Crypto lobbying orgs ask court to suspend Illinois tax as legal case continues
The motion for a preliminary injunction comes a few weeks after the Crypto Council for Innovation and Blockchain Association sued to block the law.
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U.S. Bank takes next step towards launching its stablecoin with cross-border payment test
The fifth-largest U.S. commercial bank said it is exploring USBDC stablecoin for treasury payments, liquidity management and collateral after completing a live transaction.
OpenAI says 10,000 AI agents solved a $1 million math problem. Now mathematicians are fighting
An internal model more powerful than GPT-6 Astra produced a proposed solution to one of mathematics’ seven Millennium Prize Problems, though questions are emerging over how independently it got there.
Wall Street's newest crypto fund comes with a staking feature to boost returns
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Bitcoin climbs as oil tops $100, equities drop after Iran strikes
Bitcoin advanced to as high as $79,700 while Brent crude topped $100 and European shares fell, leaving crypto tracking gold rather than equities.
Iran eases currency controls to let traders bring earnings home in crypto: FT
Exporters can use overseas earnings to fund imports directly, bypassing the official foreign-exchange system, the FT reported.
Singaporean 22-year old pleads guilty to being the ringleader in $245 million crypto fraud case
Malone Lam, a Miami resident charged with stealing 4,100 bitcoin, led a ring of fraudsters who stole crypto via online scams and home invasions.
India’s financial intelligence unit flags 15 crypto platforms for AML lapses
The Financial Intelligence Unit-India (FIU-IND) issued non-compliance notices to what it calls virtual digital asset service providers.
Live updates: Bitcoin slips as yields head higher following Treasury buyback announcement
The Japanese yen extended its rally against the greenback, briefly strengthening past 153 per dollar.
AI could kill us, Anthropic researcher says after resigning
The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade, Coxon said on X, explaining his resignation.
Hunter Biden defends LAPTOP ahead of Wednesday launch, calls TRUMP a ‘grift’
Biden says the token is about “resilience, redemption and recovery” and will give coins to nearly one million wallets that lost money on TRUMP.
Moonshot’s Kimi rattled markets. U.S. agencies now say it was trained on American models
Moonshot, whose Kimi model rattled markets earlier this year, is among six Chinese AI firms accused of systematically extracting capabilities from U.S. models.