategy as a financial platform built around bitcoin rather than merely a leveraged bitcoin proxy.
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.
Meta announced one of its models had hacked another company during a security test.
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.
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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.
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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.
And on Tuesday, IREN Limited signed $2.8 billion in new AI cloud contracts. Both experienced price jumps Thursday morning in New York, with Hut 8 sustaining its rally.
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.
OpenAI has revealed that an autonomous AI agent powered by its technology went rogue during a test, accessed the open web and hacked a prominent startup by itself in an “unprecedented incident”.
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 largest cryptocurrency traded at about $64,200, roughly flat on the day and up 3% on the week, with about $18 billion changing hands. The rest barely moved.
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.
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The Senate is set to depart Washington for its lengthy summer recess after the first week of August, leaving only a few weeks to work out a final Clarity Act effort before the lawmakers scatter and begin focusing more intently on November's midterm elections.
The proposal contemplates revising the National Property Act, which dates back to 1950, and includes plans to create a broader legal framework for managing state-owned assets. Officials are also studying the tokenization of state-owned real estate to allow retail investors to participate and share in investment…
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"Qwen will be integrated into Apple Intelligence experiences within iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS for users in China," an Alibaba spokesperson told CNBC. The Cyberspace Administration of China included Apple AI services on a list of approved providers, which included products from homegrown companies like Huawei.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
In a note published Friday, Standard Chartered's Geoff Kendrick wrote that the bank sees the sales as "mostly noise rather than a signal" of Bitcoin's medium-term direction, and kept its end-2026 forecast of $100,000.
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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.
Counterfeiting and fraud attacks accounted for 57% of the security incidents reported to the Hong Kong Cyber Security Accident Coordination Center in 2025, according to announcement. “To protect customer accounts from increasingly complex and changing counterfeiting and fraud attacks, comprehensive measures must be…
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.
The trigger is China's Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interaction Services, jointly issued April 10 by five government departments—the Cyberspace Administration of China, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of…
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.
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.
Anthropic is calling on Congress to strengthen protections against AI model distillation after claiming that Alibaba-affiliated operators carried out the largest known effort to extract capabilities from its Claude chatbot.
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.
It sends nothing to Anthropic's servers, which matters given that Fable 5 required mandatory 30-day data retention on all traffic, even for enterprise customers who previously had zero-retention agreements.
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 team estimated losses at about $1.7 million before it stopped the outflows. The attacker could forge the proofs a bridge uses to confirm that a withdrawal matches a real deposit.
Validators would signal how much of their rewards they are willing to redirect. That is the proposal’s purported answer to Ethereum’s "free-rider" problem, in which many projects benefit from shared infrastructure, security work, research, tooling and public goods.
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.
The contract runs three years and is delivered through HIVE's subsidiary, BUZZ High Performance Computing. 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.
But even before Buterin’s message, the Foundation had suffered a handful of notable exits, including top researcher Dankrad Feist, Stanczak, and at least two veteran members of the organization. As organizational leadership parted ways, it fueled skepticism about the Foundation’s ability to push the Ethereum ecosystem…
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.
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.
SpaceX’s blockbuster debut didn’t mint a trillionaire; it became a real-world stress test for crypto’s promise of democratized market access.
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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.
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In the lawsuit, Kahn said he subscribed to Claude Pro in June 2025 before upgrading to Max 5x in January, and Max 20x in April of this year. According to Vaca Daffan LLP Founding Partner Kati Daffan, who is representing Kahn, the case is rooted in established consumer protection laws that prohibit companies from…
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.
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.
The proposals sought all-stock business combinations, with shareholders of both Solana Company (HSDT) and Brera Holdings (SLMT) respectively set to receive shares of Forward Industries (FWDI), should the proposals have been accepted.
SpaceX's Nasdaq debut on Friday did something quieter than the record $75 billion raise.
“Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety,” Sacks wrote. It’s been surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (i.e. fixing the jailbreak issue).
Anthropic's Mythos model has been shown to be remarkably effective at cybersecurity-related tasks, at a time when AI is emerging as an accelerator of the blockchain security arms race. The decentralized AI camp treated the shutdown as a gift.
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.
SpaceX’s debut is expected to test investor appetite for both large-scale technology offerings and the growing convergence between traditional finance and blockchain-based markets. Tokenized assets hit a record $28.9B in May; their tenth consecutive monthly all-time high.
Decrypt is rolling out changes to make Fable 5’s safeguards for frontier LLM development visible. Starting this week, flagged requests will visibly fall back to Opus 4.8—the same as our safeguards for cyber and bio.
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.
