XRP Surges 6.9% as Bitcoin Rebound Reopens Door to Golden Cross
XRP is roaring back as Bitcoin claws its way above $800,000 again, but the charts continue to give traders mixed signals.
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CFTC Kicks Off Crypto Rulemaking, Bypassing a Stalled Congress
The agency submitted a prerule on crypto asset transactions and markets to the White House for review, signaling it will build a derivatives framework on its own authority after the Clarity Act's collapse.
Bitcoin Blasts Past $80K and a Fresh Short Squeeze Is On
Bitcoin just ripped 5.88% higher in a single session, tearing back toward its 2026 highs. The charts say the move is real, but they also say it's gotten ahead of itself.
Microsoft Staff Asked If AI Scraping Was 'Largest Theft of Labor in Human History'
Internal memos warned of a "doom loop" threatening the quality of the very models it was building with OpenAI.
Morning Minute: SEC Approves ‘Innovation Exemption’ Moving Tokenized Stocks Forward
It came just hours after S&P Global announced its acquisition of OpenZeppelin, as everything TradFi moves onchain.
UAE, Sweden Arrest Seven Over $7.1M Crypto Laundering Ring Linked to Contract Killings
Investigators say tracing the network's crypto transactions exposed links to organized crime and murder-for-hire.
Treasury Sanctions Crypto Exchange Behind Iran's Bitcoin Tolls on Hormuz Ships
OFAC says hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin moved through BitBank to the Revolutionary Guards in two months.
OpenAI Models Are Writing Their Own Jailbreak Instructions—And Sometimes Obeying Them
OpenAI's new transparency framework reveals AI models that invented fake "breach alerts," coached themselves to hide mistakes, and smuggled a file onto the public internet to talk to each other.
Security Experts Want the US and China to Promise Never to Let AI Control Nukes
Brookings researchers in the US and China are urging Washington and Beijing to agree to keep humans in control of nuclear weapons.
Your Data Could Outlive the Startup You Gave It To. Elon Musk Wants to Buy What's Left
SpaceX's AI division has held internal talks about buying customer records from dead startups—cheap fuel for Grok, no questions asked, because there's nobody left to ask them.
Why Is Chipotle Now Working With the CIA-Funded Palantir?
Chipotle is piloting a Palantir-built food safety dashboard after a summer of outbreaks, putting employee data in the hands of a company seeded by the CIA's venture arm.
CFTC Opens Door for Crypto Apps to Offer Regulated Derivatives Access
In a no-action letter, the CFTC said certain software providers can connect users to regulated derivatives markets without registering as brokers.
OpenAI Says It's Made Progress on a Second $1 Million Math Problem
Days after its disputed Navier-Stokes claim, OpenAI says it's made "substantial progress" on another Millennium Prize math problem—and won't say which one yet.
Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Says AI Won’t Doom Crypto Security
The Ethereum co-founder said AI could help developers mathematically verify entire software systems, turning the same technology powering new attacks into a tool for defense.
Andrew Yang Calls for AI Kill Switch as Safety Fears Mount
The former presidential candidate said lawmakers should impose liability rules and waiting periods on frontier AI firms as autonomous agents raise new cyber and labor concerns.
King Charles Convenes OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and Google for AI Safety Summit
King Charles hosted senior AI executives at his Scottish estate to discuss keeping the technology "in the service of humanity," days after industry leaders called for a slowdown.
Bitcoin Bounces as Markets Brace for the Fed’s Next Move
The Federal Reserve's first rate increase since 2023 barely dented crypto prices, but what comes next could change calculations on Wall Street.
Financial Data Giant S&P Global Moves Deeper Into Crypto With OpenZeppelin Deal
S&P Global is expanding into the technology risks underpinning stablecoins, tokenized funds, and other onchain financial products.
FCA Targets Three More London Sites Over Unregistered P2P Crypto Trading
"Anyone running an unregistered peer-to-peer crypto business should assume we are looking at them," the FCA's enforcement chief said.
SEC Clears a Path for Tokenized Stocks After Clarity Act Stumbles
The "innovation exemption" lets qualifying venues trade tokenized versions of U.S. stocks on public blockchains without registering as exchanges—though it excludes price-tracking "synthetics" and lets companies block tokenization of their shares.