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Alibaba's Open-Source Play Backfires: Qwen Code Free Tier Gets the Axe
Alibaba pulled the plug on Qwen Code's free tier today, dealing another blow to the narrative that Chinese AI labs are crypto and open-source champion...
Starbucks Supercharges Ordering With ChatGPT's AI Drink Recommendation Engine
Starbucks' latest move signals how consumer brands are rapidly adopting AI tech to drive engagement and personalize transactions. The coffee giant ju...
Legal & General Unleashes £50B in Tokenized Liquidity Funds on Ethereum
Legal & General Asset Management just made a significant move in the institutional crypto space, bringing its £50 billion liquidity fund portfolio onc...
Ethereum Downturn Crushes BitMine's Q3 Balance Sheet With $3.8B Quarterly Loss
Tom Lee's BitMine Immersion Technologies just reported a brutal quarter, posting a $3. 8 billion loss as its massive Ethereum holdings got hammered by...
Ethereum's Next MEV Fix: How EIP-8105 Plans to Lock Down the Mempool
Sandwich attacks drain Ethereum users of roughly $60 million annually. The culprit?
North Korea's AI-Powered Social Engineering: Zerion Hit in Sophisticated Crypto Targeting Campaign
North Korean-affiliated hackers leveraged AI-enabled social engineering to compromise Zerion's infrastructure, siphoning roughly $100,000 from the cry...
Apple's App Store Takedown Exposes $9.5M Ledger Wallet Scam—And A Systemic Problem
Apple has removed a fraudulent Ledger Live app from its platform after onchain analysis revealed the sophisticated scam claimed over 50 crypto investo...
Kraken's IPO Still On Track: Exchange Chief Doubles Down Despite Valuation Slide
Kraken isn't backing down from its public market ambitions. Despite swirling reports of a pause last month, co-CEO Arjun Sethi confirmed Tuesday that...
Ethereum's Leading DEX CoW Swap Shuts Down Operations After Critical Security Breach
CoW Swap, the decentralized exchange platform favored by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, has temporarily halted all protocol operations following...
Visa Partners with Stripe's Tempo Network, Elevating Institutional Crypto Backbone
Visa just became the first major external validator on Stripe's Tempo blockchain, joining Stripe itself and Standard Chartered's Zodia Custody as anch...
Goldman Sachs Launches Options-Based Bitcoin Income ETF to Capture Yield in Sideways Markets
Goldman Sachs has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to launch a Bitcoin-linked exchange-traded fund designed to generate income whi...
Prediction Markets Poised to Explode to $1 Trillion by 2030, But Sports Betting Won't Lead the Charge
Bernstein's latest crypto analysis suggests prediction markets are headed for explosive growth, but the composition of that growth tells an interestin...
Counterfeit Ledger Live App Drains $9M+ From 50+ Users in Bold Mac App Store Heist
A fraudulent Ledger Live application infiltrated Apple's Mac App Store, successfully targeting over 50 crypto holders and making off with more than $9...
U.S. Justice Department Launches $40M Recovery Fund for OneCoin Fraud Victims
The Department of Justice has officially opened a compensation claims process for victims of OneCoin, one of crypto's most notorious scams, making ove...
Crypto.com Doubles Down on Sports Marketing With $1M CRO Purse for White House UFC Event
Crypto. com is making a statement about mainstream adoption by bankrolling a historic $1 million Cronos (CRO) fighter bonus pool for an upcoming UFC e...
StarkWare's Revenue Reality Check: Major Layoffs Signal Shift Away From Ecosystem Spending
StarkWare co-founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson just confirmed what the Ethereum ecosystem was whispering about—the crypto intelligence team behind Starkn...
Chinese AI Lab MiniMax Releases Powerful Model, Then Reverses Commercial Terms
MiniMax, a Chinese artificial intelligence laboratory, released M2. 7—a state-of-the-art AI agent model that stands toe-to-toe with Anthropic's Claude...
Polymarket Profit Machine: How One Trader Converted $500 Into a Quarter-Million Dollar Windfall on UFC Controversy
A sharp trader just turned $500 into $252,000 by betting against the UFC's latest judging mishap on Polymarket, the on-chain prediction platform resha...
Meta's Photorealistic Zuckerberg AI: From Meme to Metaverse Reality
Three years after his notoriously awkward Horizon Worlds avatar became an internet punchline, Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down on avatar technology—ex...
StarkWare Pivots Hard: Infrastructure Giant Restructures to Chase Real Revenue Streams
Zero-knowledge scaling company StarkWare is restructuring aggressively, cutting staff and splitting into two focused units as it shifts from pure infr...