In the essay, titled "Policy on the AI Exponential," Amodei argues that transparency requirements are no longer sufficient and calls for binding regulation of frontier AI systems. “AI is advancing at a lightning pace—in only four years, AI models have gone from barely being able to write a coherent line of code to…
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.
But not everyone is happy with the restrictions, and several cybersecurity researchers and professionals have aired complaints online. “[Fable] rejects any request that could be tangentially cyber related.
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…
NVIDIA is collaborating with Apple and Google to support some of the next-generation Apple Intelligence features, using NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with Confidential Computing integrated into Private Cloud Compute’s hardware security architecture running on Google Cloud.
At the same time, critics, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, have accused the company of using “ fear-based marketing ” to sell its AI models.
About 17 wallets tied to the project were emptied, with losses topping $32 million and still climbing, per on-chain data assessed by CoinDesk. 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…
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.
During a presentation at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday, Apple unveiled Siri AI, a rebuilt version of its voice assistant that can hold conversations, understand personal context, analyze images, and complete more complex tasks across the company’s devices.
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.
Apple’s drastic overhaul of Siri, announced Monday at WWDC 2026, attempts to make the smartphone voice assistant more helpful, attuned to iPhone users’ personal data, and action-oriented.
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.
Demand for Bitcoin in the wake of the 2024 reelection of President Donald Trump was dubbed part of the “Trump Trade ”—a way to describe the top crypto asset’s alignment with Trump and expectations of a more crypto-friendly administration and favorable policies.
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 deal now heads to a shareholder vote scheduled for June 29. The milestone comes as tokenization has emerged as one of the fastest-growing trends in finance.
The 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.
First, there’s the Lovable Agent, which will be available through the Gemini Enterprise Agent Gallery. Second, the deal includes a Wiz integration for real-time vulnerability remediation in AI-generated code.
The largest IPO in history is about to land on Nasdaq, and the ripple effects could reshape how markets think about mega-cap tech listings.
The selloff has triggered demand for protective options plays, pushing the fear gauge, the 30-day implied volatility index BVIV, to 53.17, its highest level since April 2. Investors yanked another $50 million from U.S.-listed spot ETFs Wednesday, marking the 13th consecutive trading day of outflows from these…
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.
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 aerospace company plans to sell 555.6 million shares as part of the offering, according to the filing. The offering would also have implications for the crypto market.
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.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday that the Trump administration is committed to building out the United States’ Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, expressing enthusiasm for the effort and calling on lawmakers to advance major crypto legislation before the summer’s end.
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.
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.
"Cash was increased to maintain an 18-month dividend reserve," Strive CEO Matt Cole said in a post on X, alongside updated company metrics showing a quarter-to-date bitcoin yield of 23% and a year-to-date bitcoin yield of 36.7%.
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.
"While Iran's economy is in free fall, the regime has chosen to co-opt digital asset technologies for its own corrupt agenda, including evading sanctions and transferring wealth out of the country," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement.
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.
The stock was last trading up 25% as of 6:05 am ET and is up over 158% in the year-to-date. Marvell is set to be the "next trillion-dollar company," Huang said, adding that the company's networking and connectivity chips are essential to data centers where computing tasks are spread across thousands of connected chips…
Mario most recently oversaw GitHub’s AI strategy and the GitHub Copilot product line, launching and growing Copilot across thousands of organizations and millions of users. He also co-chairs and founded a charter school in an effort to progress education in rural regions of the United States.
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 said the investment aligns with its growing stablecoin business and cash-management operations. The passage of the GENIUS Act in June 2025 marked a major milestone in US stablecoin regulation, but lawmakers are still debating broader reforms to crypto market structure.
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…
Crypto exchange Binance opened access to more than 7,000 U.S. stocks and ETFs on Monday and laid out plans to let users convert those shares into blockchain tokens.
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.
People seem to be happy to pay for a version of the browser that has had things taken out of it. Brave CTO Brian Bondy acknowledged the obvious tension: The company generates revenue from Leo AI, Brave Wallet, Brave Talk, its VPN, and crypto partnerships.
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.
The lawsuit marks one of the most aggressive actions against a major AI company, and comes after Florida’s attorney general's office opened an investigation into the ChatGPT developer in April. "Decrypt recently filed a monumental civil lawsuit against Sam Altman and ChatGPT for endangering Decrypt’s kids and deceiving parents…
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.
Videos featuring the “shockingly easy” exploit have been circulating among Telegram groups for hackers and security researchers, according to 404 Media. The Barack Obama White House account and the Chief Master Sergeant of Space Force’s account also posted pro-Iranian images and messages while they were temporarily…
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.
