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South Korean police book Bithumb CEO as bribery suspect in lawmaker hiring probe: report
Police are investigating whether Bithumb CEO Lee hired lawmaker Kim's son as a favor and whether Kim later used his p…
Google's DiffusionGemma AI Hits 1,000 Tokens Per Second—And It's Free
DiffusionGemma hits 1,000 tokens per second by ditching word-by-word generation entirely. It just doesn't run on most…
Anthropic CEO Warns AI Is Getting Too Powerful—While Releasing Powerful AI
In a new essay, Dario Amodei called for binding safety rules for frontier models as his company heads toward an IPO.
Tether, Nvidia and Amazon Back Humanoid Robotics Firm NEURA in $1.4 Billion Funding Round
Stablecoin giant Tether led a massive Series C round for German robotics firm NEURA, which will embed crypto payment …
The Internet Is Furious at Anthropic After Claude Fable 5 Release
Token burn, silent censorship, and a mandatory data grab—the biggest Claude release has become Anthropic's messiest.
AI Helped People Spot Fake News—Then Made Them Worse at It: MIT
An MIT study found AI assistants improved misinformation detection in the moment, but appeared to weaken users' abili…
Privacy returns to focus as Ethereum developers explore new token standards
In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we're looking at where privacy is headed in the Ethereum ecosystem.
Netomi CEO says $5 trillion AI customer experience market could boost stablecoin demand
Puneet Mehta, a former high-level Wall Street engineer and data scientist, said the rapid expansion of AI enterprise …
The quantum clock is ticking: it's Bitcoin's problem, not Ethereum's
A recent research note published by Citi analysts reached a conclusion about quantum risk that should give every inst…
Mastercard prepares for a future where AI agents make payments
The company is working with Coinbase, Stripe and other companies to build trusted payment systems for AI-driven comme…
Mastercard unveils Agent Pay for Machines to support autonomous AI transactions, including stablecoins
Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines infrastructure will support high-volume, low-value payments by autonomous AI agents.
MegaETH-based MNX raises $6.4 million pre-seed at $40 million valuation to build AI-focused futures exchange
MNX, a decentralized futures exchange focused on the AI economy, has raised $6.4 million in a pre-seed funding round.
Ripple launches toolkit for agentic payments on XRPL
A growing number of companies, including Ripple, want to create payment rails which would AI agents to execute transa…
World Series of Poker adds Solana payments for tournament buy-ins
The move marks an integration of blockchain-based payments into a major live sporting and gaming event.
A 'Bitcoin DeFi' project just shut down with a brutal post-mortem: Users just didn't care
"It did not work," Botanix said. "At lest not in this market and not in this timeline."
Crypto’s killer app may be selling stocks after its own tokens failed retail
A Delphi Consulting analysis of 652 CEX listings from January 2025 onward found that a user buying every new token ac…
Humanity Protocol Reveals Cause of $31M Exploit
Humanity Protocol has confirmed that the June 8 attack resulted from a compromised developer machine infected with m…
Claude Fable 5 Turns AI Into a Repository Auditor
Claude Fable 5, launched on June 9, 2026, is gaining attention for its ability to handle long software engineering t…
EU Orders Meta to Open WhatsApp to Rival AI Chatbots—Meta Calls It 'Regulatory Overreach'
The European Commission has issued interim measures forcing Meta to restore third-party AI access to the WhatsApp Bus…
AI Malware Worm Adapts to New Targets in Real Time, Cybersecurity Experts Say
Researchers demonstrated an AI-powered worm that adapts to targets, generates attack strategies, and spreads across n…
Anthropic Rolls Out Claude Mythos 5 AI Model—Along With the Safer Fable 5 for the Public
Anthropic has released a full version of its cybersecurity-centric Claude Mythos model—along with a safer version f…
Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available model in its Mythos class and the company’s mo…
China Plans $295 Billion AI Infrastructure Push Centered on Domestic Chips
China has announced plans to build a nationwide AI data center network over the next five years, with state-owned te…
Backpack US appoints former SEC Acting Chairman Piwowar to board amid push for crypto perps
Michael S. Piwowar was appointed by President Barack Obama and served as an SEC commissioner from 2013 to 2018.
Bitcoin inflows slow sharply in 2026 as investors chase AI, Bernstein says
Bernstein said bitcoin's increasingly diversified ownership base supports its long-term store-of-value thesis.
Live updates: bitcoin drifts back to $62,500, putting damper on hope for two straight up days
Crypto prices rose on Monday following last week's crash, but the bears still appear to be in control.
Humanity's $36 million exploit tied to compromised laptop hosting a 'multisig' wallet
The compromised laptop held enough multisig keys to take over the project's bridges on two chains, a basic security f…
Humanity Protocol token crashes more than 80% after a $32 million private-key hack
The decentralized identity project said attackers compromised the keys of a foundation member and are dumping the sto…
OpenAI Wants to Kill the Chatbot It Invented and Turn It Into a Superapp
The company that launched ChatGPT in 2022 is now betting its future on something closer to WeChat than a Q&A box
OpenAI Confirms Confidential IPO Filing, Keeps Timing Open
The ChatGPT maker says it has filed paperwork for a potential public offering but may remain private while it pursues…