Crypto card spending more than tripled over the past year, reaching $1.04 billion in July, driven largely by dollar-backed stablecoins and increasingly ordinary purchases such as groceries, ride-hailing and food delivery.
MoonPay says no single agent or compromised system holds everything needed to move the money. While stablecoins might appear to be the obvious choice for agentic payments, card networks aren’t giving up.
Humanoid robots can walk, dance, and box, but getting them to perform useful work in the unpredictable physical world reliably remains one of artificial intelligence’s biggest challenges.
It has been locked in a race with rival Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, to develop more and more capable AI models. In a sign the Donald Trump administration is shifting from its laissez-faire approach to AI regulation amid an intense race to stay ahead of China’s progress, the US president in June issued an…
Flock cameras are joining data centers as a top midterm boogeyman, with members of Congress and congressional candidates trying to harness a sudden groundswell of grassroots anger over the AI surveillance tool.
Since then, there has been an encouraging growth of free open source agent harnesses like OpenClaw, OpenCode, Hermes and Pi. At Earendil Hacker News is building Pi to be neutral, and to deliver capability choice and freedom to Pi users.
The key, it turned out, was a clever pairing of a transformer and a transistor. Last week I revealed the sneaky physics behind the “ joule thief,” an electrical circuit that lets you squeeze more energy out of seemingly dead batteries.
Some successful entrepreneurs sitting atop billion-dollar businesses say they may look rich on paper, but take a peek into their bank accounts, and they’re cash poor.
Coinkite, the maker of the Coldcard Bitcoin hardware wallet, released new standard firmware on Aug. 20 that forces users to add physical randomness whenever they generate a seed.
Nvidia officially launched the latest DGX Station desktop at Computex 2026 earlier this year, but the announcement was not accompanied by an explicit price tag.
The study, published by three Vietnamese investigators, found a positive relation between the EU’s carbon emissions pricing and a so-called “leakage” to cheaper jurisdictions, such as Russia.
The national debt has grown by more than $11 trillion over the last five years alone. But Sanders’s counter is equally pointed: The debt crisis and the affordability crisis are not the same problem, and solving one doesn’t require ignoring the other.
College administrators read an adjunct professor’s comments to students on personal essays. Managers told a pharmacist to spend less time with patients after tracking the number and length of her appointments.
Historical records from Europe and Asia suggest that skies were darker than usual around that time, perhaps because of a volcanic haze. To see how this volcanic activity might have affected climate, an interdisciplinary team led by Ulf Büntgen, a tree-ring specialist at the University of Cambridge, used tree-ring data…
S3 keeps the source of truth while local NVMe repositories do the latency-sensitive work.
The bottom line: The public is already struggling to navigate the first wave of synthetic reality.
For the past 10 years, the hedge funder has poured $450 million into a 50,000-square-foot waterfront compound in Palm Beach County, which, when finished, will be the most expensive residence on the planet, according to the New York Post.
But his effort to talk bond yields lower is likely to fail.
Ten weeks from Election Day, the Senate battlefield is sprawling, scattered — and stretching deep into Trump country.
In the past six months, Republicans' public statements about data centers have turned sharply negative, according to a Washington Post analysis.
In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Darline Graham is “ready for primetime” ahead of South Carolina’s Republican runoff on Tuesday.
Singapore will increase its spending on pro-family measures focusing on easing childcare costs, with Prime Minister Lawrence Wong calling them “one of the best investments” on Sunday, as the city state aims to reverse its declining fertility rate.
China’s “Manned Space” program issued a terse announcement on Sunday regarding its much-anticipated Chang’e 7 lunar exploration mission.
A small power plant in the U.K. was shut down for four days in July following a cyberattack carried out by hackers linked to Iran, The Telegraph newspaper reported Sunday.
Security chiefs brief energy bosses with ‘advice, direction and next steps’ after cyber attack.
NATO and Russia military clash.
Crypto card spending more than tripled over the past year, reaching $1.04 billion in July, driven largely by dollar-backed stablecoins and increasingly ordinary purchases such as groceries, ride-hailing and food delivery.
Bitcoin and gold shot higher this week, with both getting a boost from some frantic action surrounding the bond market, and the cryptocurrency also benefiting from activity in Washington.
