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Arizona crypto ATM law helps 35 scam victims recover $171K
Qualifying new customers can receive full reimbursement, including fees, if they notify both the operator and law enforcement within 30 days.
Prediction markets should dial back faulty filings for incentives to boost trading: CFTC
The U.S. regulator of platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket suggests the industry is getting into bad compliance habits that may allow for market abuse.
Securitize falls 20% after earnings miss as tokenization revenue falls short
Tokenized assets hit a record and trading activity jumped, but revenue slipped in the firm’s first earnings report since going public.
Morgan Stanley's infrastructure partner Zerohash rebuffed in pitch to be U.S. trust bank
Zerohash, which handles crypto plumbing for Morgan Stanley's E*Trade, said it's planning on re-filing and hoping for a swift resolution.
The AI-Generated Pattern Hides You From Surveillance Cameras—Including Flock
A Kansas City security researcher ran 31 million tests to teach a model how to paint camouflage for the algorithm age.
'Inner Thoughts' of Every Major AI Model Exposed in Massive Exploit
Researchers found every major AI provider encrypts reasoning tokens with a single global key—and exploited it to decode 315,320 hidden thinking blocks from public logs, recovering passwords and live API keys along the way.
NYC council announces probe into ‘predatory marketing practices’ on prediction markets
Council Speaker Julie Menin sent letters to four companies offering prediction market services to New Yorkers as part of an investigation into their marketing practices.
Amazon will train on Twitch streamers’ content by default, unless they opt out
"If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in," Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. "That's honestly the answer."
China’s DeepSeek Upgrades V4 Pro: Claude Fable Is Only 5% Better at 4,500% the Price
The April preview got benchmarked to death and landed 18 points behind Anthropic’s flagship. DeepSeek’s own numbers for the finished model tell a very different story.
SpaceXAI Wants Grok Bot to Do Your Job—But It Needs Access to Your Accounts
The AI agent can navigate workplace software and coordinate with other bots, raising questions about security and control.
Goldman Sachs' $2.25B NEOS Deal Hands It Ready-Made Bitcoin Income ETF Business
The cash-and-equity deal for the options-income specialist folds in NEOS's roughly $1 billion Bitcoin covered-call fund, giving Goldman instant scale in a crypto ETF niche it had only just entered on paper.
Kraken adds S&P 500 to funded trading program, commodities to follow
Kraken’s funded trading program adds round-the-clock exposure to the US equity benchmark as it builds out its multi-asset offering.
AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation
Cognition may be looking to raise another mega round just a few months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation.
Bitwise cuts 14% of staff while still expecting growth
Crypto companies from including Coinbase, BitGo, Robinhood, Polygon and Pump.fun have announced workforce reductions this year, citing a variety of reasons, including shifting to AI and market forces.
As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open
At Ai4, three of the world's most respected AI experts — Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng — debated regulation, open source access, and how America can compete as China advances in Asia.
Zoomsday: AI Used to Build Critical Zoom Exploit in One Day
The flaws could let someone in a meeting take control of another participant’s device without the victim clicking anything.
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise
Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital.
Goldman Sachs leaps into bitcoin income ETFs with $2.25 billion NEOS buyout
The $2.25 billion deal expands Goldman’s derivative platform to $130 billion in total ETF assets, taking direct aim at BlackRock's rival BITA fund, according to an analyst.
Fidelity Files to Let Its Ethereum ETF Stake and Pay Investors
The Boston asset manager's FETH would stake up to 100% of its ETH and distribute the rewards to holders as quarterly cash, pending SEC approval.
FlightAware drops Kalshi lawsuit one day after filing
Following the initial lawsuit, at least one of Kalshi’s event contracts was changed to list “Primary Source Agency” as the entity behind verifying flight cancellation data.
Mesh, Automattic’s CRM for everyone, comes to Android
Mesh, an AI-powered contacts app and relationship manager from Automattic, is now an Android app.
Bank of England tests stablecoin, digital pound interoperability in cross-border payments
The Digital Pound Lab is testing a cross-border trade finance flow combining stablecoin payments with simulated digital pound settlement.
Why Stream ring-maker Sandbar says the future of AI wearables is voice
AI notetaking hardware has taken off over the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, and even transcribing earbuds all promising to capture your meetings and turn them into summaries and action items. Now, a whole wave of wearables — rings especially — are betting people want to capture stray thoughts and ideas the same way.  One of […]
Wintermute plans $1 billion AI push beyond crypto: Bloomberg
The firm aims for non-crypto markets to drive over 50% of revenue by 2027, up from 10% currently, as it seeks to diversify its business.