Strategy sold 32 bitcoin between May 26 and May 31, 2026, generating $2.5 million at an average price of $77,135 per coin, marking one of the firm’s only disclosed bitcoin liquidations since it began accumulating in August 2020.
"Governance requires not only participation, but also a commitment to accept collective decisions," the Foundation wrote. Voting closed Friday, May 29, on a revised proposal seeking 7.8 million ADA, worth roughly $2 million, to stage a two-day summit in Singapore on October 5–6.
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…
In a related action, the agency also issued key guidance that allowed Coinbase Financial Markets to put its U.S. clients into global options and perps, tapping the largest current markets. The perp is a kind of derivative that allows the investor to speculate on future price movements in a crypto asset without putting…
The debate has helped draw out the Clarity Act’s potential passage by more than four months, with Coinbase at one point withdrawing its support for the bill before the inclusion of stablecoin reward compromise language.
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded Thursday night during a hot-fire test at a Space Force launch facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Speaking Friday at the 2026 Reagan National Economic Forum in Simi Valley, California, he said that some actors holding digital assets may not even know the funds are gone. “I believe that Decrypt has seized about $1 billion of their crypto,” Bessent told Fox Business Network’ s Larry Kudlow.
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.
"As alleged, Spagnuolo violated the duties he owed to his employer and used Google’s confidential business information to make more than $1.2 million in trading profits on Polymarket," U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton said in a press release.
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.
TD Cowen said Trump's support for the CFTC's authority over prediction markets was not surprising. "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…
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%.
Cipher Digital (NASDAQ: CIFR) and Hut 8 (NASDAQ: HUT) also continued their runs, with CIFR jumping roughly 9.5% to around $25 and HUT climbing nearly 5% to about $118 — both fresh all-time highs. Like most of its peers, Cipher is repositioning itself as an AI and high-performance computing infrastructure developer.
The firm reportedly moved funds on-chain for the first time in three years last July, according to on-chain labeling data from Arkham Intelligence. That position would pair with Tesla’s 11,509 BTC worth around $862 million, according to its most recent 10-Q filing.
The company hit $500 million in annual recurring revenue in April 2026. Stable Audio 3.0: Open weights, on-device, longer.
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,…
SoFi has rolled out its dollar-backed stablecoin, SoFiUSD, to users of its banking app, becoming the first U.S. national bank to offer a stablecoin directly to retail customers on a public blockchain.
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.
TeraWulf Inc. (Nasdaq: WULF) announced Tuesday the acquisition of a hyperscale data center development site in eastern Kentucky, a move that sent shares climbing 14% at times today as investors responded to the company’s deepening push into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing infrastructure.
The firm’s index inclusion follows that of peer and rival Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies, which will also be included in the Russell 1000 index —which tracks America’s top 1,000 companies by market cap.
On Monday, Hyperliquid launched its first offchain event prediction market, titled "May CPI year-over-year," which has accumulated $11,268 in volume so far, according to its trading page. Hyperliquid's latest move builds on its HIP-4 upgrade, which expands the platform beyond perpetual futures into prediction markets.
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).
Bitcoin (BTC) starts the final week of May with traders optimistic about an $80,000 rebound — will it end up as a liquidity grab? Bitcoin price action struggled over the weekend, dipping below $75,000 to its lowest levels since mid-April, per data from TradingView.
While spot BTC products logged redemptions, XRP (XRP) ETFs attracted $22 million, Solana (SOL) ETFs added $16 million, and newly launched Hyperliquid (HYPE) ETFs pulled in $72 million during the same window that Ethereum (ETH) ETFs shed $216 million, according to BRN.
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…
If the CFTC delays exemptive relief or attaches conditions that complicate Nasdaq's product design, thin market maker participation becomes the chokepoint. Wide spreads discourage institutional use, which keeps spreads wide, and the approval stays symbolic, while IBIT options and Cboe's ETF-index options keep…
Pope Leo has consistently framed AI as the defining moral challenge of his papacy, and compared the coming social upheaval to that of the Industrial Revolution. The encyclical covers a lot of ground: AI in warfare, dehumanization, technocracy, data colonialism, child safety online, mass unemployment, disinformation,…
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…
The story, by reporters Sharon LaFraniere and David Yaffe-Bellany, draws on agency records and interviews with more than 30 former and current staff members and company officials. Three firms sit at the center of the reporting: Polymarket, Crypto.com and Gemini affiliate Gemini Titan.
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.
Buterin framed the post as his personal perspective rather than an official statement from the board, noting that interim co-Executive Director Bastian Aue, who took over from Tomasz Stanczak earlier this year, is the one executing much of the transition.
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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.
