ChatGPT's share of the AI assistant market fell to 46.4% by end of May — the first time it dropped below half. Gemini holds 27.7%, Claude 10.3%, per Sensor Tower's 2026 AI Report.
Illinois Governor Pritzker signed a budget including a 0.2% tax on every crypto trade — win or lose. No other U.S. state has taxed transactions rather than gains.
The world's largest asset manager launched BITA on Nasdaq — a covered-call bitcoin income ETF targeting 15–25% annual yield with monthly distributions, beating Goldman to market.
The Justice Department sided with xAI in an NAACP pollution lawsuit, arguing Grok runs Pentagon war operations in Iran — so the company's 57 unpermitted gas turbines cannot be shut down.
SpaceX has agreed to acquire Cursor, the leading AI coding tool, for $60 billion in stock — just days after its blockbuster Nasdaq IPO. The deal unites xAI, Colossus, and Cursor's developer reach.
Kraken launched CFTC-regulated perpetual futures for U.S. traders on June 15 — nine assets including BTC and ETH — marking the first domestic regulated perps in U.S. history.
Salesforce is buying Fin — the AI firm once known as Intercom — for $3.6B. Fin's AI agent resolves 76% of support queries without humans and brings 30,000 clients to Agentforce.
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas issued circular M-2026-023, ordering licensed exchanges to delist Monero, Zcash and Dash, while all new crypto listings now require prior regulatory approval.
Trump declared the US-Iran peace deal complete on June 14. Bitcoin crossed $65,000 within the hour and $170M in short positions were liquidated.
The Exodus wallet, together with Ondo Finance, launched Exodus Markets — a service to trade more than 200 tokenized stocks, ETFs, and real-world assets on Solana, right inside the self-custody app.
SEC approved T. Rowe Price's active crypto ETF on June 12, covering 15 digital assets from Bitcoin and Solana to Dogecoin and Shiba Inu — the first regulated fund letting managers pick their own crypto portfolio.
Beijing ordered the deal reversed — Meta complied. The $2B acquisition of Manus, a Chinese-founded agentic AI startup, is being unwound. Founders are now seeking $1B to buy it back.
On June 13, Coinbase became the first regulated US exchange to offer 24/7 gold and silver futures, letting traders react to weekend events without waiting for Monday.
Google sued Chinese cybercrime network Outsider Enterprise for weaponizing Gemini AI to create 8,000 phishing sites and steal payment card data from 3.87 million victims, causing $1.9 billion in losses.
The SEC proposed scrapping Rule 611, a 2005 order-protection standard that made it technically impossible for AMMs to trade US equities. The change could open DeFi markets to tokenized stocks.
Morpho, the DeFi lending protocol challenging Aave, closed a $175 million round led by Paradigm, a16z, and Ribbit Capital. With $11B in user deposits, it is the largest fundraise in DeFi history.
On June 12, the US ordered Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally under export controls. The alleged jailbreak behind the order is a security technique Anthropic says GPT-5.5 can already do.
Poland's president vetoed the MiCA crypto bill for the third time. The country is now the only EU state without a framework as the July 1 deadline approaches.
A three-judge panel of the Second Circuit rejected SBF's appeal, upholding his 25-year fraud conviction. The court dismissed defense arguments on asset value and margin trading. Release date: 2044.
Eleven nations shut down AudiA6, a crypto laundering service used by ransomware gangs that processed $390M between 2022–2025. Two administrators arrested in Georgia; 25 domains and 80 vehicles seized.