The common shares of Strategy (MSTR) fell below $100 on Wednesday for the first time since March 2024, extending losses as Bitcoin's (BTC) prolonged decline continues to weigh on investor perceptions of the company's leveraged crypto strategy.

Baton Corporation, the UK-registered company behind Solana memecoin launchpad Pump.fun, posted a job listing on June 24 for a Chief Legal Officer (CLO) with a salary range of $1 million to $5 million per year. Co-founder Alon Cohen promoted the opening, stating that they are searching for someone who can own the company’s regulatory and...

360 Security Technology, one of China’s largest cybersecurity firms, has announced two AI-powered security tools with claims that they can rival Anthropic’s Mythos vulnerability-detection system, stating that the American model is a strategic threat Beijing must answer to. Founder Zhou Hongyi introduced the tools at the ISC.AI 2026 cybersecurity conference in Beijing under the collective...

A humanoid robot was filmed kneeling on a sidewalk, bowing to strangers, and asking them to cover its electricity costs.

U.S. humanoid robot maker Agility Robotics is preparing to go public on Wall Street through a SPAC merger deal with Churchill Capital. Agility announced Wednesday it has signed a definitive merger agreement with Churchill Capital, a blank check company backed by Wall Street dealmaker Michael Klein. The SPAC deal with Churchill Capital values the company...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has released draft guidelines that would force banks and other regulated financial entities to adopt structures set in place to manage risks tied to artificial intelligence and machine-learning models. These proposed risk management systems will include mandatory kill switches that instantly shut down any AI system producing harmful outputs....

A Chinese supercomputer has become the most powerful in the world, the first time since 2017 that a machine from China has topped a closely watched ranking often seen as a measure of a country’s technological strength. The computer, called LineShine and based in Shenzhen, knocked the American machine El Capitan off the top spot...

Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour has reportedly confirmed that the prediction market operator will not go public this year, even as the company’s annualized revenue has crossed $2 billion and its private valuation sits at $22 billion. The company has reportedly held informal conversations with investment banks about a future listing. But people close to Kalshi’s...

A Hong Kong district court has rejected Xiao Rui’s claim that part of his money came from selling Bitcoin and found him guilty of laundering more than HK$64 million through underground banking channels.  The 37-year-old son of a former anti-corruption official from Wuhan faces sentencing on July 23 after being found guilty on four counts...

Ortex Technologies, an analytics business, reports that short sellers are increasing their bets that Elon Musk’s SpaceX would continue to decrease after the company’s share price dropped from the highs it attained soon after going public on June 12. The sale took place during a challenging period for the market as a whole. The Nasdaq...

Anthropic released a new Slack integration called "Claude Tag." The new integration lets users tag @Claude in Slack channels and delegate tasks.

Bitcoin has dropped below $60,000 and is now down nearly 20% this month. The total crypto market cap has fallen from $4.3 trillion in October to $2.0 trillion today. Strategy shares hit their lowest level in more than two years as worries grow around its huge Bitcoin holdings. Stocks are mixed as oil prices slide,...

Leading prediction market platform, Kalshi, has filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Illinois, challenging the recently created law that would force prediction market platforms to obtain a state license. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, has named Governor JB Pritzker, Attorney General Kwame Raoul, and...

Humanoid robots kicked penalty shots at MWC Shanghai 2026 to try real-time AI decision-making.

Top global crypto exchange, Binance, has officially withdrawn its MiCA license application from Greece’s Hellenic Capital Market Commission on Tuesday, stating that it will seek regulatory approval in a different EU member state after the process with the Greek regulator failed to reach a decision before the MiCA deadline. The exchange announced this move in...

OpenAI will now use its first custom AI chip "Jalapeño" made by Broadcom. It will be used for the heavy computing work of running AI models.

Sentient Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to open-source AGI, has launched a $42M grant for researchers, startups, and scaling businesses producing models with an open component.

LAB edges higher above $18.00 at the time of writing on Wednesday, defying broader crypto market headwinds that have constrained Bitcoin (BTC) in the $62,000-$63,000 range and Ethereum (ETH) between $1,600 and $1,700.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a one-count complaint against Kentucky on Tuesday, June 23, to block the state’s enforcement actions against Kalshi and Polymarket. The lawsuit names the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Governor Andy Beshear, Attorney General Russell Coleman, Department of Revenue Commissioner Thomas Miller, and the Kentucky Racing and Gaming Corporation as defendants....

Adrian Boafo has won the Democratic primary for Maryland’s 5th Congressional District, securing a major victory for the cryptocurrency industry’s political ambitions.  The win was encouraged by roughly $5.5 million in spending from Protect Progress, the Democratic arm of crypto super PAC network Fairshake. How much did crypto PACs spend on Boafo? Adrian Boafo has...

DeFi protocols have shed roughly $45 billion in total value locked across all chains since January, amid a record wave of exploits and price crashes. On-chain analysis by CryptoRank showed that DeFi TVL has been falling every single month this year, sliding from about $115 billion to around $70 billion as of late June.  Among...

When the Associated Press reported that an unidentified US government official told them that Anthropic’s Claude Mythos found cracks at the highest levels of sensitive US government computer systems in a matter of hours, instead of weeks as expected, it’s time to ask the big question: If the most hardened systems in the world can’t...

Ripple (XRP) continues to face significant selling pressure, sliding below $1.10 at the time of writing on Wednesday. This decline mirrors the broader weakness in the crypto market, exacerbated by mounting macroeconomic headwinds and persistent geopolitical uncertainties.

Michael Saylor’s “buy and hold forever” BTC strategy, which seemed highly appealing, has become a concern as MSTR and BTC prices trade at yearly lows.  Economist and longtime Bitcoin critic Peter Schiff said many “Bitcoiners are way too complacent” about the reality of the situation at play.  Strategy’s stock MSTR dropped to $103 on Tuesday,...

Five senior Senate Democrats have called on Republican committee chairs to hold immediate hearings on a reported $500 million investment by UAE-linked entities in World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency company tied to President Donald Trump and his family. The letter, dated June 23, was signed by Senators Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal, Gary Peters, Dick Durbin,...

Bitcoin (BTC) is trading between $62,000 and $63,000 at the time of writing on Wednesday, weighed down by headwinds stemming from macroeconomic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, especially as the United States (US) and Iran continue to offer conflicting accounts of the nuclea

Qualcomm is reportedly in talks with ByteDance to design customized chips for the TikTok parent company. The negotiations show yet another front in the race by tech companies to design AI chips outside the dominance of Nvidia. Success in these negotiations will add to the success of the relationship that has yielded results before. In...

The project to offer Europeans a digital euro advanced in the bloc’s parliament this week with promises that the new form of central bank money will not replace paper cash. The move comes amid concerns in Brussels and Frankfurt over the growing use of privately issued stablecoins tied to the U.S. fiat as Washington prepares...

Blockchain cybersecurity company Blockaid detected a front-end hack on the website of the decentralized finance (DeFi) yield-aggregating platform, Yield Yak, on June 24, 2026. According to Blockaid, the front-end of Yield Yak’s site had been compromised by malicious wallet-draining scripts. It marks the second time in days that an attack of this nature has taken...

Dunamu, the operator of the Upbit exchange, is locked in a seven-way race to become the official custodian of the seized Bitcoins as South Korea’s National Police Agency tries to move past the occasional crypto losses that have embarrassed the nation’s highest agencies since last year.  According to local reports from South Korean media, at...