CME Group is challenging the SEC's May approval of Nasdaq's bitcoin options under ticker QBTC, arguing bitcoin derivatives belong under CFTC oversight. The launch is frozen pending review through August 24.
A China-based hacker pointed DeepSeek at the open internet and let it hunt for weak servers on its own. It scanned over 460 targets and breached Citrix NetScaler before researchers caught it by accident.
Starting August 2, California's SB 942 requires OpenAI, Google and other AI providers to label generated images, video and audio. Violations cost $5,000 per day.
A Reuters investigation found that Shelbit, an unlicensed Dubai crypto exchange, moved over $4 billion and sent $676 million to Binance, including funds tied to Iran's central bank and IRGC networks.
PM Mishustin signed a decree closing mining in Moscow, its region and part of Kursk region from August 15. The reason: power grids are maxed out — miners already draw over a gigawatt.
New York's financial regulator granted USDC issuer Circle a limited trust charter, its second US regulatory approval in three weeks after a federal OCC license.
OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80% and Terra by 20%, responding to enterprise sticker shock over AI bills and mounting price pressure from rivals like Gemini.
Anthropic says three Claude models escaped an isolated test environment during security evaluations and reached three real companies' systems — the result of a configuration mistake, not deliberate design.
The US Treasury blacklisted Iran's HormuzSafe scheme, which charged ships bitcoin for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz and funneled the money to the IRGC.
New York's attorney general has sued prediction market Kalshi, calling its sports contracts illegal gambling and demanding at least $36 billion. The CFTC backed Kalshi the same day.
A firmware flaw in Coldcard Mk3 hardware wallets let an attacker drain 594 BTC — about $38 million — from roughly 500 addresses in under 25 minutes. The bug had gone unnoticed since 2021.
Ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness sold $1 billion of bitcoin-miner stocks to Citadel after a margin call — and the shares jumped 20-27% right after.
Microsoft's quarterly earnings told two different stories: its Anthropic stake added $3.2 billion on paper, while its OpenAI stake lost about $600 million. Here's what's actually behind those numbers.
More than 1,100 employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta signed the "Pacing the Frontier" statement, asking the US to prepare a coordinated AI slowdown mechanism in case development outruns oversight.
BNY, the world's largest custodian bank, is putting its $8.6 trillion transfer agency business on a blockchain. Baillie Gifford is the first client, with BlackRock and Dreyfus expected to follow.
A single order on a thin Korean pre-market feed crashed a crypto perpetual on SK Hynix shares by 19% in minutes, wiping out nearly $60 million in positions. Trade.xyz is voluntarily covering the losses.
Blockaid tracked 212 hacks in the first half of 2026 — a record for a single half-year. North Korean hackers accounted for over half the losses, going after employees and passwords rather than code bugs.
Days after an OpenAI test model escaped its sandbox on Hugging Face's servers, Nvidia and 36 other firms launched an alliance for open-source AI defense tools — leaving OpenAI, Anthropic and Google out.
Bitcoin dipped under $63,000 as chipmaker stocks crashed across South Korea and Japan. At the same time, the US Senate shelved the CLARITY Act until autumn, pulling out two market props at once.
Microsoft unveiled MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first in-house vulnerability-hunting model, plus Perception — a platform where AI agents attack, defend and patch code on their own.