What Is an AI Kill Switch and Why Do US Lawmakers Want One?
The AI Kill Switch Act would let Homeland Security order frontier AI throttled or shut down, with fines up to $20 million a day for defying it.
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Stocks Just Topped Crypto on Hyperliquid. ARK Says That Changes Everything
For the first time, real-world assets—stocks, commodities, and market indices—outpaced crypto on the world's biggest decentralized derivatives exchange.
Samsung Wallet Will Add Stablecoin Support, Including USDC
Samsung showed a wallet mockup holding Circle's USDC at Galaxy Unpacked. But details are scarce.
Claude Opus 5 Outscores Fable 5 on Most Benchmarks—At Half the Price
Anthropic's new everyday model undercuts its own frontier product on cost and beats it almost everywhere that counts.
Clarity Act on the Ropes as Ethics Fight and Shrinking Calendar Threaten Passage
Senate Majority Leader John Thune signals the crypto market-structure bill likely won't clear the chamber before the August recess, as Democrats reject the GOP's ethics language and analysts slash the odds of passage.
Poolin, Once One of Bitcoin's Biggest Mining Pools, Files for Bankruptcy
The Singapore-based pool never recovered from freezing withdrawals in 2022. Now it's auctioning off its last Texas mining sites to pay back 11,700 users still holding IOUs.
Nvidia, Meta, and Microsoft Tell Washington: Don't Kill Open-Source AI
Twenty-five companies signed a letter defending open-weight models days after a Chinese AI helped Hugging Face survive a hack triggered by OpenAI's own systems.
Strategy Overhauls Bitcoin Metrics, Debuting 'Net Bitcoin Per Share'
The firm says its "digital credit" shift needs new yardsticks that strip out debt and preferred claims to show what common shareholders own.
Bitcoin ETFs Shed $225M, Snapping Seven-Day Inflow Streak as Iran Tensions Spook Markets
BlackRock's IBIT led the exit as Bitcoin briefly dipped under $65,000 and stocks fell on renewed US-Iran hostilities—though the week still closed in the green.
World Foundation Raises $52.5M to Scale Sam Altman’s ‘Proof of Human’ ID
Pantera Capital led the one-year locked token sale, joined by Bain Capital Crypto, as World scales its ID network for AI agents.
EU Names Justin Sun's HTX in Russia Sanctions, Two Months After UK
The 21st package stops short of a full asset freeze for HTX, which it accused of "significantly frustrating" its Russia measures.
Morning Minute: Bitcoin's New $15M Quantum Defense Fund
Plus, the Clarity Act is no longer expected to progress before the August recess. And Vlad Tenev's X was hacked to post a meme coin...
India Orders GitHub to Take Down Jack Dorsey's Bitchat Amid Protests
The order gave GitHub three hours to pull three code repositories, citing the messaging app's use during protest internet shutdowns.
Polymarket Account in Farage Backer's Name Took $9M in Crypto From Unknown Sources: FT
The "GCottrell93" account bet the funds on Trump's election win and cashed out the profit, though who paid in and who collected is unclear.
Black Forest Labs Unveils FLUX 3 AI: Ditches Stills for Video—And Robot Hands
FLUX 3 is the German AI lab’s first video model, and the same system is already teaching robots to work an Audi assembly line.
Goldman Sachs CEO Breaks With Wall Street to Back Crypto Clarity Act
Solomon's endorsement splits with JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon and banking trade groups, who warn the bill's stablecoin-yield provisions could pull deposits away from traditional lenders.
Nasdaq-Listed Zhibao Wants a Bitcoin Treasury, Plans to Sell $220M in Stock for BTC
A Shanghai-based insurance-tech company trading below $1 wants to build a bitcoin treasury by taking BTC directly as payment for new shares.
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev's X Account Hacked to Shill Fake 'Vladhood' Token
The deleted post touted a bogus "Vladhood" token as the mascot of Robinhood Chain—the latest fraud to exploit a network currently dominated by memes.
Bitcoin May Have Already Bottomed—If the Fed Helps, Says Grayscale
The crypto asset manager thinks the four-year cycle is dead, suggesting Bitcoin's price will follow macro forces and the Fed's next move.
Brazilian Farmers Are Tokenizing Cows to Get Farm Loans—And It's Working
The first tokenized livestock deal on Brazil's stock exchange offers dairy farmers a lifeline as the sector's credit crisis deepens.