The 10-Year Recalled 2007, and the Nasdaq's Four-Day Win Streak Ended With It
The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield surged to 5.135 percent on Wednesday, its highest level since July 2007, and the Nasdaq Composite fell 1.1...
California Just Handed AI Data Centers the Water and Power Bill
Governor Gavin Newsom signed seven bills on September 21 that he called the most comprehensive data-center laws in the United States, requ...
Meta's Muse Charm Puts the Agent on a Keychain Before It Can Ship
Mark Zuckerberg used a "one more thing" at Meta Connect 2026 to show the Muse Charm, a palm-sized, Tamagotchi-like gadget meant ...
Infosys Just Put Chainlink Behind 1.7 Billion Bank Accounts
Infosys and Chainlink announced a partnership on September 22 to put Chainlink's interoperability stack in front of the banks that alr...
Circle Will Let Institutions Borrow Against Bitcoin — Without Taking the Loan
Circle turned on Digital Asset-Backed Borrowing in Circle Mint on September 21, letting eligible institutions borrow USDC against bitcoin ...
The Dollar Climbed Back Above 100, and Bank Stocks Paid the Price
The U.S. dollar index climbed back above 100 on September 22 for the first time since early August, and bank stocks paid the bill: JPMorga...
Oil's War Premium Is Cracking Before Hormuz Lets the Tankers Through
Brent crude settled near $99.25 a barrel on September 22, down about 1.1 percent and back below $100, after Iran signaled it could reopen ...
Anthropic Cut the Price Where Agents Actually Spend: the Cache
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, the first model in its 5.5 family, promising performance it compared to Fable 5.1 on m...
Alibaba's 'Most Powerful' Chip Is Timed for a Summit, Not a Bake-Off
Alibaba used its Apsara Conference in Hangzhou on September 22 to unveil the Zhenwu V900, billed as China's most powerful AI accelerat...
ZetaChain Voted to Kill Its Own Blockchain, and Sovereignty Lost to Solana's AI Trade
ZetaChain holders passed Proposal 68 on September 20 with about 99.4 percent support, authorizing a wind-down of the Cosmos-based Layer 1 ...
The ECB's Pontes Launch Tells Banks They Can Tokenize Without Touching Stablecoins
The European Central Bank switched on Pontes on September 21, a bridge that lets banks settle tokenized securities in central bank money r...
SoftBank Is Making Junk-Bond Buyers Underwrite OpenAI's October $10 Billion Check
SoftBank Group launched more than $11 billion of high-yield bonds on September 21 to fund a $10 billion OpenAI payment due October 1, turn...