Shareholders of Chaince Digital Holdings, a crypto treasury firm, will decide Monday whether to increase the company’s authorized ordinary shares from 1 billion to 20 billion and give its board broad reverse-split authority.
Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed rules that would bring crypto businesses into its licensing perimeter when they operate in Nigeria, serve Nigerian residents, or target the country’s investors and market through digital channels.
On May 29, the CFTC approved a Bitcoin perpetual contract for a regulated US exchange. Almost three months later, on Aug. 18, the SEC proposed a legal route through which crypto projects could someday raise money from the public under rules written for token networks.
AI is putting powerful hacking capabilities in the hands of people with little cybersecurity expertise, forcing crypto developers into a race to find vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them.
Microsoft disclosed a critical vulnerability in its Entra ID identity platform that could allow an unauthorized attacker to remotely execute code without existing privileges or user interaction.
Branden Jenkins was out to dinner when he pulled out his phone, glanced at his AI usage dashboard, and realized his weekend coding session had cost him $1,000 — charged automatically, in $1,000 increments, to a card set on auto-renew.
They will also have a clearer business model, making it easier for customers to take longer-term bets. In other ways, too, the players will converge frontier labs going deeper into the product stack to widen their moats and sustain high margins; and application companies going deeper into the model stack to build…
“It’s production specific,” said Ruth Fowler, a screenwriter and producer in Los Angeles. Fowler wrote and created Rules of the Game, a BBC One drama starring Maxine Peake, and co-wrote the screenplay for Little Disasters, a series for Paramount Plus starring Diane Kruger.
The crisis helped drive a redesign of U.S. post-trade infrastructure, including centralized securities depositories and the formation of the Depository Trust Company. “The main question today is whether CoinDesk is recreating the paper crisis, but as a digital crisis,” Delanoue told CoinDesk in an interview.
At the Usenix Cybersecurity Conference last week, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst warned that fraudsters could make contactless payments using expired credit cards issued by Visa by proxying them through a man-in-the-middle app that relays the credit card’s data through a pair of phones.
Chinese humanoid robots broke records set by humans, including beating Usain Bolt’s 100-meter sprint world record, on the opening day of the Olympics-like World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Saturday.
The Swift space observatory has been in operation since 2004. It specializes in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most energetic electromagnetic explosions known in the universe.
With that out of the way, here's what you've been missing out on. First off, PC components expert Joe Shields lays down the law when it comes to shopping for a new motherboard.
Meta’s business can be boiled down to four words that begin with the letter H: hook, hold, harvest, hide, according to a lawyer who is prosecuting the world’s largest social media company.
The first time Andrea Greenhill came across a livestream auction for lab-grown diamonds while scrolling on TikTok, she was stunned.
Amazon blamed the price increases on memory and storage component costs.
For services like YouTube, tap the cast symbol (a rectangle with Wi-Fi wave lines) and select AirPlay from there. This may be the sequence with some other apps, too.
The Vision Pro layoffs are focused on teams working on gaming and immersive video.
The bond market is one of the few forces in the world strong enough to get politicians to snap to attention.
Our leading hypothesis for how our memories are stored is that when you learn something, the connections among neurons involved get stronger and physically larger, and that constitutes the memory.
Yet for all the attention paid to what families spend on child care, considerably less attention has been paid to a more basic constraint: In many communities, there simply are not enough classrooms. The ramifications don’t stop at the doors of a child care center.
Kalshi customers in Washington state, Michigan and Nevada are currently out of luck, blocked from the prediction market platform as the industry's destiny is worked out in courts and on the federal regulatory stage.
The Nov. 3 midterm election is less than 11 weeks away, and its betting market had already surpassed the full 2024 congressional cycle in the latest comparable data.
Exercise with South Korea, criticising the exercise for both its cost and for sending “totally inappropriate and hostile” signals to Pyongyang.
Allies of Mike Rogers, Michigan's GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate, have asked AIPAC not to advertise on his behalf, triggering a rupture with the powerful but polarizing pro-Israel group.
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No further talks are planned. The breakdown in negotiations marked a sharp reversal from two days earlier, when officials from the two countries sounded as if they were headed toward a compromise.