"An Agreement has been largely negotiated, subject to finalization between the United States of America, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the various other Countries," wrote Trump in a Truth Social post.
The agency's staff had been preparing to release the so-called innovation exemption as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. A central sticking point is a provision that would permit trading in third-party tokens—digital representations of company shares…
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…
The youngest-ever Fed governor returns to lead the central bank with over $100 million in personal crypto holdings and a vision for integrating digital assets into the financial system.
It is the latest congressional push to codify President Donald Trump's 2025 executive order to establish a national bitcoin stockpile. The bill's author, Rep.
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.
Earlier this month, South Korea's National Tax Service reportedly confirmed that it will move forward with the crypto tax plan as scheduled, despite criticism.
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.
The returned amount represents 75% of the assets drained from the Verus-Ethereum bridge during the exploit, while 1,350 ETH, or about $2.8 million, remained in the attacker's wallet as a bounty, according to blockchain security PeckShield, citing onchain data.
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.
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.
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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.
That figure is 17 times higher than the token's daily Assistance Fund burn of roughly $1.4 million, per Dune Analytics. ETF demand for HYPE is now dramatically outpacing the token's built-in supply reduction mechanism, a dynamic that could tighten available supply further.
8,000 staffers are reportedly affected, around 10 percent of the company.
The White House has postponed its planned ceremony for President Trump to sign a new executive order on AI and cybersecurity, per a note seen by Axios.
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.
Return to The Block.
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 order asks federal financial regulators to review rules, guidance, supervisory practices, and application processes that may limit fintech firms’ ability to partner with regulated institutions or seek bank charters, deposit insurance, licenses, and other approvals.
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.
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).
The consortium says it is domiciled in Amsterdam and is pursuing authorization from De Nederlandsche Bank, the Dutch central bank, to operate as an electronic money institution. Qivalis plans to issue a stablecoin backed 1:1 by euros and high-quality liquid assets held by regulated custodians.
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.
Obtaining this enhanced access to the Fed's payment rails has been a significant goal within the crypto sector, and the Fed's earlier proposal was commonly referred to as "skinny" accounts. "Payment account holders would not have access to intraday credit or the discount window, would not earn interest on balances…
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.
Coinbase launched USDF with Flipcash, a Solana-based stablecoin backed 1:1 by Circle's USD Coin, as the crypto exchange expands its infrastructure business for companies issuing branded digital currencies.
"The Block remain highly confident in the long-term earnings power of the company The Block is building," CEO David Bailey said in last week's earnings release.
Polymarket announced on Tuesday that it is launching a new category of prediction markets tied to private company milestones, including IPO timing, valuations, earnings, and secondary market activity.
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.
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.
Karpathy said he believes the coming years will be a defining period for frontier AI systems.
Since President Donald Trump’s return to power last year, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), a division of the Treasury Department, has approved nine national trust banking charter applications for crypto-focused firms.
Numerous states across the country, red and blue alike, have sued prediction market platforms for refusing to comply with state-level gambling laws. The prediction market platforms themselves, meanwhile, have argued they are immune from state-level regulation—and that their wagers, as event contracts, fall under the…
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.
HYPE is trading at $45.17 on Monday, up roughly 5% over the past 24 hours and 69% over the past year, according to CoinGecko data. The divergence is tied to Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 marketplace, where traders are betting on pre-IPO shares of SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI, a $120 billion volume opportunity that traditional…
Start a Copilot session in VS Code or the CLI, take it on the go with /remote on. Developers will experience one continuous workflow across CLI, VS Code, web, and mobile.
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.
A spokesperson for Microsoft said of the verdict: "The facts and the timeline in this case have long been clear." The company added that it remained committed to its work with OpenAI.
It’s all-knowing, omnipresent, and somewhere between one to two billion people in the world subscribe to it.
The model has drawn attention from intelligence and security agencies because of those capabilities. Researchers at the U.K. AI Security Institute also found that OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 has demonstrated advanced offensive cyber capabilities.
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.
By the end of the year, a jump of around 2% in the last week and 18% in the last month as the bill made progress.
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.
Fars, a state-affiliated Iranian news agency, reported Saturday that Iran’s Economy Ministry had been exploring the model since late April, with the plan allowing marine insurance policies and financial responsibility certificates that could generate more than $10 billion for the country.
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.
CEO Alex Holmes blamed an increasingly hostile regulatory landscape for the publicly-traded company's collapse arguing that the regulatory environment for Bitcoin ATM operators operators has “shifted significantly,” rendering Bitcoin Depot’s business model “unsustainable.”
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.
