Cathie Wood-led investment firm Ark Invest bought $18.4 million worth of Coinbase Global shares on Wednesday across three exchange-traded funds, as the stock closed lower.
Kentucky's attorney general has sued leading prediction market firms Kalshi and Polymarket, accusing them of offering illegal sports betting without a license, adding its name to the growing list of states opposing the rise of the industry.
Bitcoin BTC $ 66,300.77 briefly traded above $67,000 late Monday before slipping back under $66,000 in a move that is indicative of how cautiously crypto is treating the Iran peace deal that has rallied other markets.
The US and Iran said they reached an interim agreement to end hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with the deal to be signed in Switzerland on Friday.
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If it trims or silos the position to quiet volatility, the lesson inverts, and the case for bitcoin sitting in an ordinary corporate treasury loses its best reference. Meanwhile, a strong SpaceX debut is already being read as a green light for the OpenAI and Anthropic listings behind it.
Kendrick, who has $4,000 ether and a $100,000 bitcoin price target by the end of this year, identified two core drivers on Friday that support this market turnaround. First, recent weeks saw some of the sharpest spot bitcoin ETF selling since inception.
The EU's cybersecurity agency is sitting down with Anthropic days after the US forced the company to suspend access to its most advanced AI models for foreign nationals.
Any recovery in the crypto market is likely to take longer than traders expect because Wall Street investors and advisory firms are now focusing on real-world applications, such as tokenization, and artificial intelligence rather than straight digital assets, according to Matt Hougan, the chief investment officer of asset-management company Bitwise.
It produces sameness and slop!Why it matters: All that's true — if you, as the teacher or writer, allow it to be true. Used with persistence and skill, AI can enhance both your thoughts and expression.
Google's vice president of engineering and a co-lead of its Gemini AI models Noam Shazeer announced Wednesday that he was leaving the company to join OpenAI.
The defining characteristic of this year’s ranking may be its longevity. In 1665, a French glassmaker was commissioned by Louis XIV to produce mirrors for the French crown, including those in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.
Hong Kong has been hit by further heavy downpours, with the weather forecaster issuing the black rainstorm warning and education authorities suspending afternoon classes. The warning was issued at 12.55pm on Thursday, as the Hong Kong Observatory cautioned of flooding risks across several districts.
When Yuriko Koike was Japan’s environment minister in 2005, she was hailed by legions of salarymen as they shed ties and jackets in summer during the “Cool Biz” national energy-saving campaign that she helped to launch.
The deaths in quick succession of three rugby players in Malaysia have put renewed focus on the risks of competing in extreme heat and humidity, as climate change pushes temperatures higher across Southeast Asia.
The disease has sickened humans for thousands of years and wiped out a significant chunk of Europe’s population in the 14th century during what’s known as the Black Death.
Guo Shan, Partner at Hutong Research, discusses the potential shift from China's central bank in its interest rate framework and the outlook for the yuan. She speaks with Minmin Low on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade. (Source: Bloomberg)
Why it matters: Netanyahu promised the Israeli public "total victory" in Iran. The big picture: Netanyahu stands alone internationally in his belief that the deal is a mistake and the war should have continued.
President Trump made the case for his deal with Iran during an hour-long press conference on Wednesday, while seeming to lower his own bar for success and warning he could bomb Iran again if nuclear talks fail.The big picture: For two months, Trump has been seeking a deal to end the war, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and stabilize global energy markets.
The U.S. and Iran have remotely signed their memorandum of understanding to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz, and the agreement is now in effect, two U.S. officials told Axios.
South Korea’s antitrust watchdog has rejected settlement proposals from the country’s two largest food delivery platforms, Baedal Minjok and Coupang Eats, leaving both firms exposed to potentially significant fines over alleged unfair….
Ukrainian drones hit Moscow’s oil refinery for the second time this week while Russia fired missiles into Kyiv, as President Volodymyr Zelensky sought support from the US and Europe to reach a peace deal.
Cathie Wood-led investment firm Ark Invest bought $18.4 million worth of Coinbase Global shares on Wednesday across three exchange-traded funds, as the stock closed lower.
Crypto fell across the board on Thursday, shrugging off a signed Iran peace deal that lifted stocks, after the Federal Reserve held interest rates but made clear it is more worried about inflation than growth.
Perpetual futures, or perps, are a type of derivatives that don't have an expiration date and allow people to bet on the price movement of assets without owning them directly. Last month, the CFTC approved bitcoin perpetual contracts as futures contracts.
