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US-based AI firm Anthropic warns AI development is advancing at a pace that could soon see agents building, training and improving themselves without human input — recommending a slowdown in development. In a blog post published Thursday, Marina Favaro, lead at the Anthropic Institute, and Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark said agents can already run code themselves, delegate hours of work to other agents and could be on the cusp of taking over completely. “For most of AI’s history, humans drove every step in its development cycle. But at Anthropic, we are delegating a growing share of AI development to AI…

Erik Voorhees defended the token terms behind Venice’s $65 million Series A on Thursday, telling critics on X that investors could ultimately pay $131 million for 6.5 million locked $VVV tokens if they exercise an attached option. The founder pushed back a day after announcing the round at a $1 billion equity valuation. Series A backers received a vesting grant of 1.5 million $VVV plus an option to buy 5 million more, all locked for four years, according to Voorhees’ original thread. Exercising the option would cost investors an additional $66.5 million, bringing potential total proceeds to roughly $131 million,…

A federal judge has sentenced former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy Scott Allen Simpkins to 18 months in prison on Monday for lying to FBI agents about a $25,000 extortion he witnessed inside the Bel Air mansion of jailed crypto figure Adam Iza. The sentence is the latest in a corruption case that has already sent several deputies to prison for moonlighting as enforcers for a man who branded himself “The Godfather.” Simpkins, 34, of Brea, was also fined $10,000 by U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. He…

It’s worth noting that unlike traditional sportsbooks, prediction markets cover far more than sports — Kalshi and Polymarket both carry contracts on political elections, economic data and even reality TV shows like Love Island. U.S. legal sportsbooks, meanwhile, are projected to handle between $2.8 billion and $4.3 billion across the tournament’s 104 matches. Kalshi’s World Cup-specific markets alone generated $7.4 billion in June before the group rounds were complete. The ban that wasn’t The more striking figure is not the $10.8 billion on Polymarket’s international exchange; it is where $571 million of it came from. According to onchain analysis firm…

Robinhood spent months positioning its blockchain as regulated infrastructure for tokenized stocks. Two weeks after launch, tokenized assets account for about 4% of it, a cat token was worth twelve times the entire real-world asset base, and the CEO was posting that it works great for memes too. LATEST: Robinhood Chain reaches $294 million in stablecoin market cap and $140 million TVL in under two weeksThe network has also recorded more than $3 billion in seven-day DEX volume, drawing comparisons to Ethereum’s launch pic.twitter.com/KTywnPVEjY — crypto.news (@cryptodotnews) July 14, 2026 On July 1, at a London keynote billed as The…

Bitcoin has staged a notable rebound after sweeping liquidity beneath the June lows, but the recovery is now approaching a critical resistance cluster. While momentum has improved in the short term, the broader structure remains bearish until $BTC reclaims several major resistance levels overhead. Bitcoin Price Analysis: The Daily Chart The daily timeframe shows Bitcoin continuing to trade below its key moving averages, with both the 100-day and 200-day moving averages sloping lower and acting as dynamic resistance. The market remains structurally bearish after losing the $72K-$74K support zone in June, which has now flipped into a major supply area.…

According to recent reports, Apple plans to power its new Siri on NVIDIA Blackwell chips through Google Cloud starting in September, just days after NVIDIA launched its most powerful AI model yet. We break down the potential alliance, NVIDIA’s freshly unveiled Nemotron 3 Ultra, and what this could mean for the broader AI race. Why Apple Could Lock In a Major NVIDIA Deal Apple plans to launch a new generation of Siri in September 2026, and several reports from The Information confirm the assistant will rely on NVIDIA chips behind the scenes for cloud-based AI processing tasks. The setup is…

Ripple’s dollar-pegged stablecoin, $RLUSD, keeps migrating to the native chain of the $XRP cryptocurrency (at a rather remarkable pace). According to recent on-chain data, the volume of $RLUSD circulating on the $XRP Ledger has surged 40-fold over the last six months alone. A significant majority of Ripple’s stablecoin used to reside on the Ethereum blockchain, and this fact would be constantly brought up by $XRP detractors to showcase the alleged lack of utility of the cryptocurrency’s native chain. This trend was rather lasting, given that only 17% of all $RLUSD in circulation was sitting on the $XRP Ledger as recently…

The most important legal test in crypto was written in 1946 to settle a dispute about orange groves. That single sentence explains most of the past decade of American crypto regulation: the confusion, the lawsuits, the exodus of projects to friendlier jurisdictions, and the legislative fight now playing out in the United States Senate. Every argument about whether a token is a security eventually arrives at the same four questions, and those questions come from a Supreme Court case decided before the transistor was invented. The Howey test is the legal standard American courts and regulators use to decide whether…

Japanese card giant JCB is preparing to test stablecoin payments for international visitors, with a pilot program for $USDC transactions set to launch by the end of this year. The initiative, first reported by Nikkei, aims to address common pain points for tourists: currency exchange costs, transaction fees, and payment friction. Pilot Details and Scope JCB will run the initial trial at a single store in Tokyo that is popular with foreign tourists, in collaboration with a subsidiary of Circle, the company behind the dollar-pegged stablecoin $USDC. If the test proves successful, JCB plans to expand the payment option to…