Jeff Bezos' Prometheus raised $12B in a second round, valuing it at $41B. Backers include JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock. The goal: AI software that designs and manufactures physical systems.
Coinbase for Agents gives AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude dedicated trading accounts with user-set spending limits — autonomous trades, DCA strategies, and payments for data services included.
Former xAI safety engineer Devin Kim sued xAI and SpaceX, claiming he was fired for warning about Grok's antisemitic outputs, EU safety test evasion, and non-consensual imagery on X.
Digital Asset raised $355 million at a $2B valuation, led by a16z Crypto. Canton Network has processed $6 trillion in tokenized assets, backed by HSBC, BNP Paribas, Citadel, and 20+ more institutions.
Japan's lower house passed a bill on June 11 classifying crypto as a financial instrument, cutting capital gains tax from 55% to 20% and enabling spot crypto ETFs — expected as early as 2027.
The EU's 21st Russia sanctions package proposes banning transactions with 11 unnamed crypto platforms — and introduces a first-ever tool to impose country-wide crypto service bans.
German humanoid robot maker NEURA Robotics closed a $1.4 billion Series C led by Tether, with Nvidia and Amazon joining. Tether will embed crypto wallets into the robots for autonomous payments.
Mastercard launched Agent Pay for Machines, letting AI agents authorize and settle payments across its global network. Over 30 partners joined, including Coinbase, RippleX, Stripe, and Solana Foundation.
Kraken is now the official crypto exchange of FIFA World Cup 2026, starting June 11 across the US, Mexico, and Canada. The deal was announced on June 9, one day before the opening ceremony.
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 — its most capable widely available model, with Mythos-level power but built-in safeguards. Alongside it comes Claude Mythos 5, unrestricted but only for vetted customers.
Consensys opened early access to MetaMask Agent Wallet — a self-custodial wallet that lets AI agents trade DeFi autonomously across 10 chains. Built-in threat scanning, spending limits, and $10K transaction coverage.
Circle has launched cirBTC, a 1:1 BTC-backed ERC-20 token for Ethereum DeFi. It targets the $12.5B wrapped bitcoin market, where WBTC and Coinbase's cbBTC currently dominate.
Xiaomi and TileRT have hit 1,000-plus tokens per second on a trillion-parameter model using standard commodity GPUs, not custom chips. The technique: FP4 quantization and DFlash block decoding. Weights are open-sourced.
The H token crashed 86% after $32M was drained from the project's wallets. On-chain investigator ZachXBT says the exploit looks 'possibly staged,' pointing to wallets pre-funded weeks before the attack.
An unreleased version of Claude, codenamed Oceanus, reached red-team testers and within hours was being resold through a Chinese proxy. Anthropic has reportedly paused its testing program while it investigates.
Sam Bankman-Fried officially applied for a presidential pardon at the DOJ. Trump already freed Ulbricht, CZ, and BitMEX founders — but personally indicated SBF shouldn't count on the same.
While Bitcoin slid below $60K, Strategy quietly bought 1,550 BTC for $101.3M at $65,332 per coin — well below its overall portfolio average of $75,680.
At WWDC 2026, Apple unveiled a rebuilt Siri powered by Google Gemini under a multi-year deal worth roughly $1 billion per year. The custom 1.2-trillion-parameter model will handle Siri's cloud AI tasks.
HTX has delisted USD1 after WLFI froze its on-chain addresses over UK sanctions compliance. User funds convert to USDT 1:1. The dispute involves two lawsuits between Justin Sun and the Trump-linked stablecoin project.
A pseudonymous plaintiff filed suit to claim 39,000 dormant Bitcoin wallets holding 3.8 million BTC under New York's lost-property law. A judge froze the case until July 14.