U.S. Inflation Cools to 3.4% in July, Giving Markets Room to Breathe
Consumer prices in the United States rose 3.4 percent in July from a year earlier, a modest deceleration from June's reading that lift...
Illinois Becomes First State to Mandate Independent Safety Audits for Frontier AI Models
Illinois has enacted the nation's first law requiring independent third-party safety audits of frontier artificial intelligence models...
DARPA Achieves First Real-World Flight of AI-Piloted F-16 Fighter Jet
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has completed the first real-world flight of an F-16 fighter jet controlled entirely by arti...
CFTC Warns Prediction Markets to Clean Up Filings or Face Enforcement
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a stern warning to prediction-market platforms on Wednesday, saying faulty and incomplete ...
Bitcoin Slips Toward $63,500 as Traders Look Beyond CPI to Fed's Next Tests
Bitcoin drifted lower toward $63,500 on Wednesday, with traders concluding that an in-line inflation report had removed a tail risk but of...
Securitize Stock Drops 20% After Earnings Miss Despite Record Tokenized Assets
Securitize shares plummeted 20 percent in after-hours trading Wednesday after the tokenization platform reported quarterly revenue that fe...
Goldman Sachs Buys NEOS for $2.25 Billion to Enter Bitcoin Income ETF Market
Goldman Sachs agreed to acquire NEOS Investments for $2.25 billion on Wednesday, a deal that vaults the Wall Street giant into the rapidly...
Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Pushes Gemini Teams to Close the Gap With Rivals
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has reasserted his influence over the company's artificial-intelligence efforts, directing Gemini engine...
OpenAI Pauses Work on a New AI Model Over Cybersecurity Concerns
OpenAI has halted some internal work on its forthcoming frontier model, codenamed Astra, after internal safety evaluations found the syste...
Bitcoin Holds Near $64,000 as Traders Await Inflation Verdict
Bitcoin traded in a tight range around $63,600 to $64,200 on Tuesday, with traders reluctant to take large positions ahead of a key U.S. i...
Harmony Blockchain Hit by Exploit as Attacker Mints 4 Billion Unauthorized Tokens
The Harmony blockchain suffered a devastating exploit on Tuesday when an attacker allegedly minted approximately four billion unauthorized...
IMF Upgrades Global Growth Forecast While Warning of Deepening Trade Fractures
The International Monetary Fund revised its 2026 global growth outlook modestly higher on Tuesday, but the accompanying report warned that...