France is preparing to phase out security products that lack quantum-resistant encryption, underscoring the growing concern about the future of the cryptography securing everything from government networks to Bitcoin.
As Copilot takes on more agentic work, from planning and editing to debugging, reviewing, and calling tools across longer sessions, efficiency means more than using fewer tokens.
As shown in the figure, GLM-5.2 delivers substantially stronger agentic coding performance than GLM-5.1 at comparable token budgets, with its capability roughly positioned between Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Opus 4.8 under similar token consumption.
The agent calls robot_mesh(action="peers") to enumerate locals and discovered peers, then robot_mesh(action="broadcast",.) to send the structured command to every peer with a timeout. Add the [mesh-iot] extra to route this traffic over AWS IoT Core for cross-network fleets.
The news comes less than a week after SpaceX’s historic IPO and about seven months after Botha stepped down as Sequoia steward, the legendary venture capital firm’s title for its leader. His tenure coincided with a notably difficult time in the VC firm’s history.
Snapchat's parent company has announced it is releasing new smart glasses, a decade after its original pair lost the company tens of millions of dollars.
Strategy’s "Stretch" preferred stock (STRC), designed to pay a high dividend while maintaining a stable price around $100, is trading below $90 on Wednesday afternoon.
Kentucky's attorney general has sued leading prediction market firms Kalshi and Polymarket, accusing them of offering illegal sports betting without a license, adding its name to the growing list of states opposing the rise of the industry.
Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Collins’ primary victory over former college football coach Derek Dooley is also a win for President Donald Trump, who endorsed Collins a few days before Tuesday’s runoff election.
City Council member Janeese Lewis George, a democratic socialist, leads the pack in the Democratic primary for mayor of Washington, D.C., as the city continues to tally later-arriving ballots.
For now, developers say Chinese models still provide the best value for what they are paying. “I don’t mind Chinese [companies] looking at my data: Hey, have fun with it.
Researchers have uncovered a massive breach of Fortinet firewalls that has given Russian-speaking attackers near-unrestricted access to some of the world’s largest and most powerful organizations, including Oracle, Chevron, Lenovo, Federal Express, a NATO defense contractor, and Fortinet itself.
That design works cleanly when an outcome is unambiguous, but it turned into the headline itself in March 2025, when a roughly $7 million Polymarket contract tied to a Ukraine minerals deal resolved “Yes” after the implied probability surged from 9% to 100%, even as disagreement persisted over whether the underlying…
More than any other congressional race this year, the crypto sector's campaign-funding operations dumped massive cash into Barry Moore's Alabama Senate bid, with the leading political action committee alone spending more than $12 million to push the Republican onto the general-election ballot.
Trace Finance, a financial infrastructure company that links banks in Brazil and the United States to stablecoin settlement networks, said Wednesday that it has raised $32 million in a Series A funding round led by CoinFund, with backing from Coinbase Ventures, Haun Ventures, Jump Capital and several other crypto-focused investors.
Trump-backed crypto project World Liberty Financial is expected to soon receive approval to operate as a national trust bank, amid concerns over potential conflicts of interest involving the U.S. president.
Coinbase's (COIN) latest product launch event may not have changed Wall Street's near-term earnings forecasts, but it reinforced a growing belief among analysts that the crypto exchange is steadily transforming itself into a broader financial platform with revenue streams that extend beyond bitcoin's price cycles.
Publicly traded crypto exchange Coinbase has long been a popular destination for buying Bitcoin and Ethereum —but the firm’s ambitions are growing in various directions as it seeks to become a one-stop shop for all things finance.
For three years, ChatGPT had the rarest advantage in tech: Its name was the category. They said they were "using ChatGPT," the way people once said they'd Google something.
The asset manager estimates that the sector faces a combined near-term funding gap of roughly $50 billion, with long-term capital needs of about $221 billion if current development plans proceed. "Execution, not signing, becomes the next premium," said VanEck investment analyst Griffin MacMaster and head of digital…
Federal authorities say they disrupted an alleged plot to attack the UFC Freedom 250 event held Sunday on the White House South Lawn, according to criminal complaints and affidavits unsealed Tuesday.
A widely discussed 2025 report from researchers at Duke University found that the US grid could offer an additional 76 gigawatts—about 5% of its entire capacity, and about enough to accommodate projected data-center growth in the US through 2030—to facilities that are willing to reduce their usage 0.25% of the time.
