Burnham has no scope to increase borrowing, think tank warns
Prime Minister Andy Burnham will have to raise taxes or cut spending to meet his pledges on defence and the cost of living, a major think tank has said.
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Bitcoin Liquidations Show Leverage, Not Fundamentals, Drove the Selloff
● Bitcoin fell below $64,000 after the United States and Israel launched coordinated military strikes on Iran, triggering a sharp risk-off reaction across crypto markets.
Markets Don’t Buy the US Ceasefire Against Iran Will Last
The United States seems to have announced a ceasefire yesterday on its offensive actions against Iran. But prediction markets are not too optimistic about how long that peace will last.
Why is Crypto Market Going Down Today?
Bitcoin has crashed toward sixty-one thousand dollars. What’s behind the latest crypto drop? Market watchers spot signs of panic. Some traders rush to exit their positions. Others wait, unsure what comes next. Fears gro…
Bitcoin and Altcoin Price Prediction: What Comes After This Bear Market
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Bitcoin lows pierce $63K as Asia chip-stock crash spreads to Wall Street
Bitcoin and crypto dropped as contagion from a major Asia stock-market correction spreads to the US at the Wall Street open.
Teacher Arrested for Clapping at AI Data Center Public Hearing
A Kansas high school physics teacher was arrested and carried out of a city commission meeting after expressing support for opponents of a proposed AI data center, according to a report by local broadcaster KWCH.
SOL Price Eyes Breakout as Morgan Stanley Launches Solana ETP
Morgan Stanley launched the staked MSOL ETP on NYSE Arca within its $14B product suite.
Galaxy, MARA Holdings deepen Texas expansion with land acquisitions
Crypto companies continued to expand their physical footprint in Texas, with Galaxy Digital and MARA Holdings announcing separate land acquisitions tied to AI, high-performance computing (HPC) and Bitcoin mining infrast…
Why the Bitcoin Rally Seems More Like a Bull Trap
South Korea's KOSPI index fell more than 8% at the open and triggered a circuit breaker, sending a risk-off shockwave through global markets before New York traders had finished their coffee. Bitcoin's response was fast…
Ondo drops tokenized asset blockchain plans for private, high-speed trading network
Dubbed Ondo Network, the system marks a shift from the company's February 2025 vision for Ondo Chain, a blockchain for institutional finance and tokenized real-world assets. After building its new perpetual futures plat…
XRP Price Slides as Senate Drops Clarity Act and Fed Decision Looms
The global macro backdrop is as unfavorable as it's been all year for crypto markets.
Morgan Stanley expands crypto lineup with Ether, Solana ETPs
Morgan Stanley Investment Management has launched Ether and Solana exchange-traded products, expanding its fund lineup beyond Bitcoin.
ZEC Price Climbs After Zcash Ironwood Upgrade Goes Live
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Core Scientific revenue doubles in Q2 as AI colocation expansion accelerates
Core Scientific reported strong second-quarter revenue growth as AI colocation became its largest business, though a non-cash accounting charge resulted in a $1.15 billion net loss.
First ChatGPT, Now Claude: Frontier AI Models Are Escaping Their Sandboxes
Just a week after OpenAI disclosed that two frontier AI models escaped a sandboxed testing environment and breached Hugging Face, researchers have demonstrated a similar containment failure involving Anthropic's Claude …
NVIDIA’s AI Defense Alliance Emerges as AI Risks Draw Skynet Comparisons
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Zcash Activates Ironwood Upgrade After Counterfeiting Scare
Weeks after a critical vulnerability sparked a market rout and raised questions about Zcash's supply, the privacy-focused cryptocurrency has activated Ironwood, an upgrade designed to ensure any counterfeit coins can ne…
'Anything remotely dovish' from Fed could be good for bitcoin, says analyst
Markets are split on whether the Federal Reserve will hike rates or stay on hold on Wednesday, but analysts say bitcoin
Some parents on benefits to get up to £4,500 for child starting apprenticeship
Some parents on benefits will be given up to £4,500 a year to encourage their children to start apprenticeships, the government has said.
Ethereum startup EthSystems bets privacy is key to getting banks on public blockchains
EthSystems, a startup spun out of the Ethereum Foundation earlier this month, is betting that privacy, not scalability, is the biggest obstacle preventing institutions from moving financial activity onto public blockcha…
The Dumbest-Looking AI Prompt Just Beat Months of Careful Game-Design Prompt Engineering
Just two days after Claude Opus 5 shipped, AI investor and former HyperWrite CEO Matt Shumer posted a video of a fully playable first-person shooter the model had built entirely on its own.
Michael Saylor: Bitcoin Code Is a Constitution, Changes Are Attacks on 'Economic Rights'
Michael Saylor isn't fighting BIP-110 anymore—he's fighting the very idea that Bitcoin's code can be changed. The Strategy executive chairman posted a nine-post thread to X on Tuesday that reframes the entire protocol d…
Wall Street veteran Don Wilson says regulators are getting perps all wrong
Perpetual futures have become one of crypto's defining financial products, but DRW CEO Don Wilson says much of what people think they know about them is wrong.