U.S. CFTC chief puts staff on notice to create crypto regulations if Clarity Act fails
Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Mike Selig told the inaugural gathering of the Innovation Advisory Committee that his agency won’t sit idle.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Mike Selig told the inaugural gathering of the Innovation Advisory Committee that his agency won’t sit idle.
Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg now owns an actual castle. Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan bought Strancally Castle and its 440-acre estate in Ireland “several weeks ago,” according to The Irish Times. While the exact price of the purchase is unclear, the family could … Read more
The CFTC chair said staff is already exploring a crypto market structure framework and could move quickly to propose rules if Congress fails to act.
Cloud and AI product revenue accelerated in the June quarter, but a 75% drop in net income extended Alibaba’s run of profit misses to a fifth straight quarter.
Linkdaze’s smart digital calendar stands out for not putting its features behind a paywall, including an AI meal planner tool.
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The token’s steepest daily and weekly gains in months rode Bitcoin’s record liquidation wave—though ETF flows and futures data hint the move is running on borrowed momentum.
Analysts say the $40 trillion debt milestone could bolster Bitcoin’s long-term case, even as Treasury yields, dollar strength and liquidity remain key near-term drivers.
Roblox is promising more changes to its child safety features following testing from Australia’s online safety regulator, eSafety. eSafety has been looking into concerns that the company hasn’t been in compliance with Australia’s Online Safety Act, including “allegedly failing to have sufficient measures in place to prevent contact between adults and children under 16. While … Read more
Another day, another sad thing to report about our compromised Federal Communications Commission. Chairman Brendan Carr has followed through on his 2025 threat to kill long-term broadband speed goals established during the Biden administration, which aimed for eventually getting us to gigabit download and half-gigabit upload speeds. How dare we dream of spreading great download … Read more
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Year after year, investors who’ve explored the Expo Halls, met founders, and learned from peers have proven why you need to be on the ground at Disrupt this year.
ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.
The 2023 Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040-series chips. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Some Framework Laptop 13 owners with last-gen AMD chips have reported that a recent BIOS update is bricking their laptops on both Windows and Linux. The BIOS update causing this issue is version 3.20 for Ryzen … Read more
Seventeen alleged members of Iran-based Mabna Institute were charged over hacks targeting hundreds of universities, companies, and government agencies.
At Mayfield, Singh will focus on semiconductor, cybersecurity, and physical AI investments.
Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models via an API.
The StopAndProtect operation used compromised WordPress websites to spread malware, steal crypto wallet files, and deploy ransomware.
AI agents can automate complex workflows but might take actions that don’t align with your organization’s policies or regulatory constraints if used without proper controls. To address this, we built Policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore so teams can implement controls that are applied across agents running in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. This was recently expanded with … Read more
Scaling agentic AI across an enterprise requires architectural patterns that preserve flexibility while avoiding vendor lock-in. This post is Part 2 of our series on multi-agent systems at scale. In this post, we examine how machine learning (ML) teams operate agentic AI systems across a “multi-everything” environment of frameworks, models, and providers. We also cover … Read more
Longtime bond market investor Mark Connors sees routine government bond buybacks improving liquidity and bringing bitcoin’s next rally closer.
Nine public miners generated $341 million from AI and HPC operations in the first half of 2026 after spending more than $5 billion on capital assets.
Scaling cloud migrations with agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore starts with recognizing where large-scale migrations break down. Discovery consumes weeks per application. Engineers write infrastructure code from scratch for each workload. Post-migration operations devolve into reactive firefighting. Multiply those bottlenecks across over 300 applications and a fixed fiscal year deadline, and migration programs struggle … Read more
Agentic AI is changing how you work, and vector search powers the retrieval layer that makes agents accurate, contextual, and grounded in real data. Agents plan, reason, and take action across multi-step workflows, making fast, relevant access to your organization’s knowledge essential. That knowledge already has a home across databases, object stores, search engines, and … Read more
Bitcoin punched above $72,000 Thursday, extending a two-day squeeze that’s wiped out the most short positions on record and mounted the first real challenge to a bearish chart that’s held since November.
I’ve been running an AI agent on a Raspberry Pi 5 for the past three months. It writes code, browses the web, manages my email, and even deployed a production SaaS to a DigitalOcean droplet last week. The whole setup costs zero dollars in API fees because every inference runs locally on the Pi itself. … Read more
A new poll showed 63% of 1,166 Americans varied sharply along partisan lines, with a majority of Republicans saying it was appropriate for Trump and his family to invest in crypto.
OpenAI has had a hell of a year. The company spent months battling former co-founder Elon Musk in a sensational jury trial, was hit with a high-profile trade secrets lawsuit from Apple, and faced widespread scrutiny after an unreleased model hacked another AI company. As it prepares for an IPO, a steady string of executives … Read more
The governance vote redirects tokens previously reserved for user airdrops toward partnerships, incentives and Optimism’s growing institutional push.