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Minnesota Bans Prediction Markets—And Is Sued By the Trump Admin Hours Later

Minnesota Bans Prediction Markets—And Is Sued By the Trump Admin Hours Later

Minnesota's ban has made it a felony to create or operate a prediction market in the state. The CFTC and DOJ say it violates federal law.

Americans Arrested in Japan for Entering Punch the Monkey’s Zoo Home to Promote Meme Coin

Americans Arrested in Japan for Entering Punch the Monkey’s Zoo Home to Promote Meme Coin

Viral Japanese macaque monkey Punch received unwelcome visitors this week, as trespassers attempted to promote a Solana meme coin.

Bitcoin Miners Emerge as Unlikely Power Brokers in AI Infrastructure Race, Says Bernstein

Bitcoin Miners Emerge as Unlikely Power Brokers in AI Infrastructure Race, Says Bernstein

Bernstein remains bullish on Bitcoin mining firms like IREN, Riot, and CleanSpark, who are all riding the wave of AI compute demand.

Google Unveils Gemini Omni—A Next-Gen AI Video Builder That Can 'Simulate the World'

Google Unveils Gemini Omni—A Next-Gen AI Video Builder That Can 'Simulate the World'

Google's new multimodal AI model powers updates to Flow and Flow Music, including conversational video editing and AI-generated media tools.

Google Launches Gemini Spark: A 24/7 AI Agent That Wants to Make You Ditch OpenClaw

Google Launches Gemini Spark: A 24/7 AI Agent That Wants to Make You Ditch OpenClaw

Announced at Google I/O 2026, Spark is Google's most ambitious Gemini feature yet—a personal agent that manages your inbox, your calendar, and your workflows, with or without you watching.

Elizabeth Warren Calls Crypto Bank Charter Approvals for Firms Like Coinbase, Ripple Illegal

Elizabeth Warren Calls Crypto Bank Charter Approvals for Firms Like Coinbase, Ripple Illegal

In a letter to the Comptroller of the Currency, Warren argued nine national trust bank charter approvals for crypto firms violated the National Bank Act.

People Are More Willing to Lie to AI Than Humans, Study Finds

People Are More Willing to Lie to AI Than Humans, Study Finds

Consumers feel less social pressure when lying to an AI chatbot, research finds, while human-like social cues reduce dishonest behavior.

Canaan Shares Plunge as CEO Says Middle East Conflict Is Clouding Outlook for Bitcoin Miners

Canaan Shares Plunge as CEO Says Middle East Conflict Is Clouding Outlook for Bitcoin Miners

Canaan shares fell after the Bitcoin mining company disclosed an $88.7 million first-quarter net loss, its second straight negative period.

Bitcoin Giant Strategy Gets Price Target Boost From TD Cowen After $2 Billion BTC Buy

Bitcoin Giant Strategy Gets Price Target Boost From TD Cowen After $2 Billion BTC Buy

Analysts at TD Cowen believe shares in Bitcoin-buying Strategy behemoth could jump more than 139% in the next 12 months.

Japan’s Ruling Party Pushes On-Chain Finance Plan to Protect Yen

Japan’s Ruling Party Pushes On-Chain Finance Plan to Protect Yen

Stablecoins and tokenized deposits could help Japan modernize payments and reduce reliance on foreign rails, the proposal says.

AI Slop Floods Bug Bounty Programs as Companies Struggle with Fake Reports

AI Slop Floods Bug Bounty Programs as Companies Struggle with Fake Reports

Bug bounty platforms and software companies are struggling to handle a surge of low-quality, AI-generated vulnerability reports.

Bitcoin ETFs Shed $649M in a Day as Long-Term BTC Holders ‘Limit Downside Potential’

Bitcoin ETFs Shed $649M in a Day as Long-Term BTC Holders ‘Limit Downside Potential’

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $648 million outflows Monday as long-term BTC holders continue to accumulate the cryptocurrency.

Morning Minute: SEC Reverses Course on Tokenized Stocks, HYPE Soars

Morning Minute: SEC Reverses Course on Tokenized Stocks, HYPE Soars

HYPE soared as the SEC opened the door to third-party tokenized stocks. Strategy bought another $2B in BTC, and price still went lower.

Bitcoin DeFi Platform Echo Protocol Hit By $76M Monad Exploit

Bitcoin DeFi Platform Echo Protocol Hit By $76M Monad Exploit

Echo Protocol said that a compromised admin key had enabled unauthorized eBTC minting on its Monad deployment.

Ohio Man Gets 9 Years for $10M Bitcoin Trading Ponzi Scheme

Ohio Man Gets 9 Years for $10M Bitcoin Trading Ponzi Scheme

Rathnakishore Giri falsely promised guaranteed returns on Bitcoin derivatives trading, using new investor funds to pay earlier participants.

Lawyers Apologize After Fake Claude-Generated Quotes Appear in Trump Layoffs Case

Lawyers Apologize After Fake Claude-Generated Quotes Appear in Trump Layoffs Case

Attorneys representing a former Homeland Security official admitted using Anthropic’s Claude Console to help draft a court filing that included fabricated quotes.

AI Still Can't Beat the On-Call Engineer: Here's Why

AI Still Can't Beat the On-Call Engineer: Here's Why

The best AI models can't yet beat the engineers they’re supposed to replace at fixing real-world problems, a new benchmark suggests.

Bitcoin Faces Greater Quantum Computing Risk Than Ethereum, Citi Warns

Bitcoin Faces Greater Quantum Computing Risk Than Ethereum, Citi Warns

Both Bitcoin and Ethereum face a quantum computing threat, but Citi says the gap between them comes down to governance, not just technology.

Swan Bitcoin Hit With Nearly $1 Billion Lawsuit Over Prime Trust Collapse

Swan Bitcoin Hit With Nearly $1 Billion Lawsuit Over Prime Trust Collapse

The lawsuit alleges that the Bitcoin-centric financial services firm took advantage of insider information to escape major losses.

This Open-Source Phone AI Agent Sees, Hears and Acts—All Without Touching the Cloud

This Open-Source Phone AI Agent Sees, Hears and Acts—All Without Touching the Cloud

Oppo's X-OmniClaw runs directly on your Android device, using the camera, screen, and microphone to execute real tasks inside real apps.

Polymarket Users Spur Insider Trading Suspicions With $2.4 Million in Iran Prediction Wins

Polymarket Users Spur Insider Trading Suspicions With $2.4 Million in Iran Prediction Wins

Interlinked Polymarket accounts have made millions betting on U.S. military actions in Iran—and won 98% of the time, analysts say.

Elon Musk Loses $150 Billion AI Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman

Elon Musk Loses $150 Billion AI Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman

The legal battle between Elon Musk and OpenAI has ended in a win for the company he co-founded, following a jury decision.

Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Says AI Verification Could Help Secure Crypto Networks

Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Says AI Verification Could Help Secure Crypto Networks

Vitalik Buterin said mathematically verified software may help protect cryptographic infrastructures as AI improves both code generation and vulnerability discovery.

Hive Shares Hit Highest Price This Year After Bitcoin Miner Unveils Ontario 'AI Gigafactory'

Hive Shares Hit Highest Price This Year After Bitcoin Miner Unveils Ontario 'AI Gigafactory'

Hive Digital Technologies’ stock price popped after the Bitcoin miner unveiled a massive data-center buildout in Ontario, Canada.