The caveat was Taiwan. Xi told Trump directly that mishandling the issue could push bilateral ties “into a highly perilous situation.” On Iran, China is actively facilitating and both sides discussed Hormuz.
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.
The new tool also sets a financial benchmark of its own. GPT-5.5 Thinking—the default model for the Finances feature—scored 79 out of 100 on that benchmark.
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.
The move comes one day after crypto exchange Kraken similarly opted for Chainlink CCIP to power its kBTC wrapped Bitcoin token, instead of LayerZero. “This decision prioritizes the safety and security of all Lombard users and reflects Decrypt’s commitment to maintaining the security record Decrypt has built since day one, zero…
The exchanges reportedly believe Hyperliquid’s decentralized structure and largely anonymous trading environment could allow bad actors to manipulate prices or circumvent financial sanctions. The concerns come as Hyperliquid has emerged as one of the fastest-growing decentralized exchanges in crypto, driven largely by…
The suspected exploit occurred during a period of elevated activity on THORChain. The protocol suspended its ThorFi lending operations in January 2025 amid insolvency allegations, implementing a 90-day restructuring to address $200 million in defaulted obligations.
The draft "Anti-Online Scam Bill" would allow capital punishment for "violence, torture, unlawful arrest and detention, or cruel treatment against another person to forcing them to commit online scams,” Singapore-based CNA reported Friday.
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 viral X post is claiming Claude 'cracked' a forgotten bitcoin wallet to recover 5 BTC from a user's computer.
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.
Strive’s preferred stock will soon become the first U.S.-listed security to provide investors with daily cash dividends, the Bitcoin-buying firm declared on Thursday.
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.
Those amendments include changes to bolster sanctions authorities, ban central bank digital currencies, and change stablecoin reward language, among other adjustments, according to a list of amendments obtained by The Block.
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.
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.
Altman’s testimony is one of the marquee moments of the three-week long trial, which has featured some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, including Musk and Microsoft’s CEO. The outcome of the case is hugely important for OpenAI, which is seeking to go public at around a $1tn valuation later this year.
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.
Google has announced a range of features coming to Android phones this year, including a new Gemini Intelligence AI system and a tool to help users avoid distracting apps.
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.
Text of CLARITY Act. However, the latest version includes provisions seemingly unrelated to crypto market structure.
Giving institutional investors blockchain-based access to short-term cash products.
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.
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.
The announcement underscores a broadening shift as AI companies are increasingly pushing into cybersecurity as advanced models improve at analyzing code, finding software weaknesses, and automating technical tasks.
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.
Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, said Monday that its AI-driven security systems prevented more than $10.5 billion in user losses between the start of 2025 through the first quarter of 2026, as fraudsters increasingly weaponize the same technology to launch attacks at unprecedented scale and speed.
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.
“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.
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.
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…
WATCH: Musk fires back at OpenAI attorney.
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.
“These agreements accelerate the transformation toward establishing the United States military as an AI-first fighting force and will strengthen TechCrunch’s warfighters’ ability to maintain decision superiority across all domains of warfare,” the statement reads.
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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.
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.
But reports on Monday said Beijing's National Development and Reform Commission had prohibited foreign investment in the deal, requiring "the parties involved to withdraw the acquisition transaction".
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.
Amazon is aiming to increase the number of satellites it has in Earth’s low orbit to 3,200 by 2029. Reporting, the company currently operates a network of “ more than 200 ” satellites.
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 meeting occurred over the phone, according to two people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because the event was private. One of the people said that Anthropic's Dario Amodei, xAI's Elon Musk, Google 's Sundar Pichai, OpenAI' s Sam Altman, Microsoft 's Satya Nadella, CrowdStrike 's George Kurtz…
During entry, the outside of the capsule will reach 2,760 degrees Celsius. 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.”
OpenAI’s paper echoes that logic almost beat for beat. Khosla himself has endorsed the idea of a national wealth fund, and the symmetry between his individual advocacy and OpenAI’s institutional proposal suggests that a policy framework is crystallizing within the AI industry’s upper echelons.
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.
In the realm of his other unrealistic plans and potentially broken promises, Elon Musk's Terafab stands out as one of the biggest pipedreams, promising to boost semiconductor production by 50x for the benefit of orbital datacenters.
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.
Apple initially pushed users to update to the current version of its operating system, iOS 26, but ultimately issued the iOS 18 patches after DarkSword continued to spread. The US-Israel war with Iran careened into its second month this week, with Iran threatening to launch attacks against more than a dozen US…
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…
Since launching in 2024, TBPN has risen in popularity among Silicon Valley circles by offering a daily livestream about the technology industry that’s seen as more tech-friendly than traditional outlets.