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Back-to-back price cuts from China’s top AI labs have made their models a fraction of the cost of GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus.

Cash App has begun supporting stablecoin transactions on networks including Ethereum and Solana, pushing past its Bitcoin-based roots.

The philanthropic arm of ChatGPT maker OpenAI will fund research, worker support, and new models for sharing the gains from automation.

YouTube says new disclosure tools and automatic AI detection will help viewers more easily identify AI-generated videos.

SoFi is making its SoFiUSD token available to members, marking a milestone in the convergence of regulated banking and blockchain.

Kraken customers can make use of their Bitcoin holdings and generate BTC yield without ever leaving the exchange.

Claw-Anything simulates a real digital existence and asks AI assistants to handle it. GPT-5.5, the best model available, scored 34.5%.

Mastercard has secured a highly coveted BitLicense in New York, anchoring its compliance-first strategy for stablecoins on Wall Street.

Retail brokerage Robinhood now lets users delegate stock purchases and credit card transactions to third-party AI systems.

The charges against the CatFi creators mark the first time South Korean prosecutors have applied the new Virtual Asset User Protection Act.

Strategy is paying down its debt instead of buying Bitcoin, and AI tokens are now massively outperforming BTC.

Federal oversight gains the president’s backing as states push to bring prediction markets under their own gambling laws.

A $1.3 billion off-exchange IBIT block sale shook Bitcoin Tuesday, but experts say the real test is yet to come.

The inaugural games produced a record-breaking swim, but several non-enhanced athletes still beat the enhanced competitors.

Five unknown addresses removed 107 Bitcoin worth $8.2 million from circulation today, sparking intrigue on social media.

OpenBMB’s 1B-parameter model brings MCP support and agentic tool use to on-device AI—but it has trouble with logic traps.

Crypto treasury firms Sharplink and Forward Industries will both be included in the Russell 2000 and 3000 indexes at the end of June.

Cybercriminals are weaponizing the hype surrounding Grand Theft Auto 6, flooding the internet with GTA phishing traps and malware.

Spain is the latest country to clamp down on the rising use of prediction market platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi.

Researchers find AI models steer users toward Catholicism and away from other religions, like Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Bitcoin miner TeraWulf’s latest deal adds more than a gigawatt of potential data center capacity in a region eager for economic investment.

Researchers were able to embed hidden signals in audio clips that silently commandeer AI model behavior.

British financial institutions are now barred from doing business with the exchanges—and may face penalties for interacting with crypto transactions that pass through them.

BitMine Immersion Technologies made its largest Ethereum acquisition yet this year—just weeks after saying it might slow down its ETH buys.

The ban came on the heels of markets linked to the early departure of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto.

The Shanghai lab that builds LLMs that punch above their weight just turned that same energy on voice—and the results are hard to ignore.

Beijing is reportedly making some private-sector AI workers seek travel approval, widening its control over tech talent.

Strategy used 61% of its dedicated cash buffer to repurchase $1.5 billion in convertible notes, leaving its Bitcoin stash untouched.

The Digital Chamber urged the OCC on Tuesday to defend its recent national bank charter approvals for crypto firms, which Sen. Elizabeth Warren slammed as improper.

The trader still has over $100,000 worth of unrealized gains in the World Cup token, ahead of the start of the tournament next month.