OpenAI has been in talks with the Donald Trump administration about handing the U.S. government a 5% stake in the company, the Financial Times reported, citing two people familiar with the discussions

Major Russian banks and retailers are ready to allow citizens to use the national\\\'s digital ruble by the September 1 deadline, Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina said this week, according to a

The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned more than 130 cryptocurrency wallet addresses this week tied to ISIS, with the overwhelming majority operating on the Tron blockchain. The Treasury Department\\\'

Forget clever prompts: AI researchers say they tricked leading AI models into generating cocaine synthesis instructions by convincing them the dangerous ideas were their own, while also manipulating a

Shares in BlackRock-backed tokenization firm Securitize (SECZ) are up more than 8% in their trading debut, recently changing hands at $12.75.  The firm began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (N

SBI Crypto, a wholly owned subsidiary of Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings, is winding down its Bitcoin mining pool services, according to an announcement from the firm.  Though a reason was not

Major cryptocurrencies are broadly in the green Thursday with Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and other top coins showing gains as crypto liquidations climb—with short positions making up the majority of the

FBI Director Kash Patel has seen his stake in Strategy collapse since making a sizable, previously undisclosed investment in the Bitcoin treasury firm last November. Patel bought between $100,000 and

Standard Chartered announced Wednesday that it has launched a service allowing institutional clients to mint and redeem USDC, the stablecoin issued by Circle Internet Group, directly through the bank

Japanese investment firm Metaplanet added 2,823 Bitcoin during the second quarter, it said in a Thursday disclosure, spending just shy of ¥35.9 billion ($222 million) to lift its total stash to 43,000

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An alleged member of Scattered Spider, the prolific hacking crew behind some of the biggest corporate breaches of the past few years, has been extradited from Finland to face U.S. charges over an $8 m

Publicly traded brokerage and financial app Robinhood launched the public mainnet Wednesday for its Ethereum layer-2 network, Robinhood Chain.  The Arbitrum-powered network aims to “bridge the gap” b

Venice AI has raised $65 million in its first outside funding round at a $1 billion valuation, founder Erik Voorhees announced Wednesday. In a post on X, Voorhees—a cryptocurrency industry veteran wh

Chinese tech company Meituan officially unveiled LongCat-2.0 on June 30, confirming the open-license, 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts AI model is the same system that spent two months runnin