Government brings British Steel under public ownership
British Steel has come under public ownership after the government moved to "protect UK steelmaking".
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Live updates: ZachXBT calls hardware wallets complete garbage; BTC steady after Korea rate hike
Futures tied to Wall Street’s tech-heavy index, the Nasdaq, fell by 0.6% Thursday alongside a near 1% decline in bitcoin’s price.
Ether outruns bitcoin as ETF money returns, almost all of from BlackRock's fund
Ether is the only large-cap crypto asset doing much of anything this week, and the softer U.S. inflation print that lifted the market on Tuesday does not explain it.
Base’s social bet left it trailing in prediction markets and perps: Pollak
Base creator Jesse Pollak is stepping back from leadership of the Base App after admitting he was “definitively wrong” to bet on social experiences driving crypto adoption.
Celebrity influencers paid up to £1m to advertise deodorant on Instagram
The #ad posts on your feed may look relaxed, personal and spontaneous but behind many of them is a carefully planned campaign, a detailed contract and, in some cases, a seven-figure fee.
Buffett calls Bill Gates relationship with Epstein 'distasteful'
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has described Bill Gates' relationship with late sex offender Jeffery Epstein as "distasteful", but said he himself had made mistakes in life by being friends with people "who weren't…
Buffett calls Bill Gates relationship with Epstein 'distasteful'
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has described Bill Gates' relationship with the late sex offender Jeffery Epstein as "distasteful", but said he himself had made mistakes in life by being friends with people "who wer…
Stanford study says 5-minute Bitcoin prediction markets enable settlement manipulation
Researchers found that Polymarket’s five-minute Bitcoin prediction markets create incentives to manipulate spot prices around contract settlement, proposing longer settlement windows as a potential fix.
OpenAI Uses AI Red Team to Strengthen GPT-5.6 Against Prompt Injection Attacks
OpenAI has introduced GPT-Red, an automated AI system designed to find security vulnerabilities in its language models.
Meet Bonsai: The First 27B AI Model That Fits on Your Phone
I models eat up a lot of memory. A 27-billion-parameter AI model, considered medium-sized by industry standards, needs roughly 54 GB of memory to run on half precision. Most laptops can't hold that. Some desktop rigs ca…
Why Analysts Aren’t Worried About Coinbase’s 30% Drop
Coinbase (COIN) and Circle (CRCL) each rose roughly 3–4% on Wednesday after William Blair—a Chicago-based investment bank founded in 1935 that most equity investors know from tech and growth coverage—released a note sla…
Base Creator Jesse Pollak Steps Back From App Leadership After Admitting Social Bet 'Was Wrong'
Jesse Pollak is stepping back from leading the Base App, handing responsibility for the product back to Coinbase while shifting his full attention to growing Base as a blockchain for global finance.
Salary information to be shown on job ads under new laws
Employers will have to publish salary information in job adverts under government plans to rewrite anti-discrimination laws.
Coinbase's Jesse Pollak steps back from Base app leadership after admitting his crypto social strategy failed
Coinbase’s Jesse Pollak said he is stepping back from leading the Base app after acknowledging that his bet on an onchain social economy failed to drive crypto adoption as he had expected.
BlackRock, Goldman, and JP Morgan Will Give Tokenized Stocks a Try
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, the clearinghouse that processes U.S. securities transactions, on Wednesday launched a pilot to test tokenized stocks and U.S. Treasuries with nearly 40 financial institution…
What Is BIP-110 and Why Is It Dividing the Bitcoin Community?
A proposal to change Bitcoin's consensus rules has divided developers, miners, companies, and users over how the network should evolve and who gets to decide.
US Senator blasts AG pick for ‘dismantling’ crypto unit, Trump’s CZ pardon
President Donald Trump’s pick for US Attorney General faced criticism from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on his approach to crypto enforcement and the pardon of former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao.
Revolut receives in-principle approval from UAE authorities for crypto services
Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority approved the London-headquartered fintech company for broker-dealer, management and investment, and exchange services in the UAE.
Ostium pauses trading as security firms report multimillion-dollar oracle exploit
Ostium halted trading and advised revoking contract approvals after blockchain security firms reported an apparent oracle-related exploit of its OLP liquidity vault, with estimated losses ranging from $18 million to $22…
Bitcoin Giant Strategy Isn't Panicking—Unless BTC Crashes to $10K: CEO
Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy will start buying the cryptocurrency again once its preferred shares recover, CEO Phong Le said, as the company leans on a retooled financing model to ride out the crypto downturn.
Steel nationalisation takes step closer
Powers to nationalise the steel industry have been passed by both houses in Parliament.
US Treasury Freezes $131 Million in Iran-Linked Crypto Wallets
The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned multiple cryptocurrency wallets tied to Iran's Central Bank and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Tuesday, with stablecoin issuer Tether freezing ov…
Securitize, Cantor target tokenized IPOs for public markets
Securitize and Cantor Fitzgerald are developing infrastructure for tokenized IPOs and secondary equity offerings within the existing US securities framework.
Cantor and Securitize collaborate on blockchain-based IPOs
Investment giant Cantor Fitzgerald and cryptocurrency-focused broker-dealer Securitize (SECZ), are revamping initial public offerings (IPOs) with tokenization and blockchain technology, the companies said on Wednesday.