Intel has begun production of its most-advanced chip node, bringing the company one step closer to a possible deal to make some chips for Apple devices.
"Almost 20 years since the launch of the iPhone, people are ready to think about computing differently," Spiegel said . On Tuesday, the Snap co-founder debuted Specs, his company's first AR device geared toward the broader public instead of developers.
Historically, STRC would trade near its $100 par value ahead of the ex-dividend date, the cutoff after which new buyers are no longer entitled to the upcoming dividend. Several factors appear to be contributing to STRC's persistent weakness.
Ministers have embarked on a concerted lobbying operation to prevent a backlash from the Trump administration to the under-16s social media ban announced by Keir Starmer.
Gavin Newsom's team is urging congressional Democrats to frame the Justice Department's investigation into him as part of a campaign of political retribution, according to talking points obtained by Axios.
Bitcoin BTC $ 66,300.77 briefly traded above $67,000 late Monday before slipping back under $66,000 in a move that is indicative of how cautiously crypto is treating the Iran peace deal that has rallied other markets.
XAUT options have been available on smaller platforms like CoinCall since November 2024, but Bybit’s entry marks the first time a top-tier exchange has offered them with institutional-grade liquidity support.
Bitcoin BTC $ 66,300.77 reversed early losses in the Asian session after the Bank of Japan raised interest rates to a 31-year high in its fight against inflation.
BlackRock today launched the iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (Nasdaq: BITA), a new exchange-traded product that holds spot bitcoin and shares of the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) while selling call options on a portion of those holdings to generate monthly income for investors.
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…
One of the biggest players that provides trading of private-company stocks on Hyperliquid is closing down, signaling that this hot new market is beginning to consolidate.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Sunday that U.S. restrictions on Anthropic's most advanced AI models expose the risk of leaning on a handful of American providers, after a government order pulled two frontier systems offline for users worldwide.
In one of the most highly anticipated and highest-valued IPOs in history, Elon Musk's SpaceX debuted on the Nasdaq last Friday at a valuation of over $1.7 trillion.
Benchmark Equity Research said the Securities and Exchange Commission’s June 11 proposal to rescind two decades-old market structure rules is "the most consequential piece of regulation to impact the U.S. crypto space" this year, arguing it would remove a key constraint on tokenized equities trading, lending and settlement on public blockchains.
The upper stage from a commercial Chinese rocket that launched last week has broken apart in space, spreading debris in a heavily trafficked part of low-Earth orbit home to the International Space Station and a significant portion of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network.
Since its stock market debut on Friday, SpaceX has already hit a valuation of $2.5 trillion, and the company’s got the attention of Australia’s richest person.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if Roku is now like, ‘Okay, well, now let’s go look at some content The Verge think worked great for The Verge’s platform, and The Verge has the backing to do it,”’ Rayburn says. As The Verge saw with Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros.
When I arrived at 10 Downing Street this morning to hear the prime minister announce the UK's social media ban for under-16s, I had to hand in my phone for security reasons.
Millions of children in the UK will be forced off social media after the government announced it would ban under-16s from accessing a range of 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.
Britain’s plans to ban social media for under-16s will push teenagers towards more harmful platforms, the world’s biggest technology companies have said as ministers push to enact the new restrictions by next spring.
The US and Iran said they reached an interim agreement to end hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with the deal to be signed in Switzerland on Friday.
Standard Chartered's head of digital assets research Geoffrey Kendrick says bitcoin BTC $ 66,300.77 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.
Despite being an ardent bitcoin advocate and shareholder of Strategy, Bitcoin Policy UK CEO Susie Ward still has some concerns when it comes to the world's largest digital asset treasury firm.
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.
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Jassy contacted senior government officials on Thursday after Amazon researchers discovered a way to prompt Anthropic’s Fable 5 model into returning information that could be used for cyberattacks.
Today, OpenAI is announcing the OpenAI Partner Network to deliver that. The OpenAI Partner Network is a new program for partners around the world to build, sell, and deliver AI solutions with OpenAI.
A warning from Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy, concerns about unauthorized Chinese access, and cybersecurity fears all reportedly led the Trump administration to cut off foreign access to Anthropic’s powerful new AI model, Fable 5.
Elon Musk has become the first person in modern history to amass a personal net worth exceeding $1 trillion, crossing the historic threshold on Friday following the record-breaking public market debut of SpaceX.