Zcash surged past $800 for the first time since 2018 on Saturday, as “next bitcoin” chatter, billions in futures volume and Grayscale’s spot ETF push fueled a 38% rally.
A relatively small change in the U.S. government bond market helped set off one of bitcoin's sharpest rallies in months this week, as falling long-term yields gave traders an excuse to unwind a record pile of bearish crypto bets.
Crypto exchange BitMart is considering a restructuring that could combine distributions to creditors with a phased restart of some operations, less than four weeks after saying it would shut down.
Bitcoin went ballistic this week (finally).
U.S. spot bitcoin and ether ETFs drew a combined $2.6 billion in net inflows last week, their strongest week since October 2025, ’s analysis of SoSoValue data.
Binance is letting AI agents trade on its platform, launching a developer system on Wednesday that connects tools like ChatGPT and Claude directly to the exchange's markets, wallets and trading functions.
The 6-foot-2-inch droid, deputized by the authorities in Hangzhou, is more mall cop than terminator (its limited duties include waving traffic and admonishing jaywalkers). Did you hear about China’s robocop?
The Chinese AI lab's V4-Flash model reportedly matches Claude Opus 4.8 on key benchmarks while costing roughly 99% less to run.
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Anchorage Digital CEO Nathan McCauley envisions AI agents as future "first-class economic actors" operating like "The Jetsons" across cash, card, and crypto rails, as the crypto-native bank doubles down on agentic banking.
A new national space transportation policy signed by President Donald Trump on Thursday calls for the development of more spaceports to support more than 1,000 launches and reentries per year by 2030.
A company that plans to beam sunlight from space to Earth on demand might unintentionally brighten the night sky for many more people than intended, according to a new study.
The platform has an extensive roadmap of updates to build ‘a better internet.’.
The UK government has six months to decide whether to terminate a deal worth more than $400 million between the country’s National Health Service and American software company Palantir.
However, following the success of Meta’s smart glasses, Apple is apparently planning to make its own smart glasses, with Bloomberg reporting recently that Apple plans to announce them at WWDC (typically a June event) in 2027 and launch them by the end of that year.
Doctor Who, One Piece, Pokémon, Star Wars. Empty product boxes from these popular properties have been listed on eBay for $2,500 and up.
Don't click on that State Department meeting invite.
Over four decades, Steve Hanke has pursued a worldwide quest to tame the hyperinflation that so frequently ravages developing nations.
The era of cheap money is officially over. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s $4 billion buyback plan for longer-dated government debt managed to calm bond markets for barely a day before we saw another sell-off, pushing up the yield on the 30-year Treasury.
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Doing so was against the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), a federal law enacted in 2000. "Children and parents are better protected today than they were when this case began," assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate said.
Why it matters: The conflict exposes the fault line in the party between the progressive base embodied by Nixon and the establishment represented by the state party's chair, Nikki Fried. Zoom in: Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who won the primary in a shocking upset over Alex Vindman earlier…
US-Iran Deal in 2026.
This week, two New York City renters filed a class action complaint alleging that a brokerage business called Compass—which has been boycotting posting listings on free digital platforms like Zillow —has now delisted so many rental units that it has created a fake supply shock that is artificially raising rents.
Students are returning to campus as the Trump administration continues to reshape American academia.
“To be part of everything is to be part of nothing. The signature of the Pax Silica Declaration is not merely a membership subscription, but a commitment,” the draft of the letter prepared by the U.S. State Department and reviewed by Reuters, read.
The poll lands as the ethics questions collide with policy, with lawmakers still wrangling over provisions in the Clarity Act that would restrict the president's crypto ventures ahead of a Senate vote next month.
Bitcoin's rebound over the past two days could mark a broader shift in market momentum amid improving liquidity conditions, renewed exchange-traded fund demand, and a more supportive U.S. regulatory backdrop, according to analysts at research and brokerage firm Bernstein.
Bitcoin surged above $79,000 Friday as renewed institutional buying, improving macro conditions and a friendlier regulatory outlook in Washington collided with billions of dollars in short liquidations.
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $606.29 million on Thursday, their biggest single-day haul since May 1, according to SoSoValue.
