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Amazon joins a growing list of tech companies shifting to nuclear power to meet the energy-intensive needs of artificial intelligence. Tech company Amazon recently signed a deal with Talen Energy, a power infrastructure and provider company, for 1,920 megawatts (MW) of nuclear energy to fuel Amazon Web servers and AI data centers in Pennsylvania through the year 2042. According to an announcement from Talen, the energy will be produced at the company's Susquehanna nuclear facility and provide power to Amazon facilities in the region, with additional plans to explore small-modular nuclear reactor (SMR) technology. The energy will be supplied through the grid rather than directly from the nuclear plant as initially planned. This arrangement will help support the energy grid's maintenance through service fees paid by Amazon. Read more

Russia's intelligence agencies are “constantly financing” agents using cryptocurrency, blockchain investigators told Decrypt.

Cardano’s ADA steadied near $0.62 after $170M in whale selling, while the Foundation launched Originate to help brands verify product authenticity.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) greenlighted the registration statement filed by Trump Media and Technology Group for its $2.3 billion Bitcoin (BTC) Treasury deal on June 13, an SEC filing shows. Trump Media, the company behind Truth Social, is a public company that U.S. President Donald Trump’s family significantly controls. The SEC “declared effective” Trump […] The post SEC greenlights Trump Media’s $2.3B Bitcoin Treasury deal appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Ether held $2.5K despite spot ETF outflows, as whale and shark wallets holding 1K–100K ETH added 1.49M coins and increased their share of supply to 27%.

President Trump’s recent executive orders promise innovation, but critics warn they arrive amid a deadly surge in drone-powered conflict from Ukraine to Iran to Sudan.

Unlike other celebrity endorsers, O'Neal remained in the lawsuit, now resolved with a final, all-inclusive $1.8 million settlement.

BTC is slightly down after Trump's conversation with Putin.

Bitcoin does not just compete with gold as an alternative store of value, but all savings instruments, including government securities. Bitcoin's (BTC) total addressable market encompasses the $16 trillion gold market and the $30 trillion US Treasury market used as a store of value by individual bondholders and institutions, according to Hunter Horsley, the CEO of digital asset investment firm Bitwise. "The opportunity for Bitcoin isn't just gold; it is the $30 trillion-plus using Treasuries as a store of value," the CEO wrote on Friday. Horsley was responding to an earlier post from economist Mohamed El-Erian, in which the economist cautioned analysts that US Treasury flows are no longer a barometer for investor flight to safety. Read more

Despite a brief rebound, LTC's recovery stalled at $97.80, indicating a potential consolidation phase.

SOL trims losses near $144 after DeFi Development Corp secures $5B equity line of credit and seven issuers revise S-1 filings at U.S. SEC’s request.

The U.S. President also holds up to $5 million in crypto, $500,000 in gold bars, stakes in various companies, and a vast real estate empire.

XRP outpaces Solana with a 4.2% surge in realized cap, signaling rising investor conviction despite technical resistance on the charts. The post XRP Price Prediction: Why XRP’s Realized Capital Surge Outperforms Solana’s Price Action appeared first on Cryptonews.

While technical indicators show a mixed picture, BNB remains above key support at $640, suggesting potential for upward reversal.

AI deepfakes took crypto scam losses to $4.6B last year, pushing Bitget and partners to launch a $300M fund to disrupt fraud rings.

The tax applies to all crypto assets, regardless of location, and aims to boost tax revenue.

Investors in the lawsuit alleged that he misled them by appearing in ads for the exchange.

GameStop has increased its convertible note offering to $2.25 billion, up from the $1.75 billion announced earlier this week. The post GameStop Upsizes Convertible Note Offering to $2.25B — How Could BTC Benefit? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Federal agents are using AI, facial recognition, and drones to monitor protests and immigrants. But is its increasing use warranted?

Unless Bitcoin upgrades its core cryptography in the next five years, the trust it has built over 16 years could be wiped out by a single quantum attack. Urgent upgrades are needed to protect the world’s leading cryptocurrency. Opinion by: David Carvalho, founder, CEO and chief scientist of Naoris Protocol Satoshi Nakamoto changed how we define money. In response to the 2008 collapse of the financial institutions in which millions put their trust, Satoshi created a decentralized monetary system built on elliptic curve cryptography. This combination of cold math and decentralization was a powerful one, attracting not only diehard skeptics but also the world’s largest financial institutions, such as BlackRock.  Read more