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Brazil's lower house committee approves crypto asset freezes and harsher sentences for digital fraud
Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies is attempting to include cryptocurrency in the country’s anti-fraud enforcement toolkit. A key committee in the Chamber of Deputies has voted to let judges freeze suspects’ crypto holdings and impose prison terms of up to 10 years for electronic fraud. The bill still needs to pass through several approval stages before...
Sat, Jun 13
Pudgy Penguins halts Pudgy Party development, redirects resources to Pudgy World
Pudgy Penguins officially announced that it has closed shop on its Pudgy Party mobile game, developed with Mythical Games, so that the project could focus only on their web-based game: Pudgy World. The decision has generated serious resistance from Pudgy Penguin fans who feel that all the time and money they invested in the mobile...
Sat, Jun 13
China vows retaliation after Pentagon blacklists Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD
China has warned the United States that it may hit back after the Pentagon added major Chinese companies to a list tied to Beijing’s military. The names include Alibaba (NYSE: BABA; HKEX: 9988), Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU; HKEX: 9888), BYD (HKEX: 1211; SZSE: 002594), and NIO (NYSE: NIO; HKEX: 9866). Beijing said it was deeply unhappy...
Sat, Jun 13
Michael Saylor wants SpaceX in the 'Mag 8' and says its Bitcoin holdings are why
Michael Saylor has put SpaceX inside Wall Street’s top technology group after the rocket company joined public markets at a value above $2 trillion. The Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) executive chairman posted on X after the June 12, 2026 listing and used the name “Mag8.” Saylor wrote, “Congratulations @ElonMusk and $SPCX on a historic IPO. Thanks...
Sat, Jun 13
U.S. Iran deal set to reopen Strait of Hormuz could be signed in 24 hours, Pakistan mediator claims
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Saturday that Washington and Iran have reached an agreement on the framework of a peace deal and that his country expects an electronic signing within 24 hours, although Iranian officials have quickly poured cold water on that timeline. The proposed deal would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway...
Sat, Jun 13
Taiwan to improve relations with lone South American ally Paraguay via $200 million data center project
Taiwan has made plans to further improve its lone South American alliance with a $200 million data center in Paraguay, which aims to bring together Taipei’s semiconductor access with Paraguay’s cheap hydroelectric power. This investment is designed to preserve the diplomatic relationship between the two countries, and the facility is targeted to deliver 10 megawatts...
Sat, Jun 13
Anthropic's Mythos audit finds no serious bugs in Zcash, bolstering recovery after Orchard scare
The Zcash audit follows the discovery of a four-year-old bug that could have allowed unlimited counterfeit ZEC creation in the Orchard shielded pool.
Sat, Jun 13
Trump administration draws global backlash over Anthropic model order
The Trump admin went back to telling Anthropic about how its products can be used after the US government, on Friday, directed the AI firm to cut off foreign nationals from its newest Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. However, the “national security concerns” rationale did not go down well in many quarters, triggering...
Sat, Jun 13
FBI alerts FIFA World Cup fans amid Crypto scams surge
US law enforcement authorities have heightened their awareness campaigns regarding potential cryptocurrency fraud schemes for 2026 FIFA World Cup fans. This is on top of warnings from blockchain investigators about possible evidence of front-running in token offerings associated with the event. Specifically, the FBI released a public service announcement on May 27 highlighting more than...
Sat, Jun 13
SIREN bleeds as whale with 94% of supply keeps dumping
A whale controlling the vast majority of SIREN’s token supply sold roughly 17 million tokens through multiple wallets over two hours on Friday, crashing the price from $0.47 to $0.23. The sell-off follows a months-long pattern of manipulation by a single entity that on-chain analysts say controls at least 94% of all SIREN in circulation....
Sat, Jun 13
Meta builds AI spending controls after usage spike
A centralized AI monitoring and spending control system is under development at Meta after the company realized it was spending more internally on AI than anticipated. The decision shows that companies are thinking about whether the returns from AI justify the cost involved. The company has sent out a memo to some 6,000 employees detailing...
Sat, Jun 13
CFTC and states clash again over Kalshi’s sports markets
New Mexico is facing a lawsuit from the Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for attempting to enforce state gaming rules on federally regulated contract markets. The agency is intensifying a growing legal battle over whether federally regulated prediction markets can offer sports-related event contracts without complying with state gambling laws. The case is the...
Sat, Jun 13
US government forces Anthropic to shut down its most powerful AI models over security fears
Anthropic disabled its two top-performing AI models on Friday, June 12 following an export control order from the U.S. Department of Commerce. It was an unusual instance of a government interfering with commercialization of frontier AI technology. U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick ordered Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at 5:21 p.m. ET on Friday to restrict...
Sat, Jun 13
Anthropic’s vertical software push rattles enterprise AI partners and sinks design stocks
Since February 2025, Anthropic has launched 13 vertical AI products and has stopped consistently warning business partners before releasing tools that compete with them. The shift has hit design and enterprise software companies hard. Figma is down about 50% year to date, raising fresh questions about how AI model providers will coexist with the companies...
Sat, Jun 13
State attorneys general open sweeping investigation into OpenAI, threatening product roadmap ahead of IPO
An alliance of U.S. state attorneys general is investigating OpenAI, issuing the company an expansive subpoena on Friday, June 12. The states are seeking documents on OpenAI’s advertising policies, user interactions, data management, and product use by children and older users. The investigation, led by New York’s attorney general, could force new scrutiny on how...
Sat, Jun 13
CZ calms users as Binance scraps $557M SpaceX token offering and begins refunds
Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has commented on the abrupt halt of the exchange’s long-awaited space-themed listing. He assured customers’ security is at the top of their list. The decision comes after Binance and other crypto exchanges, including Bybit and Bitget, failed to secure enough SpaceX-related shares to back tokenized exposure products tied to the...
Sat, Jun 13
Google sues Chinese AI phishing ring as FBI seizes domains and $100,000 in Operation Ghost Hook
A federal lawsuit was filed by Google on Friday against a China-based cybercrime network which, officials claim, used Google’s Gemini AI to conduct a phishing campaign that is now linked by the FBI to 3.87 million stolen credit cards and a total $1.9 billion in losses since July 2023. The network, which Google calls “Outsider...
Sat, Jun 13
Zuckerberg admits Meta made 'mistakes' on its AI transformation, promises stability after layoffs
Mark Zuckerberg confirmed in an internal memo that Meta’s broad AI reorganization was “disruptive” for many employees and said that further layoffs are not expected company-wide in 2026. He promised an increased sense of stability following a year of the company’s 10% reduction of its workforce and tens of thousands of employees shifting into new...
Fri, Jun 12
MIM stablecoin drops to $0.87 as algorithmic dollar tokens keep losing their pegs
Abracadabra’s MIM stablecoin took a major reputation and valuation hit today June 12 as it fell as low as $0.87 across multiple chains. The dollar-pegged token’s slide adds to a growing list of algorithmic dollar tokens that have failed to hold their $1 target when liquidity dried up. The depeg on Arbitrum was flagged by...
Fri, Jun 12
Blockworks acquires Messari, merging two of crypto's largest data platforms
Blockworks announced today that it acquired Messari, combining two rival crypto data and intelligence businesses into a single platform that covers more than 40,000 digital assets. Blockworks’ acquisition came after it completed a Series A extension at a $192 million valuation. The deal represents the company’s first major financial commitment to expanding its business by...
Fri, Jun 12