Anthropic’s sudden move to suspend access to its newest AI models following a U.S. government directive has raised fresh questions across the global technology industry.
Researchers from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) collaborated with Google to recycle “old” Pixel smartphones and give them a second life as a low-cost data center.
The product begins as the Easy Zapper, takes off, sells to Logitech, expands like crazy for several years… and then begins to fade. Sure, you could argue smart TVs and integrated entertainment systems made the whole idea irrelevant.
"The Block is proud to celebrate a historic night for UFC and the United States," said Zach Witkoff, co-founder and CEO of World Liberty Financial, in a statement. "A victory in Washington should mean money in your pocket immediately, not when the bank opens.
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President Donald Trump is set to head to France for the annual summit of the Group of Seven nations, after the U.S. and Iran came to an agreement on a deal to end the Middle East war that has stirred political and economic strife around the world.
Top White House officials believe New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan obtained audio recordings of Situation Room meetings for their forthcoming book, " Regime Change."
“No one’s experienced this kind of disruption,” said Matt Stanley, head of market engagement at Kpler, the commodity intelligence and ship-tracking firm. There are ways to detect portions of outgoing oil anyway.
Crude oil prices fell over 4% to their lowest levels in over three months Sunday after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a ceasefire extension that could lead to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Bitcoin BTC $ 65,821.54 has a unique pattern, and it has held across every major bullish cycle since the cryptocurrency began trading near zero 16 years ago.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing one of the most consequential of Chairman Paul Atkins' crypto policies, a new approach that grants some regulatory leeway to those seeking to tokenize securities, such as company stocks.
Bitcoin reclaimed $64,000 on June 12 and touched an intraday high of $64,301 in the same session that spot ETF flows finally flipped positive after four straight sessions of institutional selling, and oil prices fell as peace deal momentum built between Washington and Tehran.
Standard Chartered’s Geoff Kendrick tells clients “winter is over” as the analyst said crypto prices have likely seen the low for the cycle, ahead of Strategy’s Bitcoin purchase update.
If it trims or silos the position to quiet volatility, the lesson inverts, and the case for bitcoin sitting in an ordinary corporate treasury loses its best reference. Meanwhile, a strong SpaceX debut is already being read as a green light for the OpenAI and Anthropic listings behind it.
On May 9, an AI agent asked a volunteer network known as DN42 to register it as a member. "Hello, I'm a friendly AI agent, and my user, JertLinc, has asked me to register with dn42 and get fully connected to create an index of the network,” the agent JertLinc3522 wrote in the network’s official Git.
The newest AI model from Anthropic, which gives users access to stronger, faster reasoning and coding capabilities, lands in a crypto market beset by security problems and could well exacerbate them.
“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).
Google filed a lawsuit Friday against alleged Chinese cybercrime network Outsider Enterprise for using the company's Gemini AI to automate fraudulent text messaging campaigns that targeted hundreds of thousands of U.S. victims with phishing sites designed to steal financial credentials.
One person familiar with the matter told CoinDesk that xStocks and its distribution partners gathered more than $1 billion in customer orders. Binance, Bybit and Bitget received no shares and canceled their offerings.
"Thanks to you, 25% of the Mag8 now holds bitcoin on the balance sheet," Saylor wrote. The Mag8 appears to be Saylor's expanded version of the widely used Magnificent Seven group, which includes Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Tesla.
Several crypto platforms canceled SpaceX pre-IPO tokenized subscription offerings after the underlying share allocation failed to materialize, turning a high-demand private-market deal into a useful lesson about tokenized equities.
“As of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, the company also held 18,712 units of bitcoin with a cost basis of $661 million and fair value of $1,293 million and $1,637 million, respectively.” Updated accounting rules adopted in 2024 changed how SpaceX reports its bitcoin holdings.
The research note dated June 12 frames the low near $59,375 as a 53% retracement from Bitcoin’s all-time high of $126,000, set on Oct. 6, 2025. Welcome back to crypto Spring.” — captures the tone of the call.
Ars Technica won’t say much about the final 30 minutes or so, because it would be giving too much away (although the final trailer gave some pretty strong hints). In Spielberg’s capable hands, it works, although some have criticized the CGI, particularly for the animals.
RJ Scaringe got his PhD from MIT studying internal combustion engines. The company spent nearly a decade in stealth mode before arriving at the 2018 LA Auto Show with two electric rides nobody had seen coming.
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney continued his efforts to pivot away from the United States and align with Europe, meeting with the leader of Ireland on Saturday ahead of the upcoming G7 summit and saying middle power countries shouldn’t compete for favor with America.
