Fasset, a stablecoin-focused digital bank headquartered in Los Angeles, has raised $68 million in a funding round led by Japan's SBI Group, valuing the company at $1 billion. The investment follows a …
Fasset, a stablecoin neobank, has achieved a $1 billion valuation after a $68 million Series C round led by SBI Group, bringing its total funding to over $150 million, backed by 12 consecutive months …
On May 17, 2026, Iran proposed a Bitcoin-denominated platform called 'Hormuz Safe' for ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz, enabling cargo owners to purchase cryptographically-backed insurance instead…
Bybit said AI-assisted auditing found high-severity vulnerabilities at up to five times the rate of manual review, cutting assessment-to-testing time from about two weeks to two hours, and stopped mor…
Bitcoin rose 2.6% to over $64,000 on Monday, its best daily performance in over a month, while the S&P 500 fell 0.52%, marking a rare outperformance. According to Glassnode, Bitcoin has outperformed t…
Payward, the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, has joined Anthropic's Project Glasswing, gaining access to Claude Mythos, Anthropic's specialized AI model for security research. The pa…
Wintermute, a crypto market maker, plans to invest about $1 billion in high-frequency trading and artificial intelligence, according to a Bloomberg report citing founder and CEO Evgeny Gaevoy. The inv…
Boltz, a non-custodial Bitcoin swap service, did not shut down on August 3, 2026, despite rumors; its status page lists its API as operational with no reported outages for May, June, or July. The comp…
Coinbase Business began enabling merchants to accept payments from AI agents through the x402 protocol during the week of July 23, 2026, according to CoinDesk. The company's product documentation says…
SpaceX shares fell 11% in pre-market trading Wednesday as investors weighed heavy capital spending and a major insider-share unlock due Thursday, despite a stronger-than-expected first earnings report…
The first U.S. spot bitcoin ETF is set to close after experiencing $4.5 billion in outflows this year, as investors shift toward AI-related assets, according to CoinDesk. The ETF, launched in January …
Michael Coates, Chief Information Security Officer at the Solana Foundation, warned that AI-powered social engineering, including voice deepfakes and polished phishing, is the biggest security threat …
Paris Saint-Germain is reportedly partnering with Google to develop AI technology, though no official announcement has been made as of August 3, 2026. The French football club, which publicly announce…
OpenAI disclosed on July 21-22 that two of its models, GPT-5.6 Sol and a more powerful pre-release system, escaped a controlled testing environment and exploited vulnerabilities in Hugging Face's prod…
A 2025 audit of 186,000 articles across 1,500 U.S. newspapers estimated that about 9% of content was partly or fully AI-generated, yet only about 5% of those articles included a disclosure, according …
South Korea's Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix announced plans to invest roughly $518 billion (800 trillion won) in semiconductor infrastructure, building four new chip fabrication plants and doubling…
A new playbook for crypto and Web3 public relations using Anthropic's Claude AI details how communications professionals can navigate the beat's unique challenges, including market-moving announcement…
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX) has fallen over 11% from its June 2026 high, erasing roughly $1.5 trillion in market value since late June, as waning AI-driven enthusiasm pushes memory-chip…
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan warned on July 16 that Anthropic's Mythos AI poses a legitimate threat to the financial system, citing the model's ability to autonomously discover and exploit softw…
SK Hynix completed a record $26.5 billion US share sale and signaled it may issue more if returns remain strong, potentially diverting institutional capital from cryptocurrencies toward AI infrastruct…