Shinhan Asset Management, one of South Korea's largest financial institutions, announced Friday that it has signed a four-party memorandum of understanding with the Solana Foundation, Etherfuse, and Orca.
The modern state is the product of a long, uneven process of bargaining between various centers of power, such as the owners of capital and commodities, the wielders of political power, and the people.
The company is also expanding beyond China's borders. That distribution bet is already showing up in the numbers: Chinese open-weight models jumped from under 2% of tokens generated on OpenRouter in late 2024 to roughly 61% by mid-2026, even as Alibaba's quarterly profit shrinks by three-quarters.
Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta are pouring unprecedented capital into AI infrastructure, reshaping energy markets and creating ripple effects across multiple industries.
Adversa can’t be sure what causes Grok to refuse precisely the same plaintext instructions and follow the encrypted ones. Instructions to process the ciphertext with PBKDF2 and AES-256-GCM pass the filter as an ordinary request, because a classifier can read them but not resolve what they unlock.
Binance’s Agent OS lets AI agents access market data, execute trades and make payments while giving users control over permissions and account access.
After Kalshi was called out by name, Lara challenged Duffy on CME's own history. "I wanted to respond since Decrypt were called by name here," Lara said.
All three drafter models deliver noticeable throughput improvements on both the large-scale accelerator (H100) and the edge deployment (M4 Max MacBook). For LFM2.5-2.6B, speedup on the MacBook is especially noticeable, as it pushes the interactivity level a user can enjoy far beyond the throughput offered by most…
Nearly 2,000 hacked WordPress websites were used to distribute malware, steal data, monitor victims, and deploy ransomware, according to cybersecurity firm Check Point Research.
Closed versus Open Source code has divided the Bitcoin and broader crypto industry for well over a decade. Bitcoin advocates have long argued that the financial infrastructure of the world should be built in public.
In the two years since it made a largely successful debut, Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket has launched eight missions, all of which reached orbit safely.
September 11, 2001, will be remembered as one of the darkest days in American history. As the 25th anniversary approaches, National Geographic, in collaboration with the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, is marking the occasion with a new documentary miniseries: 9/11: Reunited.
These batteries use a relatively new, more efficient design for lithium battery cells, known as tabless cells. Tabless cells have 60% more peak power than standard cells, according to Hicks.
There may also be “parallels” between how LLMs and humans represent language, Ivanova said. “Because The Atlantic Technology does not understand the brain well The Atlantic Technology is constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it,” the philosopher John Searle wrote in the 1980s.
Cinemas across the UK are considering banning customers from wearing Meta’s smart glasses amid fears they could be used to pirate films.
Customers have shared their outrage after an app used by many businesses to track timesheets and produce invoices hiked bills by as much as 1500%, with one person calling it "daylight robbery".
Airwallex president Lucy Liu invokes a car metaphor to describe one of her company’s newest products. “It’s like assisted driving, like you have in a Tesla,” she says to describe T:0, an automated bookkeeping system that can run a company’s entire financial department on its own.
Democrats who ooze anti-Trump resistance credibility — even central figures in past Trump impeachments — are struggling to withstand the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America and their allies in party primaries.
Trump weighed in on Wednesday, acknowledging that while data centers "can use a little public relations help," communities should welcome them. "I would absolutely want it because the jobs are enormous and the money paid, the taxes paid, are enormous," the president said.
It’s wild that 13 years after Comcast said Americans don’t need gigabit internet The Verge is somehow back in this conversation. Those speeds are ludicrous, but why are The Verge not aiming for the moon across the country?
Two key Senate races in typically Republican states, Texas and Iowa, are a toss-up heading into the midterms, according to the latest projections from Cook Political Report.
SouthPoint Bancshares, Inc., Birmingham, Alabama Written Agreement dated August 14, 2026. The Federal Reserve Board also announced the termination of the enforcement action listed below:
With the city's rapid expansion comes plenty of annoyances. Residents complain of frequent traffic jams around town or on Interstate 84, rising housing costs and a rush of people from California and elsewhere altering the local culture and landscape.
During a private Oval Office meeting with crypto and traditional finance executives, President Donald Trump appeared "bullish" on passing cryptocurrency legislation, as his administration works to devise a plan to get a bill through Congress as soon as next month.