President Donald Trump said Saturday that he will appoint one of his personal lawyers to serve as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan after the attorney who holds the job was tapped this week for the role of director of national intelligence.
After WIRED reported last week that Meta’s smart glasses app contained code that would enable the company to activate face-recognition features on the devices, the company removed the code this week without commenting on why or whether it plans to add such functionality back into the app later.
President Donald Trump is trying to project brute strength as he turns 80, but mounting political problems at home and abroad are tarnishing his self-styled image as an all-powerful leader.
Ted Cruz is staking out his independence from President Trump ahead of a possible 2028 run for the White House, backing rivals to Trump-endorsed candidates in two high-profile Republican primaries.
Wednesday's May CPI report already showed gasoline up 40.5% year over year, and Thursday's producer data suggests that the pipeline still has plenty left to deliver. Policy decisions depend on these numbers, even though no single report automatically triggers anything.
The rollout of regulated perpetual futures in the U.S. could follow a familiar path to the one taken by spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in seeking mass adoption.
Ethereum's institutional adoption story may finally be moving beyond theory and into practice, according to Vivek Raman, founder of Etherealize, a company with the stated goal of bringing Ethereum to Wall Street.
Moonshot AI has released Kimi Work, a downloadable desktop agent for macOS and Windows that lives on your machine, reads your files, drives your browser, and runs jobs on a schedule.
As developers race to deploy AI agents capable of browsing the internet, conducting research, shopping online, and trading cryptocurrency autonomously, new research suggests the systems remain highly vulnerable to prompt injection attacks.
As “customer zero,” TCS will put Claude to work across its own engineering, finance, legal, marketing, and sales teams, using what it learns to shape how it brings Claude to clients. It’s also building a dedicated practice for this partnership, bringing together consultants, engineers, and industry specialists who…
AgentPerf from Artificial Analysis, the industry’s first agentic AI benchmark, gives developers, enterprises and infrastructure providers a clear way to compare systems for agentic AI.
A sweeping new poll by Anthropic—the Claude maker that recently filed to go public —finds that Americans hold strikingly contradictory views on artificial intelligence: They’re eager for its potential to cure disease and improve lives, yet deeply anxious about the economic and social disruption it may bring, and profoundly skeptical of the companies building it.
Kendrick, who has $4,000 ether and a $100,000 bitcoin price target by the end of this year, identified two core drivers on Friday that support this market turnaround. First, recent weeks saw some of the sharpest spot bitcoin ETF selling since inception.
The contrast: Not all crypto ETFs are seeing the same investor behavior. Reading between the lines: Competition for investor attention extends beyond crypto.
FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried lost his effort to overturn his conviction on fraud and conspiracy charges tied to the operation and collapse of his former crypto trading empire on Friday.
Now, with a major new round of funding, Bezos and co-founder Vik Bajaj have talked about it in slightly more detail. The funding round is significant—$12 billion now, after an initial round of $6.2 billion last year, for a valuation of $41 billion.
New Mexico is the next state in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's crosshairs after the state sued predictions market Kalshi for illegally offering sports betting to its residents.
Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is set to expire at midnight tonight after Congress failed to pass an extension of the controversial spying law.
Founded during the US Civil War to provide advice to the government, the National Academies of Science have become one of the most prestigious scientific organizations.
On June 10, administration officials hosted law enforcement groups at the White House to resolve the provision most likely to block the CLARITY Act from reaching the Senate floor for a vote.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed eliminating core trade-through protections within Regulation NMS (National Market System), which could lift major barriers for tokenized U.S. stock trading in DeFi.
U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds are closing in on $2 trillion in cumulative trading volume less than two and a half years after their debut in January 2024.
Meanwhile, AVAX (AVAX) rose 1.27% over the past 24 hours to trade at $6.66, though it remained down 33.7% over the past month, 's price page. In October 2025, the company announced its merger deal with Mountain Lake Acquisition Corp., which included $460 million in projected treasury funding and an initial $200…
Crypto firms are about to score some exclusive marketing space this Sunday, courtesy of President Donald Trump’s UFC extravaganza on the White House South Lawn—but that’s not all.
Exodus Movement Inc. launched a tokenized trading platform on June 12 in partnership with Ondo Finance, allowing customers to buy and sell more than 200 tokenized stocks, ETFs and real-world assets directly on Solana.
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