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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.
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.
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.
Estonia wants to give artificial intelligence its own government ID.
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.
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The model is significantly more capable than previous releases; it is the highest-scoring model on the benchmark Humanity’s Last Exam, achieving 53.3% compared with Claude Opus 4.8’s score of 45.7%. The US government quickly ordered access restrictions.
Major cryptocurrencies edged lower on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady but released hawkish economic projections in Kevin Warsh's first meeting as chair.
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.
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…
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.
In May, combined exchange volumes fell 3.45% to $4.41T; the lowest since September 2024.
SpaceX shares hit a new high on Tuesday after Elon Musk's company announced a $60 billion all-stock deal to acquire AI coding startup Cursor, extending a post-IPO rally that has pushed SpaceX’s stock above $210 per share, according to MarketWatch.
Google DeepMind’s goal is to create a more responsive and transparent planning tool that benefits everyone. As we move forward, we will continue to work together to ensure these tools help meet the evolving needs of the UK's planning ecosystem.
Bitcoin holders appear unwilling to support dedicated Bitcoin-native DeFi at the scale needed to keep projects in the space alive.
Plus more Pixel-exclusive features in the June Pixel Drop.
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.
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…
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.
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.
Rio de Janeiro's IplanRIO released Rio 3.5 on June 13.
When SpaceX began trading Friday under the ticker SPCX, at a valuation of roughly $1.77 trillion, President and COO Gwynne Shotwell may well have been wearing a little slip of paper in her shoes—a ritual she does when SpaceX launches things.
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.
"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.
The Aztec Connect platform was deprecated in March 2023, but the immutable smart contract still held over $2 million in crypto assets.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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 says it’s disabling two AI models it launched earlier this week, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, to comply with an export control directive it received Friday afternoon from the US government citing national security concerns.
Anthropic completely shut off access to its Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models Friday night, days after they were launched.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
As long as SpaceX continues to successfully ferry people, goods, and data between Earth and space while facing little competition, Musk will remain in a league of his own.
Another publication in The Lancet says there could be millions more to come. During a televised cabinet meeting at the White House in 2025, Musk, wearing a murdered-out MAGA hat signed by his boss, had a giggle about “accidentally” canceling Ebola prevention.
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…
SpaceX has priced its shares at $135, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, setting the stage for one of the most closely watched public market debuts in recent years.
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.
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.
Bitcoin is trading near a level it has usually reached only late in bear markets, and it has held there even after the hottest U.S. inflation print in three years.
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.
A former engineer at Elon Musk’s xAI has filed suit against the company and its parent SpaceX claiming he was fired for raising concerns about AI safety.
Anthropic released its latest model Fable on Tuesday, billing it as a public and limited version of its powerful and much-hyped cybersecurity model Mythos.
Analysts are not pointing to a crisis of confidence in Bitcoin itself. Binance Research framed the macro picture plainly: “ETF outflows reflected short-term pressure as inflation drives the Fed hawkish, while on-chain supply tightening remains intact.” Translation: sticky inflation is keeping the Federal Reserve in a…
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…
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.
Today at its pre-filmed Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, Apple was finally prepared to fully introduce the long-delayed “Apple Intelligence” update for its Siri voice assistant.
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.
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,…
The launch marks a broader push by banks into blockchain-based payments as lawmakers and regulators move closer to establishing rules for stablecoins in the U.S. Stablecoins are digital tokens designed to maintain a fixed value, usually pegged to the dollar.
Base, the Coinbase-incubated Ethereum scaling layer, has released a new protocol making it easier to connect AI interfaces with its wallet infrastructure.
SpaceX and the Pentagon have been bickering about the price of using Starshield satellite service during the Iran war, according to a published today.
Ondo Finance founder Nathan Allman has died, the company said in a post on X on Tuesday, without disclosing the cause.
The weakness is not reflected in broader financial markets. Ether (ETH) is faring worse.
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 revelation by Nasa’s administrator, Jared Isaacman, at a press conference in Washington DC marked the first detailed public explanation of how and when the moon base will be built. He said the three missions planned for 2026 would be followed by “more than a dozen” more in the coming years to test systems and…
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.
Hyperliquid has begun supporting outcome markets tied to offchain events as part of its HIP-4 upgrade, allowing validators to deploy and settle such prediction markets.
American in January rolled out free in-flight Wi-Fi for members of its frequent flyer program, following United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and others. Delta in March said it would use Amazon Leo for in-flight Wi-Fi for hundreds of jets starting in 2028.
Under Bastian Aue, the Ethereum Foundation’s interim co-executive director, Buterin indicated that the organization is refocusing itself around CROPS, a framework rooted in censorship resistance, openness, privacy, and security.
Crypto fund flows are starting to fracture, with investors exiting bitcoin BTC $ 77,320.88 and ether (ETH) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) while rotating into alternative tokens such as Hyperliquid’s hype (HYPE) and XRP (XRP).
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 XIV published his first encyclical on Monday, a 245-paragraph document dedicated entirely to artificial intelligence that demands tighter oversight of Big Tech, classifies data as a shared human resource, and argues that "technology is never neutral" because it absorbs the values, blind spots, and economic incentives of whoever builds it.
GEL₮ puts the lari on private stablecoin rails, but issuer approval, reserves, redemption rights, and payment access will decide whether it works.
The pope’s first major manifesto, published Monday, calls for a new legal and ethical framework to govern AI.
Cross-chain interoperability has long been one of the most difficult areas in crypto, with the sector experiencing multiple bridge exploits and security incidents over the years. Asked at the time whether Squid is looking to serve projects reassessing their cross-chain infrastructure following issues elsewhere in the…
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.