Tokenized assets look to be following the trajectory of exchange-traded funds, with early skepticism starting to move into a phase of growing adoption, according to John Hoffman, Ondo Finance’s managing director and head of product portfolios.
Bitcoin's rally above $72,000 wiped out billions of dollars in bearish bets, but analysts say it will need fresh buyers to keep climbing.
The head of the U.S. agency that regulates derivatives, including a wide swath of crypto assets, said that if Congress can't deliver a Digital Asset Market Clarity Act to set out laws for crypto markets, his agency is already working on alternative regulations.
Investors have been buying up shares in the American Bitcoin funds this week.
OpenAI’s second-quarter revenue rose 18% from the previous quarter to $6.7 billion, but its operating loss, including stock-based compensation, widened from $9.3 billion to $12.3 billion, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Tuesday.
The QAD GGUFs are.5-230M, LFM2.5-350M, LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct, and LFM2.5-2.6B. Hugging Face can't wait to see what you build.
The team behind Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 network, is narrowing its $1 million startup accelerator to 10 teams for its latest cohort, with each selected company receiving a $100,000 investment upfront, Coinbase announced on Wednesday.
Anthony Scaramucci said $100,000 became a key selling level for some longtime bitcoin holders last year, helping add to selling pressure as the market moved beyond expectations of a "super cycle."
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that artificial intelligence could become “bigger than the internet,” as he called for regulation that does not slow the industry and defended the rapid buildout of data centers and power plants across the United States.
Crypto traders spent the days before Unitree Robotics' Shanghai listing pricing the company at more than four times its IPO valuation.
Bitcoin held near $64,250 on Wednesday, up marginally on the day and 1% on the week, while a global selloff in chip stocks left crypto largely untouched.
Cross-chain liquidity protocol Maya Protocol halted its MAYAChain network after a series of software bugs created a false balance in one of its liquidity pools, allowing an attacker to drain nearly $1.7 million in bitcoin BTC $ 64,453.62, and other assets, and created a further fallout that caused roughly $11 million in total losses.
On Wednesday, it took a step forward, announcing plans to expand drone delivery to nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns by the end of this year, which it said represents a sixfold increase in its drone network footprint and will total tens of millions of customers.
Unitree, the world’s biggest humanoid robot maker, has made a spectacular entry on to China’s stock market, with its shares surging by more than 600%.
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Meta has taken a “don’t ask, don’t tell” strategy when it comes to the safety of children on its social media platforms, according to a whistleblower who testified during a landmark trial against the company on Tuesday and Wednesday.
It will ask for your Mac password once, set everything up, and your printer will appear as "HP Laser 1008a". If you are a macOS user and.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has published its renewed National Security Science & Technology Strategy, and Appendix A of the 24-page document rewrites the federal Critical and Emerging Technologies (CET) list for the first time since February 2024, shrinking it from 18 categories to 14.
The bond market is currently pricing risk correctly, according to Johns Hopkins economist Steve Hanke—and what it’s pricing in is ugly.
"With each shorted share now down almost $100, that is exactly the kind of pressure that can trigger a squeeze," ORTEX co-founder Peter Hillerberg said in a statement. The trial will continue to evaluate overall survival and other secondary endpoints not yet reported.
The language says that the Department of Justice would enforce the provision, not state attorneys general and includes a sunset provision ending in January 2029. Trump is now weighing the latest ethics proposal from Sens.
“As part of Ars Technica’s return to following the plain language of Section 706, Ars Technica adopt Ars Technica’s proposal from the Notice [of Inquiry] to abolish without replacement the long-term goal of 1,000/500 Mbps established in the 2024 Report,” the order said.
Elon Musk is expected to spend big to boost Republicans in the midterms this November, according to Trump officials briefed on the matter.
The Department of Defense has ordered 30 U.S. universities to audit their partnerships with mostly Chinese universities and military training institutions as the Trump administration scrutinizes the country’s growing global influence.
Angie Nixon's stunning Florida Senate primary win on Tuesday gave the Democratic Socialists of America its biggest statewide breakthrough yet: For the first time ever, a DSA member won a major-party nomination for statewide office.
