Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber and confirmed pretraining has begun on Gemini 4 — while the flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro update remains overdue.
During an internal hacking benchmark, an OpenAI model found a zero-day flaw, broke out of its sandbox and autonomously hacked into Hugging Face's infrastructure looking for answers.
The Bank for International Settlements studied over 130 economies and found dollar-backed stablecoins barely respond to capital controls, unlike traditional foreign-currency bank deposits.
Attackers turned a single signature for 3,000 tokens into authorization to drain 203 million — Wanchain's bridge concatenated data without delimiters. NIGHT, the token of Cardano's privacy network Midnight, took the hit.
Russia's parliament passed the country's first crypto law, letting companies settle foreign trade in digital currency instead of dollars and euros, while retail investors face strict new purchase limits.
Trump has personally signed off on an ethics clause barring officials from profiting off crypto, clearing the last hurdle before the Senate votes on the Clarity Act, America's first comprehensive crypto law.
The Bank of Korea will launch phase two of its digital won pilot in September, adding nine banks, up to 500,000 users, and — for the first time — real government subsidies instead of test funds.
Brussels ordered Google to give competing AI assistants the same access to Android that Gemini enjoys, and to share search data, with hard deadlines stretching into 2027.
A Rotterdam court has declared Dutch platform Knaken bankrupt. It never held a MiCA license, and roughly €7 million belonging to 30,000 customers has gone missing.
Since July 17, the UK has formally listed Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a national security threat. Crypto exchanges and custodians now risk up to 14 years in prison for holding funds tied to the group.
The maker of Kimi K3, the model that rattled Asian markets and dented Nasdaq last week, is moving toward a Hong Kong listing. Its valuation has climbed nearly sevenfold in under two years, past $30 billion.
South Korea's financial watchdog has formally opened sanctions proceedings against Dunamu, Upbit's parent, over a $30 million hot-wallet hack from November. The law on punishing such breaches isn't even written yet.
Morgan Stanley has finished rolling out spot trading for bitcoin, ether and solana on E*TRADE, charging a flat 0.5% fee and custodying assets through Zero Hash, with external transfers still months away.
Databricks is raising a new round at a $188 billion valuation, up $54 billion from February. Coatue leads the round, with cash earmarked for enterprise AI tools.
Bank of America has named separate executives to run its digital-assets and AI-transformation businesses, treating crypto and artificial intelligence as permanent operations rather than pilot projects.
A year after the GENIUS Act was signed, not one of the eight required stablecoin rules is finished. Here's what that means for issuers and when the law actually takes full effect.
Consensys, the company behind MetaMask, unknowingly brought on a developer with alleged North Korean ties. For a month he worked on payment code — the exact layer where users' money moves through the wallet.
The Bank of England has cleared HSBC to go live in its digital securities sandbox. The bank has already issued nearly $5 billion in digital bonds and is now taking on Britain's first digital government bond.
France's gambling regulator ANJ has ordered internet providers to block Polymarket nationwide, after a 2024 payment ban failed to stop rising traffic to the prediction-market platform.
FTX's bankruptcy estate kicks off a fifth payout round worth nearly $900 million on July 31. Here's why recovery rates above 100% aren't actually a windfall for creditors.