Chainlink and Mastercard announce a partnership to enable credit card holders to buy crypto assets “directly onchain through a secure fiat-to-crypto conversion”
Is Best Wallet Token the Big Winner? Lele Jima / The Crypto Basic : Chainlink and Mastercard Team Up to Let Three Billion Cardholders Buy Crypto On-Chain Shrishesh Tanksalkar / Coinpedia Fintech News ...
Trump says Elon Musk “went CRAZY” and that canceling his government contracts is “the easiest way to save money”, as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates
Musk has gone to war with Donald Trump. What happens next? Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Elon Musk signals he may back down in public row with Donald Trump Wired : Elon Musk's Feud With President Trump ...
The US Federal Reserve withdraws guidance requiring banks to seek regulatory approval before engaging in crypto-related activities, joining the FDIC and OCC
Michael Saylor crypto.news : Federal Reserve withdraws restrictive crypto guidance for banks Troy Watson / ZyCrypto : Federal Reserve Reverses Debanking Policies, Banks May No Longer Need Approval to ...
The US SEC says that “covered” US dollar stablecoins like USDT and USDC are not securities, and those minting or redeeming them do not need to register with it
Washington D.C. — Introduction — As part of an effort … Nidhi Kolhapur / Coinpedia Fintech News : What Are SEC's New “Covered Stablecoins”? Tether's USDT May Not Qualify! Ronak Kumar / The Crypto ...
A group published a Hugging Face project that let anyone generate videos using OpenAI's Sora, protesting what it calls the company's duplicity and “art washing”
non-beta testers could try it for three hours Suhasini Srinivasaragavan / Silicon Republic : OpenAI's Sora reportedly leaked by protesting artists Stefanie Schappert / Cybernews.com : Creative artists...
Donald Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which has been a custodian for stablecoin company Tether since 2021, to serve as Commerce Secretary
a sign of crypto's new political clout Dan Alexander / Forbes : ‘The Most Hated Guy On Wall Street’: The Unspoken Story Around Howard Lutnick, Trump's Pick For Commerce Secretary Wall Street Journal :...
Microsoft invests $1.5B in Abu Dhabi-based AI startup G42 for a minority stake, after G42 severed ties with Chinese suppliers; Brad Smith will join G42's board
The Emirati AI Giant That Just Got A $1.5 Billion Investment From Microsoft Chris McKay / Maginative : Microsoft Invests $1.5 Billion in UAE's G42 Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : Microsoft invests $1...
Andreessen Horowitz raised $7.2B, including $600M for American Dynamism, $3.75B for late-stage startups, and $600M for gaming, exceeding its target by ~4%
I am pleased to announce that we have just raised $7.2B … TechCrunch : Andreessen Horowitz's $7.2B new funds for a ‘new era’ Giuseppe Ciccomascolo / CCN.com : AI Investment from Andreessen Horowitz to...