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13F filings put investment advisers on top of XRP ETF holdings
Spot XRP ETFs have drawn about $1.6 billion in net inflows, and second-quarter 13F filings show investment advisers are the biggest buyers.
Wed, Sep 2
Crypto sponsorship for sports at risk after $13.5M Sorare payment freeze
Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has halted approximately $13.5 million (£10 million) that Sorare made to the Premier League, raising new questions regarding crypto companies cashing in on the global sporting event. These funds were transferred by Sorare as a part of its four-year-long licensing agreement with the League and fall under civil-recovery investigation targeting...
Tue, Sep 1
Nvidia anchors Hut 8’s Texas campus in Anthropic’s $35 billion cloud deal
Anthropic signed a $35 billion cloud deal with Lambda for capacity at Hut 8's Beacon Point campus in Texas, where Nvidia already holds the lease.
Tue, Sep 1
SpaceX taps Starlink's Michael Nicolls to run AI data centers after outages
Michael Nicolls, a senior Starlink executive, has been handed control of SpaceX’s AI infrastructure following a series of leadership departures. SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) faces growing pressure to maintain stable operations for its compute customers, including Google and Anthropic. What went wrong with SpaceX’s data centers? Michael Nicolls has been appointed to oversee xAI’s infrastructure after...
Tue, Sep 1
Trump throws weight behind data centers as negative perception grows
President Donald Trump has attacked the growing backlash against AI data centers, warning in a Truth Social post that communities blocking the facilities risk becoming “backwards and poor.” Trump called the data centers a “golden goose” and told Americans they will have themselves to blame if projects are canceled. President Trump wrote on Truth Social...
Tue, Sep 1
Anthropic's latest Fable 5.1 model jumps to the top of LLM leaderboards
Anthropic launched a new model on September 1 called Claude Fable 5.1. The model immediately claimed the number one spot on Artificial Analysis’s intelligence leaderboard with a score of 66 on the site’s index, dethroning Opus 5 in the process. Fable 5.1 and Opus 5 sit atop the leaderboard Artificial Analysis ranks over 250 language...
Tue, Sep 1
Alexa for Shopping starts watching the web and pinging shoppers first
Amazon switched on Update Me When, an Alexa for Shopping feature that pings shoppers when a tracked brand, show, book, or tour has news.
Tue, Sep 1
NYDFS tells X Money to scrap interest payments on balances from October 1
New York’s financial regulator (NYDFS) has informed X, owned by Elon Musk, of its inability to pay interest on X money balances belonging to New York customers. NYDFS went on to say that the yield on such accounts will drop to 0.00% on October 1, 2026. The announcement yanks one of X’s major perks from...
Tue, Sep 1
Micron's Taiwan unions edge toward a strike vote over bonuses
Two unions that together represent roughly 10,000 Micron workers in Taiwan are preparing to organize a strike vote over the way the company calculates bonuses. A strike could make the current chip shortage even worse and lead to higher prices for phones, laptops, and other electronics. 80% of Micron employees support going on strike Micron...
Tue, Sep 1
Morpho halves Aave's lending lead as outstanding loans hit $5B record
Morpho’s outstanding loans have reached an all-time high of $5 billion. Crypto analytics firm Messari reported the metric on Tuesday, September 1. This brings the decentralized lending protocol closer to Aave, which is the longtime leader in that space, and it also raises its profile among the fintechs and stablecoin issuers routing credit through it....
Tue, Sep 1
DeFi Development sets a $1.30 per share reserve behind its 13% CHAD dividend
DeFi Development (DFDV) is offering up to $20 million of CHAD Stock, a perpetual preferred paying a 13% annual dividend in daily installments.
Tue, Sep 1
Ark's 10% fund cap split a $37.4 million Block buy across three ETFs
Ark Invest bought 456,059 Block shares worth about $37.4 million on Monday, splitting the buy across ARKK, ARKW and ARKF to hold under its 10% fund cap.
Tue, Sep 1
Anthropic's Claude is the one frontier model missing from the Pentagon's AI portal
The Department of War cleared ChatGPT Mil and Starshield AI's Grok at Impact Level 5 on GenAI.mil, while Anthropic's Claude stays off the portal.
Tue, Sep 1
US urges light approach to AI regulation at G20 tech meet
Washington opened a two-day ministerial meeting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on Tuesday by asking the world’s largest economies to hit the brakes on writing fresh AI rules or creating new bodies to police the technology. The conclusions agreed upon in this G20 cycle is expected to fuel the debates in the leaders’ summit in...
Tue, Sep 1
21 major banks including Goldman Sachs BofA plan to launch USD stablecoin in 2027
Twenty-one financial institutions including Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and Citi, have announced that they will form a shared company to issue a dollar-backed stablecoin, with a market launch targeted for the first half of 2027. The venture will start with a single US-dollar stablecoin, according to a press release from PR Newswire and published...
Tue, Sep 1
Tron's Justin Sun disputes Forbes wealth estimate as bride-price fight goes public
Tron founder Justin Sun used X on September 1 to challenge how Bloomberg and Forbes value his crypto fortune. His response comes just days after his split from Chinese actress Jing Tian became a public fight over a bride price and a $50 million demand. How much is Justin Sun really worth? In a series...
Tue, Sep 1
Apple seeks to pause OpenAI physical device push after 'shocking evidence' in trade secret trial
OpenAI and Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) legal battle in federal court escalated to a new level after the iPhone maker presented forensic data that OpenAI hardware had already started to run on trade secrets that its former employees were never authorized to share. The “shocking evidence” pulled from a former engineer’s work laptop comes ahead of...
Tue, Sep 1
Ontology mainnet remains down from 'malicious attack activity' as Cronos, Injective recover
Ontology’s blockchain will remain down for at least the next 24 hours, per a September 1 update after mainnet was temporarily paused as part of a containment process that started on August 31 in response to what project developers now say is due to targeted “malicious attack activity.” While Ontology remains down, two other chains...
Tue, Sep 1
Russian banking giant Sber announces support for crypto payments
Russia’s largest lender, Sberbank, is now launching cryptocurrency payments as a service for corporate clients trading internationally. The move coincides with the enforcement of the law “on digital currency,” which regulates coin transactions in the Russian Federation. Sberbank starts processing cross-border payments in cryptocurrency The biggest Russian bank by assets, Sber, has begun processing cryptocurrency...
Tue, Sep 1
London Stock Exchange to Tokenize Its 100 Largest Listed Companies With Payward
The UK’s equity markets are about to undergo a major modernization, with the news reported by the Financial Times that the London Stock Exchange (LSE) has agreed to partner with Payward, Kraken’s parent company, to tokenize the 100 largest publicly listed companies on the LSE. Tokens will be issued under Payward’s xStocks framework and they...
Tue, Sep 1
