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OpenAI Buys Orchestra Bio to Put AI Agents in Charge of Drug Development Grunt Work
The ChatGPT maker is folding Orchestra’s drug-program agents into Rosalind, its life sciences suite, betting AI can shave time off the decade-plus it takes to bring a medicine to patients.
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JPMorgan Puts a Number on Bitcoin for the First Time: 10% a Year, With a Big Caveat
J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s 2027 Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions project a 10% annual return for Bitcoin over 10 to 15 years, though the firm isn’t adding it to its main portfolio models.
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Wallet Linked to Drift Exploit Sends $61 Million in Ethereum to Tornado Cash
The North Korea-linked attacker behind April's $295 million Drift heist pushed 25,700 ETH through the mixer in two hours, and still controls roughly $198 million more.
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Microsoft, Alphabet, Goldman Sachs Join Growing List of Companies Objecting to Tokenized Stocks
Sixteen companies have now objected to having their shares traded on the planned OKX-ICE tokenized stock venue, up from nine just four days earlier, according to an updated public notice.
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Swiss Regulator Approves First Retail Fund That Holds Bitcoin Directly
FINMA waived the diversification rules for the fund but leaned hard on custody and investor-protection safeguards.
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Bitcoin ETFs Post Their Best Day in Nearly a Month as BlackRock Does All the Buying
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $526.7 million on Monday, their biggest day since Sept. 22. BlackRock's IBIT supplied all of it while Fidelity and Grayscale funds bled.
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Bitcoin's Next Move: Here's What to Watch
Bitcoin trades just below $83,000, above both the short-term and long-term moving averages. Here are the levels traders are watching.
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Zcash Leads Crypto Bounce, Surging 8.5% as Bitcoin Reclaims $83,000
Zcash jumped 8.5% in 24 hours to $1,215.85 as the broader crypto market rebounded, with Bitcoin up 1.6% and ETF money flowing back in.
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The Midterms Are the First Real Test of Whether Markets Beat Pollsters
Former NBC News political director Chuck Todd is hosting NEXTPredict two weeks before the vote, and has yet to pick a side.
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What Is Strategy (MSTR)? The Bitcoin Treasury Company
Strategy’s co-founder Michael Saylor pioneered the Bitcoin treasury playbook. Here’s what you need to know.
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Mastercard Opens Up AI Agent Payments With Early Access and Live Demo
At Cloudflare Connect, the company demoed an AI agent running a sample ad campaign across nine payments to two merchants on a single approved budget.
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French Lawmakers Back Stablecoin Swap Tax by Just One Vote
The amendment would make swapping crypto into euro or dollar stablecoins taxable in France from 2027, with gains measured coin by coin.
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Morning Minute: Nine Blue Chip Companies Say No to Tokenized Stocks
If companies are objecting, does that deflate the tokenized stock hopes before they begin to materialize? And who is impacted the most?
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Mt. Gox Pushes Repayment Deadline to 2027 With $2.8B in Bitcoin Still to Distribute
The defunct exchange's trustee said many creditors still have not completed the procedures needed to get their Bitcoin back.
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BlackRock Files for 'Buffer' Bitcoin ETF as IBIT Draws $665M in a Day
The iShares Bitcoin Managed Protection ETF would use options on IBIT to limit losses, in exchange for giving up some upside.
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Strive Buys $335 Million in Bitcoin After Investors Pour In $369 Million
The Nasdaq-listed bitcoin holder bought as warrant holders exercised, bringing in $369 million, and it now plans a $630 million sale of 15% preferred stock.
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Anthropic Gives 5% of Itself to the Public. Musk Answers by Giving Away SpaceX Shares
Anthropic committed 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund, and within hours Elon Musk promised a SpaceX share to every American child.
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XRP Ledger Repairs Its Lending Protocol Before It Goes Live
XRP developers published a second amendment to repair the ledger’s new uncollateralized lending feature while the original still awaits validator approval.
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Hackers Are Running Apple's iOS on Android Phones for the First Time
Hobbyists are booting iOS 16 on Xiaomi and Nothing phones and posting the proof. It barely works, but it suggests Apple's software is no longer welded to Apple's hardware.
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Mastercard Brings Its Fraud-Fighting Tools to Stablecoin Payments
Unveiled at Money20/20, the API-based tool combines payment and blockchain intelligence to flag fraud, scams and sanctions exposure before funds move on-chain.
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Why Some of America’s Biggest Companies Are Objecting to Tokenized Shares
Nine companies, including Verizon, Broadcom and UnitedHealth, have objected to having their shares traded on the planned OKX-ICE tokenized stock venue.
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US Orders Civilian Agencies to Rip DeepSeek Out of Government Systems
The Department of Homeland Security told civilian agencies to remove China's DeepSeek and any service built on it, and banned buying more, citing the risk of sensitive data reaching Beijing.
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JPMorgan's JPM Coin Arrives on Ethereum, Putting Bank Dollars on a Public Blockchain
JPMorgan is rolling out JPM Coin on Ethereum for institutional clients, a token backed by dollars in its accounts that settles in seconds, any day of the week.
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Abandoned Bitcoin? Wallet Targeted by Noah Doe Lawsuit Moves $33 Million
A Bitcoin address dormant since 2013 moved 411.45 BTC worth about $33.4 million, according to Galaxy Research, and it’s among the wallets named in the “Noah Doe” lawsuit.
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Bitcoin Tests Key Support as Oil and AI Fears Squeeze Markets
Bitcoin keeps limping back to the same floor while $108 oil and 5% yields weigh on risk assets. The chart shows a coiled spring, not a trend.
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Tom Lee’s Bitmine Adds $30 Million in Ethereum as Buying Nears Its Finish Line
The purchase lifts Bitmine’s stash to 6.04 million ETH—4.9% of supply and 99% of the way to its “Alchemy of 5%” goal—as chairman Tom Lee framed a market-wide selloff as an attractive entry point.
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Strategy Buys $22M in Bitcoin, Buys Back $193M of STRC
The Bitcoin treasury firm raised its preferred stock buyback cap to $3 billion and now holds 848,517 BTC, bought at an average of $75,446.
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Morning Minute: Crypto Rebounds as 'Black Monday' Looms
The original “Black Monday” occurred 39 years ago today. Is history about to repeat itself?
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‘Terrifying Precedent’: Dutch Hand US Data From Seized Anti-Fascist Server
Police seized the Autistici/Inventati server under a 1981 treaty after the U.S. designated the Italian activist group “global terrorists.”
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Sam Altman's World Takes Proof-of-Human IDs to Banks, Citing $40B AI Fraud Risk
Bain Capital, VanEck and Pantera Capital are among design partners for the offering, which also lets users delegate proofs to AI agents.