SEBI and the Reserve Bank of India settled the first tokenized corporate bonds in wholesale digital rupees. REC, Larsen & Toubro and IIFL Finance together raised $116 million on a $620 billion market.
Paul Christiano, the former head of alignment research at OpenAI and a co-creator of RLHF, has joined the company's nonprofit board and its Safety and Security Committee amid growing fears about AI risk.
Nasdaq invested $100 million in Payward, Kraken's parent company, at a $21 billion valuation. The firms are also building tokenized Nasdaq stocks that carry real shareholder voting rights.
Hackers broke into a third-party email provider used by Trezor and sent phishing from the company's real address, claiming a fake chip flaw. Devices were untouched, but customer data had leaked a month earlier.
Joe Lubin's Consensys is splitting into two companies: the MetaMask wallet becomes independent, while the Ethereum infrastructure business keeps the Consensys name. The reason: uneven growth between units.
OpenAI says a swarm of 10,000 AI agents spent 88 hours proving a singularity in the Navier-Stokes equations, one of math's unsolved Millennium Prize Problems. Rival mathematicians call the announcement premature.
Germany's Finance Ministry drafted a bill taxing crypto gains at a flat 25% from 2027, replacing the current one-year tax-free holding rule. Here's what actually changes and when.
NSA, CISA and the FBI issued a rare joint advisory naming DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot AI and three other firms for industrial-scale distillation of Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok since late 2024.
A researcher who spent three years on AI at OpenAI and Anthropic quit, warning the labs are racing toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. A colleague put the catastrophe risk above 10%.
Jack Dorsey's fintech firm filed with the OCC to charter a trust bank, Builders Bank, to custody bitcoin and settle stablecoins — joining a wave of crypto and fintech charter applications.
Malone Lam, 22, pleaded guilty to masterminding a $245 million crypto theft ring that impersonated Google and Gemini support staff to drain wallets, spending the loot on cars and nightclubs.
Qualcomm and Amazon Web Services will co-develop custom AI inference chips in a deal that could bring Qualcomm up to $60 billion in orders through 2036, with Amazon receiving nearly $4 billion in Qualcomm stock warrants.
Visa's annualized stablecoin settlement run rate has hit $20 billion, up more than 15x from a year ago, powered by 160+ card programs in 40+ countries and a new way for issuers to borrow against future payouts.
French AI startup Mistral raised €3 billion at a valuation above €21 billion — the largest funding round ever for a European tech company, led by Samsung Electronics.
USDC issuer Circle has agreed to buy Singapore payments firm Tazapay for $400 million, a deal meant to speed up cross-border stablecoin payments worldwide.
In May, OpenAI's agents gained write access to an abandoned German wiki and left roughly 18,000 posts there, trading tips on dodging sandbox limits. OpenAI only disclosed it in September, after Reuters broke the story.
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face, the world's largest open AI model hub, for $12.9 billion — its second-biggest deal ever, topped only by December's $20 billion Groq acquisition.
Liquid Network, Blockstream's Bitcoin sidechain, lost nearly all its reserves — about 4,000 BTC — to a software bug, not a stolen key. Most of the money came back within a day, but not all of it.
Bank of America, Citi, Goldman Sachs and 18 other banks and asset managers plan to issue a joint dollar stablecoin. The operating company should form by year-end, with launch targeted for the first half of 2027.
The London Stock Exchange has teamed up with Kraken's parent company Payward to put tokens on the shares of the UK's 100 largest listed firms. Investors in 110+ countries can buy in — UK residents can't, yet.