YouTube Star MrBeast Just Bought a Banking App—Will It Offer Crypto?
MrBeast’s Beast Industries just acquired fintech startup Step, a banking platform for teens, following a crypto trademark application.
Israel crypto industry pushes regulatory changes amid strong public support
Reform of Israel’s digital asset regulations may add 70,000 jobs and $38 billion to the country’s GDP, according to KPMG.
Ripple expands institutional custody stack with staking and security integrations
The new integrations enable banks and custodians to deploy custody and staking services without operating their own validator or key-management infrastructure.
Toyota made a game engine
A screenshot of a demo from the Fluorite engine. Using a game engine in a “digital cockpit” can be useful for things like step-by-step 3D tutorials about a car, mapping the environment around your car, and offering more natural controls, Jamie Kerber, the lead engineer of a new game engine developed by Toyota Connected North … Read more
ChatGPT rolls out ads
OpenAI faced a backlash late last year when it tested app suggestions that looked like unwanted ads. Still, the AI company needs to generate revenue from its popular chatbot to cover the costs of developing its technology and growing the business.
Lidar-maker Ouster buys vision company StereoLabs as sensor consolidation continues
Ouster is paying $35 million along with 1.8 million shares.
Polymarket Sues Massachusetts Ahead of Looming Ban of Kalshi Sports Markets
With temporary bans of prediction markets poised to take effect in Massachusetts and Nevada, Polymarket is asking a federal court to intervene.
ChatGPT Rolls Out Ads, Just Hours After Anthropic’s Mocking Super Bowl Commercials
OpenAI started testing ads in ChatGPT on Monday, hours after Anthropic’s Super Bowl commercials mocked the idea. The $8 billion loss explains why.
Farcaster founders join stablecoin startup Tempo after Neynar acquires social protocol
Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan have both exited crypto social media to focus on global payments via stablecoins.
Automated Reasoning checks rewriting chatbot reference implementation
Today, we are publishing a new open source sample chatbot that shows how to use feedback from Automated Reasoning checks to iterate on the generated content, ask clarifying questions, and prove the correctness of an answer. The chatbot implementation also produces an audit log that includes mathematically verifiable explanations for the answer validity and a … Read more
Price predictions 2/9: SPX, DXY, BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, SOL, DOGE, ADA, BCH
Bitcoin and several major altcoins are not out of the woods yet, especially since they continue to face significant selling near their range highs. Do technical charts show BTC and altcoins forming a bottom?
Jump Trading eyes Kalshi, Polymarket stakes as institutional interest grows: Report
Wall Street–style liquidity is reportedly moving into prediction markets, signaling a shift toward deeper markets, higher volumes and greater institutional participation.
Testing Ads in ChatGPT
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Apple is killing the old HomeKit tomorrow
If you haven’t yet updated to the new Apple Home, your smart home devices may no longer work in the Home app on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch starting tomorrow. On February 10, 2026, Apple will end support for the original HomeKit architecture. The biggest impact of the change will be felt by … Read more
So, what’s going on with Musicboard?
Is Musicboard shutting down? Company says no, but users are worried.
How client-side validation complicates wallet SDK architecture: RGB-WDK integration analysis
A CTDG Dev Hub participant introduces an adapter layer for RGB to facilitate seamless integration with wallet SDKs.
Bitcoin bottom at $60K? The answer might be in Tether’s dominance chart
Bitcoin price more than doubled the last time Tether’s crypto market dominance topped out, a signal that is flashing again in 2026.
Harvey reportedly raising at $11B valuation just months after it hit $8B
After announcing $190 million in ARR in December, Harvey may be raising again a big leap in valuation.
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Bitcoin Funds Shed $264M Last Week, Alts Reverse Negative Trend
CoinShares noted that the market may have reached an ‘inflection point’ as outflows from Bitcoin investment products slowed.
Workday CEO Eschenbach departs, with co-founder Aneel Bhusri returning as CEO
Bhusri said in a statement that the company’s next chapter would be focused on AI.
Bitcoin shakes off early decline, returns to $70,000 as Bernstein reiterates $150,000 outlook
“What we are experiencing is the weakest bitcoin bear case in its history,” wrote Bernstein’s Gautam Chhugani.
Bernstein calls Bitcoin sell-off ‘weakest bear case’ on record, keeps $150K 2026 target
The research analysts pointed to tight liquidity and macro pressure as drivers of the decline, while noting that spot Bitcoin ETFs have seen relatively modest outflows.
Lyft opens its ride-hailing app to teens
Rival Uber started allowing teens to use the app two years ago.
BitMine buys 40,613 ETH during sell-off as Ether strategy faces deep drawdown
Tom Lee–backed BitMine added over 40,000 ETH during last week’s market sell-off, doubling down on its Ether treasury strategy despite multibillion-dollar unrealized losses.
AI-generated ads dropped the ball at this year’s Super Bowl
It feels like everyone who produced ad spots for this year’s Super Bowl with generative AI failed in terms of making gen AI seem useful or like something worth getting excited about. Though we’ve seen plenty of AI-generated commercials before (at previous Super Bowls, no less), this year’s event was oversaturated with them. That’s in … Read more
Tom Lee’s BitMine Buys More Ethereum Despite $7.5 Billion Unrealized Loss
Publicly traded Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technology added to its ETH holdings last week, even as its paper losses grew.