China is giving investors a weird but very clear setup right now. The economy looks soft, shoppers are not spending with much force, and April retail sales grew at the slowest pace since the post-COVID reopening. Yet the stock trade is not really about malls, restaurants, or hospital names. It is about AI, semiconductors, hard...

The AI boom now has one very ugly question hanging over it. Is the money real, or are Big Tech companies just feeding cash to AI startups and booking the same cash as cloud sales later? That question now sits right on top of OpenAI and Anthropic, because fresh filings show both companies are tied...

The artificial intelligence sectors in both the United States and China are being flooded with unprecedented capital. However, the AI funding is now becoming a competition between the two largest economies.  Global AI startups raised $255.5 billion in Q1 2026 alone. Meanwhile, Chinese AI ventures separately pulled in over 110 billion yuan ($16.2 billion). How is...

Aave, the leading lending protocol, will be pursuing a “revenue-led protocol strategy” over the next 12 months, according to its founder, Stani Kulechov. Kulechov believes this is the next phase for DeFi to move past the phase of token speculation, writing on X, “Sustainable, consistent revenue is what proves that DeFi can evolve beyond pure...

The New York Times is stirring the pot with an investigation it published today May 24, claiming that Trump appointees at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) probed and placed officials, including senior staff, who did not fall in line with its plans for prediction markets on administrative leave.  Career officials had flagged problems with...

A collar from Hangzhou is telling pet owners that the noise from the sofa, the hallway, or the food bowl may soon arrive as a sentence on their phones. Pettichat, a product by Meng Xiaoyi, is a device that translates animal vocalizations and behavior to give an idea of what a pet might be feeling...

Most auto AI features are still not paying their own bills, even after years of investment across voice tools, driver prediction systems, connected car services, and digital shopping products. A live poll run during an SBD Automotive webinar found that only 18% of AI features are profitable for most attendees. See, automakers can build AI,...

Iran is now facing Donald Trump’s sixth public run at a ceasefire deal, and the latest version is also being sold as close, but not finished.

DeepSeek will permanently keep the 75% discount on its flagship V4-Pro model that had been set to expire May 31, the company said Saturday. V4-Pro API output tokens now cost $0.87 per million, down from $3.48 at launch one month ago. DeepSeek announced Saturday that the 75% discount on its flagship V4-Pro model is now...

On-chain sleuth ZachXBT said two contracts tied to European stablecoin issuer StablR may have been drained in a live exploit worth about $10 million, with EURR and USDR both falling more than 20% below peg. He posted the alert on Telegram and said the attacker wallet was first funded through CCTP on Noble, and the...

BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes said Bitcoin holders should not confuse Michael Saylor’s buying machine with a safety net for their own portfolios. Arthur made the point during a May 13 interview with Scott Melker (aka Wolf of All Streets), where he said Michael’s role is tied to Strategy (MSTR), not to ordinary investors holding Bitcoin...

The Open Network (TON) has confirmed that the Toncoin and Token Bridge at bridge-v3.ton.org will cease all operations permanently on September 1, 2026, drawing the curtain on an infrastructure that was behind the blockchain’s earliest days of cross-chain connectivity. It was stated in the announcement, which was published on the TON Status Telegram channel, that...

President Donald Trump is facing a new stock-trading mess after his latest financial filing showed 3,711 trades, with nearly all of them tied to shares in American companies. Many of the companies in the report can be affected by federal decisions, including policy on defense, taxes, energy, tech, trade, and regulation. Over 2,000 trades landed...

The old 60/40 portfolio can break badly if the next market shock comes from global inflation. That is the ugly part investors are being forced to deal with now. Bonds are expected to form the conservative side of any investment portfolio. Bonds offer stable returns, minimize volatility, and act as an insurance against falling equities...

WhatsApp and its parent company Meta (NASDAQ: META) have received lawsuits from the state of Texas regarding their privacy encryption. The company has been accused of violating the state’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act.  Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov did not miss the opportunity to pile on, writing the latest chapter in the long history of the...

Iran has spent more than a month under Washington’s new “Economic Fury” sanctions drive, and the country has still not given the Trump administration what it wants. The campaign began on April 16 with a promise to use the “full range of available tools and authorities” against Tehran’s economy. That sounds big, but the early...

Nobitex still processes around $9M in monthly volumes, with a 50% drawdown since the war in Iran broke out in March. The exchange is still a key stablecoin hub, potentially used to evade sanctions and move funds out of Iran.

Delivery Hero got a takeover offer from Uber on Saturday. The bid values the German food delivery company at €33 per share, or about $38.29. The offer is lower than what shareholders want. It’s about 1.76% below where Delivery Hero’s stock closed Friday. Uber just became Delivery Hero’s biggest shareholder. The ride-hailing company bumped up...

Bank-affiliated stablecoin issuers will now be expected to comply with the same anti-money laundering and sanctions requirements that govern traditional financial institutions. The change is due to a proposed rule that was recently approved by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The FDIC is also separately preparing to modernize anti-money laundering (AML) rules for stablecoins. ...

According to the Department of State, a reward of up to $10 million will be offered for information leading to the seizure and recovery of proceeds obtained through money laundering associated with fraud emanating from the Tai Chang complexes in Burma.  According to the Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program, the reward is meant to bring...

Grayscale has declared a bullish future for Sui and its Staking ETF (ticker: GSUI), which gives both institutional and retail investors a more regulated way to gain exposure to the Sui network.  Grayscale’s backing comes just two days after the Sui blockchain removed gas fees for stablecoin transfers. Sui is one of the core assets,...

Nvidia’s top executive called for better oversight from the company’s business partners on Saturday after Taiwan authorities arrested three people accused of trying to send banned computer chips to China through fake paperwork. Jensen Huang, who leads the world’s most valuable company, spoke to reporters in Taipei just hours after arriving from the United States....

The Thai police force has successfully uncovered an AI-enabled romance scam being run by six men from Nigeria using a luxury riverside condominium in Nonthaburi. This operation took place on Friday, May 22, 2026, highlighting the growing trend of using artificial intelligence to facilitate fraudulent activities. Police forces under the Metropolitan Police Bureau seized three...

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Within days of each other, courts in China, the UK and Morocco handed down significant sentences to criminals involved in physical crypto crime.  While efforts are ongoing to make the cryptocurrency industry more secure online, law enforcement officials globally are also cracking down on physical crypto crime known as wrench attacks. Does China punish crypto...

A US-sanctioned Iranian businessman, known to be adept at evading international sanctions, has reportedly been linked to operations using crypto to help Iran finance its armed forces and circumvent sanctions. Babak Zanjani is believed to be involved in processing finances for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). So far, they have carried out about $850...

The Uniswap DAO has pushed out a new proposal to expand its UNIfication program by activating protocol fee collection and UNI token burning to the BNB, Polygon and Celo networks.  The proposal to expand on the three networks will be looking at replicating the rally that the initial rollout sparked when it launched on the...

Fenwick & West, a prominent Silicon Valley law firm, has entered into a $54 million preliminary settlement agreement to address customer lawsuits related to the defunct crypto exchange, FTX. Filed in court on Friday in Miami, Florida, the settlement has yet to receive judicial sanction. Settlement will address claims that FTX clients raised against the...

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