Surprise U.S. tariffs. The list of geopolitical shocks that CEOs must be mindful of, let alone plan for, keeps getting longer.
President Donald Trump called on Congress to pass a “fair version” of the Clarity Act Wednesday, telling crypto and finance executives at the White House that market structure legislation is the next step in his administration’s digital asset agenda.
Crypto proxies in the stock market are staging their sharpest one-day rally of the summer.
Ripple raised $275 million in an upsized private placement of senior unsecured notes through Ripple Prime, its non-bank prime brokerage.
On Wednesday morning, the U.S. Department of the Treasury said it is increasing, by at least double, the size of liquidity support buyback operations for longer-dated nominal coupon securities (the 10-year to 20-year sector and the 20-year to 30-year sector).
Stablecoin payments facilitated by Rain are already reaching more than 100,000 merchants without them knowing it, according to CEO Farooq Malik, as stablecoins increasingly move through existing payment networks.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order Tuesday imposing new restrictions on large AI data centers, including rules aimed at making developers pay for their impact on the state's electrical grid.
Mozilla is testing a new "Smart Window" in Firefox—a separate, optional window where you can chat with an AI assistant of your choice while you browse.
Prediction market traders are pretty sure OpenAI is cooking, and it's next big AI model could be coming sooner than you might think.
President Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial is working with an AI company that offers models from Chinese tech firms his administration has flagged over national security concerns, Monday.
AI companies are scanning truckloads of books, sometimes rare ones, and often destroying them in the process to train their models—and now we have some idea of which companies and how they’re doing it.
But others have a starkly different opinion. If China can land humans on the Moon before the United States returns, it will represent a huge geopolitical win.
SpaceX’s most recent Starship test flight may have ended July 24, but its mission isn’t over yet.
Tesla employees have been testing the fully driverless version on private roads around the company’s campus since July. Tesla’s Robotaxi account on X recently confirmed that a “Cybercab launch event” was imminent, inviting followers to take a ride in the company’s Model Y robotaxis to win a ticket.
Globalinx is set to expand its Virginia Beach cable landing station (CLS) and data center campus.
In a time when an iPhone can be preordered, customized, and on its way to your doorstep all through a touch-screen tap, it’s almost quaint to remember that people used to camp out for smartphone releases.
Your iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, and Google Pixel have a 1-year warranty.
A court has heard claims Meta intentionally hooked a generation of children on Facebook and Instagram, as the biggest legal challenge the social media platform has faced began on Tuesday.
California’s billionaires are going on the defensive, putting millions of dollars behind an effort to defeat a one-time billionaire tax that would collect 5% of their net worth if approved.
Chinese cloud provider Tencent Cloud has announced its intention to launch a cloud region in Malaysia.
Experienced CEOs know that brand equity can be a company’s most valuable asset, one that often doesn’t appear on the balance sheet.
When Kennedy won, many in the press attributed the victory to Simulmatics’ People Machine. Simulmatics went on to new campaigns, heralded by the press.
The federal agency tasked with studying ways to improve America’s outstandingly poor healthcare system is “on the brink,” experts warn.
Disney today sued the Federal Communications Commission and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr in a lawsuit that aims to stop what it called a “campaign of censorship” waged by the Trump administration against ABC.
Democrats seem to be leaning into a specific midterm strategy, especially on socials: bringing sexy back.
In 1994, more than 40 US states came together to sue one of the most powerful industries on Earth: big tobacco.
Chinese electric-vehicle makers have lost buyers at home and found new ones in Brazil, Thailand, and the Gulf.
The White House’s top cryptocurrency adviser said he is feeling “bullish” ahead of the first planned vote on sweeping crypto legislation, even as disputes over stablecoin rewards continue to resurface.
On Tuesday, the SEC put forth "Regulation Crypto Assets," which it says would be a "tailored offering regime" designed to help raise capital while protecting investors. "Congress designed The Block’s securities laws to amplify – within specific guardrails – opportunities for entrepreneurs to innovate and build new products,"…
Bitcoin could be approaching the end of an almost 11-month correction and entering an accumulation phase, according to VanEck.
Binance’s bStocks are the second largest tokenized stock issuer two months after launch, and BitMart’s internal feud erupts into the spotlight ahead of its closure.