The "Pre-IPO Perpetual Contracts" are designed to provide retail traders with early exposure to high-profile initial public offerings (IPOs), a market segment historically reserved for institutional investors and venture capital firms.
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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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has highlighted AI as the tentpole of the company’s future, projecting a multi-trillion-dollar market opportunity that rivals the total value of all US economic activity.
Google is trying to pull off one of the trickiest balancing acts in tech: aggressively disrupting its own products with AI while protecting the businesses that generate tens of billions in profit.
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.
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SpaceX officially confirmed plans to go public on Wednesday, setting the stage for what could become the largest initial public offering in history and potentially push CEO Elon Musk toward becoming the world’s first trillionaire.
Benchmark analysts, who called Securitize a " picks and shovels " play for tokenization, recently argued that even capturing " one basis point " of the NYSE's roughly $44 trillion market capitalization would more than double the tokenized asset base on Securitize.
The 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.
Google's Gemini app has more than 900 million monthly users.
Google on Tuesday introduced Gemini Omni, a new multimodal AI model that combines the company’s Gemini AI models with its media-generation tools, including Veo, Nano Banana, and Genie.
OpenAI was cofounded by Musk and a group of researchers in 2015 as a nonprofit with a mission to develop AI for the benefit of humanity, unconstrained by a need to generate financial returns. Musk brought two claims against OpenAI.
Strategy purchased 24,869 BTC between May 11 and May 17 for approximately $2.01 billion at an average price of $80,985 per coin, funded almost entirely by $1.949 billion in STRC preferred stock issuances plus $83.7 million in MSTR common shares.
Health Premium and Home Premium are also included in AI Pro and Ultra subscriptions at no additional cost. Google is moving from daily prompt limits to a "compute-used" model.
One of the key agentic experiences rolling out is a new form of dynamic data gathering through “information agents” that can be more proactive than previous search experiences and automate alerts through your conversational requests.
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.
BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) felt that the falling price of Ethereum was too compelling to ignore, adding $151 million worth, or 71,672 ETH last week as the price of the second-largest cryptocurrency slipped below $2,200.
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.
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.
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"This process has been one of the most informative and challenging processes I've been through as a United States senator," Scott said after advancing the bill, saying he's confident that the parties will keep working on it to iron out the remaining issues.
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A Bitcoiner’s post has gone viral on X after he claimed to use Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude to recover five Bitcoin worth about $320,000 that he had been unable to access for more than a decade. On Wednesday, pseudonymous X user Cprkrn said he created "complicated passwords" on blockchain.info and forgot one of three…
The first consideration for jurors in their deliberations is whether Musk’s allegations of a breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment took place during a specific period of time. OpenAI’s lead attorney in the case, William Savitt, also gave final remarks to stress the argument that Musk only filed his suit…
According to an analysis following the Kelp DAO exploit, some 47% of the applications running LayerZero tech operated using a single-verifier configuration, bolstering Kelp's argument that this was LayerZero’s default.
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.
The crypto trading service is available in all U.S. states except for New York and Louisiana, according to the platform's FAQ page. The Block has reached out to Charles Schwab for further information.
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.
Revealed in a livestreamed “Android Show” event, the free upgrades are scheduled to arrive in waves over the next year for high-end new and old phones alike, including Samsung and Pixel devices. Gemini Intelligence will combine the company’s top AI tools into one system aimed at being more proactively useful.
ICE agents in at least six states have been spotted wearing Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses during enforcement operations since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term.
Fears exponential increase in attack scale and speed.
EBay’s board of directors today rejected GameStop’s $55.5 billion offer to buy the company.
Text of CLARITY Act. However, the latest version includes provisions seemingly unrelated to crypto market structure.
Shiny Hunters is known for hacking organisations, stealing data and then publicly pressuring victims to pay ransoms in bitcoin. The group has been linked to other breaches, including attacks on Jaguar Land Rover and Gucci.
Giving institutional investors blockchain-based access to short-term cash products.
With three high-profile Ethereum contributors Barnabé Monnot, Tim Beiko, and Alex Stokes stepping down as leaders of the cluster.
Today in crypto, Democratic lawmakers continue to push for an ethics provision in the CLARITY Act as bipartisan support is necessary for to pass a Senate floor vote, a new report from CertiK found North Korea-linked hackers stole about $2.06 billion of the $3.4 billion lost in crypto hacks in 2025 and Ether treasury firm Bitmine says it has slowed down its Ether buys.
According to data from SoSoValue, the XRP funds logged $25.8 million in positive flows on Monday, across three funds. Monday's inflows were the largest daily net inflows since Jan. 5, when the funds reported a combined inflow of $46 million.
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.
On Thursday OpenAI announced a new feature called Trusted Contact, designed to alert a trusted third party if mentions of self-harm are expressed within a conversation. In cases where a conversation may turn to self-harm, OpenAI will now encourage the user to reach out to that contact.
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.
The U.S. Department of War has announced deals with "seven of the world’s leading frontier artificial intelligence companies" for operational use.
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Roblox’s daily active user count has gone down 20 million in the last six months.
In his second day on the stand, Elon Musk was at times combative under questioning by OpenAI's lawyer, whom he accused of asking overly complicated questions.
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.
Microsoft, which is trying to boost the popularity of its artificial intelligence tools to keep pace in the booming market for AI tools, chose not to proceed with a bid, said one of the people. While Microsoft has gained traction among developers with GitHub Copilot, the AI coding market is currently being dominated…
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.
Tools, an awkward arrangement that this new SpaceX partnership may be designed to eventually escape.
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.”
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.
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.