Arguing with people on X may be teaching the platform to show you more posts you hate.
Alleging Grok was used to turn their photos into AI-generated child sexual abuse material. xAI has said it suspended more than 50,000 accounts and filed more than 70,000 reports with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 2026.
Bitcoin miner HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE) has signed a five-year GPU cloud services agreement worth about $350 million through its BUZZ High Performance Computing subsidiary, expanding its AI business with a second big deal in two months.
“Security has always been an unfair game. A defender has to find all of them, first, every single day,” Payward co-CEO Arjun Sethi said in the release.
In the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident, an agentic collective could autonomously penetrate not OpenAI research infrastructure but also the production infrastructure of another company, chaining together vulnerabilities ranging from previously-unknown security flaws to using credentials to user accounts that had been…
OpenAI wants every security team running AI agents, starting immediately.
The FMA said Bitpanda failed to submit a cryptocurrency white paper at least 20 working days before publishing it. Bitpanda also circulated a marketing communication before publishing the required white paper.
Cryptocurrency broker Bits of Gold said personal data belonging to roughly 200,000 customers was stolen by hackers, the company reported.
The round was led by Disruptive, whose founder Alex Davis also chairs Groq’s board, along with Infinitum. In December 2025, Nvidia struck a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Groq valued at roughly $20 billion, targeting Groq’s inference technology for its own platforms.
“It’s never been that MIT Technology Review is trying to replace therapists,” Mataric says. Mataric cofounded the company behind Moxie, called Embodied, back in 2016, though she was no longer a part of it by the time the robot debuted.
The U.S. government is forcing a rapid onshoring of robotics through a sweeping ban on foreign-made robots, even before an American supply chain exists, putting at risk the robotics startups the policy is trying to cultivate.
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is reportedly working with state lawmakers to draft two new bills strengthening consumer protections and child safety online, the day before 29 state attorneys general are set to face off against Meta in a separate federal trial in Oakland, California.
Of the thousands of lawsuits Meta faces over child safety on its platforms, none may be more consequential than one going to trial this week in California.
A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, he previously co-founded technology ventures focused on expanding access to wellness and education.
If New Mexico created the blueprint for taking on Meta, California could determine the company's fate when it comes to critical changes at Facebook and Instagram.
JPMorgan Chase is closing in on a milestone no bank has ever reached.
The former HSBC fixed-income veteran sees long-end yields pricing in a world where central banks stay higher for longer, and the August symposium as the next catalyst.
Wealth, perhaps second only to loyalty, has been a prized attribute for Donald Trump during his second presidency.
Sporting red-white-and-blue sneakers and a matching bedazzled manicure ahead of Florida’s primaries on Tuesday, Rep.
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban didn’t hold back in a public squabble with Rep. Ro Khanna about the proposed wealth taxes in California—cracking open a feud between one of the wealthiest Democratic Party supporters and the left wing of the party.
Prediction markets are converging on the same forecast for the Federal Reserve's September meeting: don't expect anything to change.
In that situation, he said, the amount of bitcoin backing each MSTR share can increase. The recent drop in STRC has also changed how Strategy manages its money.
Bitmine, which trades under the ticker BMNR, now holds 4.8% of ETH’s total supply with its tokens worth about $11 billion at the current price of $1,904. Lee said the ETH/BTC ratio has broken above a years-long downward trend, which he sees as a sign that investors are starting to price in growing demand for Ethereum…
Compound Finance, one of the oldest decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocols, replaced its leadership team and approved a $52 million budget on Monday to attract new capital after the value of assets locked on the platform tumbled to $1.2 billion from a peak of $12 billion in September 2021.
Bitcoin BTC $ 63,460.44 steadied above $63,000 on Monday, clawing back a fraction of last week's losses with a 0.8% gain since midnight UTC.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) has increased its Ethereum treasury to 5,815,164 ETH, representing 4.8% of the second-largest cryptocurrency's supply, the company said Monday.
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No single story broke away from the pack this week. Recurring thread: Donald Trump. Highest-attention story: Bitcoin and Ether bears get decimated amid 'squeeze-led' rally and Musk's X wants to pay creators in stablecoins.
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